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No-Buy-Friday. Here comes the hard part :-( Resolve. ‘Keep it UP! :-) [1]
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Date: 2025-04-03
No-Buy-Friday. Here comes the hard part :-(
Resolve.
‘Keep it UP! :-)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/28/protest-research-trump-musk
Guardian
“Historically, street protest and legal challenges are common avenues for popular opposition to governments, but economic noncooperation – such as strikes, boycotts and buycotts – is what often gets the goods. ...This shift toward noncooperation over large-scale protests may be strategically wise.”
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If you were fired up about NBF, but find yourself drifting back into complacency, that’s understandable and even somewhat to be expected. As domesticated consumer livestock, we’ve been bred to have short attention spans. This not only makes us slaves to novelty, but has molded us to be conveniently malleable >masses as well.
Moreover, it shrivels our retention span, without which ‘connecting-the-dots’ ends up lost in the attic and ‘cause and effect’ then translates into gibberish.
Having been conditioned to thrive on a diet of distraction, we are nearly powerless before it and automatically drop whatever we’re doing to run toward the escape hatch it offers from our troubles.
In the process, whatever strength ‘resolve’ possesses, gets shorn off and the clippings are woven into despair.
But mostly this NBF backsliding may be just due to ‘convenience’ reasserting its control over you — pulling you back into the ‘easy chair’ of faux life. We’ve been brainwashed into expecting convenience to belong in the front of the line, where it greases desire to slide us back into well established obsessive compulsive patterns we find comfortingly ‘normal’.
Behind the oligarchs’ power-grab (which is the ‘billboard’ target of No-Buy-Friday) lies our life-or-death struggle to break the bonds of consumer addiction and free ourselves — while there’s still time.
It’s a spell — and eventually spells break - collapsing all of a moment … hopefully before Thwaites.
If you take a moment to think about it, No-Buy-Fridays actually require no effort at all —beyond what might be a very concerted effort to control yourself and your impulses.
Sure, NBFs are a party crasher that threatens to make off with the ‘keg’, but given enough time, if nurtured by commitment, they have the potential to remove our ‘blinders’ and provide us glimpses of a better world which we can choose to strive for. But only if we roll-up our sleeves and roll-over those pulling the strings.
We really need is to recognize that purchasing should be a consideration that goes deeper than simply ‘wanting’ — and we need to reestablish the distinction between wanting and needing..
This isn’t just about ‘sticking it to the man’ and exercising our fair share of control over the ‘commodities exchange’— this is fundamentally about our responsibility to consider the environment when we consume… before we consume ourselves :-(
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/3/28/2313076/-Guardian-The-Resistance-is-Alive-and-Well?utm_campaign=trending
3/28/25 CathyM
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