It's Time For Revolution
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something."
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” —Winston Churchill
It’s 2024. Our rules grow tighter, more restricted. Complex surveillance systems are being installed. Free speech is being backed against the ropes. Billionaires are running worldwide medical programmes, buying up as much land, housing, and food production as possible. An organisation that purports to represent us fairly seeks total global dominion. Where are these leading? To which disease do these symptoms belong?
Whether you care or not for the environment, for politics, for speculating on government conspiracy, you are at least human, and your personal existence is intertwined with that of society itself. When society becomes unlivable, so too does your life. And while for now you may have within arm’s reach your coffee shops, your sunny days and your Netflix, how quickly can things change? What are the foundational freedoms we seem to take for granted so long as the television works?
In times of pandemic, we have witnessed the coordinated flex of government to rapidly change laws, install new systems, and remove personal autonomy without a whisper of democracy. As the media mumbles vague threats of death, disease, disaster, and terrorism, we begin to feel the nervous tickle of scarcity. Yet we sit still, waiting for a miraculous solution from above, from those who have allowed or even created the emergence of such problems.
But to whom does this Earth belong? Who is truly accountable for its management, and who is the true driving force behind change?
Whatever the conditions, we ought to contemplate our position in all this. What is your role for the future? What is your history? Consider what we’ve built, what we are building—to not just make change, but the right kind of change. Who and what can we trust in completely—to ensure not just our survival, but a future worth living for, worth fighting for?
What too few of us acknowledge is that corruption is not an opinion, it is fact, and it is not to be underestimated in the long game of capitalism. When the laws, the politics, the financial systems, the science, the industries, the media, and the education have all been shaped by the exchange of money, one might question the willingness or even ability for such a world to transform itself into one of altruistic principles.
And when things do go noticeably awry, despite what rolexed hands are shaken behind closed doors, those astute enough to see the failings of society—or perhaps the successes of an intergenerationally corrupt society—are in a tight minority. Tighter still is the minority of that minority who are prepared to take action.
But while their messages are strong, their pickets are flimsy. When protests fall on deaf ears, it ought to be a reminder that those we appeal to, high in their leatherbound offices, already have their plans—the rewards from which far outweigh any feelings of goodwill they would get from relinquishing their money or power. It’s no use appealing to the heart nor reason of the immoral. A war has been started against the population, and the concealment and suppression of information is a key symptom. How likely could it be that a government that lies to its people has their best interests at heart?
While it’s not so hard to point a finger outward at those who deserve to be criticised, the truest evolution of humanity will be when we shoulder the responsibility necessary to make our own change.
When there is a civil duty that belongs to the People, no one is innocent. No one is blameless in the fall of their society, and no one escapes the consequences of inaction. We are all in this together, and silence is the very worst crime in the face of injustice. Ignorance is no longer an excuse, for at this point it is surely wilful. To deny everything, to say that nothing at all is wrong in the world, is frankly nothing short of cowardice. It a convenient excuse for inaction, and should beg some deep soul-searching.
We must all turn and face the truth, no matter how ugly and terrible, no matter where it leads, and no matter if we cannot yet see a path forward. Acknowledgement is the first step for remedy. For if we continue to pretend this is all normal, if we deny the prevailing insanity of our banks, businesses and governments, we stand with evil. There is no impartiality in this. You the citizen cannot wipe your hands of responsibility, expecting those with power will save you, relinquishing their own power to do so. They worked hard to take it from you in the first place. But they’ve had to do it gradually, surreptitiously, and that’s because…
You are the power. You are the saviour. Humanity does not exist without citizens, and it is your time now to step up and take accountability. There has been an attack on our health, our lives, and our freedom. Our fertility and immune systems have been heavily compromised, and regardless of the reasons to ‘‘thin the herd’’ or “eliminate carbon”, you are the part of the herd being thinned. You are the carbon being eliminated. Like it or not, you are part of the disposable many.
This path to ultimate control is merely late-stage monopoly, the final stand of unwitting pawns. Capitalism is finished, and democracy is extinct. We are playing a different game now. We have but one chance to mobilise, to fight for our freedom.
It is time for revolution. It’s time to take the power back.
“It has to start somewhere; it has to start sometime.
What better place than here? What better time than now?”
—Rage Against the Machine
But revolution need not be violent nor destructive. It is a change of mindset, of mentality. It is an activation of the spirit of humanity, a readiness to charge fiercely at injustice and reassert goodness and order. It is an instinct we have forgotten in our comfort, to ensure by our own hand that life is just, peaceful, and right. And while change is rarely easy or comfortable, it is necessary. Humanity can only be made by humans, and we’ve let things slide for far too long into the hands of greedy psychopaths who defy the empathy at the true heart of humanhood.
The system that governs us is not just dangerous; it actively works against us. Take to any primary industry with a magnifying glass and you will see the products of a deep corruption, one so vile that it entirely disregards the value of human life outside of labour, taking no qualm in poisoning our food, water, clothes and skies, sacrificing lives as part of a political strategy, and using us literally as collateral. That is the ugly truth. We are the worker ants that can be guiltlessly squished by a soulless elite, and when you begin to peer under the rug, deep in the shadows, our entire society reeks with the stench of anti-humanism. I would say that if you don’t see it, you haven’t looked hard enough. Trusting in the good intent and innocence of a capitalist society may sound noble, but it removes the need for critique—and in order to think critically, one has to be critical. It saddens me to say that we must now question that trust, put aside our faith that those above would put the 99% before themselves. It is about as likely as a pirate captain of a sinking ship saving the rats before himself.
It has taken a long time, but corruption and malintent in their worst forms have infiltrated the uppermost echelons of society. Meanwhile, those loyal to the system, those most trusting, most dedicated, sometimes most respected and rewarded, are unknowing indirect servants of rich individuals, not of the people. They say the system isn’t broken; it’s working exactly as it’s meant to, and so it’s due to be broken. Those who excel most in the system are those who uphold its rules and protocol, and so those who defend it are the ones who associate most with it—the doctors, politicians, lawyers, CEOs, police, and those who consider themselves comfortable winners who would not risk a change on behalf of those suffering in poverty.
The system belongs to the elite, quite literally. “The Big Club”, as Carlin put it. “And you’re not in it.” BlackRock, Vanguard, the Arabella Advisors, Bilderberg Group, Trilateral Commission, the IMF, WEF, Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Morgans, Pallavicinis, the Vatican…
“They” control the wealth, the Federal Reserve, the United Nations, the global media, the CIA, Hollywood, Big Food, Big Ag, Big Tech, Pharma, and a significant amount of top-tier political players worldwide. Trillions of dollars passed to and fro, literally printing money, while we ants march in worship of the six-figure salary.
We on the ground level barely recognise how we’re being manipulated, born into a comfortable ignorance that only seems normal. Walking around doing our shopping, working our jobs, filling our heads with films and sports, and believing we are free and empowered because we get a voting slip once a leap year. We’re told we have it good with our mobile phones and fifty flavours of bagel, supposedly living in a democracy that guards and honours the will of the People.
They piss on our democracy. They’ve undermined our health and decision-making since days of the Roman Empire, and the best educated of us are the ones who are the most successfully indoctrinated. Our Prussian-style schooling, petrochemical medicine, processed food, controlled news, lobbied political system, even the water we drink that is laced with fluoride from the fertiliser industry, are all unified in keeping us dulled and ignorant to what’s really going on.
Most people don’t want to wake up to these facts. Most people can’t handle it. They don’t know who they are without it; they don’t know how to fly should the door of the cage be opened. So they protect it. They defend the corrupt system because they are part of it, identify with it, created by it and given all that they know through the profits fabricated by the capitalist machine. They cling to it because it’s stable, it’s known, and they think they understand it and know how to use it. Little do they know how fragile their existence is, how easily the rich can pull the rug from under them, and how easily they can be manipulated from a behemoth circus that was built to do exactly that.
Those who guard its image do so because they guard their own identity, which has been sanctioned by the system. But I speak to you now—our doctors, our nurses, our police, our lawyers, our military, our scientists, our politicians, our CEOs, and all else who safeguard and uphold society. You are not your job. You are not a part of this machinery. You are made of flesh, not degrees and collared shirts. You are human, you are the people, and you must stand with the people, because you, like the rest of us, have been lied to—your orders, information and authority from above designed to force a situation that divides the people into those who accept and those who reject; those who obey and those who resist. Our history lessons have failed us in being able to recognise the true face of fascism, and done even less to teach us how to fight it.
But resistance is not our only path. We cannot cling to the ways things are, because great change is already well underway. We have only two options.
The first option is to do nothing.
This will not result in your safety or the preservation of normality; it will only enable those who seek change by their own terms, their own plans. A lack of action and discussion is equivalent to an act of surrender to a dangerous and vile group of psychopaths who intend to coerce, manipulate, and trick you into cooperating within a situation that they control—one they have even created. And the solutions they have designed for you include the absolute destruction of your sovereignty under the guise of protection. ‘Protection’ in this scenario means doing exactly what they tell you—forever.
If you see the blue skies and the beauty of this world, the tranquility and comforts of routine, and what you perceive right now to be free living… that perspective need not be radically changed. But there is an invisible threat to all these things—to you as a person—and the best time to act is before disaster, not once our supports and liberties have already been compromised.
The second option you have is to make change, so that it is not made for you.
You will not be alone in this, though you can be left behind. This kind of change does not have to be scary, and if we work together, it does not have to be hard. Change does bring destruction of the old, yes, but destruction should not be our mindset. Rather, let us see the opportunity, the possibility for better living. It’s time to be excited, and see with optimistic eyes a future that we can design for ourselves. We must ignore the reasons for separation and distrust among ourselves, and find unifying principles on which we can build a new world. If we must fight, then fight we must, but we must not fight among ourselves. Only the establishment and its owners are the enemies of the people, as they have removed themselves from humanity and made enemies of the rest of us. If we can, let us remind the goodhearted police officers and proud soldiers of our military that they stand for justice, that they stand for the protection of their people, and the very notion of authority must be defied in full if we are to have any hope of self-governance. War is the product of compliance, not reason, and when the morality of authority has crumbled under corruption, lawful compliance is an act of support for immorality.
It is time to do what is right, rather than what is lawful, because the two are becoming increasingly different. It is time to do what is brave and uncomfortable, letting go of your place in society before it pulls you under, and detaching from the institutions that purport to keep you safe and sustained. We need to replace the banks, the legal system, the suppliers of food and water, the communications systems, and install in their place systems that we can trust wholeheartedly; systems operated by the people, not by an elite; and reinstate democracy so that we have the ability to build a world on principles of trust, unity, fairness, sustainability, and cooperation. This new world is very much within reach, and all that is required is the courage to see and to speak, to defy these deterring labels of conspiracist and terrorist and fearmonger designed to vilify those who speak out against insanity and injustice. This villainy needs to be exposed, but ultimately it is most powerful to set our sights on the lands beyond, to never forget what is possible by the united hands of the common people.
We are the forgers of empires. We are the true kings and queens of Earth. And we ourselves must govern this land knowing that it is ours to govern. The rules are set by us. The land is farmed by us. The air is breathed by us. We will not be backed into a cage, no matter what threatens us. We will be brave, we will be fierce, and we will not be told what to do. The time is ours to forge our future. And when we’re together, they will not stop us.