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Sand in the Gears

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One of the most powerful tactics against totalitarianism, one that worked to stop regimes from taking over and that broke existing regimes from within, is the simple strategy of “throwing sand in the gears,” as it’s said. What this means is going out of your way to make their programs bulky, slow, dysfunctional, and inefficient by deliberately underperforming, asking difficult questions, speaking up, and getting in the way. Do your job, if you must, but do it inefficiently as an act of “strategic resistance.” Drag your feet. Make mistakes. Play dumb. Ask hard questions, both pertinent and impertinent while you can. Point out abuses. Spread information. Become sand in the gears of their machine and help grind it to a halt. Join host James Lindsay for this episode of New Discourses Bullets to learn more about this powerful strategy.


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  1. Mike Bell says:
    August 10, 2023 at 3:58 am

    Surely the root of the problem is not ‘marxism’, but the identitarian approach from which marxism developed: that of opposing groups of oppressor/oppressed.
    The fact that post-modernism shares that basic level of society description, does not mean it ‘is Marxist’, just that both Marxism and Post Modernism derived from the same source.
    Simply because marxism came before P-M, does not prove it as the cause.

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  2. Larry Cox says:
    May 3, 2023 at 7:58 pm

    So we are advocating sabotage. It could work.

    But I could make this observation based on what I have studied: We live on a planet of saboteurs. Many of us already went through this somewhere else, and that’s why we were sent here. Do you really think they will let us get away with this again, here?

    I offer this alternative: Figure out how to leave. Then figure out how to help someone else to leave. Do this as much as you can until you absolutely have to leave. Then meet up with all those who helped each other to leave and plan a next step. Blow up the prison gates?

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