pam on Nostr: Yes. Talk is cheap. Often times people romanticise standing up against tyranny. But ...

Yes. Talk is cheap. Often times people romanticise standing up against tyranny. But when evil stares them right in the eye, many will run.

On the bright side, there is a growing group of college kids who are not afraid of the system. They are spreading like wildfire. Their spirit is strong and wild. When these college kids find love in Bitcoin, there is no turning back. We need to be ready.

The Beatnik era started off as an anti-establishment protest against the Vietnam war and eventually spread to people standing up against the elite control of the economy to enable the middle class to step up, and for creativity to thrive in innovation, education, movies, music, fashion. Good things happen when people come together.

On the current reactions fear or flight - in Braveheart, when Mel Gibson screamed holdddd repeatedly, it wasn’t because the people didn’t know the strategy. Everyone knew they needed to wait for the attackers to come as close as possible to use their secret weapons - but as the attackers approached, fight or flight kicks in - so William Wallace reminds the people again and again to hold and resist until the time was right.

Sometimes we need to remind ourself to resist this feeling of fear. It’s not easy. Knowing cops can arrest you at any point, no fancy lawyer, the jurisdiction system is bollocks, and you spend your whole life being a good person only to end up in prison is a terrible feeling to live with. Not to mention the family you are responsible for feeding will suffer. I understand the fear. But the only way to overcome this is if people stood firm together and resist.

A few years back, we marched in my country to protest political ill-doings. They jammed us on the roads, tear gassed us with Black Maria’s trailing - we ran like cockroaches. I freaked out, but a bunch of older people kept walking. They were easily in the 70s. They held my hands and said, ‘let’s keep going’. Why? Because they waited so long for freedom. That courage burns in them.

Large headcount of support will send a strong signal of what the people want, to the gov’t and to everyone.

Some who are not from the US asked why they should fight the US battles for them. Why not ? The problem was never about the people anywhere in the world - it was always about the system and the gov’ts. If anything, resisting the most influential govt will create the biggest breakthrough. But this can only happen if everyone sticks together, have a strategy, resist fear and keep going.

In the US Declaration of Independence, it says “Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” . This declaration was not about how the people must function but how the govt needs to function . People must not forget this. Govt must not forget this.

You rightfully hinted at the fear that’s spreading like domino. In the Art of War, Sun Tzu shares how “moral law” needs to be enforced to ensure the people followed the ruler without questioning the authority. And the method and discipline for that to happen is by executing the team leads so that people will fear and start to obey. This sounds all too familiar. Which means - this is war.

We need strategy. We need courage. Many will need to be reminded to stay even though they know they should. We need to be ready for the young strong and wild spirits when they join in.

We have to resist tyranny, whomever they are, wherever they are. How we come out of this depends on how strong we stick together.