Tom Mazanec wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 9:23 pm
Tim wrote: ↑Tue Jan 10, 2023 8:43 pm
During the Crisis Era it is wise for people to think for themselves.
It is also risky. Government and society are at the peak of their power and willingness to crush dissent.
During the crisis eras of the past, the targets included colonial imperialism, noble privilege, slavery, economic disaster, and fascist conquest. All these took highly organized government to defeat. So, yes, crisis governments are powerful.
The best example of thinking independently happened in the Confederacy. One of their big theories was states rights. Thus the states did not respond overly well to their central government. This led some historians to suggest the Confederacy ’died of a theory’, were less organized than their Union counterparts.
You could try to encourage independent thought, doing your own thing. Fight Covid by refusing vaccines and dying? Resist democracy with criminal insurrection? Encourage white supremacy by piling into pickup trucks, driving into black areas of the city, and firing paintballs into crowds? Encourage religious fanaticism by fighting against human rights?
Just be careful about it. Crises organize folks to solve long standing problems, usually the most serious confronting the culture. Yes, they are organized. I’d just be careful to be striving to fix problems rather than perpetuate injustices. Historically, those joining powerful groups to try to fix problems come out ahead.