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Rikard's avatar

An easy act of rebellion is this:

Whenever someone "normal" utters support or acts understanding to a stupid but politically correct notion, challenge them. Politely of course, even friendly - absolutely not condescending or holier than thou or such.

Using a local example: here, you have to pay to the council a fee for your sewage-well, when it is emptied. Which is twice yearly, by mandate. If you need more, you pay extra. So far, nothing strange, right?

Well, but what about those like me) who only needs i emptied out every 18 months or so? The rule about twice yearly is based on an average, you see, and not that the well is full up.

What I do is, I simply ask the person I'm talking to (if waste-handling is the topic: stock up on good examples so you have a couple for each topic*) if they think it right that the council can force me to pay for what I don't want and don't need, adding the query "It's as if the think I can't lift the lid and call a for someone with a pump-truck to come empty it out when I need to", this because framing it like that makes the absurdity and unfairness clear.

So far, the only person opposing this is the village communist, a certified party-member who has to respond according to the party line which is that systems geared towards individual freedoms and rights are unfair. You can see him chafe having to do so, because he knows he's wrong but hasn't solved the internal conflict between self-image and actual actions/words of his yet.

One person at a time, we can do it, because everyone we reach who also start saying "No! By what right?" to authority is another soldier for freedom.

*Being a retired teacher, this is home-street for me, but do consider it: it helps avoid the typical crank-reflex of tying everything anyone says to your own hobby-horse topic. People don't listen if they start a conversation about how horrible the war in Ukraine is, and you try to tie it to the WEF and mandatory fluoridation of tap water.

Get a stable of hobby-horses instead, so to speak.

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HamburgerToday's avatar

It took technocrats 70 years to burn through 7000 years of social capital.

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