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The only education will be corporate social media. We'll never be able to get out from under the oligarchical thumb
The proles are not human beings,' he said carelessly. ' By 2050 earlier, probably -- all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. - Orwell
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Kids these days should be taught the anarchist’s cookbook so they can mail their local representative a mace bomb.
No, no one should do this.
First off, definitely don't mail anything hazardous. You're mostly putting postal workers at risk.
Second, the instructions in it were written by an angsty 19-year old, not a chemist or weapons expert or bomb technician. Trying to actually make these things puts you at risk.
Third, if you're going to talk about this book then it really is necessary to talk about the historical context that the author wrote it in and how he regretted it after, and what the consequences were:
[...] and the incidents where the book was found among the belongings of the perpetrators, including, but not limited to, the Columbine High School massacre, the Arapahoe High School shooting, and the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting, as well as a number of assassination attempts on government officials.
The Anarchist's Cookbook is mostly bullshit.
A few ways for how to do fraud back in the 60s, that haven't worked for 40 years now, a few recipes for bullshit drugs that aren't real, a few useful methods for sabotaging stuff mixed in with other useless ones, and basically a bunch of high school/college pranks taken too far.
... You can easily find old US Army field manuals with much, much more accurate and still useful information.
Your first step is going to be figuring out the OPSEC required to even acquire information without anyone being able to easily track that you are doing so.
We need an updated one. CIA handbook for now
Improvised Munitions Handbook ftw