Most of these aren't really rules to live by, they're just complaints and accusations. They sound kind of faggoty.
They sound kind of faggoty.
That's because they were written in the style of "rules for radicals."
A perfect formulation of a problem is half the solution.
people are lazy
they believe it is not their problem
it is easier to disbelieve obvious facts, if the implication of what they must do, is inconvenient to their existing lives.
people believe what authority tells them if it allows people to keep their routines, habits, and comforts.
authority cannot directly interact with society. it can only make rulings, policies, or decrees.
instead authority only interacts with society, directly (through the centurion class - cops, spies, secret police, military who put down riots and/or protests), semi-directly (NGOs, paid informants, 'street activists' and pseudo-political extensions of the state) or indirectly (through paid speakers - i.e. news groups).
institutions cannot interact with society either. Institutions are things like universities, departments (DOJ, education, anything), well known orgs (associations, 'wall street', unions) and through abstract associations like 'the science' (as in "the science is settled"), "medical experts agree", "climate researchers", "everytown against guns." etc.
institutions justify the direct actions of authority, and frequently act on society semi-directly through astroturf and NGOs. In turn they support the state and institution's indirect interactions, by providing both imprimatur, and grants, as well as vocal backing.
if abstract associations, and indirect groups and semi-direct groups (journalists, activists, etc), are all the "face" of the ideology motivating the institutions, then the institutions are in turn the face of 'the regime'. In light of this analysis, the concept of a regime breaks down, vanishing into the categorical milieu, as "just another institution."
power therefore has no center. Just as a resistance may be leaderless, so too may be a dictatorship. This is the true basis of anarcho-tyranny.
This is therefore recognized as a transition phase, rather than an end in itself. One where, intentional or not, traditional power structures struggle against one another, falter, and dissolve. Power consolidation follows. For all who recognize this, the conclusion that this is now inevitable, is itself obvious on its face.
The great many will not recognize the transition, and will deny it. This naturally follows from rules one through four. They will not grasp the problems or potential solutions or what they should do, until it is all but too late.
Change must inevitably become undeniable, even for the state. The matter is only who to blame for upsetting the status quo. Those who do not speak up are those who are to blame. Those who resist the change, or try to stop it, will likewise shoulder the blame. Any group is as likely to be scapegoated as any other, even the groups to which hold power. Society's melting pot becomes a pressure cooker of dissatisfaction.
It is therefore prudent to increase the pain, so as to motive people out of rule number one.
Likewise it is prudent, to motive people to understand why this state of affairs is their problem. And to explain to them both the consequences if they do nothing, and how it will potentially affect them, with certainty, sooner or later.
It is better to greatly magnify severe grievances, and attribute those grievances to solid facts, than it is to merely argue emotion or facts alone. "J6 happened because the regime refused commonsense election audits", "russiagate happened, because the u.s. government is allowed to operate in secret, and worse frauds will be perpetrated if they continue", "the whitmar kidnapping happened because the fbi is operating as a rogue agency outside the law, and they framed half of america as terrorists, and the agencies will frame us all for worse if they are not definitely brought to light, and stopped."
All things being equal, when no one can be trusted, it is better to criticize and hold to the fire your own allies. Enemies, come by day, bearing gifts, and leading the charge in defense of your beliefs, whose words and strength are, by dark, designed to fail us and distract us at the critical moment when the gates are flung open to the invaders. It is therefore prudent to distrust all who were not elevated or picked by your own hand. There are no allies, only us.
The fight is not fair, and never was. Do not fight fair.
Often in history, on the rare occasion, when the more 'honorable' won (for some definition of 'honorable'), mercy lead to betrayal. There is no room for mercy in victory. There is only total victory, or total annihilation at the hands of enemies, who once spared, return one day, renewed, with new forces, new spies, and new strategies. Therefore be ruthless, merciless, and shrewd.
When the enemy's strength is restrained by their own pretenses at peace and lawful order, therefore it makes no sense to justify the unleashing of their forces by striking the first blow. Peace is strength. Strength crushes enemies. The enemy must be forced to violate their own lipservice to the rules and laws they claim to uphold. They must be forced by circumstance, and the removal of all other options, into violating their one rule, and in so doing, remove from them their legitimacy as a government or occupying force.
Most of these aren't really rules to live by, they're just complaints and accusations. They sound kind of faggoty.
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