The Survivalist Pledge:

To help all that can be helped,
To defend all that can be defended,
To save all that can be saved,
To free all that seek freedom,
To stay alive as long as I can and stay free as long as I live.

I find myself wondering why it is that in a state that is supposed to be run "by the people, of the people, and for the people" the people let the state consistently act directly against their best interests. For the majority of middle-class Americans, the government seems to be in business to take more and more of their money and chip away at their individual liberties. We survivalists are particularly concerned with the lack of any effective civil defense program and the obsession with disarming the people. The whole idea of representative government is that the state will do what is good for the people. The founders of this nation set up a representative Democracy: a system of government by which an educated and well-informed people would elect representatives and control the action of the state. So what went wrong?

As it always does, technology changed the rules. We now have a system which could be called Dumbocracy. It's a system by which a poorly-educated and misinformed people are consistently fooled into electing incompetent representatives and supporting government actions that are contrary to their best interests. The continuing decline in general education (especially history and geography) and the acceptance of large numbers of uneducated immigrants is creating a docile, uneducated voting mass that can not make political decisions based on technical, legal, historic, or geographic knowledge. This mass acts and votes on emotions, (ie, fear, hate, anger, sorrow, prejudice, etc.). These emotions are easily manipulated through mass-media hype and hysteria. The mass media--of course--is in business to entertain, get ratings, and make money for a small group of people--not help the people make wise political decisions. So we see American in a self-destruct mode as Dumbocracy destroys our freedom, our ideals, our spirit, and our people. This is one reason civil defense programs never get support or why more and more gun laws get passed, etc., etc. All of our logical arguments, all of our facts and statistics, all of our historic examples can not change what the public support and what the government does because the majority of the public no longer has the educational background to see our point even if we had the media to get it to them. So while the media applauds the spread of "democracy" in Europe, what they really are welcoming is more "dumbocracies" to manipulate.

There are some signs of hope coming out of the continuing technological revolution. The whole concept of a "mass media" is beginning to collapse. Centralized communications media (big newspapers, big TV stations, etc.) are being replaced by thousands of small, independent sources like tiny TV stations, video tapes, computer BBS, and newsletters.

New, diversified educational systems must soon replace the totally obsolete central education system. The technology exists for returning power (ie, knowledge) to the people. What we saw in East Europe was the collapse of the weakest centralized industrial systems. Before the end of this century, revolution in a variety of forms will rock all of the centralized industrial societies, East and West. Challenges, dangers, and opportunities will abound in the 90s. And victories will go to those who understand what is happening and are flexible enough to adapt.

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