Can we overcome divide and conquer?

Survivalism in the face of a hostile ruling class, is the worst possible response.

(In this case I rather like AI’s total inability to spell.)

Foundational premise

That there is an assault on humanity designed to reduce the population and constrain the remainder, by means of a digital ID, to live according to strict and permanent rules.

The Trojan Horse

The next ‘fad’, a rebound of ‘survivalism’

Well it’s not really a fad because it has been around since my youth, but it is getting a face-lift currently to incorporate the horrors of digital ID. So it’s a very long lasting fad, but it is still a fad, and I claim, after a lifetime of trying to organise my own survival, that no matter how much of a face-lift it gets, ‘survivalism’ has zero chance of succeeding.

The makeup of the human race

There are essentially three castes globally, the ruling caste who are manipulating this whole mess, the privileged middle classes who think they can negotiate or stockpile their way to safety, and “the rest of us”, the great unwashed, the useless eaters (who, by the way, do all the actual work that is done in the world) from whose malice and greed the ruling caste ,and the privileged middle classes, have to protect themselves.

Substack has become a hangout for a subset of the privileged middle classes, those who can afford to rebel from the controls being put into place and enforced by other members of the privileged middle classes. But they are privileged middle classes nonetheless. They imagine they can buy their safety. They can’t.

Substack posts

There is currently a storm of posts on Substack on how to resist the digital ID and it all comes down to the same old story from previous ‘survivalist’ scares. It all comes down to family or small community units of the privileged middle classes bugging out, one way or another, stockpiling what they need for survival against the dictates of the ruling elites. Trouble is, they then have to work out how to protect themselves and their stockpiles from “the rest of us”, the marauding hordes, who were too stupid or too sick or too old or too poor to stockpile for ourselves, disgraceful creatures that we are!

Think financial strategists like Catherine Austin Fitts, but also articles just today from Ray Horvath and Amandha Dawn Vollmer. I find myself personally hurt every time I read lists of things others believe I should be doing, and even I believe I should be doing, but I simply cannot. I made the mistake of disagreeing with Ray and Amandha, in their comments, to the inevitable tirade of abuse from their followers, whence this article. I WILL have my say, even if no-one is listening.

I am writing this in an attempt to purge those inner voices of my own that are triggered by these particular external voices, voices that I really could choose to ignore - particular because I DO know a better way.

I have to remind myself that WE, the great unwashed, are actually the majority, and those privileged middle classes are showing their inability to think far enough ahead, to the time when they are outnumbered by the starving marauding hordes, and when their bullets run out.

The middle classes have most to lose

The middle classes have managed to succeed in a social system that is hostile to human life. They have skills most of us don’t have, and maybe a touch of ruthlessness the rest of us don’t have, which is how they managed to accumulate their ‘success’, however they define it, in the first place. So naturally, those rules they live by, and that have rewarded them with at least apparent safety, are the rules they want to continue to live by.

Inadvertently they are the Trojan Horse. They WANT the rules of predatory capitalism to dominate because they have succeeded in a world of predatory capitalism. They just don’t like it when the ruling caste starts predating on them, here and now, that’s all. They LOVE the system created by the ruling caste, just as long as they continue to be able to live as predatory capitalists themselves, accumulating, accumulating, accumulating, and don’t have their middle class freedoms (the stuff the rest of us can’t afford) taken away from them. They are only ‘on our side’ now because they look like losing their privilege. They want to keep their privilege. That’s all.

They never even mention just how the starving masses are going to make it through this current assault on humanity. They blindly exhort people who are already dropping off the bottom of the human pile, to stockpile gold and silver, to bug out on isolated ranches, to stockpile food and weapons, to somehow stay fit and healthy when they cannot even afford decent food or healthcare. Without even being aware of it, they have pitted themselves against the working classes, and would let us die or kill us without thinking twice.

The middle class privileged no more care about the ‘human race’ than their elite masters. They have failed to notice that, as the class with the money, the power, the freedom, the food, to keep themselves alive and healthy, they are allied with the ruling caste against the rest of us. We ignorant starving hordes will not see the difference between them and the ruling elites, when they have the food stockpiled that we worked to produce and that we now need to keep ourselves alive, end of story.

So is there a better way to organise?

So is there a way that the privileged middle classes can unite with the majority of the human race that lives below the poverty line, and that can barely survive now, let alone stockpile food or gold or remote properties with expensive security systems?

Merit rather than property

Yes, there is, if the smug can take a moment out from their materialistic stockpiling, to work out what it will take for US ALL to survive - or do they secretly want the same as the ruling caste, for huge numbers of us to die and stop littering their materialistic world with our hovels and our sick and dying bodies? It’s time to be honest.

The one thing every human being on earth can do to improve the chances of all of us surviving this assault on humanity, is to improve humanity - the whole of humanity - to reform our culture.

We are living in a corrupted culture

We are living in a culture that rewards psychopathy. Adjust to that or suffer.

American Psycho

We need to change that. We have to do whatever human beings are capable of doing to change our culture from predatory capitalism to one that nurtures and supports every human being to live a decent life, one that provides safety for all.

But just how do we do this? It is possible, but it can only come about, not by political machinations, but by a ‘change of heart’. We all have to start caring again.

First lets stop telling lies

I have published some posts about the power of truthfulness. Please read them if you have not. The single most profound change we can make, that will impact on, and shift the culture around us, is to start telling the truth. And once we tell the truth ourselves, we can perceive the truth in others. We can never be lied to again. Try to imagine, if you can, a world without lies! The flow-ons are mind boggling.

Everyone, no matter how rich or poor, or how healthy or sick, can start telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Second, become and stay grounded in the moment.

Forget the word spirituality - this is about survival, and we will survive better if we are fully present and engaged in the moment. When engaged in the moment we are grounded, and when we are grounded we are better able to make sensible snap decisions provoked by volatile circumstances around us. We will react better.

If we want to move to a healthier culture we need to find a way to make better decisions when under severe duress, because, let’s face it, we are already under a lot of stress and it is going to get worse.

Now frankly, I am very bad at this myself. I haven’t written any articles on it yet because I have only just realised that I lack the personal skill to accept help from the health system and the aged care system, when I need it, without permitting it - and them - to take over my life and have me jumping on command.

I am facing now, what you all imagine you will face when digital ID comes in. I am facing already being a number in a tightly controlled system that dictates which hoops I must jump through to get essential medical and other forms of aged care. They shout ‘Jump’, you shout ‘how high’, or they withdraw their “care”.

What you imagine you will have to do weeks or months or years into our collective futures when digital ID comes in, I have to do now, to keep myself alive. Since Covid (NOT the vaxx) 3+ years ago I have catapulted from one medical crisis to another, and am just facing a new one - will this be the one that knocks me out altogether? I don’t know. In these crises I attempt to establish how much help i must have from the system, and I attempt to determine when I tell the system to back down. It’s hard to work out how much apparent help to take, because help equals control - and it is even harder to get them to back down when you decide to go on alone. You are literally threatened with death every time you refuse a treatment or an aged care service, that very elementary research shows you does more harm than good.

And this is when our cultural voices come in, those designed by the ruling elites to get us to keep ourselves under their control. Am I being more or less responsible taking none, taking some or taking all medical diagnoses and therapies offered. Am I being more or less responsible accepting none, or some or all aged care home help services offered, which are premised on the assumption that I am an incompetent who will never recover my health.

Most of the “useless eaters’ do as they are told when confronted with old age, sickness or infirmity. The decisions are too hard. There are too many variables, and it has at last occurred to me that the only way to listen to that still soft voice within is to turn off all the outside noise, the noise created by endless administrivia on behalf of the systems that are pretending to support us.

It is so easy for the privileged middle classes to exhort the rest of us to SAY “NO”. But when your life may depend - with some immediacy - on saying “YES”, and trying to plead a pathetic “BUT”, it is really not that easy.

Yes, it gets that real, NOW. They don’t need digital ID for those of us who need help now. They already have total control. And we really need our wits about us. NOW. It is so easy to declare that digital ID is “the hill you will die on”, until you really are dying on it. Then it is a different story.

Or at least, so it seems to me.

So let’s start telling the truth and let’s start bringing full consciousness into each moment, and let’s just watch how the culture shifts around us to offer a much healthier future - for EVERYONE. We are the designers of our own culture, if we choose to be, and we choose it by being it. Our future will not be about what we do but about WHO we are.

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