Westerners are sleepwalking

People in the West are sleepwalking. They're sleepwalking and calling it a victory march. No. You need to step up your game, not just for Palestine, but for your own selves. You're heading into the same kind of oppression that we're just now getting ourselves out of because the colonizers are coming home, colonization is coming home, and you're even less equipped and you're even less capable and you're even less prepared for what is coming to you than we were when the colonizers first invaded our lands.

And you have a lot of building work ahead of you, building yourselves as individuals, building yourselves as communities, and building yourselves as a resistance movement. And while you waste your time, your enemy uses their time. In fact, your wasted time, is in fact them using their time because getting you to waste your time is already a victory for them. Understand, they take you more seriously than you take yourselves. That's why they work so hard to neutralize you.

That's why they work so hard to infantilize you, to desensitize you and to traumatize you. They work so hard to preemptively tear down the person that you might someday build yourself to be. The fight against injustice is not a school competition where you get a participation trophy just for showing up and shouting a slogan or for, foregoing a frappuccino. It's called a fight because it is a fight, that's what it is. It's a fight and you can't phone in your resistance.

Resistance means doing things that you don't like to do. It means doing things that you're afraid to do, things that are uncomfortable, things that require time, money, persistence, resilience, diligence and vigilance. It requires discipline and discomfort. In other words, it requires all of the qualities and all of the traits that the system has tried to completely erase from your personality as an American. Like I said, look at the kind of person that they have tried to make you, that your society has tried to make you, what they've tried to make everyone, and understand that all they were ever doing was trying to program you to be a slave.

That's the personality type that they've been trying to create. And so then you have to know that the opposite qualities and the opposite characteristics are exactly the kinds of things that you need to be cultivating in order to make yourself actually formidable. Become exactly that version of yourselves that the power structure has always worked diligently to invert. They made you impatient, so become patient. They made you impulsive, so become disciplined.

They made you frivolous, so become serious. They made you lazy, so become energetic. They made you distracted, so become focused. Become the opposite of what they have always tried to make you. They made you addicted to entertainment, so disconnect, read, study, research, learn.

They've given you millions of ways to waste your time. They've given you millions of ways to waste your time because they're scared to death of you using your time seriously.