great to see you join us this week!
a strong post and has given me a lot of food for thought.. ill be writing soon on this!

id like to pickup on one point you made:

Which is a rather mean question, which breaks down to:

Do you kill yourself / your family?
Do you kill other people?

That is a very polarised way to look at the situation. There were of course many people who went against the system in subtle ways .. and that they may have been RISKING death or punishment but not certain to it.. whereas those they saved were certainly going to die.

This is a hard one! We are in a way asking if everyone should be a hero in order to be considered innocent or not culpable for crimes that they played a part in. If we look at the heros in our movies, they would not flinch to risk their lives to save others, or their team, or planet. That is a theme that is played out in Hollywood over and over again.. SO why is it that we look up to these heros then? Maybe it is easy to be intimidated into submission, but i think i have to say, screw them, i will fight for justice and truth, and the right thing.. even if i have to put my life on the line..

i do agree the structure has to change, and i think US pushing back is going to be a big part of that. The push back doesn't have to be violent anymore, we have power in numbers and an ability to coordinate ourselves using technology in ways that we never could before. For me the main structural change is decentralisation, that is KEY, the golden nugget! That means either waiting for the system to fail, or doing something to reclaim our earth and our lives from tyranny.

more to come in my post.. thanks for this, a great contribution to the QOTW!