10 ways the 99% have the advantage

assessing the gathered forces, understanding the field of battle

Lately, I’ve been writing about class warfare. I think most of us are in denial over what’s actually going on, what the term “concentration of wealth” actually means. How it’s meant to play out. In that regard, the treatment of Puerto Rico has been a real wake up call for me.

We are under attack. We are being subjected — on all fronts — to class ‘war’fare. And as a certified teacher of the martial arts, I can’t stay quiet. It would be irresponsible.

An Essential Point of self defense

We do not want to engage our attackers in their field or area of strength. Because that’s where they are stronger.

Never fight an opponent on his terms. — an Essential Point of Self Defense (Great River Jiu Jitsu)

Let’s compare, and look at some ways we hold the advantage.

10 ways the 99% have the upper hand

1. The power and wealth of the 1% is vast, but our numbers are vast and overwhelming. In the billions, at last count.
2. Their minds are closed by greed, but ours are open to fairness and balance. Nature always seeks balance. Nature is our ally.
3. Their tactics are divide and conquer, but once we unify there is no stopping us. We are stronger at conquering them, than they are at dividing us.
4. A genuinely unified mind has no room for selfishness and greed. Therefore, they cannot unify their own minds. Their contamination makes it impossible.
5. Their minds aren’t still, nor are they calm. Ours are, as long as we stay loyal to training them to be calm.
6. They fear falling because they live so high. We are already on the ground, and greet them as they fall. Don’t forget, 90% of all physical fights end up on the ground. Whenever they stumble, hesitate or fall, they land where we live. We own the terrain.
7. Their power is found in conceit and arrogance, in dollars and the power of selfishness and negativity. Our army is that of minds. We are the humane.
8. Their fortress is money and power. Ours is the unstoppable rise of humanity. They’re surrounded every minute of every day, with only a thin, breachable moat of isolation to protect them. Their fortresses are illusions of strength.
9. They can’t focus like we can, because they have too much on their minds.
10. They can’t focus on the simple, because they are too convinced they are so much smarter than the rest of us.

Like it or not, you’re involved in class warfare

Remember, when you claim membership in the 99%, you have 99% of humanity in you, with you and standing behind you.

Using a self-defense art to attack class warfare