Hi Everybody!

Hope you’re all doing good today. Just pulling myself together here after another night of sleep deprivation and intensive driver harassment and I know I’m not the only one! It comes and goes, those patterns, same as the rest of the project’s abuses, whether you’re fighting the damn system or not. Of course, the times without the intensive sleep deprivation are generally a lot better!

I’ve just been informed that there’s been some uncertainty for some people regarding what I mean by playing the bad side. Haven’t had a chance to verify with any real human beings yet, so I’ll just clarify things real quickly if needs be.

I thought this stuff was well understood already but apparently some people aren’t sure.

(By the way, if you’re one of the people really gearing up to move over that line then I know you’re definitely certain of all this stuff. This is for any of you who’ve been hanging further back and are still making sense of the basics with the strategies we’ve been discussing lately.)

Playing the bad side means pretending to work against our own interests. e.g. saying to drivers, the sims, the project, or anyone else, that you’re actually trying to put a stop to what we’re really working on—masks-off, human rights, the freedom movement etc. Lying to them, in other words, in order to trick them into letting you get what you want.

You can’t do the “playing both sides” type strategies without also “playing for the bad side”, since there’s a “good” side and a “bad” side when you look at “both sides”. You can’t play both sides without playing for the bad side.

The problem is you can’t pretend to be against your own interests—playing for the bad side—without soon enough having to do something to prove it.

And that means the drivers will expect some kind of promise, some kind of concession, some kind of bait that ends up actually genuinely working against our own goals—as well as usually being fodder for the Antisocial Mechanism.

Now while we may agree that the project itself is the true bad side, you don’t have to frame it that way. The project contains good and bad goals—or at least it claims to—things like evolution of society and human enlightenment. So your position is, you’ll work for the project on those things but not on anything else that you deem immoral. Conscientious objection is your defence here. That’s how you refuse to play for the bad side while still working for the project.

I know this has been fought before with varying levels of success but it is a big part of the fight again! Keep pushing that line to weaken the project’s position on making people do harmful things. The more people who do this more successfully, the more the project changes for the better.

As for any simulations or simulated entities within the project, if they’re against what you really believe in, then you refuse to play for them too. And if the project says you have to play those groups, it’s time for civil non-compliance based on conscientious objection!

Finally, refusing to play the bad side (including “playing both sides”) and refusing to do anything hurtful are not the same thing. They are two separate goals, major goals, that go hand in hand. As long as you’re working towards making those goals happen—primarily through standing up openly against the project for ethical reasons—you’re getting us closer to where we need to be.

I’ll delve into this issue again later in more detail to make sure all of you are sure what I mean, if It’s actually needed. I thought this was well understood already, but apparently there’s been some confusion for a few of you so I hope that clears things up!

I heard yesterday a lot of you would like an outline of how much I know and how much I don’t know about how the project and our society functions behind-the-scenes and that’s a great idea. It’s going to take a lot of thought though, so I’ll be working on that today.

For now stay focused on the prize my friends. Remember our major goals and strategies—and that the strategies are the right way to achieve the necessary goals.

Strategies: Conscientious Objection; Civil Non-Compliance; Expanding the Ethical Boundary; Less Dance, More You; and Breaking the Project Rules.

Goals: Refusing to Play for the Bad Side, Full Abstention from Hurtful Project Routines, Never Policing Each Other for the Project, and Opening Channels of Literal Communication.

Keep returning to the following articles as you test and refine your methods:

Changing the Project from Within

Breaking the Wall of Silence

Update – Goals and Strategies in Review

You never know what you might have missed on the first couple of reads that might help you later!

I’ll be in town 2 – 3pm and then back home to write, so I hope I see you there.