cecilkorik

They should fear us. We outnumber the powers that be (governments, billionaires) thousands to one if not millions to one, and though they do everything they can to make us believe otherwise, we are their equals in every way except organization and motivation. Those may not be trivial things to change but they are not that hard to change either. Money and laws and ownership are only meaningful constructs as long as we continue to consent to their current implementation. When we stop giving our consent, they will have nothing to maintain their power base except force, and being so vastly outnumbered, they will quickly find the forces they (and we) imagine they can bring to bear are actually quite limited. How are they going to keep paying for their citadels and bunkers and servants and bodyguards and personal armies when nobody wants their money on their predatory services anymore? Money, and our collective desire for it and the things they sell to us with it, is their only real weapon, and if we stop playing the game the way they expect us to, they’ve actually got nothing.

The black power movement understood this. The hippies understood this. We need to start to understand it. The power of these people is a myth, it’s something we give them and it requires mutual consent even if we don’t understand that we’re giving it. The power that has been given can be taken back when we withdraw our consent.

It worked for Enron! Until it didn’t.