Imagine a scenario where you and 9 others are captured by enemy combatants after a battle. They put all 10 of you in a big bamboo cage.

A guard watches everyone through the bamboo bars, making sure nothing fucky goes on inside. Once a day, the single guard comes in and checks under everyone's bedding for contraband, which takes about 2 minutes in total. The guard is armed and is a 220 lb solid muscle warrior, but if 3 or 4 of the 10 prisoners worked together, they could easily overpower the guard during his contraband check. However, the guard has informed all 10 prisoners that, if anyone ever tries to plot anything, all who know about or participate in such a plot will be hanged to death.

One soldier has an idea; instead of plotting anything, he'll attempt to use facial expressions and gesticulations to convey the need to take action, with the intention of catalyzing the course of action once he has a sense that he has communicated this sentiment to most of the others.

This scenario, I think, describes the psychology that we, the concerned individuals in this society, experience. We are prisoners of an enemy combatant who intends to end our way of life and/or our lives. We're trying to understand the plan and convince one another and others that the plan is real. We don't fully understand what the plan is and we don't know what the solution is, but we like that our numbers are great enough to affect real change. We're all convinced, by the figurative guard, that the moment anyone goes from this observational and communicative mode to an action mode (even at a protest level), that things will not go well. So we continue to figuratively gesticulate solidarity and understanding to one another, while simultaneously trying to decode our captors' plans.

I made this post as a response to this post:

https://conspiracies.win/p/16ZXQiICt4/why-does-ot-matter-if-people-wak/