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on_strike_usaexpat:
Wow, take a look at my NYM and then read this editorial.

Quitting and walking out as the mass solution!

I do consider myself "on strike" but I came to this POV through Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged". Very interesting how this form of action can come from many philosophical angles.

Good strikin' folks...

Regards,

From way way way down south

Puck:
I'm all for the whole massive strike thing, but here's the problem. How does one simply stop doing all the aforementioned. I require a lot of stuff... food mostly, clean water, shelter, if i just quit my job i'll run out of cash. When that happens i can't pay the rent and i get kicked outta my spot. I mean, if it was organized id be down but if individuals do it on an "at your own pace" kinda deal then not only will it be ineffective, but it will leave my life in shambles. Any advice?

Mathew 2K:
Yes, it needs to be organized. I believe the author mentoined that right up front. It takes some planning, for example paying the rent for a bit in advance, gradually laying in a supply of food, water and other necessities enough to last at least two weeks and then striking in unity. But, if, for example, all of those people who participated in the sending of massive amounts of e-mails, faxes, etc., to stop the Alito nomination, just those people only, were all to undertake such a strike, beginning on a specified day some six weeks in the future of its first, planned annoucement, how many others might indeed join in once the effects of the strike began to be so obvious that the MSM couldn't successfully hide them any longer.

Look at what the completely unreported, invisible but ever growing consumer boycott of Wal- Mart is causing. Wal-Mart is having a heap of legal and economic troubles these days. More and more communities are blocking them from building new stores or expanding existing ones, and their sales revenues are dropping steadily.  And, sure enough, bit by bit, MSM news features and print articles about their corrupt labor, marketing, manufacturing and other practices are coming to light.

The point I would make is this, no matter how difficult a strike might be for any of us, it won't be nearly so bad as what the PTB are going to do to us all otherwise.

Ruth:

--- Quote from: Mathew 2K ---Yes, it needs to be organized. I believe the author mentoined that right up front.
The point I would make is this, no matter how difficult a strike might be for any of us, it won't be nearly so bad as what the PTB are going to do to us all otherwise.
--- End quote ---
It seems that the PTB deliberately 'created' this situation as a form of social addiction.  People think they 'need' certain things in order to survive within their society.  This is used with good effect to disempower the masses, the same as a drug addict becomes controlled and disempowered.

The problem is, with so many people 'addicted' to the social illusions that the PTB spread, it is probably easier to engage in a low key program of waking people up which enables them to slowly be weaned off their 'addiction' to things like Walmart and SUVs.

If any one group was able to do enough 'damage' to the psychopathic corporate monsters who now have everyone under their control..... they would probably be blamed for the situation that was caused by these self-same monsters in the first place.

A stike is a bit like going 'cold turkey'.  It will only work well for people who are either not that addicted, or who have reached the stage where they are totally revolted by the effects of their addiction and can SEE those effects!  Sometimes a lot of work needs to be put into the 'addict' before hand, enabling them to SEE.

It's funny, but before now, I didn't see any corrolation between how society is with it's Walmarts and SUVs and how an addict is towards their chemicals....  It's just another form of trap to a 'need'.

on_strike_usaexpat:
I see this as more of a dream unless something drastically changes in the States. And I'm afraid that the next turn of the screw change will be a massive economic downturn which will make this potential solution even less likely.

With people already living outside their means and TOTALLY dependent on supermarkets, Walmart and government for their NEEDS, it looks pretty hopeless to this expat.

I was able to do what I did BECAUSE I did the opposite of everyone else. No debt, no flashy consumer items (except for the necessary laptop) and no following the crowd and facing potential derision. I feel this is too painful for the majority to consider.

If 'Merka has passed the tipping point, then it would be better to be like the forward looking folks with means in Germany circa 1930's and get the hell out while you still can.

JMHO.

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