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<blockquote data-quote="ilostabet" data-source="post: 1337335" data-attributes="member: 13181"><p>[USER=14239]@acco[/USER] Yes, I don't like likes.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Perhaps if the Russian peasants had the awareness they would have been able to do something. But that awareness comes at a cost. The soviets of the future, that future that provides us with great means of communication, will be much harder to fight against, in the same proportion as our increased means of seeing them coming.</p><p></p><p>The increase in our power (through having access to information) doesn't happen in a vacuum. It is not telling the whole story to simply say that we now have a means to disseminate information about hostile forces and that gives us an advantage we didn't have before. Because it is not only us using these means. Their benefits are not only for us, but for them too (easier tracking of everyone, calculation of how many 'dissidents' exist, which ones are more dangerous to the system and so on). But even beyond that, it is a means that, while bringing benefits, it doesn't bring them alone. It brings a host of problems along with the benefits (such as psychological problems and disconnection from the real world). Even people who are acutely aware of the pitfalls, like I am, end up falling on the same trap, succumbing to the same weaknesses that social media was designed to exploit - I realized the only real solution was deleting them. While people are jerking around on social media playing politics (and it is an enormous time-suck), they are not building something local, in the real world, or learning a real skill or even just spending time with loved ones - all better alternatives than the meager informational benefits it can bring. Besides, by having links to certain sources, without logging in, you can have the informational benefits without any of the negatives. And this is what I do. I have some accounts I visit once a week to take the pulse, and that's it.</p><p></p><p>I suppose our disagreement comes down not really to social media, but to the ultimate question: is it possible to overthrow the system, take control of it, fight against it? I don't believe it is, so I think coordinating some kind of rebellion is pointless at best. I also think the quality of our 'rebels' is very weak. I think I have alluded to this before: the Left believes in hierarchy (even if they say they don't) and acts accordingly, but the Right truly buys the equality myth and so is incapable of any coherent organization. And we can blame the enemy all we want, but in Africa and in India, in Mexico or in Southeast Asia, some level of resistance to the industrial juggernaut in all its tentacles still exists. The West is a conquered people primarily in spirit, not just in its institutions. We have no leaders because we have a people incapable of following (except on social media of course). That has become our only reality. </p><p></p><p>I think the only way to win this battle is not to fight, something I have said before here. I truly believe the best, and really only beneficial, strategy is for small communities to disengage and become as self sufficient as possible. At worst, it will provide the people who do it a small window of breathing space, a small time of freedom and stability before the storm troopers arrive to take over completely; at best, it will provide the basis to build something and survive the collapse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ilostabet, post: 1337335, member: 13181"] [USER=14239]@acco[/USER] Yes, I don't like likes. Perhaps if the Russian peasants had the awareness they would have been able to do something. But that awareness comes at a cost. The soviets of the future, that future that provides us with great means of communication, will be much harder to fight against, in the same proportion as our increased means of seeing them coming. The increase in our power (through having access to information) doesn't happen in a vacuum. It is not telling the whole story to simply say that we now have a means to disseminate information about hostile forces and that gives us an advantage we didn't have before. Because it is not only us using these means. Their benefits are not only for us, but for them too (easier tracking of everyone, calculation of how many 'dissidents' exist, which ones are more dangerous to the system and so on). But even beyond that, it is a means that, while bringing benefits, it doesn't bring them alone. It brings a host of problems along with the benefits (such as psychological problems and disconnection from the real world). Even people who are acutely aware of the pitfalls, like I am, end up falling on the same trap, succumbing to the same weaknesses that social media was designed to exploit - I realized the only real solution was deleting them. While people are jerking around on social media playing politics (and it is an enormous time-suck), they are not building something local, in the real world, or learning a real skill or even just spending time with loved ones - all better alternatives than the meager informational benefits it can bring. Besides, by having links to certain sources, without logging in, you can have the informational benefits without any of the negatives. And this is what I do. I have some accounts I visit once a week to take the pulse, and that's it. I suppose our disagreement comes down not really to social media, but to the ultimate question: is it possible to overthrow the system, take control of it, fight against it? I don't believe it is, so I think coordinating some kind of rebellion is pointless at best. I also think the quality of our 'rebels' is very weak. I think I have alluded to this before: the Left believes in hierarchy (even if they say they don't) and acts accordingly, but the Right truly buys the equality myth and so is incapable of any coherent organization. And we can blame the enemy all we want, but in Africa and in India, in Mexico or in Southeast Asia, some level of resistance to the industrial juggernaut in all its tentacles still exists. The West is a conquered people primarily in spirit, not just in its institutions. We have no leaders because we have a people incapable of following (except on social media of course). That has become our only reality. I think the only way to win this battle is not to fight, something I have said before here. I truly believe the best, and really only beneficial, strategy is for small communities to disengage and become as self sufficient as possible. At worst, it will provide the people who do it a small window of breathing space, a small time of freedom and stability before the storm troopers arrive to take over completely; at best, it will provide the basis to build something and survive the collapse. [/QUOTE]
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