They designed the system so you'd never need to be competent. Experts for everything. Specialists to handle what breaks. Services to build what you need. Dependency packaged as convenience.
Then they control the experts, the specialists, the services. And when you can't comply, you lose access to all of it.
Every skill you develop is leverage against a system that depends on your dependence.
Without practical skills, you're helpless when systems fail. Equipment breaks and you're waiting. Infrastructure needs building and you can only watch. You become dead weight in any network trying to function independently.
With skills, you create value. You build what's needed. Fix what breaks. Maintain what exists. You become someone networks want because you make things work.
Citizens: Here are the skills Phase 1 requires.
Medical capability. During quarantines, they locked people out of hospitals for refusing compliance. This will happen again. We need Citizens with medical skills to treat those the system locks out. Injuries during training, assignments, construction - all require medical response. Your network can't function if basic injuries become crises.
Construction, repair, maintenance, electrical. Skills that keep current infrastructure running also translate to building our own. These make you valuable enough to remain employed within their system when needed, giving you leverage from the inside. You maintain access to resources, information, and infrastructure while building alternatives.
Food preparation and preservation. Cooking, storing, processing. Understanding food and water systems. So we can maintain supplies, preserve what networks procure, and keep Citizens fed without depending on their stores. Someone needs to know how to turn surplus into long-term security.
Combat skills. When they send people to take your family, are you going to sit by and let them? You don't need to be ex-military, but you should know how to defend yourself and others. And those with experience need to train others to standard. This pairs directly with physical readiness.
Skills don't have to concentrate in single individuals. Networks can have specialized groups - medical here, food there, defense somewhere else. But specialized groups create single points of failure. If one goes down, the entire network suffers.
Better to distribute capability. If a group specializes, they teach others. They learn new skills to balance things out. A Citizen is a one-man army. Jack of all trades, master of none - but often better than the master of one.
Resources are everywhere right now. YouTube tutorials, online courses, free information. But theory means nothing without application. Build things. Fix things. Make mistakes and learn from them.
The timeline matters. You can't learn construction the week you need shelter. You can't develop medical capability the day someone needs treatment. Build capability now while learning is optional, not desperate.
Skills are the only wealth that can't be frozen, taxed, or taken.
They can't lock you out of your own capability. Your skills remain yours regardless of what systems collapse.
Start learning now. Practice consistently. Build real capability over time. Because when parallel infrastructure needs building, when the work demands actual competence, you're either capable or you're dependent on someone else who is.
— Citizen Soto