modern individual section

individualreignssupreme/index.md

@@ -244,14 +244,48 @@ Report: "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans" by Melanie Mitche
 > Mitchell discusses the challenges of ensuring that AI systems are free of bias, and the importance of transparency in AI decision-making.
 
 
+# The Modern Individual
 
-# todo
--your privacy, anonymity and deniability has been violated by the state and it's proxies all this time
--your privacy, anonymity and deniability are what you need to restore to regain your sovereignty over the state.
--unless if you employ the correct tools, in the right way, you will never regain your privacy, anonymity, nor your deniabiltiy.
+Modern inidividuals, whatever society they live in (with exceptions such as the [Principality of Sealand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand)) have, as we've seen, been under increasing
+control and scrutiny from mafia-like entities known as States. This control is built around what I call the **three pillars of domination**:
 
--To not employ the right tools to regain your privacy, anonymity and deniability, means that you tolerate the sovereignty of the state, it means that you consciously or unconsciously choose to remain their sheep, and forsake your sovereignty.
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-TLDR: Freedom tech is what you need, because if you don't use it, you will anyway remain one of the countless sheeps, vulnerable to the state's unjustified tyranny.
+- Constant Propaganda
+- Market control
+- Coercion
 
 
+While this apparatus seems eternal, omniscient and omnipotent it is actually a colossus with feet of clay. Furthermore, the larger it grows, the more clumsy and blinded it becomes by its own inefficiencies.
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+Those three pillars of domination can be undermined and eventually toppled. Contrary to what propaganda says, those actions do not require a violent revolution and a bloodbath. Only one thing is required: **the withdrawl of moral sanction**.
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+## Toppling the State
+The main weapon of the state is its propaganda machine. As we've seen, elections and other ceremonies give it the **moral sanction** to act for a so-called *general will* or *common good*.
+For every corruption, killing, kidnapping and execution that becomes public the masses are roped in a guilt cycle akin to a toxic relationship: when the state is caught
+doing a heinous act, it will say "You voted for it". The propaganda apparatus will blame parties and spin a narrative that is a large-scale equivalent of the abuser's "Look at what you made me do".
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+To topple a State without replacing it with another similar entity, all one needs to do is **withold their moral sanction**. That is, choose not to participate in the ceremonies and act in such a way
+that bypasses the State and its cronies. 
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+**Only through such actions will the individual regain its soverignity and weaken the State**
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+## Concrete actions
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+What does it look like? In everyday life it means:
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+- not using State media or doing so with skepticism and realism: always ask *cui bono* => Who profits from me hearing this piece of information spun this way? What do they choose to drown in irrelevant drivel and why?
+- use tools **you** control, not the State, not State-affiliated companies, and manage your own encryption to ensure your privacy
+  - Open Source software you can audit, modify
+  - Own your encryption keys
+- Privacy first and by default: cash, cryptocurrencies give every counterparty in your transaction the choice of supporting the State or quietly withdraw their own consent. Even shopping at the local farmer's market
+can thus become a political action: by using cash for purchases the seller has the choice. They can keep the transaction between you both and chip away at the State through its income.
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+The State won't be destroyed overnight in a glorious conflagration, lest a more terrible dictatorship rise from its ashes. To be rid of it for good we must make it less and less relevant. Bypass it, ignore it until one day
+it collapses and we won't even notice its dying rasp.
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+Be safe, be free. Only then will the schackles born for millenia rust away and the slavedrivers whips turn to dust in their hands.