What weapon will you use When they come for you and yours? Lenin said everyone must be armed, he said each person, that means us. We don’t have a militia to join, but we should still pick a weapon. For some reason I think of the tricky, shooting needles that burst from the sleeves of assassins in Dune, the famous sci-fi book, which I read. The needles were crazy. Very low likelihood that I could get those to use. More likely it needs to be various household objects. But then you need to picture them, and picture yourself using them, to bash your attacker’s head in, or slice their arteries, or achilles, or ACL, or foot/feet. You’ll have to do it, if you wait. We have to do it if we have for them to come. There’s a choice is going to meet the advancing enemy army, sneaking up on them, sabotage and subterfuge. That’s one option we have. It requires meeting the right people, and a hell of a lot of luck. You can call it the Mandate of Heaven, if you want. To lead an army of hackers onward, or be in that army, in the dark, the high guard that goes beyond our lines, and into their territory, teasing them and leaving them clues to shit their pants about. If you’re going to be a sneaky fellow, leave a witty message, that’s for sure. They have no idea what we can do, if we all wake up, or even if a lot of us wake up. If we can fully discard the HYPER-NORMALIZATION of “They come for other people in the day and in the night, but they’re not coming for us.” EVER? or NOT RIGHT NOW? They’ll come, though, and what then. What will you use? They’ll use gas, bombs, and guns. What will we use? Or will we run? And if so, where? Will it be easy to tell, or hard to tell, when the move is worth the risk of death, or even suffering, to someone you love more than yourself?