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here are the alternatives to the new status quo of totalitarian democracy: 1. leave 2. revolt seriously, that's it. we lost the first dozen encounters with to

here are the alternatives to the new status quo of totalitarian democracy: 1. leave 2. revolt seriously, that's it. we lost the first dozen encounters with totalitarianism, so now options are limited and undesirable. widespread witholding of labor/ consent to be governed is the next step if we are serious about change. politically, we're on the downward slope for at least another 8 years...

mindslight 10y ago
"Revolt" doesn't work because democracy provides a pressure relief valve that prevents any significant mass of people from wanting to revolt. Notice how the "hopeful" prepper culture is based around passively waiting for things to "inevitably" fall apart rather than actively forming a militia. "Leave" doesn't work because there's no place to go. The US empire is nearly everywhere, the best you can do is escape to the different monetary spheres of Russia/China and buy some time. IMHO our two options are 1. digital freedom through cryptography, or 2. become slave cells of a larger organism. The first is a fucking long shot, but I don't see any other possibility for individualism. Then again as I get older, I can't help but shake the feeling we're really just observing bog-standard societal collapse.