I had been really hoping that, during the peak of lockdowns, the internet would just vanish for like a week.
Without Netflix and vidya and sportsball and the absurd unemployment "stimulus" payments, we'd have seen a fucking revolution in a matter of like two days.
Everyone's still too comfortable. Perhaps if like 1/3 of people are fired in about a week and a half, this may be a spark that could light the fuse....
If TVs and computers went dark that would be amazing.
After the initial communication issues were overcome, and local communities began to unite and form militias, we'd have this country back in a matter of weeks.
Unfortunately, I think hunger might ultimately be the thing that finally motivates real, large scale resistance. Nothing motivates like hunger- sex, drugs, revenge, nothing motivates a person to do horrible/morally questionable things as much as TRUE HUNGER. I'm talking "Shit, I don't know the next time I'll eat will be" hunger, not "Oh man I didn't get my lunch break today, I feel like I'm going to faint!"
Problem with that, is that when people have reached that level of hunger... their strength is sapped. Their ability to retaliate may be completely wiped out. This is why the holodomor was so successful, and the "death camps" of the Nazis were bullshit- why would you provide 2-3 hots and a cot to a mass of prisoners whom you intend to exterminate? Provide them just enough calories to dig their own grave, then shoot them dead when they drop from exhaustion. This is what may be coming our way...
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