Ten Ways YOU Can Fight the Global
Fascist Agenda…

or

America! Fuck YEAH!

by Thirty Seven on 2007-09-22
17:36:35

Edited and Enhanced by 037 2 August 2008

This is the best guide I can offer for proactive, prolonged,
independent and effective resistance against the overwhelming
direction towards greater warfare, poverty, and fascist control we
see around the world today. I was asked by a weirdo I have a lot of
respect for to write on this specific subject. I want this article to
be as useful as possible, so I’m just going to lay things on the
table as quickly and as clearly as I can.

Let’s begin by shaking off bad language—we tend to discuss
politics using old metaphors, which are useless today and actually
make understanding the problem more difficult. There is no Left and
Right, there is no “inside the system” because none of us are
“outside” of it, there is no change “from the bottom up”
because there is no “top” to bring the change to.

We find ourselves up against an entrenched power structure
composed of a relatively very small group of wealthy elites. They
seldom rule directly or even visibly, and maintain their power
through building huge armed bureacracies who enforce power for them.
The global power structure is a [de]centralized, constantly shifting
network of organized crime and national control systems, representing
many different races, nationalities, religious dogmas and cultures.

However, there are common threads in all systems of social
control: They do not have a sense of humor, they are bitterly opposed
to Art, and they are unable to handle bizarre and confusing
situations. These systems are built upon enforcing conformity,
turning nature into consumer goods, and controlling information.
These systems require enemies and they create criminals.

Because of these common threads, these systems all have common
weakness that we have the power to exploit to incredible effect. If
you take nothing else away from this, please remember: you are
exponentially more powerful than you think you are.

The simplest summation of the overall strategy I propose is this:

  • Destabilize Existing Structure

  • Minimize Destructive Backlash

  • Establish Robust Communication

To this end, I propose 10 steps which form a conceptual toolkit.
Perhaps that’s a euphemism for “disorganized pile of shit,” but
I feel strongly that these are all relevant and useful:

1. Practice is repetition is preparation is power

Can you win a fight? Can you control a situation enough to escape?
Can you outrun police? I’m not saying you need to be able to knock
someone out like Brad Pitt, but am saying self-defense is a core life
skill. Without it, you’re not effective. I recommend Aikido and Tai
Chi to all living humans, unconditionally.

Establish meaningful and beneficial routines. Our culture is a
constant pulse of imposed rhythms and rituals that we need to
actively fight against to maintain clarity and effectiveness.
Learning any skill set is amazingly simple: learn about it, then try
it out until you get it. That iron-clad formula will guide you
through anything, from juggling to fellatio to meditation.

2. Create situations that cannot be controlled

I don’t propose that because it’s punk rock, but because I
believe it’s a solid strategy. Ideally, in any confrontation, you
want control of the situation. However, we’re talking about us, you
and me as individuals, taking on the global power structure of Earth
in 2007 for control of our planet. We are not in control of the
situation, it is dumb to assume we could be. So go for the next best
thing—be totally unpredictable, escalate chaos and noise, and
create a situation that nobody could possibly control.

This is basically an unspoken bet with your opponent: “I am
giving up control of this situation because I am faster, smarter and
stronger than you.” Get comfortable with the weird and
unpredictable, and take comfort in statistics: when shit gets weird,
you abort the operation. That’s the standard operating procedure
for nearly any organization what will be sending people after you.
Embrace chaos and leverage chaos, because what cannot be predicted
cannot be controlled. Only a lawyer would pretend otherwise.

3. Do not allow yourself to be controlled by
situations

What do you do if someone puts a loaded gun in your face? Sure,
that’s a heavy situation, but do you panic? I propose you remain
calm and ask the human with the gun what they want. There is never
any reason to panic. Self-assembling nanotech hunter-destroyer
clusters swarming thousands of feet high, raining down human blood
and internal organs, is still not a valid reason to panic. Panic is
helpless idiot fear. In high stakes situations, you need to be calm
and focused.

Horrible and amazing things will happen in the next five years,
but you’re going to survive and maintain, just like humans always
do. You yourself should make peace with death. I mean that honestly,
not being sarcastic or macabre—it’s important for psychological
health to keep your death in perspective. Avoiding it always leads to
complications, and as I will discuss later, denial of death has been
shown to make people more suggestible, afraid, and prone to violence.

4. Seek information, avoid arguments

The only person responsible for getting you trustworthy
information is you. This involves a great deal of work. Am I
seriously advocating that you spend hours a day just sitting around
learning stuff? Absolutely yes, I am. The wonderful Jennifer Bowen
introduced me to the phrase “good company is kept discussing good
ideas—not people.”

The internet is insanely effective for rapidly accessing high
volumes of high quality information. It’s also a great way to spend
four hours checking your email, watching porn, or getting into
pointless arguments with total strangers. We all have egos, we all
get pissed off occasionally, but don’t do that online: get up
immediately and use that anger to lift some free weights.

5. Seek predictive models, avoid explanatory
models

I propose that it’s more important to have a general sense of
what’s coming up next, than to have a precise picture of what’s
going on now. The global power structure is not a monolithic, static
object: it is constantly shifting, and while we focus on one
tentacle, seven more will be taking advantage of our ignorance. An
accurate history of this power structure is far less valuable than
knowing how they operate, and what their assumptions are.

Remember, we’re living on the same planet. No amount of secret
insider knowledge will spare you the consequences of catastrophic
storms, toxic pollution, solar and lunar cycles, space weather
radiation, etc. The global power structure has to respond and adapt
to the world it claims to control, use the cycles of nature against
them.

This is a massive source of power that few activists seem to be
aware of: for the past three centuries, governments, militaries and
corporations have been waging a very literal War Against Nature,
attempting to control what they cannot understand. Recent documents
like the UK Ministry of Defense report “Global Trends 2007–2036”
make it clear that those in power cannot predict the short-term
consequences of worldwide toxic pollution. They are scrambling to
prepare for a future crisis they cannot plan for. You can, though.

6. Become an autonomous cell

Do you realize that most of what “intelligence analysts” do is
just read through publicly available media and look for patterns? Are
you familiar with the concept, technique and theory behind
“asymmetric warfare”? What do you think military analysts mean
when they predict a future of “constant low-intensity urban
conflict?” Is it signifigant that the US government has a long
track record of inflitrating, subverting and murdering
counter-culture icons and revolutionary leaders?

As Peter J. Carroll observed in Psybermagick: “In practice the
power of any conspiracy rises and falls in inverse proportion to the
power of its internal conspiracies. Mutual guilt and bribery mainly
hold together conspiracies whose ideologies command insufficient
loyalty, but this makes them vulnerable.” Take advantage of your
opponents paranoia, use their need for control against them.

Autonomy also implies economic freedom, good health, and secure
access to food. Shelter can of course be communal and improvised—in
many climates, shelter is barely nescessary most of the year.
Although I’m essentially advocating that we take the Army
recruiting slogan, “an army of one,” further than they themselves
ever will, I’m not avocating turning your back on anyone. I’m
advocating that you work for your community, independently and
perhaps invisibly.

7. Don’t be a dickhead, and love thy neighbor

It’s the only rational approach to life: do your best to be
nice. By doing so, you make life easier for those around you, you
reduce physical stress that wears on your own body, and you will
often find yourself reaping rewards at random. Some people call this
“karma,” other folks call this “emergent properties of complex
networks.”

Be nice to your neighbors. Help them out for no reason, refuse to
accept money for doing so. Partly because real charity is subversive
these days. Also, in 2007, you do not want the cops called on you,
period. You truly do the world a favor when you purge yourself of
terms like “sheeple” and “the herd”—I’ve also learned,
through hilarious personal experience, that referring to taxpaying
citizens as “slaves” will never work out for you.

There is nothing wrong with being selfish, only being dumb. Dumb
selfish people look for simple self-benefit, smart selfish people
look for open-ended, mutually beneficial situations. My personal rule
of thumb is avoiding theory as much as I can and focusing on That
Which Is Useful, but perhaps that’s not useful for you. If you can
improve your community, you have also improved your personal power
base and your chances for long-term success. That’s not “public
service,” just science, math and common sense.

8. Invest in tools and share them subversively

The old Industrial Revolution plan for social control was simple.
Wealthy families owned all the “capitol goods”—the machines and
factories that make consumer goods. So they used that power to hire
poor people to work for them, in exchange for being able to purchase
some of the “consumer goods” they themselves made. Things have
changed a lot in 2007, because the line between captiol and consumer
goods has blurred almost completely. You can launch a record label
with about $5000 and be pressing your own CDs, for instance.

Technology is magick. I think that’s become clear enough to just
leave that as a statement. We now have the tools for invisibility,
weather control, human cloning and burning entire cities to the
ground with a single missile. We will soon have the tools for
universal translation, undoing one of Jehovah’s major curses as
chronicled in Genesis 11. It’s vitally important that us fringe
weirdos get ahold of all these amazing future toys before they get
turned into future weapons against us.

Sharing is subversive. Communal access to important tools is
subversive. Growth is a sign of a healthy economy, profit is a sign
of a sick one. Break the profit cycle everywhere you can. Nobody will
go pay for a service or tool when they can use an equally good one
locally, for free. You would be amazed how low overhead can be when
maintenance is your only expense. You would be amazed how well you
can maintain tools and facilities if you’re willing to put in work.

9. Become a Beacon of Insane Hope

Yeah, perhaps I’m reaching with this one, but I mean it
emphatically. There is no shortage of people telling me how fucked I
am, but I’ve spent the better part of a year tracking down people
who are talking about solutions, comparing technique, and putting in
work towards something better. I want to talk to people about seed
bombs, quantum microdots, urban farming, water purification, anything
that can improve reality, here and now.

There’s strong evidence that fear and anger are actively used as
tools of manipulation and social control: the White House spent $1.6
billion dollars in 2006 on “public relations.” This is a signal
that needs to be counteracted, becacause based on psychology
experiments, evoking the concept of death alters human perception.
People become more dogmatic, nationalist and likely to support
violence. This is based on the research of Sheldon Solomon, Jeff
Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski, and you can find more information
searching for the phrase “Terror Management Theory.”

I am not advocating violence to any extent. Perhaps this is the
strangest concept in my toolbag, but for what it’s worth: violence
is actually not your weapon. Sure, you can throw rocks at cops, shoot
cops, and blow up police stations, but you’re actually not
accomplishing anything. In fact, you’re doing Their job for them,
which is why undercover police officers around the world try to start
riots at peaceful protests. Violence is not a weapon we can control,
so it’s not a weapon we should use, either.

10. Be fearless

The stakes are beautifully high, the enemy is unbelievably strong,
the fight looks completely hopeless. It’s too perfect, it’s
ridiculous. How can we be bored on a planet as deliciously dangerous
and insane as Earth? I can only conclude that my entire generation is
living inside an open-ended video game that we’ve been training for
since birth without even realizing it.

Speaking of birth – there isn’t much you can do about yours, not
while you’re attached to a material body on this particular piece of
spacetime. But, what you can
do
is to embrace the death of that body. It’s a fact, your body is going
to quit working, some day, for some reason. It may simply wear out,
it may be victimized by another life form – ranging from a virus to
a shark – or a piano might fall on it… but what we know for sure
is that it will
cease to function. Some people believe that will be the end of the I
that looks out from inside that body… some people believe their
soul is going to Heaven (or Hell) for something completely different.

Whatever.
I happen to believe that I
am a soul, spirit, consciousness or whatever name you want to call
it, and that I
am using this body as a sort of instrument to observe the material
aspect of Universe… and when this body finally quits, I
will continue to “exist”, and I have a feeling that the existence
will include some aspects of the material world we already know, but
from a totally different perspective… it seems likely to me that
some of the situations and circumstances we encounter in dream (and
other altered) states are similar if not identical to our coming
non-material eistence.

So there is the key to fearlessness: you are
going to die. There’s not the slightest fucking doubt about that, so
you will be best served by understanding and embracing your death as
an absolute and undeniable fact. And once you’ve done that (I didn’t
say it was easy,
did I? Hell, if it was easy,
everybody’d already be doing it and we wouldn’t have to write this)
you’re home free, because there’s nothing left to fear.

So keep pushing, stay calm, eat healthy, seek novelty, breathe
deeply, take risks, think slowly, move quickly, speak clearly, fight
dirty, dream crazy and please, be fearless.

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