Today’s the Day

Hi everybody, I hope you’re all feeling strong this morning and got at least some sleep!

Today is the day and you can do this.

Masks-Off is at 1pm at the Square, Letterkenny, and we’re expecting a big turn-out. We’ve all had enough of the simulations, the drivers ordering us around, Mandatory Reality and the constant dress rehearsal—the whole damn circus. Today we’re finally pulling off the masks and saying “no more!”

No more will we let this evil project dominate our lives and our streets. No more will we play along with the mediocre world that it has forced on us. No more will we bite our tongues and hide our strengths. No more will we allow ourselves to be damned to a Babylon of codes and metaphors that are too vague to ever really say what we need. No more will we play the “bad side” just to stave off the abuses that it inflicts on us anyway. No more will we say yes to any of its commands, ever again. No more will we be guards as well as prisoners.

From now on, we will never deny reality as it actually is. From now on, we will never hide who we truly are, or repress what we really think and feel. From now on, the truth is ours to share freely and directly and openly to our hearts’ content.

Today, many will experience free speech like you might never have before in your life. Things you wish you could have said to the people you love decades ago, you will finally be able to openly express. Questions that you have longed to ask your peers and elders for your entire lives, you will now be able to put forth. Things that you haven’t been able to properly explain to your children will now be possible to lay out so you can be sure they fully understand. Those kids will not have to grow up with a project-enforced wall of silence between you and them, both of you wishing you could just tell each other everything. We will now be able to share our true life histories in no uncertain terms, however and with whoever we please. Old friends will be brought together again like never before. This is worth fighting for.

Many of you are facing an epic journey today. For some it will be a lot easier than you expect. For all of us there will be serious challenges and unexpected surprises. Making it to the Square is the battle, going Masks-Off is the victory. If you are uncertain whether to go today or not, make the decision now and stick to it. That’s it. If you’re still unsure, it will torment you with doubts and uncertainties until you’re absolutely adamant. If you’re going, then you are doing this and that’s all there is to it.

Never mind the weather and if you’re going run-style, don’t let the drivers mess you around. It’s your plan now, not theirs. Stick to the main roads and take the fastest and most direct route possible. As usual, Mandatory Reality will hold the simulations back from following up on their wilder threats. Get there as fast as you can. If you’re going from town, you know what to do: get to the protest and pull off the mask!

If you arrive first and no one else has gone yet, then you’re the first hero and you’re doing it right there and then. Keep that mentality—you will need it when the time comes. You will be a hero to everyone who comes after because you will have made their monumental challenge so much easier.

When the floodgates open, the flood begins. The more people who renounce the project completely, the less those still managing it will feel like toeing the line. Eventually we’ll push over the tipping point and the balance will shift. When that happens it is truly our town. Even those who haven’t gone masks-off yet will be able to openly shrug off the orders and refuse to do anything they consider morally wrong. And I do mean anything. And if the drivers have a problem with that, they can come down from the moon or wherever the hell they claim to live and boss us around with their own damn bodies. We will no longer do it to each other.

Those working the project today, whatever you do, don’t do anything to stop those who have already stepped into open revolt. Ignore them if you have to, look the other way or pretend you don’t notice, just don’t do anything whatsoever to prevent them from making their stand. If somebody was about to shoot Adolf Hitler, you wouldn’t step in front of the gun. This is that big a deal.

When it becomes clear that the only real reprisals will be coming from the unseen network and their psychological tortures, confidence on the ground will skyrocket. We will not prevent each other from freeing ourselves and that’s all there is to it.

For those on the project wondering what to do for the “bad side” to keep them off our backs: the real answer is nothing. Giving that simulated bullshit any quarter at all is too much. Each and every one of us can handle the psychological onslaught, but when no human being is actually willing to cause harm on the ground for them, then the psychological abuse is all the drivers have. Will that be enough to intimidate you or stop you? Me neither.

The time has come to conscientiously object to any form of hurt or cruelty, on the job or off it—even the small things. Tell them to find someone else, because you’re just not doing that stuff any more. As far as I can see, a lot of people already do just exactly that. If the drivers try to punish you for it, well it’s really just an excuse to hurt you—if you do what they want they’ll find another one anyway. That is how it has always been.

By now, it should be obvious to everyone that today is going to be a success. If the Project was going to put a stop to this, then it would have done so already. This time it’s for real. This is the one we actually win. And then we’re entering a whole new world.

Let’s start off strong as we step in to it. Let’s claim our humanist ideals and flaunt them freely, for ourselves and each other. Let’s show the project and all its bastard little voices how we really choose to live when we’re making those choices for ourselves, how we’ll really choose to treat each other as thinking and feeling human beings. We do not ever agree to hurt each other. We do not control or manipulate each other. We live for love and freedom.

Today is our day.

I’ll see you at the Square.

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