Packaged Like a Rebel Or a Hero *UPDATED*
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If something or somebody that is seemingly dangerous or edgy isn’t stamped down hard by the powers that be, that’s how you can tell they’re really not a threat. Even more, that’s how you can tell they probably serve the interests of a status quo.
A true rebellion–a true revolution–that actually put the powers that be in danger would be squashed with maximum force, no questions asked, and no repercussions for the state agents doing the killing. This is why I’m not impressed by these autonomous zones, nor do I take these totally spontaneous and not at all well-funded and well-organized riots as being part of an actual uprising that put the social order of the United States in peril.
I mean, they do put the social order of the United States in peril, but they are doing so at the behest, or at the very least with the tacit approval, of those who really run the show. In other words, this chaos is not directed against The Man. It benefits The Man.
If you are a part of a rebellion or a resistance and you don’t have the full force of the status quo against you, including violence, then you are not a rebel. You are a tool. You are the empire.
The system stinks and it needs to change. But be careful with whom you cast your lot with, and also be careful if you find yourself believing the official story about anything right after it happened.
Aristotle coined two different types of revolution:
The replacement of an existing constitution with a new one; and
The modification of an existing constitution
There are other definitions, of course, most involving repudiations of an existing order and some sort of mass uprising. Revolutions are also usually violent, and end with a lot of dead bodies.
Again, keep this in mind. If what we were seeing was true revolution and not orchestrated theater, there would be a lot more shooting and violence, much involving state actors.
I don’t know what the outcome will be, and I don’t know what is the end game with any type of certainty. But what I do know is that the revolutionaries being sold to you, the warlords and the leaders, are a part of the system they’re pretending to want to dismantle and replace. Don’t believe them.
Update: Brian Neimeier compiles some really interesting facts about Raz Simone, the rapper turned so-called warlord of Seattle’s CHAZ who totally just spontaneously and organically took control and has guns to distribute to his followers and everything.
Seriously, it’s all bullshit. If Raz was really a threatening warlord and not a total LARP and/or Fed plant, he’d have been put down violently a week ago.
Be part of a literary rebellion.
