We are actively building gods, the ultra wealthy have complete and utter control of the general populace. We have been made to be docile and complacent in our own destruction as they plan their own escape. Our contributions to them will not help our neighbors, it will not help our mothers, sons, and daughters. They give us drugs to escape our reality, alcohol, marijuana, pills, crack, meth. It’s all to thin the herd and keep us distracted. When it comes to the hard drugs, it allows the news that is owned by the corporate elite and ultra wealthy to shift focus and hatred to those who are poor and powerless. Powerless in every way. We should try and uplift and uphold our fellow man from these clutches of evil. People have the ideas of these escapes shoved down their throats until they turn to them. Not everyone does, but it’s enough. Those on top do not have to worry about the consequences of these issues as they live outside of the cages of society we are in. America is built on freedom, which is the perfect propaganda to keep the general populace feeling as they have control while they keep us in the confines of their laws and the Penny’s they choose to spare us. We have one of the worse education systems for a reason, they want a collapse of thought. We are in the dark ages of our times. With all of our access to knowledge we do not seek it, they have taken our hunger and drive away with dopamine. We live our lives as an act of mental masturbation. Just like in the dark ages, the word of god was absolute. The god they had followed was not a Christian one, but one with twisted and gross ideals. They used the fear and idea of god to push agendas that benefited only them. We know about this yet we can’t see it in our society. We live in the age of science now, and once again we have found ourselves as thoughtless fearing slaves. We are kept poor, but given enough stimulus to keep a majority of people complacent and thoughtless. America is no longer free under the current regime. Our oligarchs, our gods of wealth and influence will soon leave us to find sanctuary among the stars, and we the people will be the ones working for it. The wealth they have been pooling is to fuel their trip among the stars, into heaven. The word of god is an absolute one, and we have created them. There is still time to stop this, we have the numbers, the renaissance is coming. A burst of love and truthfulness can happen if enough people say no to the complacency. If we return to simpler lives we can find god within ourselves. My words are not final, there is so much to think about in the way we live, so much else that could be said. This is just a stream of consciousness from one mind. I am not concise enough as a writer to truly inspire, I hope someone can make sense of it all and lead us to salvation. We must not let the false prophets rapture into another world.

Note: I meant to touch on AI, but I forgot.

The title is one I had thought up years ago for a dystopian story that had very much echoed these thoughts. The pompous claim that those who are taking their leave are leaving from paradise, although they leave because they have sucked the life from our Earth. I thought that they would have the slogan “A Farewell To Paradise and Everything After” plastered everywhere as some sad attempt to act as if they were somber to be leaving our planet. It would come across obviously very mocking to those (a vast majority) who remain.

Please hear me and if possible spread. I am seeking like minded individuals tired of the way the world is controlled and has been corrupted. The solutions for a better world is obvious to me, but the power is in the wrong hands. Although unrealistic I truly am striving for a heaven in Earth type of future. Where humans come together and realize we are one in the same and should work together to survive, learn, and evolve. Whether you're agnostic or an atheist, if there is no after life don't you want to make the best of your life and not have to just be constantly working for 1/2 of your day. If you follow a religion, literally any religion, I feel as though they all give a similar main idea. Don't be fucking evil, be a nice human being and help one another. I'm sure every religion has their specifics but what would happen if you didn't follow the instructions down to the exact detail?? Nothing.. at all. I know not all religion text books were rewritten but what I believe is that, we are the only Conscience beings on this planet so we should be helping and supporting one another.

Money has infected this species and has divided us.The value and purpose of money is meaningless and it's because of what corporations have done. Literally any business is truly unnecessary. There is so much food in groceries store that it often goes to waste and thrown out, mainly because people don't want it or people can't even afford it. There are literal seeds people can grown their own food with just need to be taught how. Is expensive clothes really necessary? Why does a shirt cost around $500 just for no one else to know the price and just think it's expensive because of the name. There are alot of unnecessary things in the world that do not need attention, support, or appraisal. There things far more concerning in the world. I am an American who wants to see the US fall for a new civilization to rise up from the ashes. One that unites every country. One that looks after the people of Earth. Making illnesses the thing of the past, and constant research on cures for diseases. World Hunger would be unheard of. There should be only one true police agency and one global army while also being cool calm and colle ted being able to think under pressure and descalate almost every situation. Of course heaven on Earth is a fantasy, but God Damn it we can try. I have no favorites, no quarrels against anyone except those that are against me. What if food and shelter can be guaranteed? What if everyone helped out and worked together to build homes, buildings, facilities to help everyone in need.

I have plans in mind but need followers in support of the cause for a better world. Let's avoid another fucking war. The entire economy is to shit. Major change is needed and no one else is going to do it. I WILL, I will do my up most best to look out for the people of the world. PLEASE LEND YOUR SUPPORT I have small bases set up in each part of the country if really interested..... NOT A JOKE. IF THE FBI CIA IS READING THIS.....A REVOLUTION IS COMING... you have been warned.

And if any ANONYMOUS members are reading, please treat my message seriously. I am need of your help

The big LM is gonna be isolated from the rest of us more and more. So how do we donate? They let Rittenhouse get donations but he only killed plebs. Eat the rich.

See above. Power to the people.

Say you had millions. Could you enact a country wide rebellion or do you even need money. If so what would you do with millions to start or progress your revolution?

Let's face the facts, the vast majority of people are celebrating the fact that a capitalist scum, one who is indirectly responsible for the suffering of millions and deaths of many thousands, was sent to the hell. This should be both a wakeup call for the capitalist class and the working class and that call is we, the majority, only have to slightly flex our strength, and the minority scum are forced to scramble to do damage control. Let me say that again, the majority, the 99%, the masses, simply had to slightly flex, and things CHANGE.

As someone a part of the 99% I ask all of my brothers and sisters to learn this lesson, we have far more power than we realize and all we have to do is flex. Like the path to our salvation has been opened to us and it's up to us to take that and run with it. Let's make the capitalist class afraid again. Let's make them give up their power because otherwise we will French Revolution them, October Revolution them, we will FLEX them into non existence.

It's here, it's time. The dying ecosystem is telling us that if we don't act soon we will all pay the price so let's take this opportunity and run with it. Let's actually win one for the people.

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch and do nothing." Albert Einstein

Soon the ruling class will have complete control of our national government. It seems that their plan is to rape the earth, ruin the economy, and make everyone else's lives miserable.

The rest of us must do everything we can to stop them. I think we need to start at the top of this list https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/ and work our way down. There has to be non-violent ways to make their lives just as miserable as they plan to make ours.

This is where you come in. We need to brainstorm ways to eff them up, preferably without them even realizing what's happening. After all, that's what they've done to us all these years so they could finally reach their goal of owning everything and everyone.

A quick Google search revealed some basic strategies for non-violent actions we could take.

• boycotts
• strikes
• occupying buildings or land
• supporting local businesses
• creating alliances
• mobilizing communities
• engaging in creative disruption

This is a good start, and some of these actions have been successful in the past. But we are facing a whole new world. The ruling class is seemingly untouchable at this point.

The only thing they understand is money, so that's where we need to focus our efforts. I don't know exactly how to take them down, but they must fall. Otherwise, the earth is going to take all of us out.

Any ideas on what else we can do? Ransom-ware, hackers, Anonymous? Let's redistribute their wealth back to the people they stole it from. All that money could solve a lot of the world's problems, but instead they choose to hold on to it.

Just remember, there are more of us than there are of them I believe we can do this if we can get enough people involved.

Ecological collapse: Already in progress.

Economic collapse: Already in progress.

Governmental collapse: Already in progress.

Societal collapse: Already in progress.

If you revolt now, all you'd be doing is delaying the inevitable.

I don't know whether it's write or wrong, but current scenario of death rates have increased so bad. I some times think people who aren't educated or had quit school for some reason. How they fit the in this society or able help their family to grow up. Poor or Rich people are both dying due so many things nowdays, Rich are also suffering. I can barely imagine what poor would have to if their kids or people above 14 or 15 manage to survive. Why can't bring some new changes in the labour laws so that even they can support their family and earn a living or educated themselves. Correct me if I'm wrong ?

Hi I am french and have bin thinking of a communiste revolte. Can anyone help me to make peapole understand that communisme is the way to go. ☭

(Post-Edit: This post has been removed by the moderators of r/collapse and r/offgrid and any other subreddits silencing efforts to revolution)

I'm sure there must have been many calls for action and resistance in this sub and others before, but there must be a unified message calling for an united effort of separation to communities reliant solely on food and shelter, focused on principles of frugality and coherence with nature.

The more that stop contributing to the modern machine, the merrier. Be it collective efforts to live off-grid, or other alternative methods of survival, more of us deeply preoccupied with climate and sustainable living must unite to create independent communities that may one day become an example to others worldwide. Be it through eco-villages or other communal efforts, if you are truly concerned, you must do your part. For any in Portugal or abroad willing to contribute, I am willing to accept volunteers or inquiries on our mission, be it that we own a large area of northern countryside willing to be used for survival and promotion of sustainable living, and as I mentioned before, the more the merrier. Thank you for reading.

In multiple countries and all throughout history there will always be citizens that oppose the revolutions their countries are involved in. In countries like America now if a revolution were to happen then people would have to be prepared to fight the government and the people who support the government. Things are also so spread out in countries like America and America itself that not every area would be treated the same. Different rules and ways of doing things would differ between communities and states and without a proper way of communicating between each other they wouldn’t have a way of coordinating anything useful. This could lead to infighting between revolutionary groups causing the whole effort to fail.

Just something I’ve thought about figured I’d post it here

We have handed control of the law over to fascists who are openly hostile to anyone who would take meaningful action against them. These fascists were funded and propped up by tech billionaires who own social media platforms like this one. It is illegal to advocate for violence or lawbreaking of any kind on said social media sites. Ipso facto, any meaningful discussion of revolution and resistance cannot exist online and must happen in person.

Stay here if all you want to do is talk about it. Delete your social media and build community with people around you in real life if you want an actual revolution.

I’m ready to start a group, a community on learning self defense. I’m talking learning how to shoot, fight, survive in the wilderness etc. Trump getting elected again has sparked something in me that I kind of knew was already there. I want to fight for human rights. And I want to start now. Is anyone in New Jersey? I am 19, don’t have a car, but I am VERY serious about starting a group because shit is about to go down. Anything is possible.

I feel like if I continue on a revolution path of a small developing group is likely to wiped off the map. By government or corporate assassins.

How is everyone feeling? About the election and everything?

ETs: It is going to fall apart. One by one. Whoever wins it does not matter because the whole system is going to come down around everyone. There is going to be a rebellion!

Conversations with Extraterrestrials

My reasoning for why they may be right.

Today's political system has a serious problem. Extreme political centralization. Creating a big state like the USA and transferring more and more power to a central government is never in the interest of the common people. This is only done for the benefit of the oligarchs. The main reason is that it makes it easier for them to corrupt and increase their political power at the expense of ordinary people. I will explain this by an example. If an oligarch wants to corrupt a large region and enforce his laws to parasite other people, it suits him if the whole large region is centralized into one big state. He only needs to corrupt one government. But if the region is divided into 1000 small states, he will have 1000 times more work to do and still he will not be able to corrupt all the states. Even if he corrupts some and enforces his harmful law there, he may easily lose that law due to competitive pressure from other states. Oligarchs hate it when a region is divided into many small states. They hate political decentralization. Oligarchs dream of a one world government because then they will have total political power and the common people will have zero political power.

For the situation to begin to improve for the common people, there must be radical political decentralization. The federal government must be completely abolished. The big states too. Laws should be made locally in small communities. This can be done gradually if politicians take power away from the federal government. Abolish federal organizations like the FED, CIA, FBI, NSA, ... But which politicians would be able to do that? If anyone even tries, the deep state and the oligarchs are very likely to kill them. Unless these reforms are made, the situation for the common people will only get worse. More and more laws will be added for the benefit of the oligarchs and to the detriment of the people. They will gradually deprive the people of their freedom, their property and turn the system into a totalitarian dictatorship. The people will find it harder and harder to live in this system. They will have only two choices at the end.

Slavery or rebellion against the federal government and the oligarchs.

(note on rebellion - rebellion does not necessarily have to be violent. It can take the form of a massive boycott and non-cooperation with the central federal government. Not paying taxes, ignoring federal laws, not using federal money, support of secession movements, ...)

I just have a feeling that shits gonna head south very soon and i know people with lots of guns I have never shot one iven never even held one I prefer to but I know it could be critical to survival in the future and I would like to stay alive if shit hits the fan I'm 20yo female I do wreckless things so I also need trained in self defense if there is someone or a community over here please reach out

Can’t think of revolution ideas that work but we can still create change so that we or someone in the future may have hope, opportunities to find or create a systems that works. I realized our generation might be the guide. The hand that leads to a better and advanced world. Like we’re going to have to fight next wars and hardships that coming. We won’t see the fruits of our labor we won’t see the end of the revolution we have the carry the flag to next person that’s our purpose.

So what can we do? I personally want to stop corporations from poisoning people, manipulating and scamming, lobbying. Maybe not destroy all corporations as they do have a use in society but remind them and put them back in their place of being HEALTHY use in society not controlling parts of it. I know it’s easier to just say death to corpo’s but that’s now how things work.

There’s also the corrupt problem in the governments themselves we got to deal with but that’s a whole another beast to tackle. We can probably form an ally faction that deals with that. The point is the corporations has plants in the government which pass laws and help corporations we got to be wary of that. We need to weed them out of government to lessen corporate control. The government revolt/reform faction would do this first.

However for our faction our goal is to lessen power of corporations. So how did we hit them where it hurts? They’re assets that’s all they care about money and influence. We silence them from media and destroy their assets or relocate their assets to smaller competition. Relocating assets to smaller competitors will give us refuge and support. Then you guys asks, ‘are the employees and corpos going to lose their jobs.’ Yeah sure but when we do this new jobs are going to open with smaller businesses and the corporations are going to spend money and hire more people to try and stop us. When they do this we can infiltrate them. This just basics of the plans.

So who will be targeting first? Well we won’t be able to live normal lives doing this so we got to maintain ourselves keep us strong and ahead. So we target FDA and big pharma companies like supermarket and big farmers and butchers that supply them. Big pharmacies and labs that create medicine. To keep us strong and ahead we need to target big tech, media outlets, weapons and computer manfactures, massive servers databases. We might even be able to recruit lower employees from these corporations.

So how do we this? Well we got to burn corpo shit! No to be for real, we can’t have bounties on us, or government intervention, nor can we let corporations convince the public that we’re terrorists or insurgents. If they do they’ll crush before we have enough impact to defend ourselves. So we make it seems like the loss of assets is the corporations own mistakes that caused this, we also make it seem like other corporations is causing each other to lost assets causing infighting and the attention away from us. Spread rumors about many anti work groups and factions that don’t exists. So no one will know this actually a centralized movement. Meaning we’ll also make it seem like we are also infighting but it will be smoke and mirrors until we can have corporations under our control and demands with them not even knowing who exactly is the “enemy…”

I know this sounds crazy but we got stop the world form being this super hellish cyberpunk dystopian. Where we’re treated like subhuman trash and where we’ll be too dumb and sick to fight back by then.

Maybe create a new subreddit called burn corpo shit, anti corpo or a secret code name like NoPoisonFrogOverlords or something.

Thoughts, suggestions and advocates?…

I recently started creating a podcast series on 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed' by Paulo Freire. It was one of the most revelatory books I have ever read. His analysis of contemporary (published 1968) education being a tool of an oppressive system still rings true today. And his psychology on the minds of both oppressor and oppressed classes alike are truly enlightening. He often writes about revolution and how it can only come from the bottom up and when the oppressed essentially wake up to acknowledge their chains.

Has anyone here read this book and have any thoughts on its take on revolution?

Also here is the podcast series. 12 - Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Session #2

Keep thinking of every possible way to make the world better and it just ain’t possible there are no good solutions. Any revolution is just going to degrade eventually and the system and history will repeat. I think the problem is fundamentally the human. If the human itself does not change the system and history never will. So I’m thinking until human becomes something else (evolve) it’s hopeless. See you in 200 years.