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The trolley is the government and can be symbolized as a beating heart. The heart has walled in a chunk of earths land which is called the walldom, this walldom is protected by police, law, courts and military. The heart gives rights to other bodies in exchange of them pumping life force to the heart. These bodies are called pumperies. The heart and pumperies are mutually dependent upon each other.
In this analogy, the heart has to be stopped for the trolley to be stopped.
Pumperies comes in the shape of entities that is paying taxes.
The machine is the structure of might and it's interconnectedness. In todays society we are very bound to the machine, but by making ourselves independent from the machine, this enables us to withdraw ourselves from it. This independence can take shape as democratic confederalism. When we as a society collectively make us independent from the machine, we are denying the heart life force.
Might will however not stand idly by while we are denying it to live. So we need to be prepared for resistance. We can take inspiration from Zabatistas and PKK.
This is how we stop the trolley.
Okay? Not sure I completely understand your proposed course of action, but it seems generally to fall under collective organization and action.
How do you suggest we establish that organization?
The course of action is to integrating ourselves into our local societies and being the change we want to see. I view this as changing language to reflect reality, bringing about independence from the machine and living with instead of against nature.
Being the change would mean to acknowledge our change force, our ability to bring about change. To understand that what we do matters for the totality.
Great, agreed, I'm working on that myself in my own community. That's going to take a while though, and I'm still gonna spend one afternoon every couple years trying to slow down the trolley in the meantime.
Then you are doing the right thing.
good force✊
My point being, voting is not sufficient, but for now it is necessary.