Beyond cheap symbolism

Want to beat the rotten amalgamation of banks, politicians, hedonism and indifference to human suffering? Here’s how:

Dip into the movies and sport a ‘V’ mask. Yes that’s right! That’s gonna hurt ’em real guuuud, a second hand idea in the form of a tired old plastic mask.

Le masque, the weapon of choice for la resistance.

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Information Clearing House, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/ probably THE best real news hub on the internet (which appallingly only about 200 people bother to support with a donation) has a ‘must watch’ article:

The ‘must watch’ video shows the poor Spanish people on the streets, weaponised with the mask of power, really showing those Spanish fascists a thing or two about how to wrestle power back from people who abused it and sold your life in multi generational slavery.

Actually, the video is pants, as is the soundtrack, but that’s not important.

The real pants at hand is the fact that the people somehow think their mask invigorated street protest will actually make a shred of difference. Sorry to pee on your chips here, but I think modern history tells us exactly what these things achieve.

Diddley squat!

In this age, options for effective resistance can be counted on just two finders of your hand. The most palatable one is by individual economic means. You detach yourself from your economic links with the government. YOU STOP PAYING TAX. Try to detach from the banks, don’t borrow money/use credit, and help out catering for each others needs and encourage others to do the same.

Hopefully after you come home for the night and resume life as normal – which is actually part of the problem, you may get the feeling that you should throw the stupid mask (i.e. empty gesture) into the bin and hit’em where it hurts in the fiat currency gonads.

But that’s very very unlikely to happen, hence my confidence the Spanish protests like the Greek Protests, like the protests in Mesir, Tunisia, Syria, Washington D.C., Tienanmen square, the London 2003 protests … are doomed to failure, because you believe taking to the streets is enough, advertising your price that can easily be bought by throwing some fiat notes at you.

Reject empty symbolism. Do it today.

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Historical note: The No Iraq War protests in Feb 2003 were by far the most significant and largest protest the planet had ever seen, something like 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 people demanding no war. The scene was repeats in numerous countries across the world but people like BuSh, bLiar and little jonnie coward totally ignored them and got to work to kill over one million Iraqi people on a back of utter lies. THIS event is THE flag that the age of street protests achieving anything has passed.

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