1. Don’t go offline or camp out some little right-wing ghetto apps (ie Parler). Stay active on the main platforms. But expand and “back up” your online network “offline.” Big Tech will cancel, censor, & silence anyone that speaks against the zeitgeist.
2. Build an analog library of important books and documents. Also, download ebooks/PDF to an external hard drive.
Big Tech will delete works that undermine their plans and speaks against the zeitgeist.
3. Find a community that is a “winnable and worthwhile hill.” This is a place that is small enough for you to have influence, large/strategic enough to have some cultural, economic, and/or political significance.
Ask “Could this town/county become a city-state? Put down roots.
4. Get to know your neighbors. Share meals, build trust, and learn to enjoy each other. And then look for ways to improve your community that builds a coalition around the common good. Make yourself a central part of that work.
In other words, be a leader.
5. Buy local whenever possible and reasonable. Open business in your town. Buy and rehab old buildings on "main street." Encourage others to do the same.
Strengthen the local economy and make it attractive to likeminded people.
6. Run for any and all local offices and encourage all likeminded community members to do likewise.
You want your neighbors (the ones you've grown tight with) to be the depart of health official, the sheriff, head of polling, etc.
7. Belong to a church in your actual community. Be willing to compromise on some secondary issues if it means being more local. If there isn't a single good church, help one get started.
Work, play, and worship together. Get deeply invested locally.
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Would you run for your life or just stand on the beach as a gigantic tsunami rushed towards you?
You’d run, right? Don’t be so sure.
During the Boxing Day Tsunami, many vacationers just stood on the beach and watched as the ocean receded into a monstrous wave...
The locals knew better. They ran as hard as they could. But some of the foreigners stood on the beach, stared in amazement, and were engulf in a deadly mass of water.
Why didn’t they run? Why did they just stand there like a bunch of idiots?
Because tsunamis weren’t a normal part of life in their country. They knew that tsunamis existed and that they happened in this part of the world. They, however, had never seen one. So they underestimated its danger and were slow to take actions.