We go on a consumption strike until and unless our demands are met. [More]I wish I could be optimistic that enough people would care to do this that it would make a difference. I'm afraid people are going to need to be brought to their knees for it to sink in.
Meanwhile, they will preoccupy themselves with the pH Factor: Hanna Montana, Twilight, Jon & Kate Plus Eight, Dancing with the Stars, the Bachelorette, The freakin' Cougar fer cryin' out loud...
They'll go in droves to Transformers 2, to reward the slut du jour who wishes many in their families dead.
Sorry to sound so pessimistic. It's a good idea. I'm doing much of it already.
It's just that I'm doing much of a lot of things that most of those around me seem oblivious to.
[Via Tom R]
UPDATE: I rest my case.
dammit! Well, maybe Ms reason I'll have to wait for someone to bootleg transformers (and I'm IN the biz and worked with some folks who worked on it) can dump the body guards and go wander around her enlightened big liberal cites at night alone.
ReplyDeleteIf you survive let us know how the negotiation went.
The prophet is never honored in his own neighborhood Codrea...he's ignored at best, or more likely villified. When the sleepers wake and beg for sustenance and support the clock will have already rung one time too many.
ReplyDeleteThe usurpers and collectivist totalitarians never sleep, they throw crap at us 24 hrs a day with no let up. No one person can keep up and pretend to remain sane. But there aren't yet enough of us to divide the responsibilities of resistance and education.
So into the breach once more.
Oh, sorry, got sidetracked by the F-toy and her stupidity.
ReplyDeleteAs far as starve the beast goes I'm glad to see it, but it lacks the visibility of the tea parties. I will print out some info to take with me while talking to folks, but it needs huge exposure and to be crammed in the faces of those in office otherwise it's just another UFO sighting.
"What UFO? We never saw any UFO"
join in the chorus of voices demanding that government stop the looting and start prosecuting.
ReplyDeleteSo who prosecutes the co-dependent prosecutors? It's all very well to throw the businesses/businessmen who currently profit from the corrupt system under the bus; I'm all for that. But the system remains corrupt to its core, and will only spawn a new batch of beneficiaries unless you do more than promise to hold your breath until they throw you a few sacrificial fellow-travelers.
I'm not knocking it - hell, I'm doing it. But if you want real systemic change, it's gonna have to go deeper than a "consumption strike."
Doing without those things we want and need is not going to do anything to shut down government, but it would help put a lot of my friends and neighbors out of business. You know, the grocery store, the nice little restaurant down the street, the plant nursery and a lot more.
ReplyDeleteNone of those small business owners are responsible for the government trashing of our money and our lives. They are victims of it the same as you and me.
If I retreat to a cave with my freeze dried rations and space blanket, the fear mongers win.
Nuts to this.
Don't pay taxes period! Don't conform to ANY of their insane mandates. Don't provide your "papers please." Spit in their eyes, or whatever you like.
Just remember who your enemy is. And that's NOT the grocer on the corner.
Think is I like Transformers. In spite of the vapid off-screen comments of its actors.
ReplyDeleteWhat really amazes me is that both movies celebrate values (like honor) that the big Hollywood crowd simply abhors.
How they managed not to tarnish the basic good vs. evil story of the series is beyond me.
I didn't like the Transformers as cartoons back in the 1980s.
ReplyDeleteI'll never watch any of the idiotic Transformer movies.
I quit going to movies in the theater years ago.
In the last 10 years, I've seen the following movies in the theater.
Three "Lord of the Rings" movies.
The "Harry Potter" movies (wife is a big fan, so I go).
And....uh......um......
Instead of going to movies, I spend the money on ammo.