Each generation confronts a slightly different version of the same problems. Throughout time we have had those who wish to exploit and enslave others for the sake of enriching themselves. That fact may never change. However that does not mean that the best thing to do is put your hands in your pockets and buck up under the pressures exacted upon you by the forces which seek to exploit you. The people of Ukraine have said for years, that Oligarchs see us (We the People) as shit they grow their money in. We are but vessels used to bring them their ever-expanding booty. Pirates, by definition could only take the ship and it's contents, oligarchs exact their blood money one drop at a time throughout many generations of your family tree. Until and unless we determine that we have had enough, they will continue to exploit even the most minute chinks in our armor.
More than two decades ago, I was privy to a long and detailed conversation amongst a group of about twenty High School-aged young people and although what they were talking about was far outside my own experience, it held an integrity that is rare in the world we are seeing unfold around us. Remember, no oligarch-owned media empire will educate us about things we need to know to fight them. These young people, who are now heads of households, were talking about how to value corporations and how to behave, knowing that some corporate entities were funding fascism, undermining communities like their own or exploiting the workers or ecological resources. They directed and selected where to shoplift and what corporate entities to "attack", whether through deception, or misrepresentation, outright theft of resources "owned" by those corporate entities and/or disruption techniques designed to cripple them. Please understand that I cannot advocate illegal behavior unless it stops an even greater crime from being perpetrated. I understand why some feel they have no other choice, but I will not advocate for anarchy.
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However, I do understand what emotion, reason and morality motivates people who will fight to the death for their community, those who would practice malicious compliance to allow the oligarchs to fail, which they have always done and those patriots who let their own integrity lead them to the choice to let their rank incompetence operate within oppressive systems. Instead of turning in your fellows as the government is telling you to do, turn in those at the top. Don't buy or patronize any of the oppressors tools. The only language they speak is money. We can no longer afford to give it to them, it has only made them spoiled and to believe that they are entitled to their privilege. In a case I am very much aware of, ULINE Corporation's owners flooded fascist organizations with many tens of millions of dollars between November Elections that gave the win to Biden and January Sixth, when conspiratorial forces, at the behest of "their president" attacked the Capitol, police and our elected representatives in order to "Stop the Steal" which is a fiction of convenience for the oligarchs. Election lies alone have done more damage to our nation than any foreign army ever has. The packaging giant makes money on everything you see that has their logo on it.
Please share this with those real people, those you love and care about, those who can see that they are being lied to in order to support a system that hurts us all. Speak out, speak truth to power, through any platform you can find.