Language really is power. If you want to oppose the current ‘economic’ elites, you have to stop speaking in a…

Language really is power. If you want to oppose the current ‘economic’ elites, you have to stop speaking in a pleading way. Speak as they speak, as if your position is self-evidently the right one. Mock them, as they already mock you. An appeal to facts is used, as if this…/1

…will somehow sway these elites. They’re totally oblivious to them, we should know that by now. Look at their easy ignoring of all evidence on climate change, for years. To them we sound like Oliver, a whining child to be swatted away. School teachers can teach us here. /2 https://t.co/94ZIuR5xQ9

If you’ve ever taught, you’ll know that any sort of pleading with your students to do something will be immediately perceived by them as weakness. They viscerally feel it as somebody not filling an expected role of authority. Young teachers can transform their work overnight…/3

…by simply acting in a more confident away. By acting and speaking as if they just assume they will be obeyed and listened to. Children pick up on this immediately. But the same applies in adult debate. The forces that need to prevail in 2022 too often sound like what they…/4

…effectively are. Servants to these economic elites, pleading for change. Protesting, and I always want to ask protestors - who are you protesting TO? Why assume somebody else already ‘has power’, and you need to convince them, to get change? That assumption will create... /5

…the reality you’re trying to overcome. It’s time for good people to speak with the authority of the blindingly obvious points they’re trying to make. It is unspeakably ludicrous to allow entire populations to become infected with SARS-Cov-2, for example. Don’t waste too…/6

…much time constantly explaining why it’s ludicrous. They’re not listening to logic or explanation. Speak as they speak, with the convictions of the self-evidence of your position, mock them and attack them, because make no mistake, these are not in any way nice people. /7

Assume power, in how you feel and what you say. It will irritate them to the point of total apoplexy, because to them you’re Oliver, impertinently stepping outside your allowed boundaries. @YouAreLobbyLud does this all the time, it’s why many of the economic elite and…/8

…their house-trained poodle experts attack him continuously. It’s a sign this is where you hurt them. Good people have forgotten how to fight. It needn’t even involve anger, remember again these economic elites act with casual, humoured indifference to what they do to you. /9

Do the same to them, in reverse. Treat them as the laughable fools they are, have sport with their idiocy. Politicians lose badly when they become figures of fun, as Scott Morrison is discovering right now. The same principle applies everywhere. /end

(P.S. it’s not about ‘speaking truth to power’. That’s being just an unruly servant. It’s speaking the power OF truth.)