Group Challenges & Diversions from Priorities
This page covers those factors that prevent groups, and our nation as a whole, from making progress to take back our country. Being aware of these dynamics and other factors can help us stay focused so that we can join together and mobilize that "critical mass" around strategic and tactical actions and key priorities that can make a real difference.
Keep in mind that those in power who continue to abuse us...
:: Are well organized and disciplined
:: Plan strategically and tactically with laser focus on their enabling and ultimate objectives
:: Act coherently and consistently as a single organism, with unity of purpose
:: Take advantage of expertise in many fields to manipulate and distract us and implement their plans
:: Know how to mobilize their "troops" and keep them engaged in the fight over long periods of time
:: Distribute/delegate their power to others in the field who multiply the power of their leaders exponentially
:: Are well funded and influential
What can WE learn from their playbook to take back OUR power?
This page covers those factors that prevent groups, and our nation as a whole, from making progress to take back our country. Being aware of these dynamics and other factors can help us stay focused so that we can join together and mobilize that "critical mass" around strategic and tactical actions and key priorities that can make a real difference.
Keep in mind that those in power who continue to abuse us...
:: Are well organized and disciplined
:: Plan strategically and tactically with laser focus on their enabling and ultimate objectives
:: Act coherently and consistently as a single organism, with unity of purpose
:: Take advantage of expertise in many fields to manipulate and distract us and implement their plans
:: Know how to mobilize their "troops" and keep them engaged in the fight over long periods of time
:: Distribute/delegate their power to others in the field who multiply the power of their leaders exponentially
:: Are well funded and influential
What can WE learn from their playbook to take back OUR power?
Priority #1: UNITY
REMEMBER: There are vastly more of US (we-the-people) than there are of THEM (the-powers-that-be). And THEIR worst fear is that enough of US will unite in efforts to stop their tyranny and corruption. That’s why they work so hard, day and night, to keep us from realizing our power and uniting.
So when we form an action group, we must agree to act coherently. Whether we agree or disagree with the priority or relative effectiveness of a given action supported by the majority of your group, we must join in that action wholeheartedly. Likewise, the group will wholeheartedly support our actions when it is time.
CHALLENGES
Things THEY will do to keep us from marshaling our power and taking coherent action:
Priority #2: FOCUS on PRODUCTIVE ACTION
CHALLENGES
We have to use our time and our energies wisely. Nonproductive discussions about SSDD (same stuff, different day) should be minimized. We need to focus on the POSITIVES, focus on the SOLUTIONS, focus on the SUCCESSES and PROGRESS being made by ourselves and others, and promote more actions like those.
We need to define "What it looks like when it's done right" in any situation. If something wrong has been done, think about the desired alternative to that and: (a) find examples of that desired alternative being done by someone somewhere, and (b) develop ways to promote that desired alternative into existence in other areas.
Priority #3: WAKE MORE PEOPLE
CHALLENGES
We must push ourselves to find and awaken more new people. We must learn new skills of rapport and persuasion. Admission to events should require each awake attendee to bring 1 or 2 who are unaware or unconvinced of the alternative perspective on the attacks of 9/11.
REMEMBER: There are vastly more of US (we-the-people) than there are of THEM (the-powers-that-be). And THEIR worst fear is that enough of US will unite in efforts to stop their tyranny and corruption. That’s why they work so hard, day and night, to keep us from realizing our power and uniting.
So when we form an action group, we must agree to act coherently. Whether we agree or disagree with the priority or relative effectiveness of a given action supported by the majority of your group, we must join in that action wholeheartedly. Likewise, the group will wholeheartedly support our actions when it is time.
CHALLENGES
Things THEY will do to keep us from marshaling our power and taking coherent action:
- Make us stupid or mentally lazy with idiotic reality TV shows and a barrage of news/talk programs telling us what to think. Mind- and emotion-numbing drugs for everyone. Fluoride in the water. And so on.
- Prevent us from using reason and critical thinking to analyze situations and “official stories.” Deliberately eliminate debate and critical thinking instruction from public schools. Government leaders openly admit they believe “too much education” is a bad thing (for them, of course).
- Distract us from the real crimes being committed and make us feel powerless by feeding us an unending supply of things they want us to worry about.
- Waste our days with seductive, addictive web surfing and emails/social media exchanges that make us feel as if we are being good activists but that in reality just prevent our taking any meaningful action each day, whether to build our own lives and prosperity to make ourselves strong, or to fight THEM.
- Program us with counterproductive overt and subliminal messages on TV and video. Eat more sugar, buy more drugs, hate and fear those who are different from us. They even tell us what to say and give us soundbites to put in our own mouths.
- Trick us into focusing our time and efforts on decoy disasters/conspiracies so, again, we have the illusion of doing something important when, in fact, the real crime is being committed somewhere else.
- Overwhelm us with an avalanche of conspiracy tangents, which we then vomit onto others. When we consume others’ time with a firehose sampler of information on countless topics, we are not communicating, we are not teaching or awakening others, and we are not advancing our activist mission toward resolution or correction of something that is wrong/broken.
- Tempt us into focusing on only the negative, so we seek and then share the latest examples of things we already know are wrong. Thus, we never take the time to find and praise what’s being done right and to share those stories as examples of what people CAN DO and ARE DOING to make a difference.
- Keep us “preaching to the choir.” As long as our conversations and events primarily address those who already know, the number of awakened will never reach critical mass.
- Keep us broke so we can’t afford to spread our messages beyond ourselves and our groups.
- Keep us stuck in “talk mode” so we never get around to actually doing anything.
- Divide and conquer. They promote our fear and hatred of everyone who is “different.” Then they give us countless reasons to dislike or distrust those around us. Even prompt us to be suspicious or find “differentness” among our own friends, to fracture our groups into far weaker subgroups. We must see past differences and find agreement in order to create and leverage the necessary critical mass.
- Introduce agitators and controversies to keep our groups off-balance, suspicious and non-productive.
Priority #2: FOCUS on PRODUCTIVE ACTION
CHALLENGES
We have to use our time and our energies wisely. Nonproductive discussions about SSDD (same stuff, different day) should be minimized. We need to focus on the POSITIVES, focus on the SOLUTIONS, focus on the SUCCESSES and PROGRESS being made by ourselves and others, and promote more actions like those.
We need to define "What it looks like when it's done right" in any situation. If something wrong has been done, think about the desired alternative to that and: (a) find examples of that desired alternative being done by someone somewhere, and (b) develop ways to promote that desired alternative into existence in other areas.
Priority #3: WAKE MORE PEOPLE
CHALLENGES
We must push ourselves to find and awaken more new people. We must learn new skills of rapport and persuasion. Admission to events should require each awake attendee to bring 1 or 2 who are unaware or unconvinced of the alternative perspective on the attacks of 9/11.
THE GOOD NEWS IS...
We only need 10% to tip the scales!
An article from Freakonomics.com suggests we only need a fraction of the total population in order to achieve
the "critical mass" necessary to make a real difference. Here is an excerpt from their article:
.
"What does it take for an idea to spread from one to many?
For a minority opinion to become the majority belief?
According to a new study by scientists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
the answer is 10%.
Once 10% of a population is committed to an idea,
it’s inevitable that it will eventually become the prevailing opinion of the entire group.
The key is to remain committed."
So if there are approximately 244 million adults in the U.S., we only need to awaken 24.4 million.
That may sound like a lot, but there are a LOT of awake people out there already.
And if each awake person awakens just 2 more people, it won't take long for us to reach 24.4 million.
THERE IS HOPE!
We only need 10% to tip the scales!
An article from Freakonomics.com suggests we only need a fraction of the total population in order to achieve
the "critical mass" necessary to make a real difference. Here is an excerpt from their article:
.
"What does it take for an idea to spread from one to many?
For a minority opinion to become the majority belief?
According to a new study by scientists at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
the answer is 10%.
Once 10% of a population is committed to an idea,
it’s inevitable that it will eventually become the prevailing opinion of the entire group.
The key is to remain committed."
So if there are approximately 244 million adults in the U.S., we only need to awaken 24.4 million.
That may sound like a lot, but there are a LOT of awake people out there already.
And if each awake person awakens just 2 more people, it won't take long for us to reach 24.4 million.
THERE IS HOPE!