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Fat Rabbit Iron's avatar

Rob, you are asking people to take personal responsibility for their lives. This virtue has been steadily beaten out of the American psyche for decades. We've been trained to look for political saviors and have been told that our actions can't possibly make any difference.

How do we break this mindset? My working theory is to start with the body (barbells, killing processed food, vitamin D, hormone optimization, etc.) and slowly expand out from there. If people realize that *they* (not Big Medicine) have control over their physical existences, then it's not too big a leap to realize that they have control over many other things as well. The hardest part is getting people to take that first step.

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The Word Herder's avatar

I think most people are easily frightened, easily shocked, easily surprised into doing something they wouldn't maybe do on their own, unless they've been through some kind of training (like military, etc), or they have been toughened up in some way through hardship of some kind... It's what happens in affluent societies, no?

Most of us are soft and taught to be compliant and "not make waves," women, and men, too. As Rabbit or someone else said, we're TRAINED to be compliant.

If one is standing in a crowd and the ENTIRE CROWD starts to "say no" in some way, chances are, everyone, or most of them, will join in... Power in numbers? Courage is contagious, they say, and I think there's something to that. And if someone is clearly being bullied, chances might be higher that others will come to help, if the bully is unliked.

Anyway, Great Post!!

Obviously, some of us will need to be examples... I regret that I have only one life to give for the children, for my country, for the Earth, for FREEDOM for Humanity.

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