This part of the forum is for rants, so I get it, and this post isn't to personally challenge you, so I hope it doesn't come across that way.
I just don't see the point in any of us spending time thinking about this. Messages like this get shared every day - here, on Facebook, on podcasts. With the exception of telling people to "think about it" or to "wake up," they always leave out the call-to-action.
- What do you think should be done about this?
- What should any specific person do about this?
- If this is so important to you, what are you going to do about this?
Faceless people ranting doesn't stop faceless machines from stealing.
This post isn't from anger, but curiosity.
I don't understand the value in putting your time and energy into things that you have no control over, don't have solutions for, and aren't likely to act upon even if a clear action (beyond signing petitions that disappear into the wind) becomes known.
I doubt I'm the only one who thinks that these manifestos are intended to motivate
someone to act. But who? And what action? Do weapons come out? Do buildings explode? Do people die? Because in wars, people die, and it isn't pretty.
Usually, when people go to war, there is, at least, a perceived clear enemy. In a faceless system, who is the enemy? Who are you after? Who do you act upon?
And if the answer is that there is no clear answer, then what is the point in ranting to wake people up about the actions that they should take upon unknown entities when no organized group exists to back up these would-be freedom fighters, and no leader has emerged to give those people direction?
Everyone wants everyone else to wake up to this invisible tyranny and do
something about it. Nobody steps forward to lead - to rally the woken toward some purpose, some act of change. Nobody takes those actions upon their own shoulders. To do so almost certainly leads to one of these outcomes:
- Prison
- Death
Lacking a clear enemy, direction, and motivation, to me, it seems that the most sensible action anyone can take is to stop spending their time thinking about how bad the world is, and start spending their time learning how to survive in it going forward.
Focus on your business. Your escape plan. Your contingencies. Your family. Your belief systems. Your community. Your personal sense of enjoyment and wonder and helping those around you to achieve that too.
Those are things you can affect change on now.
Maybe I'm naive, or maybe I'm just missing something, but I've never understood the purpose in worrying about things that I'm very unlikely to change, or act upon, even if I thought I knew how that change should come about.
