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Disaster Anarchism (An Argument Against Insurrection) (anarchoccultism.org)

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A sufficiently advanced disaster preparedness and response program is indistinguishable from a revolutionary counter-power.

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[–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is quite apropos of what I've been trying to tell people all along:

When it's no longer possible for the oligarchy to extract wealth from the population(because we've run out of money), they're going to shut off the water, the gas, the electricity, and the telecommunications networks. They'll start issuing leins to collect the "debt" the population "owes" and when people start to panic, they'll cry "THEY'RE GETTING VIOLENT!" and send in PMC shock troops to "secure the property".

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

Exactly. Part of my thinking here was definitely influenced by Butler's "Parable of the Sower." She made pretty on point predictions about the direction of things by just observing the world. It's pretty clear where this is going, and that's exactly it.

Like... this is already Flint. This is already Detroit. The suburban ponzi scheme is running really thin. Things are going to change really radically or this is happening in the next 10 years (and probably a lot sooner).