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Caitlin Johnstone
Title: Cultivate A Habit Of Small Acts OfSedition
Published: 2022-08-24
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o4Lvpr88gk
Title: Cultivate A Habit Of Small Acts OfSedition
Published: 2022-08-24
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o4Lvpr88gk
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cultivate a habit of small acts of sedition it is not easy being someone who cares about the world and opposes the status quo it's a series of disheartening failures and crushing disappointments amid an endless deluge of information saying that everything is getting worse and worse the environment keeps degrading ruling power structures keep getting more and more controlling gets more and more imbalanced and exploitative world powers2/14
get closer and closer to a mass military confrontation of unspeakable horror and what do we get when we try to oppose these things let down after letdown politicians we support lose their elections often after brazen interference from the very power structures we'd hoped they'd oppose political organizing breaks down in sectarian infighting activist leaders get caught up in sex scandals agendas we helped push for fizzle into3/14
impotence power wins time after time what passes for the left in the english-speaking world is basically either controlled opposition or a glorified online hobby group or both the real left has been so successfully subverted by power that the mainstream public doesn't even know what it is anymore most think the left is either a mainstream political party that's wholly owned and operated by the empire or a4/14
loose bunch of vaguely related ideas like having pink hair or preferred gender pronouns the left really has been so successfully dismantled that it has almost been purged from memory every time at every turn power wins and the people lose after a while it starts to feel like you're bashing your head against an immovable object some people fall down after a few hard bashes some don't get5/14
back up again others keep bashing away becoming harder and harder and more and more miserable and neurotic the longer they go at it and most people don't even know this is happening that's what can really make it hard you talk to your loved ones about what you're seeing and they just get uncomfortable or look at you like you're crazy they don't see the problems you're pointing6/14
to because none of the places they're getting their information from tell them it's happening because the powerful control those information sources as terence mckenna put it the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation and as marshall mcluhan put it in the land of the blind the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot and it sucks no matter how you slice it it7/14
sucks it sucks watching this massive juggernaut slowly devour your world and see everyone's attempts to stop it fail and to have most people in your life not even understand it or even see what it is you're pointing to so what can you do is there a way to beat the bastards is there a way to stop the machine in its tracks and turn this thing around8/14
well no not right this moment anyway and not by yourself the machine's far too big far too entrenched and its control over information systems means you're not going to get help from other people in the numbers you will need them it's just you and a few others against an entire globe spanning power structure but that doesn't mean you are powerless and it doesn't mean there's nothing9/14
you can do it just means you're not going to be single-handedly knocking out the bad guy and saving the world in some grand ego pleasing way like an action hero in some stupid hollywood movie what you can do as an individual is cultivate a habit of committing small acts of sedition making little paper cuts in the flesh of the beast which add up over time you10/14
can't stop the machine by yourself but you can sure as hell throw sand in its gears giving a receptive listener some information about what's going on in the world creating dissident media online graffiti with a powerful message amplifying an inconvenient voice sharing a disruptive idea supporting an unauthorized cause organizing toward forbidden ends distributing literature creating literature having authentic conversations about real things with anyone who can11/14
hear you every day there's something you can do after you start pointing your creativity at cultivating this habit you'll surprise yourself with the innovative ideas you come up with even a well-placed meme or tweet can open a bunch of eyes to a reality they'd previously been closed to remember they wouldn't be working so frantically to restrict online speech if it didn't pose a genuine threat to12/14
the empire people tend to overestimate how much they can accomplish in a day but sorely underestimate how much they can accomplish over a span of several years finding little ways to undermine the oppression machine every day gradually adds up to hundreds of acts of defiance in a year which after a few years becomes thousands do this and then relax don't expect yourself to save the world13/14
on your own you're only human and there's only one of you you can only do what you can do and humanity will either make the leap into health or it won't just exert influence over the things you can exert influence over and outside that little sphere of influence you've got to let go and let be don't put any unfair or unreasonable pressures on yourself perpetrate regular