I think a lot of people think if they just keep their mouths shut, and go along to get along, they will be fine.
I don’t think this is true. I don’t think there is any path out but insanity on the one hand–of the sort Winston Smith ended with–complete marginalization in the middle, and the victory of common decency on the other.
The power elites KNOW WHO YOU ARE. They have databases which can instantly analyze every website you have been to, every statement you have ever made on the internet, who your social networks are, where you work, how much you make, and they can assemble a pretty damn accurate psychological profile instantly using AI.
And there are any number of tools they can use against you. I won’t share my own ideas, since I may have thought of things they haven’t–although it is doubtful–but just consider that the array of ways of attacking and marginalizing you are much vaster in scope than you are likely to be able to imagine.
You exist in an informational soup they control. You cannot escape it, outside of face to face conversations with friends, and perhaps paper communications–what we used to call letters.
It does not matter how silent you are. If you are not one of them you will be flagged and targeted. It is inevitable. Fascism–which is plainly the goal–is “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” That was Mussolini’s definition.
And if you are actually or potentially against them, that WILL NOT be allowed to stand.
I cannot overemphasize how surreal this moment is, how present the danger, how potent the powers arrayed against freedom, dignity and basic goodness.
EVERYTHING humanity has ever longed for is RIGHT HERE. It is possible. It would even be inevitable if powerful and evil human beings were not snatching all our progress from us as quickly as it can happen.
As I say, I can’t see the way forward. My own path makes a virtue of speaking the truth as well as I can. That is all I can think to do. Please add your own contributions. It is up to all of us.
Never quit. Never submit. Never give in, at least fully. If full resistance is not possible, take what you can get. Maintain hope. Keep up the fight as long as there is breath in you, then fight from wherever we go after that, for the good of and ultimate salvation of all living beings.