Paul Rosenberg: United We Fall.
Mass movements and leaders always drag us in the wrong direction.
So…
So, if you need a pile of bodies to knock down other bodies, unity’s your ticket. If you want a large number of people to turn off their minds and obey you, unity’s also your ticket, especially if you mix in some fear.
But if you want, thinking, creative, upright, beneficial human beings, ditch unity and call for self-will.
As individuals we rise.
United we fall.
Didn’t realize Rosenberg also has a new novel out this year. Even though it’s a collapse-of-civilization tale (a genre I’ve grown to groan over) and may be an example of “tell, don’t show” expository writing, it still sounds interesting. Just because it’s from Paul Rosenberg. And just because, for a change, the collapse of civilization-as-usual may present something other than chaos and cannibalism.
(Via Rational Review News)
I was just getting my e-copy of How to Kill the Job Culture Before It Kills You ready to go online at the new site and discovered within it this wonderfully apropos quote:
“It is a well-known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.” — Dave Barry
Personally I’m a fan of dystopian fiction and I’m going to have a look at the novel you linked to, thanks for posting the link.
Unity… One can ignore the call to unity but what happens when those who sponsor unity refuse to ignore you?
http://thefederalist.com/2016/08/22/the-coming-free-speech-apocalypse/
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-armed-rebellion-2016-8?
I guess Mr. Rosenberg wants us to be picked off one by one…What a bunch of crap…Mindless people are just that no matter if they are in a group or not…They are only dangerous though when they are in a group or have a group that will back them no matter what…There is nothing wrong about being unified as long as it isn’t coerced and everyone knows what the unity is about… JMHO
Regarding your second link, it describes a fairly reasonable military response to a small militia group that has forcibly taken over a single small town.
I also note that a small militia group forcibly taking over a single small town, particularly one near several large military bases, and then setting up “tax” roadblocks to piss off everyone that drives through, is a damned stupid way to run a rebellion.
I don’t remember anyone in the real Tea Party ever even advocating such.
IMHO the foundation of this country was the individual.
Even though a town may go out on their city green to meet an overwhelming enemy, going out on that green was an act of each individual who did.
Now to beat that overwhelming enemy may take some of your brothers (& sisters) coming out of the woods to help but even their act is that of each individual who decided to come out of those woods.
I am an advocate of tribe & clan too (that’s a c not a K) but IMHO for that to work you need individuals to agree on how it works and thus they then buy into it (mainly because they had input & acceptance into to what mutual agreements are decided for having this tribe or clan, even with blood there still needs to be other lines of mutual agreements, again IMHO).
Where I personally have a problem is these people who think they know what is best for the rest and thus are telling or demanding me and mine as to what to say or think & do, That is tyranny to me and
When tyranny becomes law
Rebellion becomes duty!
Rebellion is an interesting word that has more than one definition, you can rebel in thought, in speech, and in one’s actions. Again one’s level of rebellion is also an individual choice too.