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Now is not the time
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Then the sheep mounts a resistance by doing the best it can (killing the farmer or shouting very loudly), see that whatever it has done hasn't changed anything and that nobody is joining or paying attention to it, and then it's an express ticket to meatpacking plant or worse.
Mounting a resistance is much harder than "just doing something"
Where the sheep was going anyways in the first place. If we go out, why not make the best of it?
Because if you take this as a metaphor, there's always a worse place to go.
Giving up before trying is the best way to help the enemy
It's better to not even try. Sounds very American.
I grew up playing baseball. I'd rather go down swinging.
I used to think that a good death would be in my sleep, in my old age. Now I think of that as a waste. I've come to the conclusion that my end will have a twist ending, and I intend to make the best of it.
It's more of a critique of the "just do something" culture. Killing one farmer will just result in that farmer getting replaced with an identical cog in the machine, it also won't magically inspire all the sheep to kill their oppressors as seen historically with humans - that kind of thing is only found within books.
Pretty much the only kind of effective action if the goal is to change things rather than merely feel good in the moment is organization, but it is a slow, tedious and dangerous process - it's not something that can be achieved immediately or individually.
Have you tried the French Method
French method is how we got in the situation we are in, it literally led us from the rule of aristocrats to rule of capitalists
If Americans aren't even willing to protest, truly protest, they've already lost their country to the first tinpot dictator that came along. It's horrifying seeing someone downvote a post like yours that urges them to defend themselves.
America is lost and it's because of Americans.
Putting them in a dumpster isn't enough