Brandon Smith
Activist Post
October 10, 2012
The greatest and most often exploited weakness of any revolution for
freedom is the inability of the downtrodden populace to identify the
true enemy. History is littered with the shattered remnants of
rebellions that were built upon legitimate causes but suffered because
of misdirection and faulty assumptions. For centuries, the real
culprits of tyranny have found ways to redirect the ire of those they
harmed in their quest for power, usually by offering a tempting
scapegoat that appeals to the public’s darker impulses; their biases,
their prejudices, their fears, etc. Usually, this ends in an even more
pervasive totalitarian environment as the insurgents and the scapegoats
decimate each other while the elites sit back and enjoy the show.
Even the most successful battles against despotism, like the American
Revolution, often only had a distant sense of who they were really
fighting against. This is what makes the 21st Century extraordinarily
unique in the annals of civilization. For the first time in human
record, the common man has all the information necessary to examine and
define the real culprits behind his subjugation. The truth is at our
fingertips, all we have to do is reach out and take it…
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