People's Informative

Has one ever stopped to consider the enormous amount of resources dumped into preserving/being a part of the status quo? By resources, I mean goods, (raw and not) time, and energy, human and otherwise. By preserving I mean defending and participating in the disaster that is the status quo. People go to college for years merely to learn the rhetoric of advertising. When that stage is completed, they move on to a nine to five consisting of trying to convince others to buy under-developed, haphazard and many times completely un-needed products. This is the exact same process for almost all posts in government, with some American or Western based “history” slid into the teaching of the rhetoric. The products these marketers push are usually nonsensical rules, regulations and acts not in the interest of the people. Their goal is to make the populous believe the opposite. Marx here would have referred to the propaganda of the bourgeois. How much time and energy alone is spent on producing these vanguards of the status quo? How much producing analogous or nearly analogous professions? As one can imagine, this is a huge amount of energy and time, devoted to the games of the status quo, games, that in reality, mean nothing but value assigned to them, like dollar bills, that are to be won and lost, and nothing really changes hands. Competition is played out in binaries, under the mask of “success”. How to exploit is renamed Marketing 101. These people’s time and energy could be better spent doing almost anything. Rather than being an unknowing and blissful participant or a knowing and content participant in the disaster we see around us, they could be dedicating themselves intro/extrovertedly to production for or the growth of, humanity. Rather than scramble to scrape up the green scum called capital, they could fly gloriously towards infinity with their human brethren. This change is not easy, as anyone would have expected; as mentioned before, these are the vanguards of the status quo, those most dedicated to the way of life they have slaved and enslaved for. Many times they will have warped philosophy in support of their position. Warped in the sense that it represents no reality. From existentialist to analytics, idealism to objectivism, politics to aesthetics, philosophies and ideas have been warped to fit the train wreck turned society that plagues humanity today. Just remember truth. Remember what there is at stake. Some of these people are inevitably lost to the disaster; most are not.  Use the rhetoric of the truth inside you to steer them in the correct direction. If some help is needed though, I have a few suggestions:

1)    Read their literature and philosophy.
a.    Know thine enemy, their weak spots, and most importantly, their fallacies.
2)    Read your and similar literature and philosophy
a.    Everything you can, all the time, this never diminishes in importance.
b.    Books in this category range all over the place. While it is important to remember there are many articles, academic and non on subjects such as this, classics are very important as well. G-d and Bread by Bakunin is pivotal, and so is The Manifesto of the Communist Party   by Marx and Engels. The Shock Doctrine  by Naomi Klein may not be a classic, but highlights some very important issues with the current capitalist system. Rousseau is the best Enlightenment Philosopher on this position, and from him on, many people have carried the torch. There are many many more books on this subject. Find them, put them in the comments, because this is an extremely incomplete list. READ them, and more as much as possible, though. This is our best tactic.
3)    What is does not have to be.
a.    A better world is possible.
b.    Consider bourgeois influence vs. proletarian (or the masses) in forming the status quo.
4)    CCCP (USSR) was not communist!
a.    Just wasn’t. Read Marx and consider the betrayal of soviet leaders to the mass.
5)    Answer to: “sure, but not everyone will agree, even if I do” or “we can agree to disagree”
a.    Its important to remember this is not the end of the discussion. As a matter of fact, this is a good place to begin.  Until they are dedicated enough to hand out pamphlets at a protest, or get and A or hammer and sickle tattoo, our job is not complete. Politely encourage future discussion if they are using these lines to end the conversation. Do not hesitate to say “I don’t know but I can check and get back to you.” Almost everyone is capable of understanding. We, and publications such as Peoples’ Informative and others like it, are the media to achieve this ultimate goal of the unity between want and will of the people (Rousseau, Social Contract)

Peace, Anarchy, Truth
-P.A.T.