Ep 78: Revolution in 3 Easy Steps
In this episode I begin with the concept of Hyper-normal leading into a discussion of why Americans are slow to rebel or disrupt the system they dislike. I then tie most of the last several episodes together with a discussion of what revolution could be here; how striking, having an independent party, and all the rest folds into making actual system change happen.
Music Used: Atari Teenage Riot, Is this Hyper Real?
Sources
HyperNormalisation- Documentary to break the illusion/take the red pill etc etc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyU&t=3908s
Change comes outside the system
indigenousaction.org/voting-is-not-harm-reduction-an-indigenous-perspective
Why are Americans resistant to resisting?
www.codepink.org/why_arent_americans_rising_up_like_we_are_seeing_across_the_planet
Study finds Industrial workers key to successful protest movements.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/24/we-checked-years-protests-countries-heres-what-we-learned-about-working-class-democracy
Case study of 1930s Norway; mass strikes, independent Labor Party, and nonviolence
www.commondreams.org/views/2012/01/26/how-swedes-and-norwegians-broke-power-1-percent
Bernie or Not, proposal for reiegme change in the US. Parallel government needed.
imperiumadinfinitum.wordpress.com/2020/02/29/if-they-rob-bernie-the-arab-spring-scenario