The most important thing currently *not* being done enough, is articulating a positive vision of a potential future.
It is not enough to be defined by what you are against. That's usually how you lose. Going to ponder a bit:
It is not enough to be defined by what you are against. That's usually how you lose. Going to ponder a bit:
To avoid being specific to any particular group, I'll use the word "Dissenters" to represent anyone, of any stripe, that is in a degree of opposition to the current western hegemonic regime and how they do business. Dissent alone is not enough to win.
It is not enough to merely be against all the evil shit the current elites propagate. While it is important to spread the word, only so much awareness can be cultivated. Our food and water and consumer goods are poison. Our government is evil. Agenda 2030, yadda yadda.
But what isn't being done *enough* are speculative visions of what the future we *want* should actually look like. And that isn't a good basis for avoiding the future we don't want. We need artists, thinkers, creators, to help envision the future we actually want.
Whether we like it or not, there is no turning back the clock. Our vision of the future can be *inspired* by the past and it *should* be, but there is no realistic way to just go back in time. We're here in the future, and we have to be somewhat realistic about what that means.
This is part of why I have such a love of fiction, and why I read a lot of the fiction written in our sphere. So much of what becomes reality was dreamt up by creative people and pushed in the realm of fiction, where the ideas manifested themselves in the popular imagination.
It's not always exactly the same manifestation as the original idea, we don't have flying cars like some futurists thought, for sure. But I believe creating the future starts with seeding the hearts and minds of the people with its promise and ideas.
So any dissenter should consider a preoccupation with their imagination, at least sometimes. What is the future you realistically *want* to live in? It can't just be populated by the inverse of the things you don't want, so what *do* you want? How will we get there?
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Let Them Look West by Marty Phillips is an excellent example of this kind of thinking. It's a really great read and I highly recommend it, and I've reviewed it at the link above.
Let Them Look West by Marty Phillips is an excellent example of this kind of thinking. It's a really great read and I highly recommend it, and I've reviewed it at the link above.
It's not enough to know what you wish the powers that be would *stop* doing to us. That isn't the basis of meaningful change. It is merely reaction.
Having a creative vision of how the future *should* look, and a plan to get there, that is what we also need to work on.
Having a creative vision of how the future *should* look, and a plan to get there, that is what we also need to work on.
The powers that be know this, and that's why they articulate all sorts of their crazy fever dreams of perversion and authoritarian control. But they are still architecting a vision, what is our vision? What is our alternative to the future they propose? It must be articulated.
Imagine a future of sustainable permaculture producing an innumerable bounty of healthy food that isn't poison. One with freedom of association. A world where there is no fake and gay HR mammie acting as a political commissar because they are forced to hire one.
Any future.
Any future.
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