The Need for Parallel Institutions

 It can be depressing working alone and maintain one’s sanity in a civilization that is in decline. However take solace in that a great deal of people feel the same way as you do. Cultivating friendships, forming groups of like minded individuals, building parallel institutions and widening a platform to share one’s ideas with others is vital.

 Destructive ideologies, dressed in pearls, have a way of expanding rapidly especially if it driven from above by institutions whose leadership has structured itself to deceive, obfuscate and conflate as it sees fit. Its internal workings are opaque to the public and it acts with a transcendence that is confident in its own lack of self reflection. Byzantine networks built on a maze of regulation have conspired to reframe the destiny of the people in many cases without our consent. Where we have agreed it is part of the Faustian bargain of trading comfort for individual agency. No more.

 

One should celebrate our individuality but work within a community. It is the community spirit that invigorates. Give support to groups, speakers, political forums, online and in person, that push back against the insanity we now face.

 

Resist coerced speech, oppose all aspects of the post-Truth culture, rejoice in your defiance and fight both actively and passively the overreach of decadent institutions and structural organizations. Hold them to their standards and work from the inside as well to transform these megaliths. This is how the madness ascended in the first place. Two can play the same game. Sanity can recapture the power structure if it works at it. One needn’t wait for a messiah an aggregated beach landing on many fronts is just as effective. Buttress a fight for the institutions with parallel systems as a safeguard.

 

Challenge these noxious ideologies and force them to trip over their ideals. Ridicule them and make a mockery of their lack of standards and never apologize for your own stance. Push them on the defence and don’t let them use the power of coercion or emotional black mail. Once they start weakening and collapse it will happen quickly. The parallel structures and communities that you have helped built will then augment the vacuum left.

 

Make it a priority that the authoritarian framework dies a necessary death and don’t give in an inch to their appeal to pseudo-intellectualism and politically motivated scientism. Our future can be reset to a brighter outcome if we take the initiative. Now is the time.

 

"The only way you can predict the future is to build it." -Alan Kay