Step 0: Realisation

I realise (and hope) that by creating this blog many eyes including yours will be on this blog.

Primarily, this is because there are people in this world who desperately want to keep the status quo, the balance of power tipped their way. They know that the less you know about how to contribute as little to their system, the less you know about how to become empowered to take that power and turn it in the right direction, the more successful and sustainable they will be, no matter what their aims.

They're are also aware of the impending change driven by individuals such as yourself. And they have, and will continue to work to thwart progress. Everyone, including you, when faced with the peril of losing their status, livelihood, lifestyle will hang onto it, doing whatever is possible to keep things from changing.

There are types of these people:

1. The people who control the power supply (capital and resources in all it's forms)
2. The people who work directly for the above resource controllers, managing their resources, finances, investing it and directly benefitting from the resulting achievements that benefit those they work for
3. Those who work for the organisations formed by the above managers and receive incomes or resources indirectly through value chains for producing goods and services for consumption by all types

And you fall into either one of these three or if living completely independently (near impossible) are all three. Either way, you're chained in and the changes you make will hurt you and those around you somewhat (which is why this is difficult - and why the group 1's have held most of the power).

There's nothing wrong with the group ones. they're great people and some of them include people who want real change to happen, but they are also interdependent on others. So everyone can only move ever so slightly from their conformity.

But there is always room to move. With a little discomfort, for a better world, it can be done.

Even if you don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution, which is as popularly believed "Survival of the fittest" but is a common mistake, it's also common sense that “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” Source: Ivy Business Journal - Adapt or Die

And change is slowly happening. Change is driven buy the ever impending realisation that our status quo is not functional. Those who jump in the river and swim fearlessly will survive and thrive, those who hang onto it's shores will surely experience a lot of suffering - and not caused by the others, but their own clinging to what they define as best. Either way there will be a lot of pain and struggle all around.

Moving beyond that, I want to be clear that unlike my other blog, this will not be a discussion of philosophy, theory or ideology. This is strictly a discussion of how to - simple practical examples.

This blog is a guide for those who want to put their money where their mouth is, stand up and do their best to make effective decentralised change happen.

So to begin I will discuss what I mean by effective decentralised change: It means you are the person making the changes. There is no group, there is no benevolent leader, there is no organisation. There is no one to blame but yourself, and there is no one that can be rewarded and praised, more than yourself.

The changes themselves are at a grass roots level. If you have family, friends, colleagues, it does not matter what they think, or do. Stop worrying about influencing them. Start with you. be an unshakable example.

Everyone has choices they make, every day. Our reality is perceived or realised through those decisions.

Be warned that making these choices has consequences:

• Your indentity will come under scrutiny - and you'll need to learn to wear that, you will be the one weirdo that people think is radical
• Your journey will not be an easy one, it really is a challenge - because you refuse to conform, you go out of your way to achieve your objectives, based on your values
• You will have already have tried and failed multiple times to make the right choice and failed - either due to monetary limitations, attachments to style and taste - but despite this whenever you can, make the effort and results will come

And you're here, reading this because you believe in yourself. You believe that the choices you make are relevant.

This is not a community thing, it's a personal thing. Make the changes in your life and slowly others will follow. This is decentralised change. Change, happening one person at a time, one decision at a time. And no matter how small or insignificant you are, be confident that your choices will lead to a somewhat better world.

The reason I have chosen to propose decentralised change is that when there is centraisation, a group formed, another group can attack it, it can be disbanded and members can be used as examples and turned into martyrs. When you go it alone, no one knows exactly why you do the things you do. They don't have to. But if many do it alone, change happens.

The suggestions I will make in the rest of this blog should be scrutinised. So please question them. I don't have ALL the answers - all I am doing is trying to find them, for me and for you. I am not a leader, you are the leaders, every one of you reading.

Lets avoid being labelled a clandestine group, by working as individuals within the boundaries of the system. There will be ways we are aware of that foil the system - I will not condone them, but see for yourself where it is a right or wrong decision an why - make the call, put your balls on the line.

We live in a social, political system today where voting only makes a change of leadership from bearable to the worst - so we vote for the most bearable. We depend so much on our leaders to deliver on promises, that they hardly ever do.

So it's clear that we cannot depend on the system, or it's leaders. People who are paid to do something, will always do what they believe is worth that money. Let's not forget that the politicians, the government and the police are paid people. They may or may not have interest in our benefit. They, just like you are doing their job and they are paid most by the Type 1's who's agenda they will push.

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If we make choices to disempower such irrelevant and useless systems, to make way for ones that will work, we make it possible for new ways of living and being to arise by letting go of old ways.

We cannot do that illegally, or we get singled out and contained. We cannot assemble as groups, the rallies will be disbanded. We cannot make noise, or we will be silenced. The time of violent protest is gone.

Let's face it, that is the system we live in. That's what we collectively created and perpetuate and there is no way back. The days of independant press, free speech and ability to make real change as cooperative groups are pretty much over. This doesn't mean we can sit back and get on with our jobs and entertainment. This means a call to decision and action. A call to look for better ways.

So let's find strategies to enable new systems to appear.

Ones that reflect who and how we are.

Starting decentralised change - with you.