{"id":44107,"date":"2021-09-07T03:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=44107"},"modified":"2021-09-06T16:39:45","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T23:39:45","slug":"dealing-with-our-new-totalitarian-reality-part-iiwe-have-just-two-jobs-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/07\/dealing-with-our-new-totalitarian-reality-part-iiwe-have-just-two-jobs-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Dealing with our new totalitarian reality, part II<\/br>(We have just two jobs to do)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Not<\/p>\n

There’s a strange paradox at the heart of our unique and growing totalitarianism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On one hand, our ruling classes are as putrescent as any powdered princeling from France’s ancien regime<\/em>. They have been for a very long time. Marie Antoinette may never have said, “Let them eat cake” when informed the deplorable masses had no bread. But today public and “private” figures like “let them eat ice cream” Pelosi, “take your jabs and pay no attention to my depopulation dreams” Gates, and “fighting climate change by blasting hydrocarbons from my private jet” Kerry are an undeniable fact of our lives.<\/p>\n

It’s hard to say which is worse among the elite — arrogance or cluelessness.<\/p>\n

Virtually every traditional institution has lost all credibility. No one of good sense trusts any any official or any piece of information they can’t verify for themselves.<\/p>\n

In other words, if ever a regime was ready to prolapse into an oozing lump of rotted illusions, it’s this one.<\/p>\n

However.<\/p>\n

This same exhausted, diseased, and all-but-mummified elite controls — or is controlled by — the most extensive surveillance and superintendence apparatus ever known to mankind. No one, from Cardinal Richelieu of old to the STASI of recent vintage could have imagined, let alone operated, a system like the one that watches us day and night. Not only watches us, but has the power — through a few keystrokes or a decision by anonymous, autonomous AI — to turn us into pariahs.<\/p>\n

This system — partially “private” and partly Deep State (but can you tell the difference?) — may have the capability to outlast the depraved class that built it. Whether it will operate autonomously as Skynet or be operated by humans … who knows?<\/p>\n

But what we appear to have — our paradox — is a strong control system built by a weakening elite.<\/p>\n

More about that toward the end of this screed.<\/p>\n

\"If<\/p>\n

Source: John Wilder, The fall of freedom in Australia in 16 memes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

—–<\/p>\n

There’s so<\/em> much we can’t know. We can’t know whether our own ancien regime<\/em> will fight for its life when the day comes or already be so rotted (like the old Soviet Union) that it will passively collapse upon itself at a touch. We can’t know what will replace it — something better or something even worse. Will we get Thomas Jefferson or Robespierre? Vaclav Havel or Fidel Castro? Or tiny states with different convictions (a few even leaning toward freedom!)? How about a Dark Age of a thousand years?<\/p>\n

All we can know is that, after some unknown period and one or more unpredictable triggering event(s) (the classic “Gradually and then suddenly”) our decomposing elite will<\/em> fall.<\/p>\n

In the meantime we have two jobs to do. Just two: live with the new totalitarianism and plan to outlive it.<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

Live with does not mean tolerate. Outlive doesn’t mean to wait passively until it dies on its own. On the contrary.<\/p>\n

\"Done<\/p>\n

Living with the unlivable — in a spirit of freedom<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

No, we do not have to tolerate the intolerable. Our job of living with the new totalitarian reality doesn’t mean accepting it on its own terms. It means first acknowledging reality, evaluating our position, then taking positive steps to go around, through, over, or under the obstacles in our path. In totalitarianism, obstacles are many.<\/p>\n

Early steps:<\/p>\n

1. Because of the nature of the “crisis” that enabled mere tyrants to transform outright into totalitarians (albeit still “totalitarian lite”) the very first order of business in this first job of ours is to guard the sovereignty of our bodies.<\/p>\n

Bad enough we’ve tolerated governments telling us that we can’t<\/em> put certain useful substances into our own bodies. When they tell us that we must<\/em> put certain substances into our bodies, they have gone too far. We must study, compare, judge — and resist (if such is our informed choice) — on our own.<\/p>\n

2. If we find ourselves in a minority that is judged to be vermin, the cause of society’s ills, without redeeming value, then without hesitation we should get ourselves and our families to a safer place while we still can. DO NOT stick around and try to reason with a crazed mob. DO NOT imagine that reason and humanity will return in time. DO NOT hold false hopes. Go.<\/p>\n

Where is your place of safety (if any exists)? I can’t say. Offshore (if you can get there)? At sea (if you have sailing skills or means)? Another state? Another region within your own state? A hometown where you’re known and respected? A family homestead? A hermit’s cave? Wherever it is, if you have good reason to believe it’s safer than living where people hate you merely for existing — go.<\/p>\n

Beyond those initial steps, a lot of what we need to do to “live with totalitarianism” might be pretty familiar:<\/p>\n