Libertarian National Socialist Green Party

I've had fun distributing fliers in my local area over the last year and have developed into a skilled pamphleteer. Though my initial interest was to tell more people about the LNSG and get a reaction out of the numb drones of the world, I've found flier distribution to also be a fantastic education in mass psychology.

There is a lot of hypocrisy in how adults proclaim an ideology, but don't stand for anything. I guess it's hard to stay afloat enough to think when you are always drowning in a crazy society where everything calls out for constant attention.

You see the comedic effect of society pounding people to a pulp while handing out fliers. Something like 95 percent of people don't discriminate between a message of "Save The Whales" and "Murder Jews To Liberate The World." Just the act of handing them a flier brings immediate compliance from socialized people as they accept it without any confrontation. Finally there is some benefit to the years of their sheep training!

I make sure to try a variety of targets on flier runs. A parking lot of nearly a thousand cars was my most visually impressive hit, giving satisfaction as I looked back at how each car uniformly held a fluorescent green LNSG flier under its right windshield wiper. I've also handed out fliers in a shopping mall next to the booth of a well-known charity I used as stealth protection from security. And of course I have participated in blanketing neighborhoods in the middle of the night.

Once you get over the fear that someone might argue with you about how your beliefs are inappropriate, and how theirs are presumably enlightened and correct, there's nothing in the way of going on a flier run, or as my friends call it: an adventure in subversion.

There's the minor caveat. After you've hit a target once or twice, you can bet that local security or the homeowner's association will be looking for you next time because your actions have damaged the illusion of social uniformity and unrelenting obedience. You should change tactics accordingly or become more covert, though blatant open distribution is also a mighty finger at the system.

The biggest disappointment with flier campaigns is that the reaction is small or nil. I once posted fliers on at least a hundred bulletin boards across a college campus, leaving my email address and an anonymous voicemail number. Though the student population was over 20,000, not a single one contacted me. Sometimes it seems fliers can't change people's minds or get through to them at all.

This disappointment is then counter-balanced by the disproportionate coverage newspapers provide now that they have something interesting to fill pages with. I might not get a single email message of phone call, but the local paper will print a front page article telling people about the great danger that alternative political ideas pose to the future of humanity. You never really grasp how much newspapers create and discuss a fabricated reality until they write about something you know very well.

I plan to continue more flier campaigns when I feel like taunting the press to get coverage for LNSG issues, but no longer believe it's an effective means of causing social change. People are simply inculcated with too many messages from too many sources and have too many obligations placed on them from every direction. Activism is for youth, but political power today is governed by monetary interests. Having seen this, I now direct my efforts toward education and long-term organizational goals.

In any case, I encourage all activists to hand out fliers at least once so they can experience mass psychology first hand, as well as the lack of reaction from everyone except the newspapers. It changes your view of the world, perhaps refining your ideas about how to achieve social change.