you know...there's a much simpler action to take. we could very easily just drop everything and...just chill for a while? hang out? is that what you mean by peaceful non-participation? cuz i mean really, what's the next move for them? jail everyone for not blanking their blanks in april??
btw, i don't think you'd need 50%. check out this ratio of grunts to civvies: 57.59 per 1,000 people. that's North Korea, and that's the highest in the world. plus i've heard (but not verified) that the american revolution happened with something like 3% of the civilian population?? even in north korea, they'd be outnumbered 3:1. but even before all that goes down, think about how many soldiers you know would open up on citizens.
well...ok maybe in some countries (e.g. China, where the soldiers mostly originating from rural areas had no idea what was going on in the cities, and were lied to by their superior officers, they did open fire on unarmed crowds...), but i think there'd be more resistance here.
ok, i've gone way off where i wanted. which is to say, if it could be done ghandi style, i'd be all for it. or maybe amish style and shun the bad guys? technically, anything along those lines would work because they all depend on us SO MUCH. that's the SHITTIEST part of this whole clusterfuck. alrite i'm gonna stop before i get too worked up.
nice post :)
a simply fantastic article.
Thank you.
Yes, that is what I meant by peaceful non-participation. It is a very difficult task to simply walk away from the entire system because it has been designed in such a way as to make us dependent on it. I'm familiar with the saying that it takes 3% of a population to have a successful revolution, but I wonder if that is referring to an actual uprising, because if 3% of the world's population decided simply not to buy anything or play a part in society, to me all that would do is cut the corporations profit margin, but not enough to cripple them.
This is why I said we would need closer to 50%, but we will never know unless we are able to try. How are we supposed to arrange a boycott on such a massive scale though? Especially when many people have families they rely on the system to support.
I would love to do it a peaceful way too, we have abused and killed one another enough, but I see a very dark future ahead of us, and I'm prepared to do whatever necessary to ensure that that future does not come into fruition.
I do feel helpless a lot of the time though, we need to unite because one person alone, even a thousand people alone, don't have much of a chance against what we are facing. That's the message I was attempting to portray in this post.
Yea, I mean, I feel like it's TECHNICALLY possible, but almost impossible to actually orchestrate. The way I see it, it's just regular Joes doing everything. WE'RE the ones farming, WE'RE the ones processing, WE'RE the ones driving the goods to the stores, where WE stack them up on shelves for everyone else to buy. It's just Joes the whole way down the chain. I think if it were possible to get the right people, you wouldn't even need 2% to force a surrender. crossing my fingers for instant worldwide telepathy