The Key Task of the resistance

There is a popular euphemism about the word "assuming." It makes an ass out of you and me.

By “just assuming” something is the way it actually is even if it isn’t, implies granting consent to the way things are (or are perceived to be). That’s the way the traditions of Law have come to understand the act of granting consent between individuals and fictions called governments or corporations…regardless of whether or not it is even consciously understood as such by the participants (that being -- just an assumption).

This “consent to be governed” is at the heart of an argument for the existence of the State; that something being the idea about the reality of a “social contract.”

Obviously, a literal contract does not exist between any of us and the State. The proof of this is that none of us has signed anything.

“The social contract is an intellectual device intended to explain the appropriate relationship between individuals and their governments. Social contract arguments assert that individuals unite into political societies by a process of mutual consent, agreeing to abide by common rules and accept corresponding duties to protect themselves and one another from violence and other kinds of harm.” -- Wikipedia.

From the above definition, we see that the argument for the existence of this contract rests upon the foundational belief that the people themselves grant consent to this structure called the State to rule over the individual; the deal is structured so as to appear that the individual is getting a grant of security from aggression in return for this surrender of social power.

But is this "social contract" even real? Controlling the answer to that question in the minds of the majority of individuals constituting this thing called Society is the core secret to the victory of the Resistance over the State.

A solid case can be made that "Society" itself really doesn't exist. It is an abstraction, a convenience of thought.

All that exists are individuals.

Individuals can choose to band together under common banners and causes to form groupings and tribes bound together by custom, traditions, and geography. If these groupings get large enough they can begin to wield tremendous sway on the rest of the individuals that have been reluctant to join up with this growing grouping of individuals. A major key sub-task of the resistance therefore is the work involved with growing this grouping of individuals called the resistance movement and making it larger. Large enough to effectively go toe-to-toe against the enemy State.

However, the KEY TASK is even more fundamental. If the movement get this one right, it will win the contest hands down.

Consider the following statement:

The Governed (the individuals making up that grouping called Society) BELIEVE in the Social Contract.

Conduct your own survey. This belief is ALL-PENETRATING. Everybody believes it. You might have to phrase the definition into the socioeconomic terms of the people you are confronting, but once you do that, you will see that what I say is true.

Every citizen believes on some basement core level of understanding that there exists an implicit contract between themselves and this legal fiction called the State.

This agreement doesn’t exist in objective reality. It’s not written down on paper and filed with the county clerk. The contract doesn’t exist in the real world the way a newspaper does. It only exists in people’s heads. It only exists as an idea which people believe in.

The power of an idea lies solely in the power of people’s beliefs that this idea is valid and congruent and, most importantly -- real. As real as this table in the kitchen is real.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,..."

That is the Declaration of Independence rendering its verdict on the question of the social contract. Our founders believed in it.

“Victory is achieved when the populace consents to the government’s legitimacy and stops actively and passively supporting the insurgency.”

That statement comes from the U.S. Army’s current doctrine on conducting counter-insurgency operations. So our military leaders believe it, too.

They have just admitted that the key to a government or State’s legitimacy in the minds of a people is the belief that the people’s consent and therefore approval has been granted and thus the legitimacy of the State is thereby proven.

So the key is consent.

The State needs your consent in order to exist. This is the most fundamental ceding that must take place between individuals and a State. That consent to be ruled must be granted. Or there is no legitimacy in the minds and eyes of the individuals being ruled.

What happens when you take away the belief underlying a human intellectual device?

"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."

-- Etienne de La Boetie, The Politics of Obedience.

The most important task of the resistance movement is in persuading a super-majority of individuals in society to withdraw their consent to be ruled by the enemy State.

If a resistance succeeds in this task, the movement wins the debate and the conflict. No State can survive the withdrawal of the people’s consent to be governed.

Success in this arena hinges SOLELY upon creating effective communications which persuade the population to renounce the legitimacy of the State. We've seen in the Middle East during the "Arab Spring" that when the vast majority are in the streets screaming that the existing State is no more and that they are adamant about no longer OBEYING that State, the regime quickly crumbles.

By applying this insight alone, the entire conflict can be wrapped up without the need to prosecute a ground war. If the Resistance can persuade the majority of citizens to renounce their consent to be ruled by the State leviathan tomorrow – it’s game over. There’s no need to go into phase two – guerrilla war.

This should be the focus and goal of every resistance. Removing the consent to be ruled by the feckless overlords.

The really hard part of all of this is actually doing it. Looks easy on paper. Now translate that into engineering a massive withdrawal of consent among the population. Looking at the American landscape today, it's a task on par with asking pigs to fly. These lemmings won't even revolt over illegal mask mandates.

In view of this sobering reality, the dilemma will almost assuredly have to come down to violent resistance to get these parasites off the backs of humanity.

Therefore, guerrilla war seems inevitable.