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Number 69 .. In this issue:
- Refusing to play their game
- The heart-warming flames of revolt
- R is for Resistance
- Our Land Our Nature: The Marseilles Manifesto
- Cory Morningstar: an organic radical inspiration
- Acorninfo.

1. Refusing to play their game.
What happens when one small clique of people has accumulated enough money to buy pretty much everything and everyone?
The scenario will be a familiar one for anyone who has played Monopoly, the board game originally invented to warn against exactly this outcome.
As soon as one player has succeeded in placing hotels on several of the more lucrative districts, none of the other players stands a chance.

Every move they make lands them in more trouble, owing huge amounts of money to the dominant party.
There is no way out. It is inevitable that they will eventually lose all the wealth they have managed to gather thus far and will end up with nothing.
That is what we are up against in real life. When a group of ruthless sociopaths have all the power that money can buy, they don’t even have to pretend to be “democratic” any more.

But we should never forget that we don’t have to remain trapped within reality as they present it to us.
Their money, created out of thin air, is not real. It is just a symbol. You cannot eat it or shelter within it. It only has meaning because we all go along with the illusion of its reality.
Their propaganda, paid for by their illusory money, has no power if we stop paying attention to it. It is just words and images which we could all simply ignore.
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