This podcast answers some questions and feedback I received from readers/ listeners who have shared my two-part plan of how we get free. If you haven’t heart about the two part plan, skip to the sub-header (below) and I’ll fill you in.
This episode discusses how to minister to those around us who are still in denial about what’s happening. Many of us are horrified, thinking how in the hell can’t people see this? They can see it, but they’re being psychologically abused and, instead of recognizing this, they’re living in chronic freeze and denial. Now that you’ve got your oxygen mask on and can what’s happening, this podcast will give you info to help you have conversations with your friends— because you do need to wake them up, compassionately but matter-of-factly, and invite them to get involved in their neighborhood to fight back. None of us have the luxury of sitting this one out.
By the way, the information I’m referencing in the podcast comes from Chris Hughes’s The Behavioral Ops Manual— it basically describes, in detail, how to manipulate people and impose your will on them. It was created for intelligence agencies, but this is war, Peacock, and we need to be aware of HOW they’re manipulating us— because it’s not just at the level of language, they are psychologically abusing us at scale and using brain hacks to force compliance. It’s kinda fucked up, but the good news is that: once you see this information for what it is, you can’t unsee it. Calling attention to their methods actually helps break the spell. This book will help you see the men behind the green curtain and expose their con, once and for all.
ICYMI: The Two-Part Plan on How We Get Free
I want to make sure I link to the two-part plan I’m talking about:
Part 1: The Bill Passed. Now What?
Part 2: How We End This
The strategy is simple: we link up at the zip code level, becoming villages of care, collaboration, and nonviolent community defense to protect our neighbors from getting stolen and weathering the storms created by the chaos this regime has sowed.
We begin this work now— which means you have to start working with your neighbors immediately. This is getting too damn serious to fart around; a genocide is unfolding before our eyes (two of them) and our neighbors’ lives (and our own) are on the line. We need to have everyone ready before the end of summer. Then, in the fall, we strike— that’s the second part of the plan. We block the streets with cars, refusing the violent optics they want, and we go home and take care of each other. We hold the strike, and watch people defect— because they will. In the meantime, we work in our communities to talk about the new constitution and its bill of rights, because we are NOT going back to barely getting by and ecological collapse and endless depravity and nonstop lying and warmongering. This ends now.
We have the agency to do this. We only need the discipline and commitment to nonviolence-- by which I mean: we do not seek to bodily harm our neighbors. This isn’t naivety: this is awareness that our best option actually is nonviolence. We do not have to square off to them in the terms they set; that’s not how this works.
Neighbor, I know this is scary, but you need to hold onto the fact that damn near next to no one wants this. The only thing more contagious than fear is hope and courage.
If you’ve woken up and are ready to protect your neighborhood, signal it to your neighbors by taking a piece of sidewalk chalk and drawing a heart in your neighborhood. Millions of hearts, all over the ground to signal our dissent. When people ask what they are, we tell them about the plan, and we invite them into community planning how to care for each other.
This plan will work. Again, here’s the episode where I walk about the networked community pods we need to create in our actual zip codes, and here’s the episode where I talk about how we strike nonviolently and plan for what comes next. All the episodes I’ve recorded thus far (with maybe one exception) has to do with how to get our heads in the game and fight back. This can’t be a quick fix. Protests that don’t become movements and movements that don’t ground themselves in beloved community don’t prevail. This isn’t mushy stuff— building community is the bulwark of our nonviolent resistance to fascism. When movements face setbacks and blowback (as they always do), those not based on local connection and affinity unravel. That’s why it sometimes takes decades to get out a fascist: because sometimes people take shortcuts and discount the zip-code-level community-building and the care networks needed to topple tyrants. Community care is our super power and we need to use it to hold the damn line, and relearn how to love and collaborate with our neighbors again.
We got this and, if you have questions you’d like me to address, email me.
