One-in-twenty of the general population seems to possess a superpower: they question arbitrary decrees. But who are they? And can they stop the Borg Collective?
We are a complete family of Fivers. Luckily, we dodged the jabs, boosters, and circus that came with it. We question everything, and everyone. Sad to see it’s only 5 percent of the population. We need more!!
Lovely piece of writing, this. Sasha Latypova had shared this on LinkedIn and I had to post about it over at Mathew Crawfords substack about decentralised communities.
Yes. When the passports come back I'll leave my well paying job and move to some friends with a farm with no further notice to my employer. I'll just be gone from one day to the next.
I have asked them at HR to take a stand for human rights instead of the inclusion and equity stuff they're touting. But they will not. Unfortunately. So when I'm gone, they will have a clue as to why.
Thank you so much for this shot in the arm. Although I think as a 'fiver,' it doesn't make me feel healthy or well, so I think there are more nuances to be uncovered. In terms of not falling for the bullshit, I don't know how one would research it, but I imagine that one of our defences is we 5%ers maintain some ability to listen to the truth of nature in the face of a culture that has done its best to detatch us from it.
Possibly, but I've had chronic Fatigue for thirty years. (Although I'm not sure this western medical diagnosis is as accurate as calling it an inability to cope with the spiritual, emotional and physical onslaught of late capitalism/neo-feudalism).
It’s never too late. I had a total burnout long time ago, moderns meds made it worse. The only way to reverse it was to address every part of the energy equation, persistently. Nutrition. Lifestyle. Environment. Relationships. Nature. The fix is never simple, it’s cumulative and multifactorial, and in most cases people can already intuit the root causality, but they are too stuck in old patterns to fix it.
We are the back-eddies. In water moving through the land, just like our civilisation moving through time and space, there is an interface between the moving water and the fixed land. At these places of tumbling interaction there are often currents moving “upstream”. These countercurrents help buffer the mainstream from jostling contact with the fixed land. They often appear to be going “against the flow”, they are back eddies, but they are essential and delicious to be a part of. Justsaying
We 5ers set examples that some of the 95ers follow, and the more attention we pay to their following of our good example, the more it will happen and thereby encourage us.
Attempts are constantly made to overcome the will of the human beings over which controlling psychopaths exercise their control. They get better at it over time, but they hit a limit. I'll call that limit "self-awareness". Those who develop enough self awareness notice changes in their own behavior that they did not intend to make. Sometimes they are good changes and sometimes they are bad, and the self-aware human will respond accordingly. "Self-awareness" might not be exactly the right term, but there is something, and that something, whatever we call it, is responsible for all the resistance to tyranny that has ever happened in the human species.
I am currently a fiver in the 5000 people. Mainly by attending protests, and none conforming in my own bubble. How do we expand on this? I continue to be vocal
They recently instituted new safety rules. Great, safety is good.
However, it's impossible to comply with in our field work environment as the logistics are impossible to set up this safety rigging.
Most of my coworkers don't even see the issue, they just do the work without following the impossible safety rule.
I'm one of the very few to bring this up to the safety people and all they can do is shrug.
So now I'm trying to find who in management is responsible to give me a straight answer on how to comply with that rule which is impossible to do 90% of the time.
Obviously, crickets, but at least I put them on notice.
Why? Because I know this rule will be used against us workers, to blame us if we get injured as that impossible rule cannot be done.
Nobody cares until someone gets screwed by this idiotic management.
It's so frustrating how so many people don't have common sense!
Wow! Excellent work. Reminds me of a quote by Groucho. "I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members." I perceive most clubs to be 95 percenters. And we might even extend this concept to the "clubs of 5ers". Who are the 5ers in those clubs? Or are they excluded?
Brilliant! I have a friend who theorizes that your "five percenters" suffered some trauma, especially to the head, sometime early in life. In any case we definitely are standouts in a crowd!
Excellent writing! Well done. Thank you.
-Another Fiver
Hi Jan
You nailed it. I always thought it to be 5-10% of any group that is active and bring about change.
Maybe it is 5% that are rebellious, and then 2% that do something about it?
Hi Martin, yes, this topic deserves serious research!
We are a complete family of Fivers. Luckily, we dodged the jabs, boosters, and circus that came with it. We question everything, and everyone. Sad to see it’s only 5 percent of the population. We need more!!
Lovely piece of writing, this. Sasha Latypova had shared this on LinkedIn and I had to post about it over at Mathew Crawfords substack about decentralised communities.
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/nobodys-distributed-leadership-network
Yes. When the passports come back I'll leave my well paying job and move to some friends with a farm with no further notice to my employer. I'll just be gone from one day to the next.
I have asked them at HR to take a stand for human rights instead of the inclusion and equity stuff they're touting. But they will not. Unfortunately. So when I'm gone, they will have a clue as to why.
Thank you so much for this shot in the arm. Although I think as a 'fiver,' it doesn't make me feel healthy or well, so I think there are more nuances to be uncovered. In terms of not falling for the bullshit, I don't know how one would research it, but I imagine that one of our defences is we 5%ers maintain some ability to listen to the truth of nature in the face of a culture that has done its best to detatch us from it.
Dominic, you’re right about the nuances. What you’re describing sounds like it’s at least gravitating towards health.
Possibly, but I've had chronic Fatigue for thirty years. (Although I'm not sure this western medical diagnosis is as accurate as calling it an inability to cope with the spiritual, emotional and physical onslaught of late capitalism/neo-feudalism).
It’s never too late. I had a total burnout long time ago, moderns meds made it worse. The only way to reverse it was to address every part of the energy equation, persistently. Nutrition. Lifestyle. Environment. Relationships. Nature. The fix is never simple, it’s cumulative and multifactorial, and in most cases people can already intuit the root causality, but they are too stuck in old patterns to fix it.
Having a cat in your life definitely helps too!
We are the back-eddies. In water moving through the land, just like our civilisation moving through time and space, there is an interface between the moving water and the fixed land. At these places of tumbling interaction there are often currents moving “upstream”. These countercurrents help buffer the mainstream from jostling contact with the fixed land. They often appear to be going “against the flow”, they are back eddies, but they are essential and delicious to be a part of. Justsaying
Hi Jan, do you happen to have some links for details of the Japanese POW psychology experiments? Thanks
i don't have it with me and it's a hard copy only, but something eerily similar going on also in Korean POW camps... http://bit.ly/3EnjXuT
We 5ers set examples that some of the 95ers follow, and the more attention we pay to their following of our good example, the more it will happen and thereby encourage us.
Attempts are constantly made to overcome the will of the human beings over which controlling psychopaths exercise their control. They get better at it over time, but they hit a limit. I'll call that limit "self-awareness". Those who develop enough self awareness notice changes in their own behavior that they did not intend to make. Sometimes they are good changes and sometimes they are bad, and the self-aware human will respond accordingly. "Self-awareness" might not be exactly the right term, but there is something, and that something, whatever we call it, is responsible for all the resistance to tyranny that has ever happened in the human species.
I am currently a fiver in the 5000 people. Mainly by attending protests, and none conforming in my own bubble. How do we expand on this? I continue to be vocal
I've faced this 5% issue at work.
They recently instituted new safety rules. Great, safety is good.
However, it's impossible to comply with in our field work environment as the logistics are impossible to set up this safety rigging.
Most of my coworkers don't even see the issue, they just do the work without following the impossible safety rule.
I'm one of the very few to bring this up to the safety people and all they can do is shrug.
So now I'm trying to find who in management is responsible to give me a straight answer on how to comply with that rule which is impossible to do 90% of the time.
Obviously, crickets, but at least I put them on notice.
Why? Because I know this rule will be used against us workers, to blame us if we get injured as that impossible rule cannot be done.
Nobody cares until someone gets screwed by this idiotic management.
It's so frustrating how so many people don't have common sense!
Wow! Excellent work. Reminds me of a quote by Groucho. "I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members." I perceive most clubs to be 95 percenters. And we might even extend this concept to the "clubs of 5ers". Who are the 5ers in those clubs? Or are they excluded?
Brilliant! I have a friend who theorizes that your "five percenters" suffered some trauma, especially to the head, sometime early in life. In any case we definitely are standouts in a crowd!
What a completely anecdotal, unscientific piece of bullshit. What are you going to write about next? Unicorn horn supplements ?
appreciate the feedback. next piece will be on veganism.
Why not make one about trolls who now have access to the internet under their bridges?