Constructive Opposition- Time to Assert Ourselves as Human

Well, I'm glad you all had faith in life.
That's good- question is, how much?

Having faith in life means living YOUR life how YOU want to lead it.
Not the life others choose to impose on you.

Having faith in life, means standing up and doing something positive.
Now maybe there isn't much we can do. But we acknowledge reality.

We aren't governed by our consent. That's a myth. The political establushment is pretty self selecting, with a controlled voting system, manipulated by the telescreen. If they actually asked US the people, most of the decisions most governments make woul not be made, and many of their laws would not be passed.
And we the people would probably repeal a few existing ones as well.

The law in general is held in widespread contempt, largely because large parts of it do NOT represent popular feeling.
And we are the lucky ones. Those of us living in places like the UK, or the US, or Australia, or Canada, or Sweden, or Malaysia, most of the countries regular readers come from, rich countries which can afford to hide the iron fist in a velvet glove, because most of us can be bought with bribes.

What are we, a tenth of the global population, us First Worlders?

And what can we do?
Not a lot.

Until the economy collapses, the political establishment will hold sway as it is, subsidised one way or another by the wealth of theworld, the hidden CEOs whose names grace the finance sections of the Telegraph, but only become household names when their companies do an ENRON. The real rulers of the globe.

Until then, Nulab and Blulab, Republocrat and Democan, the same establishment, different colours, will play musical chairs and make us think we have popular sovereignty.

Marches will do nothing. Protests will do nothing.
They disarmed the people long ago- but armed themselves.
Until the whole people come out fighting, they have us, divide and conquer.



Oh, but you can change the world in different ways.
Really?
You could have Live Aid every week, while business interests prop up corrupt dictators and arm them to keep the Third World down for them, it will stay the Third world.
It stays the Third World, so that we can be the First World.

Revolutions come when the time is right. The time WILL come.

So what can we do NOW?

Well, we can prepare. Knowing that the system WILL come down, and knowing that it WILL be bloody, that the haves WILL use the armed behind them to mow their own people down in the streets- not just disaffected mobs, but YOU when you find that money no longer exists and there is no food in the supermarkets, because the whole infrastructure has ground to a halt, knowing that this will come, that times of trouble are ahead, we can start talking about what WE will do.

That's our responsibility. And we are lucky. Here is a medium where we can do just that.
It doesn't matter if you call yourself left or right, or you if you don't give a damn about politics. Politics has been allowed to become too exclusive. What it's really about is ALL our lives, and those of our descendants. So we should ALL be talking.

What do we want for the future?
What sort of world do we want to rise from the ashes of Western Liberal Capitalism?

We are lucky. We are intelligent people on a medium which allows us to share our ideas, to have serous discussions. Here, on the bloggosphere, we can create a REAL debating chamber that makes those fake debating chambers that pretend to represent us look like the cardboard shams that they are.

We should not waste that. This is too precious.

And what else can we do?
Well, the rest is offline. The rest is in you. Live the life YOU believe to be right.
That's easier said than done. To commit to something NOT seen favourably by the establishment, is harder than to commit to something approved by it.

But it has to be done, if you are to lead a fulfilling life. You cannot beat the system, but you can stand up and live the life you want to lead within it.
Do not be afriad to scandalise society. If you really believe what you believe, you will sell your message by the way you lead your life.

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, work hard, pay the system off and live your life in open defiance of it's values.

Never forget that you are not governed by consent, but by acceptance. Use passive resistance all the way, until the day we really CAN fight and get rid of these power matrices once and for all.

And me?
Well, I shall be working hard at my job, trying to get loads of bonus, get a successful career, all with the long term objective of being in a better position to do what little I can, to be some influence on the future.

I shall continue to spread my thoughts and opinions, to the little coterie which listens at the pub, to those who I meet at parties, to those who read this blog. That's how the word gets spread.
Great Oaks from little acorns are grown.

And of course, I still need to find Ms Right to join with me in openly sticking up two fingers to social convention. Faithful, hopefully not, but LOYAL, yes.



The search for my Julia has begun.

So there you are. My lifeplan.

Life's too short to live by other people's rules.

So let's start now. Let's start thinking what world we want for the future and discuss it like adults, adults whose views count. Let's sieze this opportunity we have, we all invest so much time in it, let's make it worth something.

Let's treat this properly, not as an internet chatroom.
Let's not degrade it in the way we treat it.
Let's not get bogged down in trivialities, or disputes which relate to personal matters.

Let this be the greatest forum for civilised, intelligent discussion the world has seen.
Let future generations look back at our ovine submission to INGSOC and say, 'Well, at least they blogged.'

At least our lives won't have been a complete waste.
Because to just meekly accept, roll over and let them tickle our stomachs like a dog rolling over for it's master, is not what MEN or WOMEN are made of.

If we do not fight with every reasonable means legitimately available to us, we are cowards and failures and we betray every sacrifice made in the struggle for human progress. We cannot allow anything else to matter to us. We have a duty to our descendants.

Our resistance is HERE.
Our resistance is NOW.

Let's lead the way.

Because to stop us, they have to show their true colours.

Better to die shouting for freedom, then to live as slaves to this useless shower, who; with all the wealth of the world, and the labour and intelligence of six billion, cannot even put food in the mouths of all it's people, when there is LITERALLY food to burn; who can't protect the lives of it's people, unless they are permanently watched by security camera; who cannot be bothered to create infrastructure over much of the surface of THIS world, let alone bother looking at realistic ways to find new homes for our burgeoning population; who create imaginary terror networks to divert our eyes from their ineptitude and their desire to hold what they have.



Posterity will judge us on what little each of us did.
So.

What matters most?
Are you going to resist as far as you can, being a useful member of society (because at the end of the day, you are resisting FOR society), or rollover and purr acceptance, because it's easier and you might get brownie points?


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