Thursday, June 20, 2019

The Last Straw: The When of Making Ourselves Ungovernable (2/3)


In Our Fake Elites, I explored the question of why make ourselves ungovernable. To summarize, if space aliens abducted our ruling class tomorrow, the rest of us would be better off. So we have nothing to lose and everything to gain by upsetting their applecarts.

That then raises (not begs) the question of when. There are some clear bright lines, such as mass gun confiscation, since that is a standard precursor to tyranny. But if things reach that point, then the proper response might very well be armed resistance; so the right time for non-violent resistance would necessarily be before that.

On the other hand, there are also potential drawbacks to going too soon. The most obvious is that it must be a mass movement to be effective, so those who go first must be able to maintain in the face of legal trouble. And there’s no point in taking that risk if there’s no chance of starting the avalanche.

I propose that the way to square that circle is to immediately start talking about mass civil disobedience, but not doing it yet. Start planting the seeds, that this is a thing that we may need to do, as well as talking about how (looking at historical examples).

So when? The final trigger must be common sense, as how the time to start an armed rebellion must necessarily be no later than when your arms would be taken away.

And for a non-violent resistance, the equivalent would be the means of organizing. So using the currently available tools for organizing, spread the word of why and how to make ourselves ungovernable. And then when those communication tools are taken away, that is the signal.

That is the last straw, after which everyone scatters to the wind and does his own thing.

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