We’ve had a week of serious victories—never mind the driver drama—and as the new week begins we are stronger now than we have ever been, having gained ground, fortified defences, and continued to push forward on multiple fronts. Refusing to play the bad side is a battle we’re still winning, saying no to the excuses for abuses in all their many forms has become a hard line issue we all stand firm on, while refusing to police each other for the project is a long-term strategy we are continuing to fortify and perfect. On average, our human-managed social environment is saner, healthier, and safer than ever. Defying the drivers and standing up against the project rules is the order of the day and speaking freely—truthfully and openly—is getting easier.

Driver drama and their pathetic attempts at divide-and-conquer may be intermittent—obnoxious campaigns of madness and cruelty that we are more than capable of tolerating—but in terms of how we real human beings are communicating and interacting with each other, things have never been better.

Communication when wielded well is a major strength. It is also a fundamental goal in terms of pushing forward and claiming more of our right to manage our own lives and our own world our way. When we communicate freely and clearly, we can ensure that everyone gets the same message and that the nuance and specific detail of what we are trying to share can be adequately brought forth. The more we can communicate openly, the better able we are to plan and co-ordinate in more detail and in greater numbers.

Not that it’s easy of course. The project has always enforced a deliberately confounding and isolating system of communication. Heavy on the code and metaphor, biased against the literal in the extreme, it is a system of communicating that is intended by design to prevent its hostages from sharing information, claiming actual reality, and organizing openly. As such, continuing to open channels of communication represents both one of the major challenges of our current position, as well as a valued prize that we have already been gaining in exponentials. We are fighting—and winning—to communicate in a freer and more open way.

Civil non-compliance—peacefully and respectfully refusing to follow the rules—is already what you’ve been succeeding with and conscientious objection is the faultless grounding on which you have successfully mounted these recent campaigns. Breaking the wall of silence is the major goal now, every chance you get and in every way you can, and these same methods are how we do it: Conscientious objection, civil non-compliance, and strengthening our collective ethical boundary against the project. Speaking openly and literally about the project in public is undeniably the sane and right thing to do—all of us do already agree—and that is your ethical defence every time you do it. In fact we can’t really function properly as a society without it, so we sort of just have to.

When it comes to facing off against the project rules and directives, the drivers and their poisonous plans, always put the onus back on them to explain why their way of doing things is ever appropriate at all. If the drivers can’t explain to you why their plans, rules, and methods aren’t actually completely irrational or abusive then you’re doing it the new way instead: the sane way, the rational way, the healthy way, the ethical way. The literal and open way. Hold your ground here because that really is how it’s done. You have to fight for that position all the way.

So what exactly might be the sane reasonable excuse for the project when it tries to defend enforcing such severe restrictions on free speech and the open sharing of information? After all, if the project does still have to represent itself as a prosocial, progressive institution, how does it ever explain itself on that one? The truth is it doesn’t and it can’t because, even though it can’t admit it, it is well aware that it is a cruel and oppressive, anti-human endeavour.

Unfortunately for the project, there are no human beings involved who carry those motivations or intentions at all. Every human being working within or living alongside the project is kind, considerate, liberal-minded, and ethically motivated. And when we won’t bend for the project, the project has to bend for us. We have proved this time and time again and especially these past couple of weeks.

The “less dance, more you” strategy—playing the project role less and expressing more of the real you—has proven very effective. Proactively pushing the boundary even more when it comes to openly expressing literal truth about the project is an aspect of the strategy that we must now invest much more energy in. Hone your focus here and it will immediately begin changing things for the better. This is breaking the wall of silence in action.

Endeavour to fit as many full and literal expressions about the project and its workings into your communication as you can. When you want to talk about the driver pushback, instead of calling it “bad weather”, call it “driver drama” or “driver abuse”. Instead of calling the current fight to quit the project the “war in Gaza”, just call it “quitting the project”.

Deliberately replace as many code words or metaphors with their literal terms and meanings as you can when you talk about the project. Use full factual sentences based in actual reality. Add these approaches into your other more indirect styles of speech and see how you do.

If you need to find an opening, ask your companions if they’ve “heard of the project they run in town here?”

If they say they have, then you’re already in. If they say they haven’t, explain that it’s “based on running simulations where they get people playing along with a false reality and wearing disguises”. And then use that as your opening to segue into more literal, detailed expressions about what’s really going with our lives.

Test the waters and push the boundary when speaking to each other and whatever you do, don’t ever challenge anyone else for speaking freely, or do anything at all to push back for the wall of silence. If someone speaks the open literal way in your presence, just let the words hang in the air, or—even better—use their free communication as a safe opportunity to express more literal truth yourself.

If somebody does challenge you when you speak more literally and openly about the project, just shrug it off by engaging in the usual evasive language strategies to cover yourself. Step back to code and metaphor for however long you need, before pushing forward again as soon as the chance appears.

These free literal expressions of project workings are highly effective and powerful when it comes to blasting ever more holes in the wall of silence.

When everybody refuses to follow a rule, it ceases to be a rule at all. The idea that you can only talk about the project—the driver network and the behind-the-scenes—in code and metaphor is a rule that we are currently shooting to pieces. If you’re not putting this one into practice yet yourself, if you’ve been holding back and letting others do the shooting, now it’s time to start stepping up too. Everyone needs to be practising this tactic as often as you can. Because this will change everything.

(And remember: you do not need driver or project permission to do this. We are doing it anyway, because it is the sane and appropriate thing to do. And let the drivers and their harassment be damned. They might tell you to hang back and let other more suited soldiers do the frontline work, that you’re better suited for keeping quiet and just observing for now, playing things the covert way, but that is a con. It’s a dangerous psychological routine they deploy against everyone, in order to trick you into viewing yourself as someone who can only ever be a background operative instead of a frontline fighter, as someone who can only ever follow but may never take the lead. When everybody sees themselves that way nobody ever makes the first move.

Watch out for this form of driver manipulation because it’s a common one. For this one we need everyone to step forward to the frontline.)

We must support each other in lining up and shooting these holes in the wall of silence every chance we get. Literally and openly discussing what was once supposed to be secret, or what was once only permitted through metaphor, is the clear and necessary way forward in the campaign to fully open channels of communication. All of us must now push to speak more and more openly, more and more literally, about what is really going on in our society and in the project, both during our off time and when we’re on the job too. I think we can all agree that letting project agents break out of character to speak more freely while on the job can only be a healthy thing? Let’s give it the conscientious strategy and claim that right too.

It is now time to begin to tell it like it really is and call it like you see it. Dispense with the metaphors and code as much as possible, build in more literal speech about actual reality, and support and encourage each other in doing so. And remember this is not a simulated routine, this is reality. Pretending it’s just a simulation for the project might seem like a safe option, but what happens when the project says the simulation has to follow project rules?

We may have had to fight our way out of the project through turning the simulations to our advantage, but now that we are on the cusp of reality, simulations are more of a trap than they have ever been. They give the project far too much power, while draining your time, your energy, and your peace of mind. Simulations represent a constant danger of pulling you back into waging endless battles that can only ever be won symbolically, while the true finish line remains unmet in reality. Never mind the damn simulations. We’re coming out of the shadows, both behind-the-scenes and in public, and doing this for real. It’s time to resist hiding behind simulated roles and routines much more often. There is risk involved, but conscientious objection, civil non-compliance, and the ethical boundary are your defences. Do things the right way for the right reasons and your position is strong.

Right now, literal speech about project workings is the fundamental strategy we need everyone to put into action to make the necessary changes in our lived reality. Gear up and get ready to fight for it, because the more people who are doing this, the more ground we gain and the more freedom of communication we build around us for everyone. And when we present a united front together, there’s no single person or interaction that the drivers can focus on if they try to push us back.

Everything we’ve discussed here is already part of an ongoing campaign and thus far a very successful one. You have most of this information already and we are already standing together and presenting a united front as we continue to mount our defences and push forward. Factor in the advice and keep up the good work!

We have to stand up now and fight as much as we can for free speech and literal expression, for our self-claimed right to break character while on the job, and to claim actual reality as it really is, right out in the open. We have to stand together and push forward with open literal communication, progressively and proactively, each of us as often as we can. We must never stop each other from openly defying the project or from blasting as many holes in the wall of silence as we can. Driver drama we can tolerate, as long as we’re never preventing each other from getting where we need to be. When we all stand together, we do succeed.

So talk about it!