The most significant political reality of our time is also the most under-discussed political reality, and it can be summed up as follows:
There are a whole lot more of us than there are of them, and we can force revolutionary change whenever we want.
That’s it. There are a whole lot more ordinary people suffering under the status quo system of capitalism, imperialism, militarism and authoritarianism than there are people benefiting from it, and we can use the power of our numbers to overthrow that system whenever we decide to.
It’s self-evident, and so simple that you can sum it up in a single sentence. But because our society is so deeply indoctrinated and mind-controlled, it simply doesn’t show up in the normal every day conversations people have about politics and the problems we face as a society today.
We are encouraged to discuss elections and party politics with great vigor. We are rewarded with amplification on large plutocrat-owned platforms if we fan the flames of divisive culture war wedge issues or mainstream partisan punditry. But what we are absolutely * never* rewarded for and
We could all stop working and paying for things. We could barricade all the roads, railroads and infrastructure. We could demolish every bank, police station and government building. We could literally eat all the billionaires.
Just, you know, hypothetically.
We could do anything we wanted to do. No one could stop us.
All mainstream politics, media, and schooling is designed to direct our attention away from this political reality, while the people who rule over us never stop thinking about it. It haunts them. It consumes them. It keeps them up at night. They obsess over it.
That’s why they’re rushing to implement militarized robots, autonomous drones, and AI-driven mass surveillance.
That’s why they’re pushing for easily controlled digital currencies and digital IDs.
That’s why they’re working to re-centralize control of information to reverse the large-scale decentralization brought on by the internet.
That’s why they’ve been hammering us with mass media propaganda for generations, and have been developing increasingly sophisticated mass-scale psyops in the age of AI and smartphones.
That’s why we are actively herded into two mainstream political parties deadlocked in a perpetual tug-of-war to give us the illusion that we are engaging in meaningful political action.
That’s why we are trained from when we are schoolchildren to believe we live in free democracies where people control the actions of their government using their votes.
It’s because the rich and powerful are at all times acutely aware that the masses could turn on them at any instant, and must be kept in a perpetual state of manipulation and distraction in order to prevent this from happening.
I dunno, man. Sounds kinda unsustainable if you ask me. Especially given how discontented people are becoming as the capitalist empire stumbles over its own contradictions and runs out of arguments for its continued existence.
We’re standing in a cage that isn’t even locked. The door’s not even closed. The only thing keeping us here is the recorded voice of the prison warden telling us “THERE IS NO ESCAPE” over and over again on repeat.
One day our gaze is going to turn to that door. And we will step out of it. And we will be free.
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