How Will We Make It Happen?

The looming disaster, the game-ender, is climte collapse. Day-to-day compulsory labor—servitude—wastes nearly everyone's life. What can we do?

We can end all unnecessary labor and the huge damage to the Earth's biosphere that comes with it. That is, people can work much much less, producing only food, shelter, medicine and other necessities. We are talking about 80%-90% less labor. Carbon emissions would plummet and we could begin to heal the planet. We would have less stuff, but our needs would be met and our lives would be ours. True freedom.

We would have much more security and much less stress.

We would give up the consumerist treadmill, the one that is dooming us but providing us with lots of stuff. Instead of accumulating excessive stuff while throwing away decades in factories and cubicles, we'd choose how to spend our days.

Elites everywhere want to continue with their privileged positions—plutocrats, dictators, communists, socialists, and especially businessmen. Everyone who controls us. What can we do? They make the rules and they have armed people to enforce their will. Our culture and civilization is built on their narrative of self-serving lies—insisting that the current way is the best and only way.

But they have a weakness, one that We The People can use to seize control of our lives and our world.

They don't do anything. Elites are completely dependent on our active support.

A Challenging Transition

We start with neighborhoods. Our own neighborhoods. We find a few like-minded people who want a better neighborhood and a better world. Groups of twos and threes is ideal, but we can begin, if necessary, starting alone.

We try things, to see what we can do to address the wellbeing of people and of the Earth.

For example, we can begin growing food in the neighborhood. To provide for the homeless, the poor, the hungry. We can try to reduce the workweek, perhaps taking off as many Mondays as possible. We can help shutins with food and compaionship. We can build real communities with real human connection, supplanting sterile controlled online "communities."

The instinctive reaction? "We can't do this."

But we can try things, and some will work and others won't. We simply build on those that work.

We could set up a neighborhood watch to spot and impede armed federal terrorists if they are sent to the neighborhood. We can share our stories and videos of government abuse online.

The purpose? Immediate improvements in our neighborhoods and setting an example for other neighborhoods. Successes can be replicated. This is the way—from the bottom up, with constructive action, not violence.

These successes will not only inspire other neighborhoods, but also inspire defections by armed stooges of the various federal, state and local governments. Nobody wants to be the bad guys. Defections are a part of every nonviolent revolution.

Imagine all the different experiments, in all the neighborhoods! Shared! Cooperation and coordination between neighborhoods!

Over time, we become bolder, refusing to pay taxes or go to work. We will be producing the food, shelter, medicine and other necessities that we need. The old elitist civilization collapses because they need our active support to continue.

We could, of course, speed all this up with a general strike today But that's something we haven't been able to pull off. This plan—start immediately and build on successes—gets us to the same place. Perhaps more dependably. 

What if you aren't ready to take on neighborhood issues? But you still want to help? There are many things you can do, some of which is pretty easy but still worthwhile.

SEE: What Can I Do?