GX:
OK, well, since you asked, I’m going to refrain from my usual old-fart smart-ass non-replies here.
It all seriousness, the first thing I do in fighting this battle is to encourage those I meet, so infected, to get over their self-loathing. Your enemies want you to hate yourself. Your enemies want you to hate your life. Despite how your enemies have branded you, you need to take ownership of your misfit/outsider/loner status.
Redefining what your predicament means to you will undermine the status quo more than you think.
The second thing I try to do in this battle, is to encourage networking between all types of outsiders. Even in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, hermits that lived in near-complete seclusion still managed to flock together in large gatherings to deal with common concerns.
The more we can rely on each other, the less we will need to rely on the ruling class.
And yes, thirdly, to be vocal (noisy) about your dreams, needs, and visions. One thing I’ve learned over the passed 33+ years, is that you never know what is going to click inside someone else’s head. It could be any little thing on your part that will inspire them to take action in their own lives.
When I used to work at a book shop in San Francisco I once made an off the cuff remark to a visiting author about the bowling alley at the south poll. I didn’t think anything of it again, till a few years later when I found out she was so taken by the idea of a bowling alley at the south poll that she actually flew there. She even ended up living in Antarctica for awhile.
It’s the old expression, but it only takes a small spark to start a big fire.
So, what spikes my interest? It’s when I noticed how being a criminal actually did very little to erode society. Even the typical serial killer conforms to society’s expectations of him. If anything, society needs its criminals and killers to justify its efforts in keeping order in the first place.
I love entropy, and the lonely inconspicuous free-thinker going about his business does more, in the long term, for social entropy than anything any criminal could. Besides, it’s the whole “bite the hand that feeds you if that hand doesn’t feed you all” thing that I just can’t shake.
