Folks that are familiar with my views know I strongly advocate personal adoption of means of producing goods suitable to individuals. I observe that the power of institutions derives from parasitization of myriads of individuals who are dependent on the massive pooling of capital to produce goods. When individuals themselves use modern decentralized means of production, the dependence on institutions, centralization, and industrial manufacturing ceases. The need to feed vampiric overlords has ended.
When people have threatened to starve the parasites waxing fat on their essence in the past, the dependence of that power on force has become obvious. Today the threat of violent oppression grows ever more dire on industrialized nations, even as the militaries of the world prey on less developed peoples incessantly. Those military forces are bloodied, practiced, ready to tackle the first world.
Their employers know well their worth, and expend almost unlimited funds to advance their capabilities beyond any constraint.
But we have examples of the fruits of personally possessing independent means. We cannot fail to grasp that wealth almost unimaginable has benefits we individually would enjoy, and neither deny the suffering penury and bondage would impose on us. Whether we grasp it or not, when bondage is actively imposed on us we will not fail to clearly understand.
Those that undertake to generate those benefits via independent means will thus enable their enjoyment of them and pass those blessings to their posterity, while those that do not will be relegated to bondage and suffering. Through the application of military force, the unwillingness of people to be enslaved will be overcome, and that includes those that have undertaken independent means - unless we personally manufacture resources to deploy modern security measures that prevent such force from taking possession of us.
Given that war generally seeks to seize resources, and populations are the most valuable of resources, the optimal mechanism for taking captives has been retained for the purpose, and armed thugs using firearms have been that standard for 1000 years. Within the jurisdictions of the armed forces, populations have been prevented from gaining independent means to date, to ensure the ability of the military to enable the flow of resources necessary to it's maintenance.
Such polities have a need for populations of slaves to provide for their military power. Competing jurisdictions are not similarly necessary to empower, from their perspective, and total genocide would be an acceptable, perhaps optimal, result of operations ongoing.
So, the obsolete deployment of armed thugs to pacify populations should not be relied on as the expected military aggression. Weapons suited to genocide, WMDs, may well be deployed by foreign competitors, by corrupted jurisdictions, and even by a global cabal selectively against all subject peoples, as long as enough survivors will be retained to provide enough slaves during the transition to a transhumanist technocracy automating production, which seems to be their goal.
Biological, chemical, and radiological weapons are best suited to genocide, and it is those threats suitable security should be attained against. For this reason I am not particularly exercised about the current pandemic threat and the mandate we be masked. This is but a warning shot across our bow, not the final solution, and we are now motivated to provide for our personal security from bioweapons. Clearly, governments aren't going to keep us safe, eh?
In fact, it is obvious historically that governments themselves are the worst vector of genocidal threats to their people, and the psychological weapons used to keep us subject that are the worst hazards we face, because they alone subject us to the threat of every other weapon deployed against us. It is no surprise censorship, demonetization, and seizure of our means of communication, cooperation, and social interactions are undertaking heavy attack today.
We have no lack of historical precedents of governments genociding their people selectively, nor of examples of current operations ongoing today. Such regulatory agencies as we have are captive to the industries they are intended to regulate, and we obviously should expect to provide our own personal security from the threats unregulated hostile actors can effectively apply.
It seems impossible for individuals to effect nominal security when global centralization of wealth enables industrial application of genocidal attacks with WMDs, but in truth there are means of defeating those vectors of attack relatively simple and inexpensive for individuals to deploy given means of production currently available.
We face war. We need armor. The present circumstances require we be masked, and it is often lamented that a bandanna across the face is inadequate to protect us from virii. Therefore improved respiratory security is necessary, and given the potential for radiological and chemical weapons to be used against us, we should be sure to extend the capabilities of our masks against those hazards in addition to preventing viral particles from entering our airways.
The standard tool for preventing these attacks from succeeding is a visored helmet with air filters. Since helmets also can be armored against projectile weapons, this should also inform design. Thingiverse is an example of how successful designs of security devices can be quickly and globally disseminated to individuals with manufacturing capabilities, and we can certainly gain such security independently given nominal tooling.
We need 3D printers with appropriate abilities, supplies of feedstock, and powered sites suitable for their use. In order to maintain such capabilities, we clearly need to secure food and medicine as well, and communications are critical to any society. Homes that produce these are presently non-standard, but often have been retrofitted to incorporate these features.
In a state of global war, these will become standard.
Independent means are the definition of wealth. It is the predatory violent attack on our free peoples that is necessitating we adopt them, the reason we can no longer depend on the centralized industrial supplies that have heretofore been our only source for our necessities.
The initial assault against humanity has begun. The application of censorship and voluntary arrest dependent on our indoctrination and psychological manipulation will not long survive the commencement of active violence, and we see already that forced DNA modification is being implemented, with relevant institutions coordinating that attack today.
Evolution is acting to separate those that will survive to breed from those that will be bred like cattle - or culled. We who secure our own prosperity will secure our posterity.
Extinction awaits the incompetent.
Sun Yuchen has enabled this post today by his rabid assault on our community, forcing Hive into existence. Fortunately his criminal actions are marked by utter incompetence, and our reaction has been easy to effect. It has impelled us to implement anti-censorship, cryptocurrency capable of economic independence, and social interactions that enable productive cooperation, better and less vulnerable to more competent assault (or it should be. Hive yet remains utterly susceptible to the exact Sybil attack that took down Steem).
The censoring of Steem is not a singular attack, but reflective of the ongoing censorship of all social media today. Financial attacks mirroring those Sun has undertaken on Steem have also long been possible to banks (which is why I don't use them), and the crappy propaganda Sun undertakes to promote Stinc is far surpassed in sophistication and effect in the enemedia, despite it's glaring lack of integrity.
The exigencies of war have perennially driven technological and social improvements, and the more dire the existential threat, the more improved we must make things. Given the unprecedented global breadth of the threat today, we must adapt at global scale, on an individual basis nominal to meet the threat. Them as don't aren't of consequence, as they won't persist to contemplate going forward. Evolution is a permanent solution to incompetence.
And we have Sun to thank for our motivation, to which so nimbly have we responded that the vast majority of our little swarm on Hive are in improved financial circumstances, and some few that have lately been individually singled out for predation have been protected from their assets being seized by Sun, so far anyway. We'll see, but I find it more likely that Sun will pay the price for his execrable performance as our conquistador by similar costs as borne by Harvey Weinstein than that he will take the money he tried to steal with HF 23.
While our current circumstances are novel in our understanding of history, I submit they are not unprecedented withal. Have a look at the following video, consider how proof of our present level of technological sophistication remains evident at various places across the world, and what that means in our present situation.
I think it means that the only way the power to oppress and enslave people was was able to be maintained by overlords was to bomb us back to the stone age, from which we have laboriously emerged over these last few millennia. I am confident overlords would prefer to maintain the quality of life that derives from modern advances, but such benefits were obviously impossible to maintain the last time we faced this opportunity to transcend their power.
We are about to see a change across the world from peace to war, and objections to wearing armor during peace will not apply soon. See what has been, and understand what will be.
Prepare accordingly. We do not go blindly forward, but have good advice, probative evidence, and sound principles upon which to found a robust society and civilization that delivers to our posterity that better world, even that called paradise by our forefathers.
Heaven itself, from horizon to horizon, from East to West, and farther than our eyes can see, awaits. The sky is no longer a limit to our dreams. Let us boldly go where new opportunities and inspirations await us, and leave the Earth to the meek.