So you Want to Join the Resistance?

There's something that's go you up in arms (probably not literally).
You've had enough and you're not going to take it anymore!

Maybe you want to fight the AI takeover of the workforce or how its ruining
(parts of) the internet.  Maybe you're sick of the Christian Nationalists
turning your country into a theocracy.  Maybe you're tired of for-profit
healthcare which isn't helping you one bit.  Maybe you're sick of struggling
to make ends meet while a small number of men hold more wealth than 90% of
everyone else.

Whatever it is that's got you riled up, you're ready to invest in a
guillotine, or at least a torch and a pitchfork, or whatever the 21st century
equivalent of those things would be.

Good news!  Turns our you're not alone.  There is, in fact, a group of people
that *seem* to share your concerns and want to help you fight the troubles that
occupy your thoughts most of your waking hours.  Especially if you have yet to
cast off the shackles of doom-scrolling.  But, then again, you probably have
cast off those shackles because you're here reading this.

Not so good news! It could be that the "community" which you have now aligned
with may, in-fact, have been organized by, and is controlled by, the very entities
you seek to fight.  You have just been plugged into the false resistance.

This isn't a new phenomenon.  This sort of thing has been happening for a long
time but "they" are getting better at it.  I hate when people just throw out
a "they" so let me define that in the context of this post.  "They" means
whatever entity you seek to fight.  This could be a single person (Elon Musk),
it could be a corporation (United Healthcare), it could be a governmental
entity (the GOP), it could be a lot of things but "they" refers to the thing
you're wanting to fight and "they" have learned to control their own
resistance by being their own resistance and guiding that resistance away from
their true objectives.

There are many methodologies, one of which: The false target.  This may take
the form of setting up one particularly egregious aspect of your "thing" which
everyone will be opposed to and then release "content" which focuses on this
aspect.  Everyone who is in your "resistance movement" will then join together
and fight, and possibly even win against this straw-man.  Meanwhile that
resistance energy was diverted away from your actual objectives.

I was reminded of this tactic somewhat recently from Taylor Lorenz who does
a podcast / YouTube videos.  One a couple weeks ago "Billionaires are Funding
'Anti AI' Content" reminded me of this which is something I've been observing
for some time in one form or another.

We see it on a larger scale in politics.  Being a US citizen, I'm more focused
on US politics so let's look there.  Let's look at the "Eternal Struggle"
(or, more accurately, lack thereof) between the "Left" and the "Right".
Between the "Blue" and the "Red".  Between the "Democrats" and the
"Republicans".  Between the "Liberals" and the "Conservatives".  I put all of
these in quotes because all of those terms are equally meaningless.

This has always been a good cop/bad cop relationship.  Which side is the good
cop?  Well I guess that depends on your particular political leanings.  But
ultimately it doesn't matter because they're both cops working for the same
precinct and both working toward the same objectives.

The Democratic party, for example, is not the "anti-right" or the "anti-
conservatie" or the anti-anything.  Both sides are working together to
accomplish the same goals, one is just the faux-resitance to the other to
control any opposition that may come along.

Most people, especially in the "Western World" (probably), tend to have very
black and white thinking.  So if you're against A that means to be for B.
Very few people will look at the nuances and see that B is often not Anti-A,
and that there are in-fact C, D, E, and more.

I encourage you to resist the things you are opposed to but as you do keep in
mind that you *might* be getting covertly indoctrinated into an pseudo-
opposition where your resistance efforts are going to waste or maybe even
helping your opponent.

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