Thread by @caitoz

Shape Yourself Into The Perfect Weapon Against The Empire

"In a military revolution you would train with your body and your weapons to fight and kill the enemy. In a psywar, you must train your mind."
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Do you want to win this thing? Actually win it?

By that I mean, do you actually want to create a healthy world instead of a world where we are ruled by lying, murderous, warmongering, oppressive, ecocidal, omnicidal sociopaths? Is that something you truly, deeply want?

If this is you, that’s fine. Humanity is asleep in a whole host of ways, and it wouldn’t be fair to single you out as uniquely awful when you’re not any different from the vast majority of people. But at the very least please do try and be real with yourself about it.

If this is not you, and you really are in this fight to win it, then you should be spending every day doing everything you can to hone yourself into the perfect weapon in that fight.

If this were a revolution that is fought with physical weaponry, then you should be training every day to use those weapons effectively in that revolution. But this is not a revolution that is being fought with physical weaponry. The frontline of this revolution is propaganda.

As I never tire of saying, the only thing keeping the imperial status quo in place is propaganda.

In a military revolution you would train with your body and your weapons to fight and kill the enemy. In a psywar, you must train your mind.

You must hone your inner sensemaker so that you can perceive reality lucidly amid the confusion and obfuscations of a society that is saturated in propaganda.

You must train your mind to focus so that your mental energy is not diffuse. Make time each day to meditate so that you can point the full power of your mind at this battle, and learn to become present in each moment.

You must know yourself and understand your inner landscape, so that you understand what makes you tick.

You must heal your inner wounds so that you don’t bleed out energy that you will need to win this fight. You need to be able to point yourself at winning this fight, and you can’t do that when you’re bogged down by inner misery and neuroses.

You must focus on the true fight without getting sucked up in drama and sectarianism, as ends up happening with pretty much every revolutionary movement these days.

You must do these things while practicing to become an effective soldier in the decentralized guerrilla psywar against the propaganda of the plutocrat-owned mass media and political class. You must do what you can to help wake people up to the reality that they are being lied to,

If you can write at all, write blogs. Write pamphlets. Write tweets. Write comments under influential MSM propaganda pieces.

If you can speak, make videos. Make podcasts. Talk to friends and family. Talk to strangers. Get the truth out there wherever you can.

Protest. Record. Report. Use your inborn creativity to keep finding ways to slip little messages in bottles into the narrative matrix informing people that they are being deceived.

Keep honing yourself in all of these ways, and you will get better and better at it. You will probably suck a bit and make a bunch of mistakes when you first start. Lord knows I did. You’ve got to fight through that awkward learning stage as you hone your weaponry.

You can only learn by doing. You’ve got to want freedom from the empire more than you want to stay small and unseen and unembarrassed. You’ve got to want this thing more than you want to look cool.

We must become the media. We must replace the media by becoming the media.

You are infinitely more qualified to report the news than all the scumbags in the mass media who are paid by billionaires to parrot government lies.

Doesn’t matter if all you have is a smartphone and a Twitter account; you are set up to be a better news reporter than them.