diff --git a/Unemployment Guide - anarplex b/Unemployment Guide - anarplex new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e4fb993 --- /dev/null +++ b/Unemployment Guide - anarplex @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +What To Do +Our no-holds-barred list: +1. Start producing. Pick something of value; pick anything of +value; then start making or doing it. Show it to people who +might want it. Trade with them. +2. Walk away from TV. No... run away from TV. Watch a comedy +or a ball game now and then if you like, but get the rest of it +out of your life – it is a massive time waster and keeps your +mind tied to the system that just spat you out. Do NOT watch +the commercials. +3. Get the system out of your head. Don't be like the battered +woman who clings to her abuser no matter what – get the hell +away from the system and stop looking to it for images of +success and approval. +4. Make your own images of success. Approve of your own self. +5. Start reading books. Real books with real ideas in them. This is +education; schools are watered-down substitutes. And you +don't need their approval certificates; where have they gotten +you? +6. Get to know yourself. You are not “middle class.” You are not +“a citizen.” You are not suited to any single description. You +are a complex, unlimited person. Get to know YOU. Stop +looking for boxes to fit into. Stop looking for people to tell you +what you are. +7. Stop doing what other people expect you to do; do what you +think is right. +8. You have a functional mind and you have every right to use it +fully. Sure, it makes sense to get input from people with +something valuable to say, but consider everything yourself: +decide it's right; decide it's wrong; decide part is right and part +is wrong; but decide for yourself. All the time. +9. Do whatever works. You're already considered outcasts and +lost causes, so what do you have to lose? +10. Get copies of the (short-lived) TV show Firefly and the movie +Serenity. Watch them. Dramatics aside, these are people like +you. +11. Read the Bible. There may be no more thorough and +condensed set of ideas in the world. Believe if you think that is +right or don't believe if you think that is right, but read the +ideas in this book and make your own decisions about them. +Do NOT compare what you read with anything that a religious +person ever told you. Read the book itself. +12. If you have some expertise in something, teach it to others. +Hold informal lectures on economics, teach welding one +morning per week, take people for sailing lessons on +Saturdays, whatever. Pass-along what you know. +13. Protect each other. Let's be honest, most policemen won't +spend a lot of time protecting a tent city. Figure out how to +protect yourselves. Forget the system's laws and do what you +need to do. There are bad people out there and you have every +right to protect yourselves. (If you do happen to find a good +policeman, thank him and show him kindness.) +14. Remember, your rights do NOT come from the government. +Thomas Jefferson was right: they come from Nature and +Nature's God. Governments trash them more than they protect +them. You don't need an official to tell you what your rights +are. +15. Respect property. When people lose their property, they are +losing the part of their life that worked for it. +16. Forget “the news.” The very definition of news is “something +that almost never happens.” When something is so common +that it's no longer news (car crashes, IRS seizures, bogus +speeding tickets) that's when you should worry about it. +17. Get over any racial crap. It's what's inside people that matters, +not the outer layer of skin. If they behave well, you treat them +well. If they behave badly, you separate and protect. It doesn't +matter what kinds of feelings you have; we are not instinctdriven beasts, we are thinking humans. Were you mad that +welfare people got your money or that someone abused your +great grandfather? Fine, but blame the system that enforced the +crime and not someone who happens to have the same +complexion as a bad guy. They are individuals, the same as +you, and if you don't treat them as such, you are the barbarian. +18. Learn about the common law. Forget the law produced by +senators; learn about justice. That's what the common law was, +and it is useful. +19. Learn how to avoid the state. They will always want to steal +your production – that is what they do. Once you have +something again, they'll want it again. Don't go back to Egypt. +20. Cooperate with others and build whatever you need. It doesn't +matter what. Maybe, for example, you need a water supply. Get +together with everyone else and start developing ideas: Can +you get it from a nearby stream? Can you buy it from a +business? Do you need to tap into municipal lines? Decide +what is the right thing to do, then pay whatever the price may +be and do it. +21. Learn to play an instrument and make music with your friends. +It's a lot more rewarding than plugging into an iPod and +mindlessly bobbing your head for hours. +22. Less talk, more action. People often talk to delay actions they +fear. Ditch the endless arguments and do things. +23. Adapt, improvise, overcome. +24. Screw the rules – make your own.