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Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
— Étienne de La Boétie in his Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, 1576
We want to change the world. We want to render every force that’s capable of abusing people or our planet on a large scale GONE. This isn’t simply changing leaders. They are mortal so all of them go. But systems of abuse can last much longer. Our planet is dying. Or more accurately, being murdered. These systems are destroying the biosphere and the climate.
We don’t have time to waste on such systems. We can’t be bothered to fight them because, when we fight on their terms, they usually win and all of that would take too much time. Reform is a non-starter.
The climate is collapsing right now and we don’t have time for that.
Remember the famous scene in the original Indiana Jones film, when a formidable warrior skillfully wielding fearsome swords comes at Indie? You wonder what he’ll do. And Indie simply pulls out a gun and shoots the guy.
Well, we won’t (and shouldn’t) shoot anybody. But we can dispatch dictatorships, plutocracies, Big…
