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politics isn't power

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politics = the different stories con artists sell us about how and why they’re spending our money, while none of it ever seems to benefit us

power = people’s time, attention, and energy

power > politics

power only ever belongs to the people, because it’s a current of energy we imbue into things. no one has it but us. politicians just gaslight you into thinking they are your bosses. they are not. we are theirs. we pay them. this is our people’s vote of no confidence. reclaim your power and give it back to your neighborhood. then, and only then, can we reshape politics into a set of agreements about how we use our resources to care for one another. we can’t buy groceries at a hardware store, but we can damn well plant a garden. [said proverbially.]

what do you say we return power to the people and not the politicians?


The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor's Guide to Mass Cooperation

The Daisy Chain: A Neighbor's Guide to Mass Cooperation

For people who are new to my work: The Daisy Chain as a mass-cooperation strategy to assist you in reclaiming neighborhood power so that we aren’t stuck in a freeze state and hemmed in by political abusers—who try to divide and threaten us into silence. Abuses of power are, on their face,


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