I wonder what the critical mass of people would be...
If 10% of the population stopped participating in the monetary ponzi scheme would that be enough?
If 5% of the population decided not to show up to their slave day job?
What about if people just stopped paying their taxes in April? What percent of people would it take to break the system?
Just some thoughts. I know it is impossible to quantify and even if it was the numbers would probably have to come from the gooberment directly and wouldn't be accurate lol.
I think most people do need to participate, but I don't know the exact threshold.
For example in the Holocaust there were about 10-15 Nazis forcing 500-1000 people on the trains to Auschwitz.
So a gun and a 15% force is enough of a psychological deterrent to keep people enslaved.
However when people were totally cornered, they fought to the death heroicly, even when they were outnumbered 10:1
So it's not so much the % of force the enforcers use, but more about the psychological condition of the masses and their willpower to resist tyranny.
Great comment. Opposite side of the spectrum. I didn't consider what percentage of oppressors it takes to stomp out the voluntary portion.
I have been following the Venezuelan socialist collapse and it has been a year since i thought there would be a forceful removal of the ruling class there. I hope for their sake the population gets mobilized soon and takes back their country. I think that that ratio is 20% army / government and 80% impoverished population. Doesn't help that they handed in their guns either though...
Wouldn't it be funny if the government declared it was martial law and they showed up to enforce expected rioting in the streets but found everyone happily having a giant picnic in the park not even acknowledging their presence lol.
It needs to be organized though. You can't just expect millions of people voluntarily just "storming the palace". That is not how human psychology works.
There has to be an organization, it doesn't have to be hierarchic, otherwise it can easily turn into a military dictatorship.
But if some kind of decentralized political organization would do this, then it could achieve anarchism.
Millions of people would never voluntarily gather to storm the palace. I agree. I think that the situation there might to dire for them to be able to organize peacefully also. As soon as any government controlled warehouse of food was stormed it think chaos would break out from people trying to grab as much as possible. Really tough spot.
I don't know what a decentralized organization would look like. Do you have any models / concepts that you think could work? I put up a post about private property in a stateless society and nobody really could answer the questions fully.
I really want to see all governments / states gone but I think some serious questions need to be worked out.
The brilliance is that if you can get millions of people to organize voluntarily and create decentralized communities, they don't even need to "storm the castle" afterwards. They can just ignore it.
If people can just disobey the king, then he is not a king anymore, just a clown in a fancy costume.
I agree 100%. Just ignore the full blown authority construct that exists and just down right de-legitimize it. That would be the best!!