The Social Contract

They buried whole countries under economic warfare. They cut off medicine, they sabotaged food supplies, and you just kept scrolling. Yes, you did. Palestinians mass murdered, starved, Iraqis bombed, abalanis bombed, Somalis bombed, Sudanese denied medicine and bombed and your main concern was whether or not this was gonna increase your fuel bill. That's the only thing you're worried about.

That's the signatory who I'm talking about. That's the person who signed. That person who was happy to live in a system whose balance sheet includes whole nations of people written off as expendable. The one who enjoyed the benefits of a global protection racket. The one who could hear half a million dead children in Iraq and treat it as nothing but a PR blunder instead of as a non negotiable moral red line that had been crossed.

Now that that machine, that colonial machine starts chewing up your own neighborhoods, now that your own police start to look like occupation forces, now that the Trump's tariffs have become a kind of self sanction on America, and now that financial warfare is starting to touch your economy, suddenly, like I say, suddenly you wanna get out of the contract. Suddenly you're in my comment section talking about where can I move? Which country should I escape to? Escape? Escape from what?

Escape from the very system whose violence you cosigned for decades as long as it stayed offshore? You didn't mind, like I say, you didn't mind when it was offshore. This is not repentance. This is not toba. This is not moral awakening.

This is not contrition. It's not even regret. And sincere repentance is the only way that you can nullify that contract. That amoral, immoral, transactional, cold hearted, indoctrinated, brainwashed individual who complied with the terms and the conditions, that individual has to be dissolved. That self that accepted the bargain, I will trade my conscience for my comfort.

I will trade my empathy for my stability. I'll trade my responsibility for my privilege. That one needs to be liquidated. And if that self is not dissolved, I'm telling you that contract is gonna be binding upon you wherever you go. But understand something, this isn't symbolic if you dissolve that self.

It will mean becoming economically, becoming politically and socially disloyal to their system. It will mean that you stop feeding corporations whose profits depend on wars, depend on exploitation, depend on forced labor, child labor, worker insecurity and environmental devastation, on and on and on. It's gonna mean that you will stop parroting, stop consuming and stop parroting the media propaganda and the media talking points. You'll stop listening, you'll stop watching, you'll stop reading it, you'll stop letting it dictate how you view and how you understand the world and you'll stop spreading it. It means that you build a new self, a moral self, an intelligent self.

The kind of self who finds your old self horrifying because it is. That has a cost. If you do that, that has a cost. You have to be ready for that. They'll call you a traitor.

They'll call you an extremist. They'll call you ungrateful, unpatriotic, of course. Because from their perspective, you're breaking the contract. You understand? You're withdrawing your consent.

You're refusing to be complicit. You're refusing to be complicit in a civilization that has been built on impunity. And when you do that, then conscience in a society like that, conscience looks like sedition.