10 Incentives to Become Ungovernable

It's about what we have to lose.

Why aren’t the employees motivated? Why are the children biting? Why are all the guillotines so sharp? Why is the crime rate up? Why aren’t these dumb broads having more babies? Why is my church bankrupt? Why isn’t anyone freaking out in the ways I need them to do so? These are the questions asked when the most important question isn’t. And the most important question is, “What’s in it for them?”

If the answer is nothing, the world has incentivized people to become ungovernable.

1: If the governed feel that they do not matter, they will find a way to do so.
It will probably be messy.

E.g.: hermits who live in the woods, women who poison their husbands, artists & quiet quitters

2: If the governed feel that the rules are unfair, they will refuse to follow them.
This will be decidedly messy.

E.g.: Nepo babies, ChatGPT collage essays, Brilliant poor kids & shoplifters

3: If the governed feel trapped, they will manage to escape.
They will make serious messes of all the places.

E.g.: Guys who like nail polish, girls who like power, The American Midwest & Elderly widows in sprinter vans

4: If the governed feel that the betting is rigged, they will stop playing.
And they will mess up all the economic forecasts.

E.g.: Crypto moms, Golden Girls Commune Ladies, Vasectomy bros & Off-grid beekeepers

5: If the governed see how much better others have it, they will abandon cold authority and embrace warm possibility.
They will messily redefine what a good life looks like.

E.g.: Daydreamers, vagabonds, witches & exMormons with cappuccino machines

6: If the governed are backed into a corner, they will find their power there.
And they will leave a mess of blood where they had been left to die.

E.g.: The exiled, the difficult, the ugly & obsolete

7: If the governed are told lie after lie, they will seek truth after truth.
They will messily dig into gooey plot holes.

E.g.: Conspiracy theorists, PhD researchers, girls with purity rings & financial scapegoats

8: If the governed feel used instead of useful, they will refuse to be exploited.
This will mess up profit-extraction systems.

E.g.: Burned-out trad wives, hedge funds, coral reefs & glaciers

9: If the governed feel like things instead of people, they do all they can to become themselves.
They will make a mess of many expectations.

E.g.: Barnaby the Scrivener, personality hires, lingerie models & nuns

10: If the governed feel ignored, they will make themselves heard.
And they will make a glorious future out the mess they currently live in.

E.g.: Chosen families, the Underground Railroad, Robin Hoods & the best possible future

Mess is always subjective. As is order.
We all decide what’s what as we go.