just two jobs to do<\/a> in our new totalitarian society: live with the ugly reality and plan to outlive it.<\/p>\nThe catch, of course, is that neither of the two jobs is simple or easy.<\/p>\n
Part of those jobs involves developing parallel systems, or even parallel societies as described in “How to Escape a Sick Society.” We need, as human beings and as a culture, to “route around” the damage of totalitarianism. By routing around, we accomplish multiple good things, from weakening the power of the oligarchy to giving dissidents a way to live and thrive to (potentially) replacing the oligarchy without bloodshed when the day comes.<\/p>\n
Really we won’t end up with one, or even two or three, parallel societies, but thousands of them.<\/p>\n
Many kinds of parallel systems<\/em> are needed. But every newborn freedomista society, large or small, will need methods to replace existing (and completely corrupted):<\/p>\n\n- Education systems\n
- Financial systems\n
- Justice systems\n
- Medical systems\n
- Transportation systems\n
- Communication systems\n<\/ul>\n
And that’s what my upcoming series will be about. <\/p>\n
Some of those are relatively easy and already underway. The government schooling system, for instance, is crumbling before our eyes and being replaced by outstanding options.<\/p>\n
Other systems are much harder. How do we replace government-dominated banking and medical care when the oligarchy’s grip is so tight and punishments are so potentially huge? How do we form truly just justice systems and not end up creating little mafias or warlord fiefdoms instead?<\/p>\n
But of course, even in those most difficult areas, we already see opportunities opening. You can probably name a dozen ways that new financial systems and medical systems are developing by chance or by design. Government systems are so broken and have become so unpleasant to use that millions will be driven to abandon them and create alternatives, even under threat of horrible punishment<\/em> for stepping out of the (former) mainstream.<\/p>\nSo. That’s where we’ll go next week, and probably for several weeks beyond that.<\/p>\n
I hope to have you with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This will be brief. I have company this week. Though my guest and I have brainstormed through a world of perils and generated vast amounts of blog fodder, I planned to wait until next week, then begin a new multi-part series on bringing down totalitarianism. A moment has come up this afternoon, so here’s a beginning. First, please take a cruise though these links that I’ve been collecting in preparation for the upcoming series, most especially the last in the list. Adaptive Curmudgeon sums up everything that needs saying about the obnoxious, unconscionable, cruel, inciting, totalitarian, and exceedingly dangerous speech…<\/p>\n
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