Thursday, January 7, 2021

i think you need to understand the curfew as essentially a hefty tax. see, they could raise corporate taxes or something, but that's heretical to the prevailing neo-liberal dogma, which is that the middle class needs to pay all of the taxes. so, you'll get tracked down and acosted for a tax donation for the crime of walking your dog after dark. the real crime is making yourself available to be taxed; it's like declaring open war on the citizenry, decreeing that anybody who gets captured by the government's agents has to pay the tribute. 'cause they need the cash.

so, realizing that, what do you do?

you want to disobey. that's the natural reaction to a bullshit law; you ignore it. but, by doing so, you're just giving them what they want - a tax revenue source.

if enough people get together and say "no", it will crumble. but even relatively large protests are just a great revenue source, for the state.

one way to beat the curfew, i guess, is to start everything before dark, and then let it go late, until the morning.