What should I do First?

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DEFINITION

Mine: To defeat and escape the tyrant.

Yours?: __________________________

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BUILDING COMITTMENT

If you are reading this you are already pretty committed. If you do nothing there will be centuries of pain, misery darkness and evil and it will all be your fault! 😉

SELECTING OPTIONS

To select options, you first need to generate options. There are many ways to do so.

1. We can learn from history,

2. We can brainstorm and be creative,

3. We can ask people with very different viewpoints/attitudes from us,

4. We can roleplay Them to find where their Achilles’ heel could be.

5. We can study the strategies and plans of successful warriors, freedom-fighters and generals

6. Or we could do something else I’ve not thought of – Ideas please!

Here is my short attempt to generate some of the options I will pursue. Perhaps we should look at what we know about past tyrants and how they have been overcome to help us decide on the range of options we should select.

LEARNING FROM THE PAST: EXODUS - tyrants always double down

When Moses began the process of trying to free the Israelites, not only did the Pharaoh refuse to release them, he reduced their rations, increased the workload and made it more difficult. Expect things to get worse before they get better.

LEARNING FROM THE PAST: EXODUS: tyrants are not easily intimidated They have faith in their power until it fails them

One plague should have done it. But no the plagues got more and more horrific and still the tyrant didn’t yield – Ther people were suffering from the plagues but remember tyrants are not like you. They are sociopaths and parasitic psychopaths in the main. They don’t care if their servants suffer and die. Just think of the deep state starting wars in order to launder money. You may need to push further than you expect.

LEARNING FROM THE PAST: EXODUS: tyrants will rather kill you than let you be free

As you break free, run get away, avoid all contact and influence – Once the Israelites were out of Egypt Pharoah sent his crack troops in horse drawn chariots to slaughter them.

LEARNING FROM THE PAST: New Testament: tyrants don’t have to oppress you directly they can use other people to do it for them

The Romans would leave in place the local hierarchy that they had conquered and simply put pressure at the top to enforce their wishes. If you notice Jesus had run ins with the folk in the temple the pharisees and others but not with the Romans. In class systems or cancel cultures those being tyrannised do most of the heavy lifting for the tyrants. You’ll need a way to get the unawake on your side or at least not against you.

LEARNING FROM GENERALS & STRATEGISTS: “The Art of War is Deception”

Probably the most famous book on military strategy in the world is The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Written 2,500 years ago it details the most potent strategies for winning wars. You can read the 13 chapters in detail if you wish. You’ll quickly agree that head-to-head, unlike what happens in Hollywood movies it’s unlikely that an inferior force will overcome a superior one.

There is one variable that above all is the biggest correlator of success in such a deadly venture. The variable is summed up at the end of the first section, “The Art of War is Deception”

LEARNING FROM FREEDOM-FIGHTERS: “Do not comply”

Most history books and Wikipedia entries focus on the non-violent nature of Ghandi’s strategy for success against the most powerful empire the world had ever seen, The British Empire. But it is a mis-focus. When you have an inferior force non-violence is a prerequisite for success because you really don’t’ want the tyrants to have any excuse to crush or kill you. You have no choice than to be non-violent.

The method that won the ‘war’ was tactical non-cooperation/compliance.

In all tyrannies the tyrants are enabled by you and your family friends and fellows saves. tyrants on their own can’t fix the tanks or make the bullets or pilot their private jets. That is why non-compliance works.

Non-compliance doesn’t just mean saying NO. It also means filling in forms with errors doing work you are assigned slowly or badly, If you are writing the code for the next central bank digital currency introducing coding errors that will cause huge problems downstream. It’s about using cash when you are offered convenient alternatives. It’s about choosing to do the opposite of what the tyrant says will make you safe and so on. it’s a mindset of gumming up the works of everything the tyrant seeks to achieve.

And if you can mock the tyrant whilst you are at it, you’ll realise spirits and morale and make the tyrant infuriated - that way they will make strategic and tactical mistakes.

What do I do First?

Mine:

• To look out for when tyrants double down as a sign of success. You can also spot which topics are community noted or censored to find the weak points to amplify

• To never, ever comply – I use cash. I don’t carry a smartphone

• To put real effort into trying to wake the unawake¹* I got increasingly frustrated angry and desperate because the more I tried to wake people up the more resistance I faced. Hours and hours of my life simply disappeared without a single convert. And I should know better.

I teach that humans are designed to resist change, I explain that answers are change but questions open the door. I tell people to be patient and not go too fast but when it came to it I couldn’t help myself and even when I did I’d still fail. With the help of Big Andy and the other Roundabout Rebels we came up with a method called “The Hoax Ladder” There is a video link and a couple of images explaining the method below.

To talk to people face-to-face instead of using the ‘convenient’ big tech platforms, where you simply alert the tyrant of your plans, - I take advice from Sun Tzu Try to Natter

https://Natter.life

Mine I constantly remind people and civil servants that Public servants (mostly coopeted by the tyrants) work FOR us and not the other way round.

Yours?: __________________________

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1 We invented a method called “The Hoax Ladder” to wake the slumbering and wilfully blind https://www.dropbox.com/s/4nc0m3z43piy9n6/Hoaxes%20and%20Ladders.mp4

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