November 26, 2014
from LandDestroyer Website
Build, don't burn.
Collaborate, don't complain.
Don't simply "resist" the system, replace it altogether.
When faced on the battlefield with a numerically superior enemy, one must attempt to divide his enemy into smaller, more easily dispatched opponents, or even more ideally, divide them against one another, and have them defeat each other without ever drawing your sword.
For Wall Street's 0.1%, divide
and conquer is a way of life.
Divide
and Conquer
Never in human history has there been a more effective way
for tyrants to rule over large groups of people who, should
they ever learn to cooperate, would easily throw off such
tyranny.
At the conclusion of the Anglo-Zulu War, the British
despoiled Zululand, divided it into 14 separate chiefdoms,
each led by a proxy obedient to the British Empire.
The British ensured that these 14 chiefdoms harbored animosities toward one another and fostered petty infighting between them to ensure British interests would never again be challenged by a unified Zulu threat.
Before the British, the Romans would employ similar tactics across Germania and Gaul.
Zululand lies in flaming ruins, its legendary army decimated,
but the British were not about to take any chances
of allowing them to unite and resist again.
They divided the defeated nation into 14 chiefdoms
each headed by leaders harboring dislike for the others
ensuring perpetual infighting and a divided, weakened Zululand
never again to rise and challenge British subjugation.
In this way, the British
Empire and the Romans managed to not only decimate their
enemies, but by keeping them perpetually infighting,
divided, and at war with one another, managed to keep
them subservient to imperial rule for generations.
But one would be mistaken to believe that imperialism is only waged abroad. Imperialism is as much about manipulating, controlling, and perpetuating subservience at home as it is projecting hegemony abroad.
For the imperialist, all of humanity represents a sea of potential usurpers.
The systematic division, weakening, and subjugation of various social groups along political, religious, class, or racial lines has proven an ageless solution for the elite.
One remembers the infamous use of Christians as
a scapegoat for the corruption of Roman Emperor
Nero, deflecting public anger away from the
ruling elite and unto others among the
plebeians.
This is a game that has continued throughout the
centuries and continues on to this very day.
While racial,
religious, and political divisions are aspects
of human nature, they are viciously exploited by
the ruling elite to divide and destroy any
capacity of the general public to organize,
resist, or compete with established
sociopolitical and economic monopolies.
Ferguson - Playing America Like a Fiddle
Before protests began breaking out in Ferguson, Missouri, and even after the first of the protests in August, many across America's polarized "left/right" paradigm began to find a common ground, shocked at the level of militarization the police had undergone and the heavy-handed response they exercised amid protests.
Even among the
generally pro-police and military "right," there
was concern over what was finally recognized as
a growing and quite
menacing "police state" in
America.
Politicians, the corporate media, and security
agencies set off to work, dividing America's
public down very predictable lines.
Convenient
"revelations" that the police were connected
with the ultra-racist Ku Klux Klan, coupled with
growing choruses across the right to circle the
wagons in support of the militarized police
attempted to place those who converged on this
common ground back into their assigned places on
the "right" and "left" of America's ultimately
Wall Street-controlled political order.
Regardless of its success, attempts to
intentionally provoke violence, confusion, and
division on both sides is an attempt by the
establishment to keep people divided and weak
while maintaining their position of primacy over
the country and the expansive "international
order" it imposes globally.
It was this establishment, in fact, that intentionally militarized the police, intentionally cultivates both institutional racism as well as sociopolitical and economic rot in America's inner cities, creating breeding grounds of violence and crime.
So busy is America managing the predictable conflict amongst themselves, they have neither the time nor the energy to recognize their true tormentors.
In
reality, the police and protesters and those
across America and around the world "picking
sides" have more in common with one another than
the government and corporate-financier interests
that reign in Washington and on Wall Street.
Get Off
the Hamster Wheel
One cannot accomplish anything by burning down
one's own community, killing one another, or
complaining and protesting endlessly.
Real revolution is not taking to the streets and destroying a political order, it is creating a new order that displaces the old.
The American Revolution, for instance,
occurred after the colonies established their
own economic system, as well as their own
militias, political networks, and
infrastructure. The violence broke out only
after the British tried to reassert themselves
amid the steady process of being displaced.
By the time shots were being fired, the real revolution had already occurred - the subsequent war was to defend its success.
Today, the establishment constitutes unchecked, unwarranted power and influence held by the corporate-financier elite - an establishment we are in fact paying into daily every time we patronize their businesses, use their services, associate with their institutions, and pay in attention and time to their propaganda and political agenda we ourselves should be setting and executing.
Ironically many of both the police and protesters clashing in Ferguson on opposite sides of the "conflict" have homes full of Wall Street's goods, and subscriptions to many of their services.
Indeed,
Walmart ends up filling our homes with most of the consumer products we depend on in America.
A handful of agricultural giants feed us.
A handful of pharmaceutical giants medicate us.
A handful of energy monopolies light our homes and fuel our vehicles.
You could fill a
single sheet of paper with the names of
corporate-financier interests that rule over
nearly every aspect of our lives.
Such monopolies exist because they have
extinguished competitors. Ensuring that
competition remains extinguished means creating
a society that is incapable of producing
individuals or paradigms capable of challenging
their established order.
This includes
sabotaging the education system, creating a
socioeconomic system that encourages
unsustainable dependence rather than
self-sufficiency and independence, and
rigging rules, regulations, and laws against any
potential upstarts.
The notion of Ferguson protesters demanding
justice from a system created of injustice, upon
injustice, is as absurd as trying to squeeze
apple juice from a lemon.
It is the definition of fantastical futility.
Instead of demanding
justice, jobs, education, healthcare, food, and
other necessities and desires from a system with
no intention of ever empowering the people - a
system that in order to continue perpetuating
itself must by necessity never truly empower the
people - we must begin working together locally
to empower ourselves.
Power stems from infrastructure and institutions
- and locally this can be accomplished in
innumerable ways.
Already farmers' markets, organic cooperatives, makerspaces, churches, community centers, community gardens, and charities along with innovative small businesses leveraging technology to do locally what once required global spanning industry to accomplish, all constitute the seeds of this shifting paradigm.
For communities unlucky enough not to have one of these above institutions, or a lack of them, instead of baying for blood in the streets, burning building down, or clashing with police, build them.
The alternative media itself is proof of what
power people have when they stop depending on
others, stop demanding others to do their jobs
properly, and instead take up the responsibility
themselves.
Expanding this
paradigm shift to other aspects of our daily
lives, from agriculture to energy, to education,
will be key to true and enduring change.
Ferguson teaches us that real change in the mind
of many is still far off. America isn't on the
edge of revolution. A hamster wheel endlessly
spinning has no "edge." Those picking sides and
bickering over the events in Ferguson are
playing into an elementary strategy of divide
and conquer.
We are divided, Wall
Street has conquered.
At the end of it all, Wall Street comes out even
stronger. Because in the smoking remnants of our
communities after all is said and done, we have
even less with which to build an alternative to
the system we live trapped within.
Divided, we have
half the people we should be joining together
with, collaborating and building together with,
to build the world we want to live in tomorrow.
Build, don't burn.
Collaborate, don't complain.
Don't simply "resist" the system, replace it altogether.