The first rule is, don't play by their rules. Nothing is what it seems in our country, almost everything is reversed. It is as if you are surrounded and bound by chains, both soft and hard, but nevertheless the so-called "rules" are meant to bind you so that you will not be an effective change agent, so the status quo remains intact. If the status quo remain intact nothing will change, and the cycle of empire that has been going on for thousands of years will not be broken.
Our entire lives we are set up for subservience, authority figures are touted and we are told that they should be received without question. We go through school, which teaches us not only what we should learn in order to be literate - but how we are supposed to act in society. Every revolutionary bone that we have is removed from our body - we become spineless and mindless drones programmed to do the will of those who do not have our best interest in mind.
We have been taught all our life what we should desire, what acceptable goals are for happiness. So we live in these bubbles, surrounded by another big bubble which reinforces the way life is supposed to be. America has become the envy of every elite which would like to rule over the hearts and minds of a people without even a significant whimper from them. What we have embraced in this country, and what is fed to us and reinforced on a daily basis, is the fuel that feeds empire.
The rules say there is limited access to public decisions, but there is no freedom without equal access to decision making for all. This requires direct participation, not representative democracy. Even the twisted principle of "might is right" is wrong, so that in a democracy it results in majority rule over the few. We instead must be based on the principle of consensus-dissensus, that is arriving at a consensus, and if there is still a failure to agree - than the resources are split by the majority and minority proportional to the percentages.
The rules say "I am rich and you are poor." There must be equal access to societies common wealth for all. Even the distinctions of I am employer and you are the employee, which have become like second nature to our brainwashed minds, have got to go. If there is no decentralization of wealth we will never have equal distribution of power. It is simple and inevitable, those who have more wealth will have the power over the system, as well as the legal system and everything else for that matter.
The only way to get rid of this dualistic state of affairs is to extend the principle of "PARTICIPATION" not representation, to ALL areas of life and the extended institutions. This includes corporations which have become the fascist norm with all decisions coming from the top. Life is not like a corporation, life is like a community!
The rules say everything must be profit driven. No, that once again is not true, it should rather be needs based - "to each according to their needs, from each according to their ability." This is just common storehouse economics - WHERE PEOPLE IN CONCERT CONTROL THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND EXCHANGE! Where people take what they want during abundance and what they need during times of scarcity.
The rules say consume your ass off and screw everyone else! However, there is no reason why some people should consume more than others. It is simply wrong to be rewarded because of blind luck, some sort of genetic endowment, or to become rich on the misfortunes of others, or because one person is strong and the other is disabled.
Equal access to wealth is not the same as redistribution of wealth, it is wrong to give someone who is more needy the same as someone who has less needs - hence, "each according to their needs." True equality also recognizes diversity and that which is complimentary, it has nothing to do with forced uniformity.
TURN THE RULES ON THEIR EAR WITH THESE PRINCIPLES - OR LIKE BILL MAHER SAYS TO STEAL HIS LINE, "NEW RULES!!" DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING THESE PRINCIPLES IN OUR LIVES, THAN PROMOTING THEM IN SOCIETY, WILL BREAK THE CYCLE OF EMPIRE FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
Equal access to wealth is not the same as redistribution of wealth, it is wrong to give someone who is more needy the same as someone who has less needs - hence, "each according to their needs." True equality also recognizes diversity and that which is complimentary, it has nothing to do with forced uniformity.
TURN THE RULES ON THEIR EAR WITH THESE PRINCIPLES - OR LIKE BILL MAHER SAYS TO STEAL HIS LINE, "NEW RULES!!" DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING THESE PRINCIPLES IN OUR LIVES, THAN PROMOTING THEM IN SOCIETY, WILL BREAK THE CYCLE OF EMPIRE FROM THE INSIDE OUT.
THIS IS YOUR LIFE
WHERE ARE OUR MINDS?
BREAKOUT
TIME TO WAKE UP
(Excerpts from Fight Club)
FINAL RULE - YOU HAVE TO FIGHT!
PARECON 1
PARECON 2
PARECON 3
OVERCOMING TINA SYNDROME
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
THE SELL OUT
THEY LIVE
WHERE ARE OUR MINDS?
BREAKOUT
TIME TO WAKE UP
(Excerpts from Fight Club)
FINAL RULE - YOU HAVE TO FIGHT!
PARECON 1
PARECON 2
PARECON 3
OVERCOMING TINA SYNDROME
BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE
THE SELL OUT
THEY LIVE