10 Rules to Dissidence.
Mohamed Ahmed
Executive Director Average Mohamed Organization, Communication specialist for Republican People of Color PAC. 2020 State Department Citizen Diplomat, 2018 Global Ties Citizen Diplomat, Bush Foundation Fellow
Let's just dive right in. This is for those who strongly disagree with life as dished out by powerful means now. Dissidence refers to the act of publicly disagreeing with and criticizing the government, a powerful person, or a group.
The 10 rules path and clear understanding of Dissidence outcomes.
1) Do not be like them.
Be just unlike them; they thought and reasoned. They calculated to dehumanize all of you for their gain—power, money, control, and micromanagement of us all. Counteract injustice and hate using the same tactics they use to keep them in place over all of us. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
2) Seek Revenge
Seeking revenge is unwise. The saying, "He who seeks revenge digs two graves," is often attributed to Confucius. This proverb implies that seeking revenge harms not only the intended target but also the person seeking revenge. The first "grave" represents the victim, and the second signifies the harm caused to the avenger's peace of mind and well-being.
Choosing to forgive is better, but it's also important not to forget. Those who seek revenge are ultimately harming themselves. Instead of digging two graves, it's better to metaphorically plant a garden and invite the other party into it. Give them a choice always.
3)?? Work harder.
They always act collectively, whether as institutions, volunteers, or members of groups working towards the same goal of repressing others they choose the powerful by new age means and ways. Repression can take many forms nowadays—ultimately, it restricts people's means and methods through collective effort. If one is fortunate, it's a systemic issue; if unlucky, it's what some of us are experiencing now. It's a combination of ideological hate, bias, and systemic issues. It's often ideological, if not racial—yes, even white individuals face discrimination in today's world, and then there's religious discrimination. Here, the majority aligns with these values. A minority must dissent to dissidence. There's no shortage of volunteers eager to aid and perpetuate this process, as most people nowadays unquestioningly follow along like sheep. They are more than willing to put you down for various reasons—favor, money, power, chaos, hate, bias, ideology, or simply because they don't want you to have the same freedoms and rights as them, free from their controlling influence.
Your options are to accept the unacceptable and stay down, or stand up and be knocked down. If you choose the latter, your life as you know it will be over. You're committing to a life of struggle and conflict. With time, the frequency and nature of these beatdowns will increase, but the methods and ways won't decrease. They'll work tirelessly to control you, one way or another, and under one understanding or another. However, the end goal remains the same—permanent injustice through repressive means.
Choosing this path means you've committed to working smarter, not harder because you can't win against their collective effort if you decide to stand up. But you stand up nonetheless.
4)?? Power versus Powerless
The rungs of power belong to those who either possess it or know someone willing to use it against you. They will recruit from every aspect of your life to come after you if you dare to stand up against their ideological injustice, bias, and hate. When you submit to them, they will leave you alone, but they will have complete control over you.
Your first power is choice. However, when you ask for choices from the powers that be, none will be offered, and instead, more of your rights will be taken away. They will view your request for freedom, liberties, rights, and opportunities of merit equality as audacious and unworthy.
Your second choice is dissent. You can tell them that their methods are not beneficial for everyone and that by working together, we could reach a mutually beneficial understanding. However, this will also be rejected. Power always tends towards arrogance. They are not willing to give when they can take with impunity. Therefore, standing up against systemic injustice and bias can lead to reduced access to freedom, liberties, rights, and opportunities, and even endanger your life. It might seem foolish to stand up, but it is the path to justice against ideological systemic hate and bias.
5)?? ?Not Accepting Truthful All Outcomes
Failure of means, ways, and processes of ending injustice and hate if not bias systemic now joined in by volunteers and others in the cause. Is one of which a protagonist has a choice but to accept that is the only payment of cost by you is antagonism to it. They will never give you freedom, liberties, rights, or opportunity forget merit, it is exclusively theirs alone. They will never stop the process. The best you can hope for is for survival now. Yeah, if too belligerent you end up destroyed or dead. Accept that too. If the worst outcome comes well, you are ready for it in mind, spirit, and understanding.
It's important to keep in mind what Mike Tyson said, "Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." This punch is guaranteed to come your way, and you must learn to fight back. However, your punch will never be as impactful as the many that are launched against you from various sources. There's a proverb that even an ant bites back when stepped on by an elephant, but, like an ant, you risk being crushed. You can only hope to survive. The truth is, there is no end to it, and you will continuously move from one struggle to another. They design it that way. Accepting this reality is your only remaining power.
6)?? Embrace your fears
Will you be the last human being killed on Earth?
Are you the first ever destroyed for having a different conscious mind?
Who the hell do you think you are a God, no one lives forever.
Don’t hold onto life so dearly you are unwilling to part with it for a just cause.
Don't get too comfortable with it either to avoid discomfort from changes coming good, bad, or ugly.
What is a just cause then?
Destiny will guide you to it. It is one made up of what you are experiencing, observing, feeling, and hearing around you. For some work in silence for others like this nobody citizen, an Average Mohamed, it is to be very loud and vocal in means of it. Destiny is providence.
It will come to you; in time it comes for all. It could be as little as me, being a nobody citizen advocate just an Average Mohamed. Or as big as being somebody as important and powerful as you are. I prefer being nobody, a common man for common causes locally and internationally with just works. We, the common folks, know only one thing is guaranteed in our lives: struggles and work. That has always been our destiny.
Accept your fears of becoming what destiny charts your way. For most are sheep now. To embrace fears is to become a lion. You will never overcome fear, but you can control it to make it negligible in your struggles and works.
Remember this: the lion is the king of the jungle. However, it is also trophy hunted by organized, powerful individuals, volunteers, and those who simply ideologically hate and have permanent bias. They all seek a prize, and some of us are attractive targets now. Anyone who stands up looks exceptionally good as a potential target. Therefore, you may feel foolish for standing up, but if you do, embrace your fears.
7)?? Taking and giving.
It all begins with the story people create about you. They fill in the blanks according to their prejudice, bias, and hate towards our kind. Nowadays, they continuously use profiling and psychological analysis to label and segregate us into categories. They use these means to convince others that their narrative is true, even when it's based on ideologically based prejudice, bias, and hate. They then use power, resources, and various means to control and micromanage us. They will go to great lengths to achieve their goal, making it difficult for us to fight back. It seems like they have no intention of letting us enjoy freedom, rights, and liberties forget merit or opportunity. In response, we must learn to profile, narrate, and use logic and reason to counter their narratives of ideological prejudice, bias, and hate.
8)?? You will lose.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. They take from you, you take back. They profile you, you profile back. They are documented by dossiers, filings, memos, and emails if not sheer control and micromanaged means deployed. Objective: we are Gods now; we decide destiny now. You will lose, I guarantee, based on resources allocated, means deployed, and unlimited ideological bias, prejudice, and hate of the system today for our kind. This is a one-way downward spiral. It was built, designed, and created to be that way for some to get it permanently, the others to do the doing. A two-tiered system.
That guarantees the recipient of the loss also a win. The reaction to it means that you now have the sole power to accept losing and embrace it with reason and logic. It's not just about fighting for yourself, but also about setting up the next person to take the fight further in a noble way. The choice is now yours, as they have already made theirs. They are making it impossible for some of our community to be free, have rights, and access resources, regardless of our obvious merit. They have already created a narrative about you, spending agonizing hours and your tax money to create your profile, dossiers, and files.
Here is your choice now: change, adapt, become better, not bitter, and go all out if you decide to stand up. That is your only win out here. It's not much, but they want it all now, including not just control and micromanagement in time, energy, resources, and maybe even literal life. It all depends on the level of arrogance of the person or institutions or volunteers to the means and ways deployed you are dealing with. Some even believe they are like gods now.
9)?? Comply.
Sheep follow the sheep at the front, even going over cliffs in masses. They don’t think for themselves; the thinking is done for them. They bleat collectively. All it takes is one to do so, and the rest just bleat "BAAH" back. It is collectivism more than anything, groupthink at worst. Most of humanity is sheep, sheared and eaten by others in ways most do not even realize as the intended product. Their powers, rights, freedoms, liberties, and opportunities are taken till one day they wake up to find the butcher’s knife in their throats. Those who comply without question are no better than sheep. It does not mean questioning everything, one must respect authority but at least question what is in it for you and me in this process. No "Baah, Baah," they said it and we shall bleat it out, if not act it out and enforce it. We would willingly comply with all. It is the safest thing to do now in our world. But not all are sheep. When it does not serve the self, our self-interests are permanent with us for ourselves. Then we are commanded by everything in this nature of ours that does things for their self-interest. Just like them now. Survival of our kind in ideals, ideas, values, and ideology means we will not comply from time to time. That does not mean we are anarchists now. It just means meet us halfway or allow a limited say. Our role is allowed not censored, embargoed, or blacklisted to convince the next sheep to stop bleating now in compliance with non-compliance. In essence, wake up lions and let the sheep sleep. Comply and bleet to their collective demise of self-interest. One can never turn a lion into a sheep, but a sheep can turn into a lion. It starts simply with noncompliance to it all.
10)??????? Prayers don’t work.
People often overlook the power of prayer. It's not just a religious practice; it's a source of hope that refreshes and strengthens the soul. It helps soothe the emotional wounds caused by setbacks and the everyday mistakes we all make. "Sin" doesn't just mean doing evil things, but also encompasses smaller faults like envy, pride, vanity, self-importance, greed, lust, or ignorance that we all struggle with. Prayers act like healing balms for our souls, helping us accept difficult situations with patience and understanding while holding onto the hope that tough times will eventually pass. We believe in a better tomorrow and an afterlife. Although you are currently here, your true destination lies elsewhere, where you can be your true self - free, with all your freedoms, rights, opportunities, and liberties. There, your purpose and existence will be acknowledged based on merit, rather than being judged unfairly by biased ideological individuals or systems or volunteers coming at you.
Prayer: May the next person not comply, and the means of doing so remain in America and in this world forever. That is Democracy in essence and purity of understanding of it.
Prayers represent hope for a better day. To lose hope is to give up, and giving up makes you a quitter in life. Everyone dislikes a quitter. Most people admire those who strive against all odds to overcome challenges for the well-being of all. This effort should begin with yourself first. Then, perhaps, you can help someone else. The deity you pray to is the one who loves you the most, as they offer grace and mercy to all.
These are the observations and experiences of an average person, an Average Mohamed in America from Africa.
Do you understand now?
Open your minds and look within. Are you satisfied with what is happening to our kind out here? If you said NO!
We need you to ally, friend, and partner urgently now.
The way became clear, and the path will be walked.
Let's hope our new path is smooth, even if we face opposition. Our progress will be determined by the support of our allies, friends, and partners. Some of us may have to bear the consequences for challenging the current system, which is currently being enforced unofficially but will have official outcomes. I am willing to take on this challenge, but it should be made manageable for those of us affected.
It seems like they deliberately made it impossible for us now, for people like me. We've expressed our concerns publicly and privately, disagreed online, and now we're considered dissidents because of it. Let's take the time to do more now.
Another has taught us, and now we will teach you. "It always seems impossible until it's done." - Mandela
These are the ten rules of the path of Dissidence as understood, lived, and experienced by Average Mohamed, a proud American from Africa. May God help us in effort and means now. Amen.