Wanton violence only provide the establishment with the "for the greater good" justification for more draconian laws that further entrench its rule. Targeted violence strikes fear in the establishment, especially when the violence striked someone they personally know. Constant exposure to such violence at personal level feeds their paranoia to bypass consent manufacturing and this exposes their hypocrisy each time a new draconian law is passed as well as fueling further resentment each time the limited public resources are diverted away from critical public service to enforce this new law. Not to mention them beginning to question the validity of their own intel sources.
Ultimately, every successful revolution requires the population, especially among the aspiring elites, to completely distrust the current system AND developing trust in the alternative parallel system. Having ~20% of the working adult population fully committed to the cause is sufficient to tip the scale in favor of the cause. Remember: War is an extension of politics, not a race to pile up the most body counts. It's about breaking the opponent's will to fight and/or the opponent's economy to sustain the fight.
Sometimes, it doesn't take bullets and bombs to do so. On rare occasions, it can be as comical as someone sending a freaking poltergeist to violently haunt a government office! This just happened yesterday in my country. The department's entire high-ranking bureaucrats freaked out to the point of releasing an official press statement announcing a major cleansing operation just now! I'm guessing one of those corrupt mofos must have stiffed someone since it's only their floor of that office building being violently haunted by that (literally) floating ball of fire from dusk till dawn... Oh, yes... There's a hi-res video of that paranormal entity 🤣
This was an excellent essay, Kulak. I fully agree that we are far too passive in the modern West. That being said, I believe that perhaps this is due to the sheer amount of weapons and systems which the governments of the west have. In America you have it a bit better, but in Europe we don't even have guns... Of course, one terrorist act or two can take place, but without a large organized group of armed men, I see it as a difficult task
I thought you might enjoy this little excerpt from: Pilgrim Son - John Masters. An autobiography (book three) of a British immigrant to America (Rockland County, New York) in the 1950s.
I think you hit the nail on the head with your previous essay about young men not rebelling because they won't be honoured for doing it.
In any one rebellion only ~3% of the population directly engage in fighting, but at least 50% of the population must be either neutral or nominally supporting them. Men will crawl through filth and torture to fight for those who love them, but they won't lift a finger for people who hate them.
Im genuinely curious why so many Americans believe the combat forces of the military would turn on them so easily? These are American patriots that swore to die for the constitution and got a job where that was a possibility. These aren't adim and logistics people that joined for free college and health care.
They swore to die for the constitution, but after hurricane katina they happily broke one of the clearest and simplest clauses in said constitution and went door to door forcibly disarming the public.
To my knowledge not a single person refused.
Ultimately any army is geared to obey orders, constitutions offer no real protection.
I agree that the military/police has been used against the civilian population in unjust manners.
Do you think if these events were larger in scale, armed and conducted coordinated attacks instead of riots and protests the outcomes would have been the same? Would the full conventional force be used? Would any of the personnel refuse orders? Im not trying to be antagonistic this is genuine curiosity.
I think you have substance to be pessimistic. Im more optimistic but that could be out of ignorance and bias. Your thought on "oath to the constitution" manifesting into loyalty to the regime is a great point. The propaganda and mob mentality is a crazy thing. Thanks for the thoughtful response.
> And while I think upon everything you said, I offer you this: exactly how are we to rebel against rockets, bombs, nukes, tanks, drones and so on? With pitchforks and squirrel rifles? Do we just run at them blindly, not even knowing who the actual targets are?
This is a false dilemma.
The irish rebelled against a superpower for centuries armed with home-made weapons and hand-downs. We still won (to a degree) and can win again.
Turns out all the funding in the world isn't enough to beat a people who refuse to be beaten.
Wanton violence only provide the establishment with the "for the greater good" justification for more draconian laws that further entrench its rule. Targeted violence strikes fear in the establishment, especially when the violence striked someone they personally know. Constant exposure to such violence at personal level feeds their paranoia to bypass consent manufacturing and this exposes their hypocrisy each time a new draconian law is passed as well as fueling further resentment each time the limited public resources are diverted away from critical public service to enforce this new law. Not to mention them beginning to question the validity of their own intel sources.
Ultimately, every successful revolution requires the population, especially among the aspiring elites, to completely distrust the current system AND developing trust in the alternative parallel system. Having ~20% of the working adult population fully committed to the cause is sufficient to tip the scale in favor of the cause. Remember: War is an extension of politics, not a race to pile up the most body counts. It's about breaking the opponent's will to fight and/or the opponent's economy to sustain the fight.
Sometimes, it doesn't take bullets and bombs to do so. On rare occasions, it can be as comical as someone sending a freaking poltergeist to violently haunt a government office! This just happened yesterday in my country. The department's entire high-ranking bureaucrats freaked out to the point of releasing an official press statement announcing a major cleansing operation just now! I'm guessing one of those corrupt mofos must have stiffed someone since it's only their floor of that office building being violently haunted by that (literally) floating ball of fire from dusk till dawn... Oh, yes... There's a hi-res video of that paranormal entity 🤣
In typical fashion the NY Post link about child rapists being freed has been 404’d. Excellent essay btw.
And FOR WHAT did the Americans Rebel?
To break free of the usurious monetary system that was unilaterally imposed on them via the Currency Act
Amazing article as usual
Honorary American
This was an excellent essay, Kulak. I fully agree that we are far too passive in the modern West. That being said, I believe that perhaps this is due to the sheer amount of weapons and systems which the governments of the west have. In America you have it a bit better, but in Europe we don't even have guns... Of course, one terrorist act or two can take place, but without a large organized group of armed men, I see it as a difficult task
I thought you might enjoy this little excerpt from: Pilgrim Son - John Masters. An autobiography (book three) of a British immigrant to America (Rockland County, New York) in the 1950s.
I think you hit the nail on the head with your previous essay about young men not rebelling because they won't be honoured for doing it.
In any one rebellion only ~3% of the population directly engage in fighting, but at least 50% of the population must be either neutral or nominally supporting them. Men will crawl through filth and torture to fight for those who love them, but they won't lift a finger for people who hate them.
3 paragraphs in and I had to start over for how much fire is being spit
William Brewster is my like 20x great grandfather
Why are they always so UGLY?
I've written a book length piece on exactly this question.
It is indeed the most popular thing I've ever done:
https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-warlords-reading-list-by-anarchonomicon
Im genuinely curious why so many Americans believe the combat forces of the military would turn on them so easily? These are American patriots that swore to die for the constitution and got a job where that was a possibility. These aren't adim and logistics people that joined for free college and health care.
They swore to die for the constitution, but after hurricane katina they happily broke one of the clearest and simplest clauses in said constitution and went door to door forcibly disarming the public.
To my knowledge not a single person refused.
Ultimately any army is geared to obey orders, constitutions offer no real protection.
Because history proves that to be true. Time after time after time after time
Thanks for giving me some events to refresh on.
I agree that the military/police has been used against the civilian population in unjust manners.
Do you think if these events were larger in scale, armed and conducted coordinated attacks instead of riots and protests the outcomes would have been the same? Would the full conventional force be used? Would any of the personnel refuse orders? Im not trying to be antagonistic this is genuine curiosity.
How could sherman's march to the sea be larger in scale?
I think you have substance to be pessimistic. Im more optimistic but that could be out of ignorance and bias. Your thought on "oath to the constitution" manifesting into loyalty to the regime is a great point. The propaganda and mob mentality is a crazy thing. Thanks for the thoughtful response.
> And while I think upon everything you said, I offer you this: exactly how are we to rebel against rockets, bombs, nukes, tanks, drones and so on? With pitchforks and squirrel rifles? Do we just run at them blindly, not even knowing who the actual targets are?
This is a false dilemma.
The irish rebelled against a superpower for centuries armed with home-made weapons and hand-downs. We still won (to a degree) and can win again.
Turns out all the funding in the world isn't enough to beat a people who refuse to be beaten.