⁣Don't take the first shot. An intervention cartoon (BREAKAWAY PARALLEL SOCIETIES TO COME)

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I want to tell you guys about an idea I had a year ago. My idea was a 'canary society', based on the idea of a canary in the coal mine. My idea was to build a society with traditional standards, and modest respect for freedom. Make it disconnected and isolationist, and have the rest of the world defend it in a pact. And if this society cannot exist without the world exploiting and destroying it, then it's proof of the world becoming fully evil.

There's a lot of ways to approach this idea. My initial idea was to make it secular allowing religious freedom, to prevent a cult from forming. Also, eschewing modern technology altogether. Banning electricity. There's other ideas, but I'll get lost in the weeds talking about it. I'm sure there's science fiction writers already foaming at the mouth thinking of the dystopic possibilities. However, I would consider the inability to carry out such a canary society to be the destruction of it, carrying the full weight of the philosophical consequences. So if you believe such a society is doomed from the start, you have to consider that society itself is therefore doomed from the start.

I wanted to pitch it to the US, U.N, billionaires, anybody who had a possibility of making this happen. And in considering the idea, I come into a multitude of roadblocks:

For there to be a global pact, the standards of such a society would have to be watered down, and be another example of globalist policy failures.
The people who have the money to make this happen are the ones necessitating it in the first place.
It would be impossible to guarantee that such a place won't just become a common ground for unethical experimentation. Other countries releasing gas or poisoning the crops just to observe the effects on a civilization without international travel.
They may, when the technology becomes great enough, just fucking nuke the society, and lie to the rest of the world and claim it's doing fine.

I've also thought about finding an existing society and simply upgrading them to the status of canary society, ensuring protection from the rest of the world. My thoughts went to the Buddhists of Tibet... And my hope for a canary society died there. China will not stop. Not for ethics, not for the future, nothing. They need to be stopped.

The idea was posed to me that if the society is worth fighting to save by other nations in the first place, we should be focused on fighting tyranny in those nations instead. It's easier to save your own country than to do what I'm talking about.

So, what to do about evil and tyranny that's taken over our countries? Do we just pick up the pieces after the fall and try and form our own societies or do we fight and surely die trying to save the corrupt one we have? My gut says to fight. I'd like to hear others' thoughts on this, especially the ethics of it.

I want to tell you guys about an idea I had a year ago. My idea was a 'canary society', based on the idea of a canary in the coal mine. My idea was to build a society with traditional standards, and modest respect for freedom. Make it disconnected and isolationist, and have the rest of the world defend it in a pact. And if this society cannot exist without the world exploiting and destroying it, then it's proof of the world becoming fully evil. There's a lot of ways to approach this idea. My initial idea was to make it secular allowing religious freedom, to prevent a cult from forming. Also, eschewing modern technology altogether. Banning electricity. There's other ideas, but I'll get lost in the weeds talking about it. I'm sure there's science fiction writers already foaming at the mouth thinking of the dystopic possibilities. However, I would consider the inability to carry out such a canary society to be the destruction of it, carrying the full weight of the philosophical consequences. So if you believe such a society is doomed from the start, you have to consider that society itself is therefore doomed from the start. I wanted to pitch it to the US, U.N, billionaires, anybody who had a possibility of making this happen. And in considering the idea, I come into a multitude of roadblocks: 1. For there to be a global pact, the standards of such a society would have to be watered down, and be another example of globalist policy failures. 2. The people who have the money to make this happen are the ones necessitating it in the first place. 3. It would be impossible to guarantee that such a place won't just become a common ground for unethical experimentation. Other countries releasing gas or poisoning the crops just to observe the effects on a civilization without international travel. 4. They may, when the technology becomes great enough, just fucking nuke the society, and lie to the rest of the world and claim it's doing fine. I've also thought about finding an existing society and simply upgrading them to the status of canary society, ensuring protection from the rest of the world. My thoughts went to the Buddhists of Tibet... And my hope for a canary society died there. China will not stop. Not for ethics, not for the future, nothing. They need to be stopped. The idea was posed to me that if the society is worth fighting to save by other nations in the first place, we should be focused on fighting tyranny in those nations instead. It's easier to save your own country than to do what I'm talking about. So, what to do about evil and tyranny that's taken over our countries? Do we just pick up the pieces after the fall and try and form our own societies or do we fight and surely die trying to save the corrupt one we have? My gut says to fight. I'd like to hear others' thoughts on this, especially the ethics of it.

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more true than normies are willing to believe

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