Michael Moore is rich from selling those documentaries but he still highlights the injustices in this nation, doesn't he?
And the truth is you really don't need as much money as you think you do.
But it depends on how dependent on money you are.
If you're comfortable living in a $50,000 a year or less economic status, then those millions & millions can work like those guys' billions & billions.
If you're fine with a simple house or even renting a place while you use the grand majority of your money to fight for the cause, then you can do this.
The mistake people make is the indulgence.
When you build mansions & ranches & other things that take a LOT of financial upkeep.
When you start living like Robin Leach's Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous.
THAT'S when you have the problem.
Now you're concerned about upholding your lifestyle & that runs counter to the reforms you were aiming to make.
You become compromised & eventually live up to that limousine liberal stereotype.
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Me personally? This is EXACTLY what I'm going to do.
I don't like the money system. It's a bad game.
It's a finite system that CREATES poverty by its very design.
Human beings get it backwards on the idea of value.
We value what is rarer. And I'll tell you why that is.
We simply can't recreate certain materials in our limited human state.
We can't just up & create water out of the blue. We can't create life by putting compounds of carbon together.
If you lose an arm, that arm is gone forever & what they replace it with is really not the same & not nearly as useful.
We can remix & recombine but we cannot recreate.
So because of this limitation we try to preserve what can't be recreated & value it highly.
This is how we assigned high value to rare things. Like first edition baseball cards or comic books or even paintings.
But that idea is absolutely backwards.
There's nothing on Earth more valuable to human beings than air, water, food, shelter, belonging.
The Maslow Hierarchy.
Air is abundant, water is somewhat abundant too, so is food.
Just because they're plentiful does that make them worthless?
Of course not. Because value means USEFULNESS.
If you're dehydrated & starving abandoned in a desert, what is more useful to you?
A pack of gold bars from Fort Knox or cold water & a hot meal?
I can't eat gold. I can't drink gold.
People created the money system putting value on these less valuable things to make trade easier.
Universal Trading Pieces, I call them. Ears of corn ain't equal & neither are farm animals.
It's a go-between & its power only comes from the trading of it, the EXCHANGE of it.
The value is the product or service we buy with those pieces.
Money is just a middleman getting in the way of value.
At best it's only OPTION power. But it's ultimately useless by itself.
Problem is we're all born into this bad money game & the things that are valuable are barred to us thanks to this middleman.
And certain individuals want it that way so they can wield their Option Power against us.
Just like every other animal in the animal kingdom, human beings love to play these dominance games.
Money acts as a bouncer at a club & we all trade our livelihoods for the chance that the bouncer lets us into this VIP room of value.
Those left out of that VIP room get cold out there in the streets waiting to get past that bouncer.
The trick is not caring about getting into that club.
What's the purpose of the bouncer if nobody's trying to get into the club?
The other trick is those that had access to areas in that VIP room bring some of that value out to people cold on the streets.
Get inside to bring it outside.
What can the bouncer say? You're a VIP member.
I don't need much to live on.
I can be comfortable with $30,000 a year.
I'll DAMN SURE be comfortable with $50,000 a year.
Money after that means nothing to me because I will have everything I value.
So if I make $100,000,000 in a year, where do you think most of that money is going?
Take away $30,000 & you got $99,970,000. Take away $50,000 & you got $99,950,000.
Both of those numbers are effectively the same as $100,000,000.
I will use that money to beat these suckers at their own game.
I'm not bound by the worship of money & wealth & I will infiltrate that club to destroy it from within.
And to help others overrun that bouncer so they can destroy that club from the outside.
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And by the way, integrity ain't getting us nowhere.
These guys are not playing by the same rules as you & me.
They have less holding them back so OF COURSE they're gonna go further with their aims.
So bully the bullies is what I say. Give 'em a dose of their own medicine.
Remember Elite means Few. They're outnumbered.
Without their rings of protection & persuasion, they're nothing.
They change the rules to put things in their favor, they can't be mad when we change the rules & put things in our favor.
Algebra. What is done to one side, must be done to the other.
They wanna be ruthless? Show 'em how ruthlessness is REALLY done.
They'll cry foul & that's when you hit 'em harder.
Eventually they'll stop crying. A bunch of a big brats who no one ever puts in check, that's what these guys are.
You try to keep integrity & these guys keep running ramshackle all over you.
So next time they run, put your leg out & trip these sons of bitches.
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And about that 'working together' thing. It doesn't work. Not effectively anyway.
If it did, why do we have the SAAAAME EXACT problems for millenia on end?
Human beings are FRACTIOUS.
I learned from the cartoon Garfield & Friends that no two people can ever agree on the same toppings on a pizza.
That allegory means that human beings will always fracture somewhere somehow.
That's how religious sects get started. That's how sects in political movements get started.
What IS Christianity? What IS Islam? What IS Feminism?
Like I told you I'm not making the mistake of disregarding the truth about human nature.
I DON'T have confidence in human beings to hold anything together. It's not what we are. It's not what we do.
Anything good that came out of this world was MANIPULATED & MANUFACTURED into being.
Some wise person came up with an idea & arranged people & things to make it happen.
Sometimes they arranged people to temporarily align as a movement, sometimes they manipulated the machinery of society itself solo.
But it wasn't started by the masses themselves.
More people means more problems.
The three universal rules of humanity you must know are these:
#1 People Are Selfish.
#2 People Are Lazy.
#3 People Are Weak.
These are not good or bad things in themselves. Each has a beneficial aspect & a detrimental aspect.
On #1 People Are Selfish:
No person will ever look out for a person more than that very person himself/herself.
When a group of people are having fun playing Russian Roulette & telling you to join the fun, you have to look out for yourself & say no. They're not gonna be as invested in your well-being as you will be.
So you must be Self-focused to preserve yourSELF.
But this is the same exact thing that causes the fractiousness in human beings.
Everybody is ultimately in it for their own personal interests. Self-focused.
We don't even relate to other species unless it reminds us of ourselves in some way.
Why does a jackrabbit named Bugs Bunny stand upright, hold a carrot with a thumb, & talk with the facial expressions human beings have?
Why do we see the roach-like Alien from the Alien movies as a monster?
On #2 People Are Lazy:
Human beings have limited energy in their bodies.
They only can do so much before the reserves are depleted.
That's why people are always looking for the easiest way to do something for themselves.
The more personal energy something takes up, the less a person is going to want to do it.
But this rule actually keeps human beings from destroying each other more than they already do!
It cancels out the bad effects of Rule #1 People Are Selfish.
Without that laziness, everybody would be Son of Sam & the BTK Killer.
They use the least energy-drawing way of showing that selfish maliciousness: insults & nasty glares.
It takes high emotion (MOTION) to drive people to do things past their lazy limits.
That's why the best way to defuse fights is to separate the participants in the passion of battle.
On #3 People Are Weak:
Even when we HAVE the energy our forms are limited in what they can do.
Human beings are less effective on their own & are forced to cooperate with others to get bigger things done.
When one individual gets too autonomous from the rest of the group, that individual has no ties to the group & won't reciprocate favors. There has to be some weakness somewhere to keep this person working with others.
The upside of tragedy is that it has a chance to bring compassion.
You gotta be weakened to care about somebody more than yourself.
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You have to balance these truths to get the most effectiveness out of a movement.
Sometimes that means moving in small groups that will have less chance for fractures.
Sometimes that means assembling a large group temporarily as a show of force.
Sometimes that means working in loosely aligned cells almost solo by solo.
But there's always a master plan & somebody manipulating, orchestrating things into being.
An organization is just a strategy of many strategies.
You can't depend on the organization itself because it's made of human beings.
It's a miracle when a music group can stay together for a decade.
Why do you expect any better from a political organization?
The truth of the matter is that Martin Luther King Jr. should not have died.
The truth of the matter is that the hippies should not have been arrested, beaten, & detained.
And for political movements to be a success, we have to get away from the martyr sacrifice mentality.
We have to review the movements of the past & see their flaws so that we can improve on them.
March on Washington was a STRATEGY & it's not the only one.
Just walking out into the streets & chanting with signs is not quite the answer to solving the problem.
The masterminds behind the movements must get smarter so that the movements get smarter, so that the movements get more effective.
We must use game theory MUCH BETTER than we're doing now.
This is a game of power & we're not using our power effectively.
That's why we sit on the sidelines & whine when they score yet another goal on us.
I'm done with HEART. It's time to get SMART.
Heart makes you feel good but what is it solving?
Media is a big piece of this puzzle & we need to monopolize media.
You see the joke Jon Stewart made about buying CNN on the Daily Show right?
It's not really a joke. Jon Stewart works through Viacom to send a powerful message.
He takes the veneer of satire parody news show & actually becomes the news!
What happens if more like him actually OWNED bigger networks to broadcast an even more powerful message?
We let these regressive assholes take over radio & look what has happened.
Remember I told you that People Are Lazy.
It takes much less energy to let someone program your thoughts & feed into your base emotions than it does to do research & check the other sides of the story.
So the antidote is to buy so many networks that these assholes don't have enough places to broadcast those bad messages.
You shape minds by bombardment.
How many anecdotes are on here with posters' family members slowly being brainwashed by Fox News & other outlets like that?
Since most people are never going to do the research on their own, you have to bombard 'em with a better message until they let YOU program their minds.
Sad to say but that's how it works.
Whatever we do it's gonna have to be ACTIVE.
This Liberal/Progressive/whatever contingent is too damn PASSIVE.
They don't have the balls to stomp the opposition.
They're waiting for the arc to bend towards justice instead of physically bending that arc towards justice themselves.
Any action they DO take is poorly thought-out & feeble.
That's why they lose or only win occasionally.
I'm taking a realistic look at people & how they work to get change done on a much larger scale much faster.
And I won't WAIT on that "liberal capitalist" to come save us, I'll BE that liberal capitalist.
ACTIVE not PASSIVE.
John Lucas
P.S.: Thanks for enduring my long rambling post. 
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