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Many freedom-loving activists enjoy getting the goat of "idealistic" thugs eager to grind our liberty into dust.
Goat-getting can be fun. But the main goal of any practical proponent of freedom must be to spread the message of reason and liberty far and wide, provoking first attention, then thought, from the more non-thuggish among us. (The thugs aren't going to agree with you no matter what you do. They're thugs.)
The first commandment that the freedom-loving activist must obey is: Go forth and wear ye a propagandistic T-Shirt! For it is the T-Shirt which constitutes the true front line of ideological combat in the world today.
The Art of Message T-Shirt, a.k.a. "Mess-T-Shi," employs the short-long approach to propaganda. It is counter-intuitive, devious, and effective. Many peoples, many lands have been converted to the idea of freedom using this technique. What you do is post a short, provocative message on the front of the T-Shirt, and a lengthier explication on the back of the T-Shirt.
Now, some will say, "No, no, you cannot have a short punchy slogan and also some kind of long-winded thing too. Just do the slogan! There's plenty of time for disquisition later! It's a damn T-Shirt, yo!"
Sure, whatever. The freedom movement is a big tent when it comes to propaganda techniques, so it's fine with me if some of my more savvy-deficient compatriots prefer the venerable and established Wrong Approach. However, I've long been a member of the Right-Approach faction, myself, so that is the approach I prefer.
Here are a few examples of Mess-T-Shi you might want to try. Anybody who makes T-Shirts can prepare these for you. (Note the arrow, which instructs the viewer to inspect the rear area of the shirt so he can imbibe the rest of the agitprop.)
Front of T-Shirt: TAX THIS! --->
Back of T-Shirt: [Cont. from front.] By "tax this" I mean "don't tax this." I am being ironical. Taxation is theft. It's stealing what I earn honestly and giving it to somebody who wants to be a damn leech. First thing to do is, get rid of the income tax and all billion pages of the U.S. Tax Code. Shrink government until it's just doing night-watchman-type stuff--police, defense, court functions--and then we can come up with mechanisms, contract surcharges or whatever, for funding the rump rights-protection functions. Was it Chief Justice John Marshall who said "The power to tax is the power to destroy?"
Front of T-Shirt: NUKE THE PLANKTON-EATING WHALES --->
Back of T-Shirt: [Cont. from front.] The point is, whales are mass-murderers. Plankton are just the same as you and me. They too are living beings and enjoy some degree of awareness and mobility. They too are creatures of God's green earth, sons and daughters of Gaia, part of the Circle of Life, so forth. That the whales continue to get away with their ruthless slaughter of so many innocent little plankton is a testament to the rank hypocrisy of Green Peace, Earth First!, Humanity Sucks, and other such plankton-dissing radical environmentalist groups. Let's start arresting whales on murder charges. Or, to save costs, skip the trial and just harpoon them.
Front of T-Shirt: I GUZZLE GAS --->
Back of T-Shirt: [Cont. from front.] And so do you, Nader, unless you really do walk everywhere you go, never heat your home in the winter, and never flick a Bic. What is the big deal, anyway, about human beings using as much black gold as they want and need to use in order to do the things they want and need to do? Are we Americans supposed to be "bad" for living so high on the hog? The rest of the world should be this bad--especially the more impoverished regions. Contrary to the predictions that have been made by professional doomsayers since the first twigs were ignited by the first Cro Magnons, our resources are not going to "run out" in x years from now. And even if we should run out of, say, oil, we'd just switch to some other fuel. For then the race would be on to find convenient and profitable alternatives, including better ways to harness the sun. In truth, though, we've barely scraped the surface of the earth's resources. Couldn't we be doing more environmental exploitation in Alaska, for instance?
--David M. Brown, 8/8/03
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