{"id":54566,"date":"2020-08-04T08:23:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54566"},"modified":"2020-08-04T08:24:50","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T13:24:50","slug":"shape-yourself-into-the-perfect-weapon-against-the-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54566","title":{"rendered":"Shape Yourself Into The Perfect Weapon Against The Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2020\/08\/04\/shape-yourself-into-the-perfect-weapon-against-the-empire\/\">Shape Yourself Into The Perfect Weapon Against The\u00a0Empire<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/medium-5.jpg?fit=1080%2C810&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you want to win this thing? Actually win it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By that I mean, do you actually want to create a healthy world instead of a world where we are ruled by lying, murderous, warmongering, oppressive, ecocidal, omnicidal sociopaths? Is that something you truly, deeply want?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s okay if you don\u2019t, but be real with yourself about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A large percentage of the people who get involved in revolutionary political movements and criticism of establishment power structures, if they were honest with themselves, would admit that they do so not out of a sincere desire to replace the sociopathic ruling empire with something that benefits all life on this earth, but out of a desire to feel good about themselves. It\u2019s not a real battle for them, it\u2019s just a titillating ego game.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/dissident-circles-too-often-become-another-nerdy-hobby-group-7bd43bdf9bf8\">A hobby<\/a>, no different from any other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1262572320347967489&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fcaitlinjohnstone.com%2F2020%2F08%2F04%2Fshape-yourself-into-the-perfect-weapon-against-the-empire%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=223fc1c4%3A1596143124634&amp;width=550px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is you, that\u2019s fine. Humanity is asleep in a whole host of ways, and it wouldn\u2019t be fair to single you out as uniquely awful when you\u2019re not any different from the vast majority of people. But at the very least please do try and be real with yourself about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is not you, and you really are in this fight to win it, then you should be spending every day doing everything you can to hone yourself into the perfect weapon in that fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this were a revolution that is fought with physical weaponry, then you should be training every day to use those weapons effectively in that revolution. But this is not a revolution that is being fought with physical weaponry. The frontline of this revolution is propaganda, and the guerrilla psywar&nbsp;that we are fighting against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shape Yourself Into The Perfect Weapon Against The\u00a0Empire Do you want to win this thing? Actually win it? By that I mean, do you actually want to create a healthy world instead of a world where we are ruled by lying, murderous, warmongering, oppressive, ecocidal, omnicidal sociopaths? Is that something you truly, deeply want? 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