Publicerades den 30 november 2021.
LESSON 14: Establish a Private Life
Nastier rulers will use what they know about you to push you around. Scrub your computer of malware on a regular basis. Remember that email is skywriting. Consider using alternative forms of the internet, or simply using it less. Have personal exchanges in person. For the same reason, resolve and legal trouble. Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.
LESSON 13: Practice Corporeal Politics
Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.
LESSON 12: Make Eye Contact and Small Talk
This is not just polite. It is part of being a citizen and a responsible member of society. It is also a way to stay in touch with your surroundings, break down social barriers, and understand whom you should and should not trust. If we enter a culture of denunciation, you will want to know the psychological landscape of your daily life.
LESSON 11: Investigate
Figure things out for yourself. Spend more time with long articles. Subsidize investigative journalism by subscribing to print media. Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you. Learn about sites that investigate propaganda campaigns (some of which come from abroad). Take responsibility for what you communicate to others.
LESSON 10: Believe in Truth
To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.
LESSON 9: Be Kind To Our Language
Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.
LESSON 8: Stand Out
Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom. Remember Rosa Parks. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow.
LESSON 7: Be Reflective If You Must Be Armed
If you carry a weapon in public service, may God bless you and keep you. But know that evils of the past involved policemen and soldiers finding themselves, one day, doing irregular things. Be ready to say no. Authoritarian regimes usually include a special riot police force whose task is to disperse citizens who seek to protest, and a secret state police force whose assignments include the murder of dissenters or others designated as enemies. Yet, without the assistance of regular police forces, and sometimes regular soldiers, these regimes could not have killed on such a large scale. Some police and soldiers killed from murderous conviction. But many others who killed were just afraid to stand out. Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.
LESSON 6: Be Wary of Paramilitaries
When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come.
LESSON 5: Remember Professional Ethic
When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold show trials without judges. Authoritarians need obedient civil servants, and concentration camp directors seek businessmen interested in cheap labor
Författaren till bland annat ”Den blodiga jorden” har lagt upp en spellista om fyra videor som är ett slags handlingsplan eller lektioner.
Ser jag ut över FB ser jag rätt tydligt att trumpister t.ex inte har en susning om att de bygger nazism.
Det var smart att ta bort ideologierna ur undervisningen i samband med nya läroplanen 1969.
En läsare, som vill vara anonym, frågade mig om det går att stoppa det västerländska fascist-nazistbygget, och det tror jag inte ens är möjligt internt. Främmande makt kan givetvis gå in men det kan också vara främmande makt som byggt i 45-50 år nu via agenter. Det vet vi inte än, vi vet sen när det är över, kanske 60 år senare?
Vi har väl alla sett alt-medias ”förklaring” eller konstruktion att 6000 styr världen via Illuminati, etc. Jag lägger en av tusentals sådana videor som förklarar det längst ner, och de kallas i vardagligt tal för ”dom”, de rika, och dels vill fascismen ha bort alla entreprenörer, inget utanför staten, och dels bygger hela fascismen på att du går ut i krig mot dom. Jag köper det inte alls, ingår i bygget.
Facebookfolket har absolut något på gång, och här är en av dem, Chamath Palihapitiya, som inte heller köper gängse modell.
Social Capital Founder & CEO and Former Facebook Executive Chamath Palihapitiya told Stanford GSB students that there are only 150 people that runs the world. In order to get a seat at the table and realize your own worldview, you need to compound capital.
LESSON 1: Do Not Obey In Advance
- Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
LESSON 2: Defend Institutions
2. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of ”our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf. Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning. So choose an institution you care about – a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union – and take its side.
LESSON 3: Beware The One-Party State
The parties that remade states and suppressed rivals were not omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. So support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can. Consider running for office.
LESSON 4: Take Responsibility for the Face of the World
The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow. Notice the swastikas and the other signs of hate. Do not look away, and do not get used to them. Remove them yourself and set an example for others to do so.
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