THE SURVIVOR BLUEPRINT: 20 Laws for Staying Unbreakable in an Unraveling America
It’s by Jack Hudson.
Kind of long but really helpful IMO. These next 3 years will be about surviving.
https://open.substack.com/pub/thejackhopkins?r=e0jcn&utm_medium=ios
These 2 stood out the most for me:
LAW 5: CONTROL THE ONLY TERRITORY YOU TRULY OWN: YOUR RESPONSE
The government controls regulations…corporations control markets…mobs control noise…but you control reaction.
That is your last and greatest freedom.
When everything feels rigged…decide how you’ll think…speak…and act anyway.
Train your nervous system to pause two seconds before reacting. Those two seconds are civilization.
Master that gap, and you become untouchable.
And
LAW 13: USE SELECTIVE IGNORANCE
You cannot drink from a firehose of despair.
Every alert…every scandal…every algorithm screams for outrage. Filter it. Ask: “Does this help me act better today?” If not, delete it.
Strategic ignorance is not apathy…it’s defense of bandwidth.
Great survivors mastered what to ignore: rumors…doom-talk…emotional contagion.
Guard attention like ammunition. Waste none of it on noise you can’t change.
It’s been really beneficial for me to slow the info coming at me and not click every link or alert.
Anyway just thought I’d share. It came up on my Substack feed.
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• Control what you can control.
• Influence and encourage those you can.
I admit to reading a lot, but I try to put it in context of history. I grew up right after WWII and read about the rise and fall of the third reich. Bastards roll out the fascist playbook to bamboozle people by appealing to racism and resentment.
I kind of summarized here.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20712898
More here on the behind the scenes nutcakes.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220704626
Personally, I fight back with posts from activists like Indivisible and from Bernie, factual stuff like the above 2 (even if since of it is my opinion. I have lived thru a damn lot. )
And funny stuff. The magats can't stand criticism, bring the ultimate snowflakes, and I learned from Thoreau and Mark Twain how to skewer hypocrisy.
Lots more but that's plenty for now.
I'll check out the the referenced post!
