Vote as triage, but lower your expectations on a “big strong man” solving broken systems. Life is short; voting takes time from other meaningful activities. Triage, if time allows, but do other meaningful activities.

Being cautious of the “big strong man” will help recognition of the slide toward any of the flavors of fascism. Populists promise “for the people” or “for the workers” and then centralize “power to” and “power over”. The revolution results in the same broken systems with normal people with no power.

Regarding individual actions:

• Build mutual aid with neighbors
• Develop defence skills (firearms, explosives, hand-to-hand, drones, cardio, trapping, etc)
• Learn real world skills (gardening, mechanics, chopping wood, carpentry, ect)

No gods, no masters. All power to all people.

Yes, an education is worthwhile. Read many philosophies inluding Marx, Hegel, Kant, Locke, John Stuart Mill, Adam Smith, Kropotkin, Stirner, Rudolf Rocker, Graeber etc. Though not my career, I keep studying for fun.

As with The Bible, there is a clergy surrounding philosophical figures. You may join their congregation. I choose not to partake. Read The Bible to understand society, but you don’t need to join the congregation.

I write code. There is skill to being able to read documentation. I love tools like predictive IDE’s. Search engines augmented my ability to code with sites like stackoverflow. LLM’s are a continuation of that trend. Often the output is broad strokes that I need to refine. At my workplace, humans are required even with the tool improvements.