The Art of War by Sun Tzu, Chapter Eight: Nine Changes

Sun Tzu says there are Nine Changes that describe how to give your side the advantage when it comes to terrain. The first is “Do not encamp on entrapping terrain.”

One of the most distressing aspects of the current period is the befouling of the commons by control freak Coronatarians who are hell bent on dictating mask and vaccine rules in every public and private space. Covid 19 has turned workplaces, libraries, gas stations, and schools into war zones. For someone with social anxiety, it is unbearable, which is why so many with social anxiety have chosen to take the experimental vaccine as an alternative to dealing with confrontation. One of my oldest friends, a shy young woman in her thirties, went the vaccine route because of family pressuring and has not felt well since.

Unfortunately, for the unvaxxed, it has all turned into entrapping terrain. That is why I think we have no choice but to create our own spaces and to deliberately seek out and patronize places that allow us to fly under the radar without wearing the symbol of salary class psychosis on our faces.

With Friends Like These...

Sun Tzu’s second Change advises for us to “unite with your allies on focal terrain.” Here in Illinois we often have problems with Canada geese who overpopulate the wide, empty wastes of chemical lawn of office parks and apartment complexes. The geese throng in such places because there is little to no cover for predators such as coyotes to hide. There is safety in numbers and in daylight, and it is a good thing when your enemy shows his cards and parades around naked in front of you. I’m oddly grateful for the Coronapocalypse because it showed me who has my back and who is a coyote waiting to snap my neck. I had my suspicions about certain friends of mine and now I know… if we were in Maoist China, they would have been the first to sell their own parents and/or children to the secret police. I need friends like that about as much as I need an extra pair of nostrils on my butt.

Sun Tzu’s third Change advises “Do not remain on isolated terrain”. The number of people in my 5000 member Facebook group Speakeasy Illinois who are losing or have lost their jobs due to vaccine coercion is absolutely disgusting. Any employer who threatens to axe their employees for not taking an experimental drug has shown themselves to be completely tyrannical and untrustworthy, regardless of whether or not they have their way with the employee in question. Millions of non-GMO people are now finding out their bosses are mini-Mussolinis and neo-Francos, and though there may technically be plenty of jobs, there are also plenty of jabs that stand in the way of those jobs. We unvaxxed have no choice but to improvise a new economy from nothing, and the dilemma here is we lack the resources to do it. I’d like to start a school and open my subscription library to walk in traffic; that’s just not possible on my budget. Meanwhile, I pass block after block of vacant commercial buildings when I drive to work, none of which I can afford to rent.

Sun Tzu suggests in his fourth Change that we should make strategic plans for encircled terrain. When menacing maskers approach me in public, my go-to strategy is to vacate the premises. A few weeks ago, I attempted to shop at the Asian supermarket. I was immediately flagged down by a bunch of ill-intentioned store clerks and managers who yelled at me to wear a mask. In my finest display of years of vocal training, I loudly and clearly called “NO SALE” and about faced and left the store. I may never shop there again. My old mechanic put an obnoxious sign about vaccines and masks on their entry door; this provided the impetus for me to find a new mechanic who wouldn’t dream of such idiocy. Other members of my Speakeasy group go into stores equipped with paperwork that informs mask maniacs that they are breaking discrimination laws and they can be sued or imprisoned if they try to prevent an unmasked person from shopping. Personally, it’s not how I prefer to do it but I applaud their bravery.

You Don't Mess with the Kim

In his fifth Change, Sun Tzu says that on fatal terrain, we must do battle. I have yet to be dragged off to a concentration camp for refusing to play Russian roulette, however, if it comes to that, I will not board the train willingly. Violence is a last resort that I am now obliged to think about as times grow increasingly dark. I won’t say much more about this, but know that I am hard to kill yet simultaneously not afraid of death and dying. This makes me the worst sort of enemy to confront.

In his sixth Change, Sun Tzu reminds us there are roads that are not followed. In 2020, there was a group of maskless Californians who decided to convene on their local Trader Joes in what can only be described as flash mob shopping. Their goal was to force Trader Joes to exchange its merchandise for their money despite its mask rules. Attempting to force a store to take your money is stupid and redundant. Retailers live in fear of being ghosted — nothing scares a retail or a restaurant CEO more than empty aisles and tables during what is supposed to be peak shopping/dining time. Every now and then, some doofus in my group will suggest a flash mob of the unmasked and presumably unvaxxed. They usually stop talking when I ask them what they hope to achieve.

In his seventh Change, Sun Tzu says there are armies that are not attacked. We are not at the point of Revolution in the US, though we are getting there, and unlike some other nations, we still have private gun ownership. Nevertheless, just as it is stupid to run into a store with a naked face to say “Take my money!”, public protest has almost no effect and usually serves only to waste time as the mainstream media silences any voices that stray from its narrative. As the Capitol building arrests and the death of Ashli Babbitt prove, the opposition is perfectly willing to frame, bait, cheat, lie, gaslight, and murder in order to bolster its drooping self-image. Protests don’t do much when the government is a bunch of Stalinists.

Sun Tzu’s eighth change talks about how there are fortified cities that are not assaulted. American public schools, much like the prisons and hospital buildings they tend to resemble, are not fixable. They have not functioned as places of learning for many, many years, and that was true decades before Critical Race Theory and Transgender Pedomania arrived on the scene. As hard as it is to do, we have to start walking away from massive institutions we thought would always be there.

Sun Tzu talks about leaving terrain that should not be contended for in his ninth Change. Illinois has a terrible leftist governor. His name is Pritzker and his exploits are tragicomic. He will probably remain governor until at least 2026 or until his morbid obesity gets the better of him. The reason for this is Illinois is a citadel of Leftist grift and there’s no way the powers that be will allow a fair election to take that away. That is why I have high hopes for all of my Speakeasy members who are running for school boards, city council, and raising their children to do the same — government is not taken back through high positions but through small ones such as Library Chairman and County Judge. County board members are the ones who decide how property tax money gets spent.

Always Look on the Bright Side

Put all the changes together and suddenly we become a force to be reckoned with. The other side doesn’t know how to employ the Changes. Their strategy was to riot, burn, loot, and murder in the aftermath of lockdowns and call it “mostly peaceful protests” ostensibly for the empowerment of non-white people. They eat their own — remember that the salary class is and was a game of musical chairs with ever-faster music. The latest form of de rigueur cannibalism is to shove out the salaried, unvaxxed health care workers so they can replaced with vaxxed, obedient flunkeys. The next step is to force booster after booster on entire families as the condition of staying in the good graces of the insane reality show that is the salary class.

Though I’ll never know for sure, I believe the existence of my group Speakeasy Illinois was a significant reason why Pritzker has not yet been able to enforce a statewide mask mandate. Sun Tzu says to “subjugate the feudal lords with potential harm”, and I believe the corporate stooges who sit in Pritzker’s pockets became frightened when large numbers of people refused to don masks in Illinois stores. We have “labored the feudal lords with numerous affairs” in the form of lawsuits and forced them to “chase after profits” by taking our business to places where medical freedom is respected. Bravery is contagious. It only takes one person to take off the mask to inspire a second person, and then a third. You’ve got to start somewhere, and if the only person is me, which it often is inside the grocery store, well then so be it. I know I could be attacked, shamed, or harassed, but I have finally gotten to the point where it isn’t about me. Once again, they picked the wrong enemy.

Death Wish: Vaccine Edition

Sun Tzu warns of dangerous character traits. He says that “One committed to dying can be slain”. I think the vaccines represent a mass death wish. For a civilization that has loved to fear and avoid death, this one had a funny way of rushing towards it with open arms in the form of a vaccine that routinely kills and maims at a much higher rate than the disease it is supposed to cure. It is ironic that Sun Tzu mentions the opposite propensity in his next character trait, and that is “One committed to living can be captured”. I think he’s talking about the fear of death in this case. If a person is so attached to their lifestyle that they will grovel, beg, and sacrifice their children to a medical experiment to maintain it, they can be made to do dirty deeds and jerked around like marionettes. We have to wonder when the anger will set in as the vaxxed figure out they’ve been had, but I don’t see it happening anytime soon. Sun Tzu warns that “One easily angered and hasty can be insulted.” Insults are a potent tool. They can backfire spectacularly, such as Hillary Clinton and Les Deplorables, or they can ignite a revolution, as in the case of Let’s Go Brandon. The interesting part comes as the shamers get shamed. Sun Tzu mentions “one obsessed with being scrupulous and untainted can be shamed” and we now see cancel culture coming full circle as normies become aware of Hollywood pederasts and Hunter Biden’s laptop. Sun Tzu’s fifth and most sociopathic comment on character traits is “One who loves the people can be troubled”. In this sense, the opposition is unassailable because they don’t love the people and are untroubled by the woes of the working class despite all their posturing about being good, kindly champions. The most difficult order of our time is to maintain the spirit of love and to work around the hate that comes so easily.