Symptoms of the faux illness include ‘Trump-induced general hysteria’ where a person struggles to distinguish between ‘legitimate policy’ and ‘psychic pathology’
Ok. Buy a gun, join a local SRA chapter, join the local PSL chapter, learn to grow some food, form up a community with your neighbors, get a mask that’s effective against tear gas, read What Is To Be Done?/Guerrilla Warfare/This Nonviolence Stuff’ll Get You Killed, pack a go-bag, etc.
Big on the community forming part. I’m pretty good at treating where I live as a community but I’m lucky that others have made it easy here and we still have a lot of work to do in so many places in the world to make it happen more consistently. This is step one, the buying a gun thing is later once average Joe actually feels invested.
Stuff like helping people who get stuck in the snow and being the “weirdo” who waves to your neighbours is a good start, but I really wish there was a better way that did some of the legwork and got even those who wouldn’t normally look for it to see it and be a part. We can ask people to fight over and over but if they don’t even know who the person beside them is they will feel too alone to risk their lives like that(I mean, it’s the whole basis for why unions are a good thing, right?). North America, in so many places, is just a bunch of individual houses where people go to sleep and ignore the world after needing to go elsewhere for work.
I’ll give organized religion one thing and that’s making people actually mingle and exist with their neighbours but even that was essentially done under a form of duress(go to church or go to hell) so I’m not sure how we can get folks to actually show up for community events reliably. Fuck, in too many places here in Canada you can’t even get people to do better than less than a 50% voter turnout for major elections.
Anyway, thank you for responding with actionable things.
Ok. Buy a gun, join a local SRA chapter, join the local PSL chapter, learn to grow some food, form up a community with your neighbors, get a mask that’s effective against tear gas, read What Is To Be Done?/Guerrilla Warfare/This Nonviolence Stuff’ll Get You Killed, pack a go-bag, etc.
Big on the community forming part. I’m pretty good at treating where I live as a community but I’m lucky that others have made it easy here and we still have a lot of work to do in so many places in the world to make it happen more consistently. This is step one, the buying a gun thing is later once average Joe actually feels invested.
Stuff like helping people who get stuck in the snow and being the “weirdo” who waves to your neighbours is a good start, but I really wish there was a better way that did some of the legwork and got even those who wouldn’t normally look for it to see it and be a part. We can ask people to fight over and over but if they don’t even know who the person beside them is they will feel too alone to risk their lives like that(I mean, it’s the whole basis for why unions are a good thing, right?). North America, in so many places, is just a bunch of individual houses where people go to sleep and ignore the world after needing to go elsewhere for work.
I’ll give organized religion one thing and that’s making people actually mingle and exist with their neighbours but even that was essentially done under a form of duress(go to church or go to hell) so I’m not sure how we can get folks to actually show up for community events reliably. Fuck, in too many places here in Canada you can’t even get people to do better than less than a 50% voter turnout for major elections.
Anyway, thank you for responding with actionable things.