Studying history helps originality. Mimicking it does not. Movements are stagnant when you don't know how to progress. History shows us different methods we can use, but we HAVE TO make our own.

We all have the same enemy. Class war is the real war and the rich are our real enemy. 

Who are the deep state/ultra conservatives controllers of government? People like Trump and Musk are in the spotlight, but there's also secret executives like Gerri Kellman and Tom Wambsgans and Stan Edgar.

• CEO and executive boards of corporation. As sweeping as it sounds, I really think any higher-ups in corporate America are messed up as hell. Even though C-suite positions are fungible, executive boards are influential and depending on the relationship, C-suite people can wield heavy power... I think.
• Lobbyists
• Local politicians
• Contractors: defense, construction, lawyers, prisons
• Advertisers, marketing & PR departments
• Executive assistants (the Jess Jordans and Greg Hirsches)

I believe there's a deep state because that's such a big talking point of Trump's-- it's really a veiled confession, just like how Israel's claims about violence they've faced are really examples of the violence they've inflicted. I find it more plausible that the slave owning and robber baron families of America are in control of society rather than new liberal players. But I'm happy to be educated more because right now I'm mostly a conspiracy theorist.

How can us poor people actually do something about it? 

1. Boycott. Where you spend your money is super important because that's the economy right there. Our business matters.
   1. That's why they bombard us with ads all the fucking time. I see new wheat-pasted posters on those green plywood construction walls every week and Hulu ads are a minute and a fucking half long. There truly was a time without ads in streaming services, but capitalism ruins everything it creates. 
2. Do stuff in your life that shares wealth with other people in whatever ways you can. Like if I have extra pencils and my friend needs pencils, I'll give my pencils to my friend. That way, they don't need to spend their money. They get resources and support from their community, the way it's supposed to be.
   1. If you are monetarily rich, then donate as much as you can to the best causes. Do your research to make sure you're truly helping someone, not dumping money into some random charity that exists only for tax purposes. 
3. Recognize the upper class. This is harder because interactions with them differ for everybody. Visibility is super important. Their society is really closed off from ours but it does exist, and they are truly the cause of this shit. Seeing them comes first, and then we can get rid of them. It's people who buy a coffee every day and see it as a necessity, not a luxury. When the time comes to budget, cutting that expense doesn't appear in their mind unless someone else suggests it. It's tall males who ignore you when you're trying to get in the subway car saying excuse me and everything, acting inconsiderate as hell. (I stare javelins at them so they can feel the hatred.) If you get trapped in a conversation with a member of the upper class, smile without real happiness and respond with mildly unsettling answers. I think their class experience prepares them to receive a certain response and pushing them out of their comfort zone is 1) fun and 2) hypothetically transformative. Lay down marbles for them to slip on. The simplest challenge is "Why?" and  I think my usual is Why'd you ask me that?

I first learned this word last year when I was searching for different descriptions of governments. The idea of democracy from the Ancient Greeks and the current one America is are two very different things. First off we have the electoral college which nixes direct democracy, aka the only fucking democracy that seems to actually work. I like putting things to votes and deciding on shit together, I like hearing others' opinions because they might be more popular than mine so I can compare and work on something that benefits all the voices, I like that type of democracy. But America is not run on equal, representative cooperation and fairness. It is controlled by money. Rich people pay important members of the government like Supreme Court Justices and Congresspeople to protect their interests. Don’t say yes to this bill because I’ll give you a lot of money if you say no. I might even hurt you if you try to go against me. Corporations don’t need to pay their employees fairly because there’s no physical documentation that says they deserve that and they ignore whatever you do have.  

Large enterprises like America or Blackstone are actually only controlled by an elite few, so it’s in their interest to squeeze the life out of everything else in order to be on top. They have to crush the masses to make the stairs they want to climb. Their heights are really our heights, their wealth our wealth. I see that Master Plan by The Lever describes America as a kleptocracy which is accurate too.

Moneyed people make things follow their interests. That’s why I’ve always felt the world has been at war because war is how the Western empire makes money. Capitalism kills tons of people instantly and tons of people on a spectrum... slower to a total conversion to a toxic organism, body saturated with poison and drinking it constantly to survive. It's kind of alive... The true capitalists are super fucking weird. I want to do more research into toxic organisms and see if there's something out there that runs on its own poison like we do. Certainly cancer can be used as a way to understand society-- unending rapid production is malignant and aggressive, it's bad for the OG organism the way capitalism is bad for us. Maybe we're afraid of treatment but we have to get there.... I want to for the sake of myself.

People are afraid of disrupting the known because they're afraid of the unknown. If we're able to accept that ultimately life is out of our control, it becomes easier to realize what is in our control. You can fight fear with knowledge and it is possible to know things, even in this majorly confusing world.

What comes after is what we should be building now. By uprooting the past we automatically put steps down on another path. That's why I hate the neutral perspective, because it's uprooting the tree and leaving the holes empty. It's time to start filling it with dirt and planting seeds-- create the everyday interactions we want to have and start progress on the big ideas of the next society, the society we really want to live in.

This is a controversial opinion, but I believe charity is a solution worth building. I want to build real life cornucopias with resources in abundance and everybody can take what they want.*** What I've heard and learned about life in a 21st century First World country is that technically speaking, we have the means to feed everybody in the world. There exists housing units for every homeless person and clothes for every naked person and lots more medicine for sick people. Capitalism is the reason why so many have so few. Artificial scarcity is only the beginning of the fake shit that's been created: democracy, service, community... we don't practice real version of those either. 

My desire for charity is not without doubts. My biggest is that the money being repurposed is still not free from the imperial violence that created said wealth. For example, even if we pour money and labor into rebuilding Gaza, does the money coming from Elon Musk taint the good done with it? Is money the resource people need to give? Or is there something else that doesn’t feel like the tool of the master that we can use to physically build the world we want to live in? 

My focus right now is on creation and consolidation of power. I don't think power and control are inherently bad... I think people have used it badly for millennia though. Power is just powerful! Moves made with it are deep so if you move negatively or selfishly, it cuts a lot of fucking people. I think it could be equally, massively good. I truly believe that good power exists, and I believe we need to make more of it because there is a fuckton of bad power. Part of gaining good power is transforming the bad but pure good power is something that can be created too.

Big picture-- truly changing the world-- we need to create new ways of economic exchange and science practices and education and resource management and political communication and schools of thought. We need to totally reinvent the game because the one that we're playing is always going to feature war. It's a star fucking player. From the very very very beginning Western society was built to destroy the world.