Breakup! A Freedom Lover's Guide to Surviving the End of Empire
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Breakup! A Freedom Lover's Guide to Surviving the End of Empire
This book is available, in its entirety, to paid subscribers to my substack. Some chapters are free. Below is the list of chapters with sub-sections. Free chapters are indicated with [free] next to them.
Table of Contents
Introduction [free]
My promise to you (no whining, no stale ideas) • The “You are an adult rule” (trigger warning!) • Breakup! is for everyone • Who am I • People With Power (PwP’s)
Facing Reality
The system is working (just not for you) • Welcome to the Dim Age • Identity trumps ideology, every time • The matriarchal era • No space for unity • Manifest destiny and mental illness • Everything is in play • The media aren’t biased • Hypocrisy is completely, utterly, irrelevant • The Republicans were born to lose • Understand the strategy being used against you • Reputational contagion and the one-drop rule • Recognize how the left talks • Self-inflicted wounds are the worst • Decay has a scent
The Rise of the Covidians [free]
Caring about Covid • Long haul Covidians • Wuism is the health of the state • The role of the scapegoat
The Laissez-faire Road to Serfdom
The myth of private business • Unilateral disarmament • Waking up from the NAP • Too polite to say no (the Daniel Craig dilemma) • If you choose not to choose
Handicapping the Future
Separation • Segregation • Civil war • Foreign conquest • Fascism • Dom/Sub fusion • Final notes on the odds (or why they don’t add up)
A Field Guide to Strategies
Personal alliances (NATO for individuals) • Be the government you want to replace • Develop and use alternate infrastructure • Cultivate back channels of communication • Other ways to act en loco governmentus • Complain to the guy making your sandwich • Call out the contractors on the Death Star • Use language • Use the law • Ignore the law • Focus on your team, not theirs • Enlist the hood • Lionize the Courageous • If you do go after the refs, go after them hard • Decouple from China • Learn Mandarin • Prep for the zombie apocalypse • Use social forces • Use extreme social forces • Don’t be an idiot • Strategy wrap-up
Vote with Your Feet (and Come Here) [free]
Come to the Conch Republic • It’s wonderful here • The local dynamics • The very tip of the US • Building Austin East
Mindset
Toxic relationships and painful breakups • There is no social contract • Everyone’s a little bit Covidian • Let go of lawful good • Lose the loser mentality • Stop trying to please the cool kids • Know the odds • Don’t defend Seuss • You can’t fight the tides • This never ends • Don’t fight to not lose • Welcome to fight club. You’re new here • Come in dancing
Acknowledgments & Info [free]
Additional Readings
Breakup! A Freedom Lover's Guide to Surviving the End of Empire
Well done sir. We consider a "national divorce" on our substack as well.
One way to stop this madness, is to join my movement here: https://newsa.substack.com/p/the-newsas-purpose?r=zdjvg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=copy It’s absolutely a complement to the things Matt is discussing.