Thread by @ThyConsigliori

29 April 2021 #MAGAanalysis

Multiple Media To Engage The Text

I noted this key thought on the 24th, but today is the first time I've posted the image below as I so often do. The thing is, I discovered a new kind of problem to solve which I'll explain more below...

2) Here's the problem. I can't mark up the entire page, yet this page is one of the most powerful in the entire book and its every thought is critical for our mission.

What to do?

3) It hit me - and a good friend of mine has been pushing me in this direction - that reading the page out loud would serve our purposes in this essay very nicely indeed. Some of you may have noticed I just did a bit of testing of that method and it seemed to go well enough.

4) So, what I'm going to do right now is attempt to record the page out loud, again. Hopefully, it'll go well and we'll move on. I may, however, have to attempt, delete, attempt again, etcetera. So, please bear with me. I will get this done!

5) Aha! Here's what I think I just learned. As far as I can tell, the audio record function operates ONLY on a single tweet all by itself, and not on replies. So, you have to record separately and snag to tweet link, as in right here:

https://twitter.com/ThyConsigliori/status/1388119519487483904?s=20

6) If, when I post this thread after it's finished over at Telegram, you will find a recording I made over there, already, at the bottom of the post. Right now, please do listen to, or read page 34 yourself, and I'll be right back after a short break.

7) Diving in, I hope you enjoyed the reading. Sharp gives us 7 powerful sentences on this page, and we'll try to distill each one down to a single idea numbered as such. Here we go...

8) On page 33, Sharp listed out 13 "bodies" or institutions, etc., and he tells us in IDEA 1 that they each have great political significance. It's one of our side's greatest mistakes that we don't think this way.

Great political significance of each body we participate within.

9) IDEA 2: these bodies empower us to exert powerful influence over society, as well as compete with other sources of influence with which we disagree.

These bodies give us power to fight!

10) IDEA 3: When isolated as solitary individuals we do NOT have the power to affect political outcomes or serve freedom. Both Paine & Machiavelli, Bastiat too, work on how government arises from society.

We are that creature who, joining together, self-governs.

11) IDEA 4: Dictators all know they must weaken and destroy the freedom and autonomy of our groups and associations.

Without them, we are powerless to resist the Dictator's organized violence and vast resources and reach.

12) IDEA 5: True power for the Dictator is in recreating our associations in his own image. When all our organizations are instruments of his will, his power is secure.

Social Power is a Dictator's grand objective and necessity.

13) IDEA 6: But what if we have the ability to maintain or regain the freedom, autonomy, & values of Democracy? They then empower us to employ...

POLITICAL DEFIANCE!

14) IDEA 7: Courageous MASS application of political defiance topples Dictators.

Institutions are just groups of individuals who share values and organize themselves to convert values into effective action. MASS self-organization for freedom will take a Dictator down.

15) Can we tighten our list? Let's try.

1) Social organizations have power.
2) They can fight.
3) Government arises from society.
4) Dictators must control organizations.
5) Dictators require Social Power.
6) We can organize for Political Defiance.
7) Political Defiance wins.

16) As some of you know, music is on my mind, and most especially the music of Political Defiance. How about Patriot Rock? We already have Patriot Country music. Maybe it's time for a new set of lyrics for the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

17) Look at golf. How about a tournament to raise money to gift to other organizations fighting the good fight of Political Defiance? I'll bop to another point regarding the Republican Party right now.

18) At my local branch of the GOP, no phone numbers are listed at their website. A chairman's email address is listed. I emailed a week ago and have gotten no reply. It is hard to join an entity that won't communicate with you or with the public at large.

19) This one page's guidance, it's 7 core ideas, force me to contemplate so many other books on the list. Lesser magistrates must interpose, so also must our social organizations. Master Sun teaches us about leadership, where followers' hands are held tenderly. We need that.

20) I'm not sure, but it may well be that this one page is the true pivot point of Sharp's analysis. We'll finish Chapter 3 tomorrow flow with Sharp right into assessing Dictator's Weaknesses in Chapter 4 coming up.

Thread ends at #20.

My recording at Telegram is a bit better than the one above, I believe. And our discussion of social organization for Political Defiance NEEDS YOU!

t.me/TheConsigliori