This meme may be the truest thing I’ve seen lately, not because I think it’s patriotic or moral to shut down the economy and society forever. I am certainly no Ezekiel Emmanuel or Bill Gates devotee.
Rather, it’s because I think THIS is precisely the mindset the reopen movement, thin-libertarians, populists, secessionists, and small-business entrepreneurs need to embrace. Let me explain.
“Will your stimulus crumbs really sustain you for all this time?” my friend wrote regarding NC Gov. Roy Cooper’s muddled reopen plan. “I say we start a movement to open … with or without Cooper’s approval. If 1/10 of the businesses are on board, there’s no way he would charge anyone!”
This is one option – overwhelm the system and enforcement becomes untenable. I wrote about it in Co-opt the chaos. It warms my heart to read of small victories like this California skatepark, the Idahoans who protested a cop, or the Houston Police Officers’ Union which has chosen to do right the thing. But maybe this is only part of the solution. Maybe there’s something else we’re missing.
The narrative on the right is that lawmakers want to stamp out dissent; thus, reopen is rooted in advancing freedom and resisting totalitarianism. They say that the repressive tolerance of the left is being used by corporate media to shame and censor, and that Zuck is classifying reopen content and groups as “harmful information,” so fight the power.
And the narrative the left is parroting is that reopen is filled with neo-Confederates, who are “misguided … and selfish” because black Americans are “disproportionately affected” by COVID-19. Pay no attention to the fact that black folks have higher rates of obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure than do white Americans. And ignore this. Nope, it’s all about lacking minority “access” to healthcare and “food justice,” claim the cultural Marxists, despite Medicaid, EBT cards, school meal programs, affirmative action, and good ol’ free will.
“The Root” wrote that the reopen movement should be called “White lives matter.” But honestly, I have no problem with that, and neither should you. The lion’s share of small businesses are white-owned, and this is even in spite of low-interest loans and other subsidies shelled out to promote minority business ownership. Just like gun rights, reopen is a predominantly white middle-class issue.
And this brings me to my main point. Maybe, just maybe the elites actually want the reopen folks to go back to work. Maybe they are betting that the reaction of the “work, not welfare” crowd will be precisely what it is: well-intentioned people simply demanding their desire to earn a living, be their own bosses, employ locals, and create something of value.
Maybe the red-meat rhetoric is just a political ploy. Just like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street both began as genuine, grassroots movements, they got co-opted by the powers that be, who kicked the economic and political can down the road. Consumerism dulled citizens to the tyranny and lulled citizens back to sleep in their serfdom. Well, the days of seeming comfort and normality are gone, so maybe playing by the old rules is a path to destruction.
Maybe the establishment is betting that people will think that the “Constitution dies of coronavirus,” as the satirical Babylon Bee said, and everyday folks won’t notice they’ve been without constitutional rights for 150 years. Maybe the oligarchs are hoping that citizens won’t realize that their beloved founding document has been used against them time and time again, to take God out of the public square, to invent a right to infanticide and gay “marriage” and compulsory public “education,” to create a central bank, to fund endless wars, to ban voluntary association, to institutionalize “equality” by force, and to regulate every aspect of their lives.
Maybe the oligarchs are thinking reopen activists won’t realize that we haven’t been a “nation of free citizens” for a long, long time. Or that we’re no nation at all, and that there’s no “we” anything. 320 million diverse peoples cannot be “us” or “our” or “e pluribus unum.” Maybe that’s why this “build the wall” president has not put America first and is instead coddling foreigners and the big-business lobby.
Without the producers, who will subsidize the welfare state? Who will keep those destitute progressives at Ivy League universities and the Kennedy Center afloat? If we don’t pilfer the plebs, how will the post office be run? Or what about “unemployment claims” and the fact that “nearly half of states don’t have enough funds to pay all those” former claims or the new tens of millions of claims.
If the reopen protests really threatened globalist hegemony and imperiled the status quo, they’d be violently squashed like Charlottesville 2017. Sure, sometimes the statist enforcers show their true disdain for law-abiding folks. Certainly, white people advocating for themselves makes you a scoundrel in their eyes, but they don’t want you jailed or dead. They just want your money and your soul because you are the cash cow for all their nefarious deeds.
After all, it is the reopen demographic and their tax bracket who cannot escape burdensome taxation, as do the rich with their teams of accountants and the “poor” through legal plunder. It’s precisely the reopen folks who are incessantly gutted to feed the beast and are subsequently saddled with debt in perpetuity. So why would the regime not want the producers to go back to work?
Think about it: pre-pandemic, US national debt was around $22.5 trillion, putting each US citizen in the hole to the tune of $68,400 and each unlucky taxpayer $183,000 in the red. Now, there is the $6 trillion “stimulus,” consisting of $4 trillion from Fed “liquidity” and $2 trillion in “new money” (meaning printed out of thin air).
This is mind-boggling. As a smart friend explained it to me, if you spent a million dollars a day, it would take a little over 3,000 years to spend just one trillion dollars! Small-business owners should be the first to understand that those numbers are untenable. So maybe this is a Hegelian dialectic of all risk and no benefit to the reopen movement.
Maybe that’s why Mrs. Centralization herself, U.S. ambassador to the UN Nimrata, er, I mean, Nikki Haley feigns being infuriated at some states trying to push bailout money to fund their broke pension systems. “States should not get windfalls,” demanded the turncoat globalist. “It all has to be paid back.” But how? Well, those reopen activists who are just itching to get back to work, of course.
The controversial Paycheck Protection Program was supposed to help small businesses, but there were questions and concerns among entrepreneurs and mom-and-pop ventures. “Do self-employed people get the PPP? Do small business owners with no salaried employees?”
While honest people tried to figure it all out, “The $349 billion initially allotted for the program ran out of money … after just 13 days because of out-sized demand.” Turns out, the PPP was bailing out chains who were then paying off their lenders in exchange for loan cancellation.
In other words, more money for the big banks, while the little guys go empty-handed. Even though small businesses, which “employ about half of U.S. private sector employees,” rely upon banks for capital, “thousands of US banks may sit out [the] small-business rescue plan.” Quite the clever con.
This is corporate socialism, and you’re still left with the bill, even though you’re not allowed to earn a living. Honestly, the stock market should be broke, yet its numbers are up. If the government can pay Wall Street to buy back their own stocks and bank shareholders can receive cash payments, and politicians care so much about saving lives, they can pay me and you to stay at home, right?
Why not jump in that cart that you’ve been pulling? You’ve been paying other people to stay home for years, so maybe now is your turn to take a ride.
The Dems are even trying to make it as cushy as possible. “In 2008, we bailed out Wall Street,” stated Rep. Ilhan Omar, who introduced the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act. “This time, it’s time to bail out the American people who are suffering.” Also being bandied about is the Emergency Money for the People Act, which would give $2,000 a month for a year to a large swath of middle-class citizens.
Take a nap in the hammock known as the “social-safety net.” Everybody else does. I’m sure you’re exhausted after all these years of cart-pulling and with no thanks from anyone. Relax. Have a beer. The elites and their foot soldiers have been dining out on you for too long, so let’s have them buy this round. One last hurrah before the system implodes!
Hey, Reopen NC, why not protest the banks? Citigroup Corporate Holdings Inc. is located in Raleigh. Wells Fargo east coast division is headquartered in Charlotte and their corporate center is in Raleigh. Bank of America’s headquarters are in Charlotte and it has a call center in High Point. BB&T’s Corporate Headquarters are in Winston-Salem. And JPMorgan Chase is “expanding in North Carolina.” Pick a branch.
The government says young, healthy people need to sacrifice to protect the elderly. Well, maybe we should be demanding that seniors (who just so happen to be the richest demographic) use their Social Security and Medicare funds to pay us for our sacrifice. Our property taxes are still subsidizing the closed public schools, maybe demand our own money back so we can feed our own children. Or just stop paying your taxes altogether.
The government has said this is a war, right? Yep, it’s a war on you and me. We in the middle-class are getting the shaft, and the establishment is laughing all the way to the bank. Literally. So let’s start fighting by new rules.
For libertarians who think I’m going statist, taking from the government coffers is the Walter Block position. “It is a positive virtue to relieve the government of its ill-gotten gains,” the economist explains. “You are not promoting statism any more by taking their money than by carrying around their cash, patronizing their libraries or streets, etc.”
For conservatives who think I’m going socialist, perhaps this is the most patriotic act you can do for yourselves and your posterity. There is no purity test in an impure socialist racket. For Christians who think I’m evil, well, maybe it’s time to have a heart for my community, while simultaneously smashing the godless system.
If not working is just too much to bear because you’re blessed to love what you do, how about reopening without government permission? Hell, you could even do that in conjunction with my pay-me plan. Even better.
Work outside of the the central-banking paradigm. Take cash under the table. Or bitcoin. Or gold and silver. Or barter, and then say, come and enforce it. Anyway you look at it, the political network that banks on your obedience (but now promises you nothing but economic pain and increased oppression) would suffer.
Who knows. I could be wrong. I could be right. It’s hard to know anything for sure with the “glut of information we’re exposed to on a moment-by-moment, day-to-day basis,” as one of my readers describes it.
Our analysis “is greatly hindered by the ongoing fog of war, so that conclusions are necessarily very preliminary ones,” says Ron Unz. Still, Unz claims that the coronavirus was “a coordinated Deep State attack on China, Iran, the Trump administration, and the American people,” as Vox Day summarizes the theory. While I might or might not believe that today, I certainly wouldn’t be shocked if tomorrow we were to find out it’s true.
Honestly, I’m not spending that much time worrying where the virus came from. We may never crack that nut. But what I do know is that the people are the enemy of the state, and that the abolition of human-scale economies has been a detriment to our culture, our psyches, our faith, and our wallets.
We’ve been paying the price for our own participation in the globalist order, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t stop supporting a system that hates human flourishing. Now’s as good a time to repent, do all that you can do to raze the old imperial order, and rebuild anew.
So maybe, just maybe being a “lazy bastard” is the best way to be a “responsible adult.” Perhaps a ride in the cart is the path to finally starving the beast and breaking our chains.
Comments
I’ve got a problem, DM! I agree with just about everything you write! You’re saying a good deal of what I’ve been thinking for a good, long time . . . and I wish we were wrong, at least about what it’s likely going to cost for us to get through this!
Our times are not of our choosing, but they are in His loving, nail-scarred hands, and He will never, EVER abandon us!
I’m weak, so I gotta keep that ever before me!
Thanks yet again, and . . .
Soli Deo gloria!
Thanks for your kind words and encouragement, DD!
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I’ve been forwarding this one!
I haven’t gotten as much feedback as I had hoped, so I really appreciate you spreading the word.
Frankly, I’m surprised. I wonder, though, if any of this can be accounted for by the so-called Normalcy Bias? Paradigm shifts are usually world-rockin’, uncomfortable events. Those who convey these messages, calling into question folks’ perception of reality, are not always greeted with favour, even though they’re no more to blame for it than the lookout atop the mast warning of an impending storm on the horizon.
Whatever it is, keep it up, DM!
Ah, the old Ann Barnhardt approach. I favor it, but advise extreme caution if that is what one decides (s)he is going to do. But don’t just stop paying your (income) taxes; stop filing them. Period. Also, refuse to participate in the Census nonsense. The Census Bueau will hound the crap out of you and threaten fines and/or imprisonment under U.S. code, section blah, subsection blah blah, but stick to your guns. At length they’ll start sending you notifications that your household has been “randomly chosen” to participate in the highly invasive “American Community Survey” program, along with the selfsame threats. And when I say “highly invasive,” I mean a hundred times more invasive than the official Census stuff.
Yeah, I got my belly full of all of this years ago when the OK Tax Commission, working in conjunction with the IRS, slapped a lien on my property and gave me thirty days to “pay up” money I did not owe and could prove I did not owe. It’s a long story, I’ll tell you all about it sometime.
Would love to hear that story!
Seriously, is anyone going to want to pay up in June? I know a lot of formerly normie-ish folks who have mentioned not doing so. I mean, who knows for sure, but it is being bandied about more now that I’ve ever heard in my lifetime. One can only hope!
I sound like a broken record in my comments on your work, but another brilliant and compelling piece of writing. I don’t know if I agree with you completely, but I also don’t know if I completely disagree with you. The working and middle class are in a damned if you do and damned if you don’t situation. They are going to pay for this whether they stay at home and “draw” a check or wrap themselves in plastic affixed with duct tape and brave the madden diseased crowd to sell them cheap Chinese manufactured goods. Coming to the realization that the whole nasty thing is nothing but the biggest con in human history–perhaps the disease, most certainly the economic system, the “freedom” of industrial capitalism (aka, wage slavery), the drudgery of confiscatory taxation to pay for the debt of printed paper with your earned paper (figure that one out), the Lincolnian one nation indivisible nonsense, that 10,000 mile supply lines are Russian roulette, the Chinese are not our cuddly Maoist friends,etc ad nauseam–may just prompt a reawakening of traditional localized spirit that fires the engines of federalism and secession. Perhaps–just perhaps–the whole fragile and fake house of cards will collapse upon itself and we can rediscover republican liberty. I certainly hope so. Thank you for making me think.
I think the events to create a wakening are coming whether anyone likes it or not, but some people will of course still remain asleep in their own way (clamor for more of the same bad medicine, blame the people who’ve been warning of this for years, double-down on the same bad habits and belief system that led us all off the cliff, etc.) Still, it cannot go on forever. Math and reality can not be printed away and wish away just because it makes some people uncomfortable to do otherwise. And it won’t be easy. In fact, it will be waaaaaaaaay more than uncomfortable; it’s gonna hurt. But it needs to be done, and it’s better to start dealing with facts and course corrections now than to kick the can down the road. Yet again. Luckily, statists and tyrants are awaking normies like never before. I’m telling ya, it’s amazing to see polite homeschool moms sharing anti-government memes and nice Christians questioning the cops, etc. Really, it’s a fascinating study in sociology and history. Fingers crossed for everyone to see the emperor is not only naked, but stark-raving mad!!
Thanks for your kind words, friend. Keep up the rebel stand!! 🙂
I think the events to create a wakening are coming whether anyone likes it or not, but some people will of course still remain asleep in their own way (clamor for more of the same bad medicine, blame the people who’ve been warning of this for years, double-down on the same bad habits and belief system that led us all off the cliff, etc.) Still, it cannot go on forever. Math and reality can not be printed away and wish away just because it makes some people uncomfortable to do otherwise. And it won’t be easy. In fact, it will be waaaaaaaaay more than uncomfortable; it’s gonna hurt. But it needs to be done, and it’s better to start dealing with facts and course corrections now than to kick the can down the road. Yet again. Luckily, statists and tyrants are awaking normies like never before. I’m telling ya, it’s amazing to see polite homeschool moms sharing anti-government memes and nice Christians questioning the cops, etc. Really, it’s a fascinating study in sociology and history. Fingers crossed for everyone to see the emperor is not only naked, but stark-raving mad!!
Thanks for your kind words, friend. Keep up the rebel stand!! 🙂
Great article as usual. However, something needs saying though I am horse from saying it. There has always been an easy and inexpensive solution to this outbreak. Vitamin D3, at least 10,000 IU a day. Here is the evidence.
It has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that vitamin D3 contains the worst effects of the virus. An Indonesian study on those hospitalized demonstrated conclusively that D3 levels upon admission pretty much determined outcome. Above serum levels of 25(OH)D of 30ng/ml you had less than 4% chance of dying despite it being serious enough to hospitalize you. Below that was usually fatal. Instapundit had an article on this study on April 30th (https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/369447/#disqus_thread) but no one has followed up on this, even them, and this important information seems to have died. You can read my expanded information in the comments right below the article.
Even NIH suggested back on April 2 the following: “To reduce the risk of infection, it is recommended that people at risk of influenza and/or COVID-19 consider taking 10,000 IU/d of vitamin D3 for a few weeks to rapidly raise 25(OH)D concentrations, followed by 5000 IU/d. The goal should be to raise 25(OH)D concentrations above 40–60 ng/mL (100–150 nmol/L). For treatment of people who become infected with COVID-19, higher vitamin D3 doses might be useful.” This has not been picked up anywhere by anyone who could do something about it. While published it appears to have been buried rather than touted by anyone who matters. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=32252338 https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/12/4/988
All the way back in 2018, Dr. Russell Blaylock published an article in his monthly newsletter titled Stop The Immune Storm which showed how to stop the cytokine storm, the primary way viral infections kill you. D3 was the primary item with support from 5 other things including C, Circumin, n-Acetylcisteine, magnesium and zinc. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/0418-Blaylock.pdf
Also, closing of beaches, knowing the above is literally stupid and beyond accidental. It is criminal. It has been proven direct sunlight kills the virus in less than 90 seconds and everyone at a beach even for an hour will get an important boost of vitamin D to protect them from the virus. There is something going on here.
Couple this with the attack against hydroxychloroquine despite a Chinese study submitted March 1 and not published until April 2 and then ignored that proved the science of how this drug prevented one of the secondary attack vectors of the virus (other than the cytokine storm that D3 prevents among other things) where it directly interferes with the ability of hemoglobin to uptake O2, which as it spreads causes a person to suffocate without harming the hemoglobin directly. The Chinese article explained the science behind this and how hydroxychloroquine stopped this vector of attack and was used successfully in China to deal with this issue.
https://chemrxiv.org/articles/COVID-19_Disease_ORF8_and_Surface_Glycoprotein_Inhibit_Heme_Metabolism_by_Binding_to_Porphyrin/1193
No. There has always been a simple and cheap solution. Mass vitamin D3 supplementation. Very few people needed to die and we never needed to close anything. This is beyond criminal. It is mass murder and Fauci is in the middle of it. See the writings and videos from Dr. Judy A Mikovits about this horrible man and especially about Dr. Fauci’s documented connection to the Wuhan lab and its Coronavirus experimentation and its two rounds of funding from NIH. That work had been moved from a North Carolina lab due to Congressional prohibition by and with the support of Fauci. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QmI-TYawMg
Do your own research. If this doesn’t make you angry beyond belief, then take the red pill and face the truth.
This is excellent info, William. Thanks for sharing and shining a light in this fog of war. A lot of my friends have been sharing Dr. Mikovits’ vids and they are indeed illuminating.
I think this kind of info only proves even more that the system that has killed people, destroyed livelihoods, wrecked the economy even more that it already was, indebted our children to even more financial, political, and social pain, and increased the police state must be smashed. Without it, there’d be no Fauci and no NIH and no globalism and no broken supply chains and no CDC and no UN and no Deep State and no swat teams arresting hair dressers, etc. Like you said, “Very few people needed to die and we never needed to close anything.” Amen to that! The emperor not only wears no clothes, he’s an evil son of a bitch because he revels in the misery of his fellow human beings. It’s Schadenfreude pure and simple and it must end. I pray it will sooner rather than later.
“320 million diverse peoples cannot be “us” or “our” or “e pluribus unum.” Maybe that’s why this “build the wall” president has not put America first and is instead coddling foreigners and the big-business lobby”
Yes ma’am! Perfect analysis.
“If the reopen protests really threatened globalist hegemony and imperiled the status quo, they’d be violently squashed”
Maybe, maybe not. They need a socially acceptable reason to employ force. The Charlotte crowd was painted with a thick coat of Nazi brown, by the radical left and the complicit media of course, and so force was ‘justified’ in the eyes of the ignorant masses. Same thing with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. They were just a bunch of child molesting cultists right? Who cares if they were slaughtered en masse by the Feds?
Right now it may be unclear whether the majority would approve of a crack down on “reopen” protesters. Besides there has been plenty of violence here in these US and around the world against people out disobeying the lock down orders.
“Why not jump in that cart that you’ve been pulling? You’ve been paying other people to stay home for years, so maybe now is your turn to take a ride.”
Here’s where we disagree. I think this is a very bad strategy, and it is reminiscent of the “accelerationist” strategy to allow or promote things to get worse, so the machine unravels faster. But what damage will be done on the way of unraveling? How many good people trying desperately to hold things together (the good things) will we make enemies with while we’re pulling it all down by jumping on the side of the radicals? And what guarantee do we have that what comes after we’re left with a bare spool will be any better than what we have now? I think we have a much better reason to believe that the political order resulting from the accelerationist strategy will be much much worse.
It is our economy we’re trying to go out and revive, not their’s. It is our livelihoods. Our professions. Our careers. They are the parasites, we are the producers. And this “we” is fitting, because we all can be part of a global economy and civilization while still respecting local cultures, property and independent political communities. We can reject the globalist ideology of the Soros, Bilderberg, Davos crowd and still advocate for free trade between all nations. We can be parochial secessionists and international free traders without contradiction.
For us to “jump in the cart” is suicide. I’m not saying we should tolerate the parasites, but the proper solution is not to become one ourselves; it is to throw the damned parasites out of the cart onto their butts, and remove their poisonous influence however difficult that task may be.
“For libertarians who think I’m going statist, taking from the government coffers is the Walter Block position”
I’m not saying you’re going statist. I’m just saying it’s a bad strategy, a very bad one. And anything Walter Block says should be taken with a heavy grain of salt. He’s a provocative radical armchair theoretician by nature as well as an “open borders”, atheist, and abortion apologizing libertarian. A much better libertarian guide can be found in Hans Hoppe.
Great points, TL. Yes, Block is not my favorite libertarian for sure; I was just trying to say that breaking the system by overwhelming it can be argued from a libertarian (not a statist) perspective.
I’m not sure how we can throw the parasites out of the cart without breaking the system via acceleration or mass tax revolt or secession or something else that will cut “us” (the middle-class wage slaves and entrepreneurs and small business owners and other people who only pay into but get little back from the regime that hates them) out of it. “They,” the elite powers that be, don’t want us to mess with the spool at all. I’m also not sure how we can reject globalism when we live in and subsidize an empire that is globalist in chief – one that is literally run by unaccountable people who hate us.
Indeed, there is no guarantee that what comes after will be better … for now. In fact, the death of empires is always messy and difficult business, as you know, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t happen. I see the status quo as suicide and continuing down the globalist, post-modern, central-authoritarian, and (I mean, let’s be honest) satanic path that Murica has been on for a long time and is now being amped up in some quarters, THAT is the acceleration. And I think we need to slam on the brakes.
Moreover, I want people who have talent and skill and produce things of value to revive their livelihoods, but I think it will have to be done through alternative systems and far, far away from the grips of those who thrive on perpetuating an unhealthy and now deadly economy. They cannot live without us, but we can most certainly live without them.
The corrupt system is inescapable if we play by their rules.
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The system is inescapable if we play by their rules.
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“I’m not sure how we can throw the parasites out of the cart without breaking the system via acceleration or mass tax revolt or secession or something else that will cut “us” (the middle-class wage slaves and entrepreneurs and small business owners and other people who only pay into but get little back from the regime that hates them) out of it.”
I’m not advocating for something other than tax revolt or secession.
Tax revolt and secession sound like great options to me, though with a caveat. Although both of these strategies could be peaceful, they could each also lead to mass violence and even atrocity, and so pursuing either of these plans would require a hefty dose of prudential decision making (i.e. what is our chance of success?). Best scenario would be to gather enough people to our way of thinking as to negate the possibility of violence from those who wish to preserve the status quo.
But to “jump in that cart” is not a tax revolt or secession. I suppose it could be in part the former, since you’d no longer have an income to tax, but when tax revolting, I don’t think it’s a good idea to then willfully become reliant upon the same government you’re revolting against.
If it is impossible to toss these cretins out of the cart, and it might be, then the best strategy, I believe, is not to get in the cart with them, but to stop pulling their cart altogether and find a smaller more manageable cart (or carts) to pull or to make our own. This also is a tall order, I understand, but I’ve come to believe that secession is the way of the conservative in achieving a better political situation and revolution is the way of the liberal. Count me in the former camp.
And this is why I cannot abide the program of acceleration. A conservative does not wish to burn the whole thing down in order to rebuild from the ashes; his creed is not “by any means necessary”; he does not wish to wipe the slate clean. This would be the opposite of conservation and would be tantamount to throwing his lot in with that of the radical revolutionary. A conservative knows that his means as well as his ends are rightfully subject to moral evaluation (and the best of these know that it isn’t just ‘man’ doing the evaluating).
The conservative’s task is to kindle the flame of what is good despite all the darkness around him… or her! Speaking of this, I think you are and have been doing a great job of this. Keep up the great work DM. Just don’t go turning into a revolutionary.
The system is inescapable if we play by their rules!
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