Wednesday, 12 February 2014 04:16
Brandon Smith(another Dagney share!!)
When writing investigative examinations
on the corrupt state of American government and American economy,
invariably one is met with the same set of ever cycling broken-record
questions and assertions. One of the primary responses I have received
and I'm sure most Liberty Movement analysts have received is this:
“Okay, now we know what the problem is, but when are YOU going to tell US what the solution is...?”
The question seems “reasonable”, but in reality, everything that is
weak minded in our culture today is summed up in its content.
First, the question insinuates that there is no utility in exploring
the nature of a crisis without “fixing” the situation right then and
there. Often, the most complex problems of our world require years if
not decades of thought and action, trial and error, before a single
working solution is generated. When the problem involves a criminal
government run by corporatist oligarchs bent on total globalization and
centralized control of finance, society, and law, you have to expect
that there will be some difficulties in finding a remedy. You will
never defeat your enemy without knowing your enemy, and our particular
fight requires endless analysis.
Second, I wish I could convey the palm-to-forehead agony I feel every
time I hear someone begging for myself, or anyone for that matter, to
overnight mail them a solution on a silver platter wrapped in perfect
little pink bow. Why is it that so many Americans today refuse to offer
THEIR OWN solutions to the problems they perceive in the world? Is it
laziness, or stupidity, or both? They are so busy waiting for a “white
knight” to come and save them they have forgotten to learn how to save
themselves. Don't sit idle expecting analysts to make your life better.
Become industrious. Take initiative. Think of something we haven't
thought of yet. Stop being followers and start becoming leaders within
your own communities.
Third, the worst of all dilemmas when dealing with the above question
is that most of the time, it is being asked by people who already have a
preconceived answer they want to hear. Many in our movement today want
a silver bullet solution. They want magic and fairy dust. They want
to end tyranny with a snap of their fingers, the press of the button,
within the span of a day, or perhaps a week. They don't want to have to
work beyond their normal capacity, they don't want to struggle, they
don't want to sacrifice, and they certainly don't want to risk their
property, livelihood, or life.
They want a civil rights style MLK/Ghandi march on Washington D.C.,
which has already been done over and over again leading to nothing but
ever more corruption (you don't ask tyrants to police themselves, nor do
you ask for their permission to change government). They want an armed
march on Washington D.C. (perhaps the most tactically moronic strategy
ever to be suggested year after year), leading to nothing more than a
bloodbath which would only make the Liberty Movement appear weak, or
insane, all in a failed attempt to unseat a bunch of politicians who are
merely puppets and middle men for the financial elites. They want
Generals grandstanding as purveyors of constitutionalism to initiate a
military coup to remove the “evil Muslim” from his seat of power (is
Obama a Muslim, or an atheist Communist? These methodologies tend to
negate each other...), while the truth is, Obama is nothing more that a
minor obstacle compared to the greater evil of central banking and
internationalism, and a Neo-Con Republican (or provocateur General)
could easily continue Obama's work without missing a beat.
And, most of all, they want something flashy, something new,
something technological and glorious to solve all their woes. How many
times have you heard the claim, for instance, that digital currencies
like Bitcoin would “bring down” the central banks and turn the globalist
empire to dust at our feet? Yet, Bitcoin's very existence relies on
the web, a government dominated networking system which they can remove
from our hands any time they wish.
These are not solutions, they are distractions, or worse, con-games.
They are designed to fool you into thinking that you can lounge behind
your computer, or walk blindly down the street with a sign or a gun, and
the nation will attain renaissance without a tear or a drop of blood
shed. They are pleasant lies that many people want to have whispered to
them.
I have no interest in making people feel comfortable, or safe, or at
ease in the nature of the task before us. I'm only interested in the
truth, and the truth is, REAL solutions have already been offered to the
Liberty Movement. For years we've been talking about them,
implementing them, and attempting to convince others to implement them.
These solutions are not easy. They are not pleasant or quick. They
will require much sacrifice, and unimaginable suffering. There is no
way around these tasks if we are to succeed and dismantle centralized
totalitarianism in our lifetimes...
Non-Participation
This is a simple concept that for some reason tends to confound
people. If you march to the steps of the White House motivated by a
desire to educate others on the hidden dangers of our political
situation, then this is all well and good. But, if you march to the
steps of the White House with the expectation that this gesture will
somehow impress or frighten the military industrial complex into
forsaking its criminal ways and step down from power, then you have
fallen into a delusional paradigm.
If you are using a government controlled communications medium like
the internet to educate others while the system still exists, then this
is practical. But, if you really believe that you are going to exploit
that same network as an offensive tool to destroy Big Brother, you are
living in techno-geek dreamland.
And, if you still think that the diseased political arena has any
merit whatsoever and that the system can be inoculated from the within,
or that you can rewrite the rules on a whim (constitutional convention)
and have those rules followed, at this point I don't hold much hope for
you.
Now, I want you to imagine, just for a moment, that the government
does not exist. The internet does not exist. Corporate banking chains
and department stores and grocery outlets do not exist. State law
enforcement organizations do not exist. State run schools do not exist.
How would you go about living day to day without the bureaucracy, the
welfare, the infrastructure, the safety nets? This is how ALL Liberty
Movement activists are going to have to start thinking if they want to
change anything.
The Non-Participation Principle is best summarized like this:
When facing a corrupt system, provide for yourself and
your community those necessities that the system cannot or will not.
Become independent from establishment-controlled paradigms. If you and
your community do this, the system will have one of two choices:
1) Admit that you do not need them anymore and fade into the fog of history, OR...
2) Reveal its tyrannical nature in full and attempt to force you back into dependence.
In either case, you win. You have taken proactive measures to remove
yourself as a cog in the machine. The machine can then of course try
to demonize you, or attack you, but ultimately, they will attack from a
place of social and moral weakness, and you will defend from a position
of logistical and moral strength.
Stop waiting for the system to change, or collapse. Change the way
YOU live and survive. Build your own localized systems and walk away.
Decentralization
Learn a vital trade skill, grow your own food, purchase resource rich
raw land, learn self defense methods beyond what law enforcement
personnel are trained in (which is not too difficult), take EMT training
courses so that you can provide general and emergency medical care for
your family, get your children out of the state run common core
indoctrination centers and homeschool them, build neighborhood watch
groups, emergency response groups, barter markets and alternative
economies.
Decentralization is about dissolving our unbalanced relationship with
the state and taking away their power to dictate how we live. If a
core necessity is centralized in the hands of a select few, then we
start producing it ourselves and remove that option from their deck of
cards. You cannot fight a corrupt system if you are dependent on a
corrupt system.
The very essence of globalism is centralized oversight of every
aspect of our lives. When we allow ourselves to feed from the
government or corporate trough because it's “easier”, we are essentially
volunteering to be herded like animals. It is within the power of
every single individual, no matter their age or financial circumstances,
to find creative ways in becoming more independent. It is up to you.
There are no excuses.
Revolution
We should have no illusions that the criminal elements of our
government will simply shrug their shoulders and give up. When we
decentralize, we show the world how irrelevant they are. Tyrants must
remain relevant to the masses, otherwise, they have no means to dominate
except pure force. When that force is eventually applied, the ONLY
logical response is revolution. Decentralization is not a means to
“avoid” such revolution, it is only a means to strengthen our position
in preparation for revolution.
There is no ideal revolutionary model because the unique nature of
one's epoch determines the nature of one's rebellion. However, I can
say that any revolution that does not focus on the foundational culprits
behind the offending tyranny is doomed to failure. When I see the
overt obsession with Barack Obama as some kind of linchpin in the
development of socialism in America, I have to remind people that Obama
has merely stood on the legislative efforts of George W. Bush, and so
many other globalist presidents before him, in order to bring the U.S.
to the current point of catastrophe. And who made these men, these
so-called “leaders”? Who financed their campaigns? Who taught them the
internationalist methodologies they now implement? Who really controls
money, and thus economy, and thus politics in this country?
Revolution must be directed at the oligarchs, not just their mascots,
and if anyone asks you to rally around a revolution that does not name
central banking and international banking entities and the men who run
them as direct culprits, they are probably controlled opposition. We
don't need a French or Bolshevik Revolution to replace old puppets with
new puppets, we need to go to the very heart of the cancer that has
stricken our nation and remove it. If this means we have to physically
fight back, then so be it, but we must be smart in how we fight.
In the end, the average citizen is his own defender, his own
governor, his own industrialist, his own “king maker”. He may
consciously realize this, or he may be oblivious. All of the solutions,
all of the tools, are right there, in his hands, waiting to be used.
The saddest truth of all is that the only thing holding him back from
legitimate freedom is his own fear. Only when we stop avoiding the pain
required to procure independence, will we finally have it.
You can contact Brandon Smith at:
brandon@alt-market.com
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/1990-non-participation-and-decentralization-as-primers-for-revolution
