The alternative is noncooperation with the corporate death cult. Protest builds awareness in the population, but the machine will run along just fine as long as the populace works its levers and greases its gears. The only thing our vampire class fears is economic warfare. A ten day general strike could win us concessions it would take our predators a hundred years to claw back.
Concessions are the problem. You really have to destroy their ability to have power over you, or they will work, in the typical style of problem-solving tool-using beings, toward undoing the conditions that make resistance possible. Caitlin's essays on psychology and philosophy provide these tools to readers, but their effectiveness as armor rests on broad distribution.
The alternative is noncooperation with the corporate death cult. Protest builds awareness in the population, but the machine will run along just fine as long as the populace works its levers and greases its gears. The only thing our vampire class fears is economic warfare. A ten day general strike could win us concessions it would take our predators a hundred years to claw back.
Concessions are the problem. You really have to destroy their ability to have power over you, or they will work, in the typical style of problem-solving tool-using beings, toward undoing the conditions that make resistance possible. Caitlin's essays on psychology and philosophy provide these tools to readers, but their effectiveness as armor rests on broad distribution.