Welcome to the Quality of Life Resistance Movement
the antidote to the Rise of Huxwell...
WELCOME…
The quality of life is a reflection of how and where and with whom we invest our faith, our time, and our money.
The Quality of Life Resistance Movement is home to an independent populist philosophy dedicated to those things — faith, family, community, and country — that actively promote and protect the quality of life in 21st-century America.
What defines quality of life? Where do we find it? What threatens it? Once gone, how do we restore it? How and when does it rise to the level of political defiance? Finally, how do we promote and protect it for ourselves, our families, and our communities?
THE PROBLEM…
Barely one generation into the 21st century — with all but limitless access to everything worth knowing about the secrets to financial success, the science of health and nutrition, and the keys to personal empowerment — we find ourselves poorer and deeper in debt, morbidly obese, besieged by chronic lifestyle-related disease, addicted to just about everything, spiritually bereft, socially estranged, time-starved, sleep-deprived, far more anxious and fearful than ever before, and always at war…
The 21st century has witnessed indisputable declines in the spiritual, social, emotional, and physical quality of life for American individuals, families, and communities alike. Perhaps not so coincidentally, the things that once defined our national character, the same things that once protected the integrity and health of our families and communities, are in sharp national decline as well. Faith, family, community, and country are simply no longer deemed relevant in today’s open-border culture of polytheistic narcissism…
Our spiritual, social, emotional, and physical auto-immune systems have been severely compromised over the past few generations. No surprise therefore that our life expectancy — even adjusted for Covid — has dropped off a cliff…
The 21st-century decline in the quality of our lives and the erosion of our families and communities coincides with the emergence of an unmistakable new tyranny: a confluence of state-sponsored default addiction and runaway institutional power — both manifestations of digital scale.
The quality of life for ourselves, our families, and our communities is now under constant coordinated assault from thousands of massive institutions — a monolithic mega-state of ideologically aligned corporations, NGOs, and government agencies alike — collectively inescapable, far too big to fail, and all but unaccountable.
The newly emerged mega-state is a dystopian nightmare come true. It combines the compliance mechanism of state-sponsored default addiction borrowed from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World with the enforcement mechanism of 24/7 surveillance, linguistic thought control, manufactured hate, and institutional terror borrowed from George Orwell’s 1984. They come together now in The Rise of Huxwell — a global 21st-century adaptation of 20th-century totalitarianism…
To be clear, neither state-sponsored default addiction nor the sudden proliferation of institutions too big and too powerful to fail are unintended consequences or inevitable byproducts of plans simply gone awry. For the global architects and engineers of Huxwell, state-sponsored default addiction and too big to fail are the plan, unfolding before us now as a good old-fashioned class war against those correctly identified as the true enemies of the new dystopian state: you, your family, and your community.
The Huxwellian class war of the 21st century is now a global class war, hard at work across the Western democracies and the entire anglosphere. The global transition from the Enlightenment ideal of individual liberty to the collective darkness of unapologetic totalitarianism was one that required generations of willful thought and patient preparation to stage and prosecute.
Not only should we not expect Huxwell to go away anytime soon, we should expect it to grow in power and influence for the foreseeable future in direct relationship to the institutional metastasis of digital scale — precisely why we need to do everything we can right now to resist…
THE ANTIDOTE TO HUXWELL
The Quality of Life Resistance Movement is the antidote to the totalitarian state of Huxwell. Meaningful resistance to the state of Huxwell requires us to focus our time, attention, and resources on the fundamental building blocks of a strong and healthy country: spiritually, socially, emotionally, and physically strong individuals, families, and communities.
That’s why the QoL Resistance Movement will focus laser-like on three Calls to Action…
turn away from distraction, and turn our individual focus instead to those things and resources that promote and protect the quality of life: faith, family, community, and country;
restore meaningful ritual as the key to lifestyle moderation — the only statistically viable antidote to addiction (state-sponsored or otherwise); and
return to local autonomy as the best way for individuals, families, and communities to combat the tyrannies of digital scale and runaway institutional power.
Each of the above calls to action is designed to combat the soul-crushing and deadly impact of institutionalized political ideology at digital scale with the competence and life-affirming qualities of universal human values at human scale. In the age of Huxwell, each is nothing less than an act of sheer defiance, an act of political resistance.
Of course, the hardest steps in every journey are always the first steps. To help you take those first steps we’ve included the revolutionary Quality of Life Toolkit, a suite of three life-changing diagnostic and remedial tools designed to equip you, your family, and your community with the requisite focus and clarity of intent to help you satisfy all three calls to action.
It’s a long journey back, but the Quality of Life Resistance Movement starts right here, right now. Let’s not waste another moment…
In homage to the ancient Vedic Seer observation that we become our attention, The Quality of Life section is where you’ll find short essays about what defines the quality of life, where we find it, and how we celebrate it. My essay, The Quality of Life Essentials, sets the stage.
In the Huxwell section you’ll find essays that explore the threats to our quality of life in the confluence of state-sponsored default addiction and the institutional tyrannies of digital scale. Begin with The Rise of Huxwell.
The Calls to Action section describes how and where we resist Huxwellian totalitarianism. In it we will explore what we can do and the resources we can deploy to redirect our time and talents to focus on the quality of life, to promote moderation over excess, and return to the far more human scale of local autonomy. The Calls to Action essay will point you in the right direction.
The QOL Toolkit section offers a suite of three simple, elegant, yet immensely powerful and extensible tools to help you, your family, and your community restore the quality of life in all ways: spiritually, socially, emotionally, and physically. The Quality of Life Toolkit is the best place to learn more about them.
As subscriptions and reader participation grow, each of the above sections will feature a weekly summary newsletter with community feedback and more specific calls to action. Our mission statement is simple: We are here to promote and protect the quality of life as the primary weapon in the battle against Huxwellian tyranny. But we need your help. You must take the first step: join the Quality of Life Resistance Movement right now…
And please tell your family, friends, and colleagues…
Thanks for the kind reaction, Cynthia. Don't know if you're a baseball fan, but check out my essay, Baseball and My Father (https://open.substack.com/pub/qolrm/p/baseball-and-my-father?r=7hc45&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web). It's where I introduce the theory that all creation is a function of rhythm, and all artists create by ear.
So refreshing and invigorating to delve into the wit and wisdom of a sane soul. Not only are your writings insightful, but they go beyond being yet another exhaustive compilation of what's bent and broken, both on the level of the individual and the system. Unlike the legions of doom-sayers and soothsayers, you offer practical, realistic DIY guides to personal resurrection. Your methods accord with my personal-evolution programs to bring people back home; to return them to the state of sanity, serenity and natural grace (kinergy.life). Thank you Jeff!