The pictures are an angel and a demon from the Amazon Prime series "Good Omens", if you were wondering.
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The Powers That Be: "Why do you have that hammer?"
Angry Masses: "To destroy and/or repair the system. Your pick, depending on how cooperative you are."
We are going to need a whole lot more than pitchforks...
We collect those from fallen enemies. We were taught in the US military that if you are facing an unarmed hostile force that outnumbers you 5:1, you need to retreat and withdraw, as your position will be overrun, and you just armed the hostile force.
Sometimes the only way something can be fixed is by dismantling it first.
You want just the right amount of dismantling to accomplish your goal. Too much, and we create extra unnecessary work for ourselves.
The "Turn it off and back on again" method, which has been in my house nicknamed the "Take out the trash and put it back in." method
One thing y'all gotta understand: the strongest proponents of 'the system' who are not an active controller of that system do not belive there even IS a system.
Every fault, every tragedy, every bit of corruption? They hold it as the fault of an individual who failed only themselves. It's why they took 'bad apple' and 'bootstraps' idioms and misinterpreted them as individual successes and failures, not systemic ones
Title says "Either way is time to sharpen your pitchforks" but depending on where you live the more obvious choice for the Top Picture would be political activism. If you were to live in like China or North Korea, then yeah, Pitchfork Time. If you live in Israel then Pitchfork Time was 3 years ago when you lost your chance to remove Netanyahu peacefully.
And neither can agree on what “the system” once it’s fixed/dismanted should be so the rest of us suffer while the world burns.
The real debacle is between the people who agree that in our nation with such vast resources and technology, everyone should get their basic needs met, and the people who want to live larger than others, and insist some people deserve to die in the streets for not being hard enough workers, or making mistakes, or whatever other bullshit irrational false narrative they come up with to revel in the suffering of others.
The saddest bit to me are all the non-wealthy at all Americans who will fight you to the death for the second one. They refuse to live without an economic class of people to look down on as they drink in the dopamine hit of schadenfreude, watching those suffering human beings, and declaring "good, that's what you deserve for your bad decisions or something, suffer more!"
That's why I agree with you that the world will burn, but why I don't find it that sad in the US with our near univeral punch down attitude. We tell our most victimized citizens to fuck off and die on the sidewalk, we throw them away like the defective capital batteries our owners consider them, so unlike the increasingly rare societies that care for one another rather than worshipping capitalist economic growth/metastasis at all costs, we won't get, nor do we deserve a future.
The systems not broken. It was built this way.
I even wrote a song about it !
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