> [!summary] Progressive Summary # Structured Notes ## Definitions ## Chapter Summaries - Acts of disobedience are of interest to us when they are exemplary, and especially when, as examples, they set off a chain reaction, prompting others to emulate them. Then we are in the presence less of an individual act of cowardice or conscience—perhaps both—than of a social phenomenon that can have massive political effects. - Desertion is quite different from an open mutiny that directly challenges military commanders. It makes no public claims, it issues no manifestos; it is exit rather than voice. - Desertion is a lower-risk alternative to mutiny, squatting is a lower-risk alternative to a land invasion, and poaching is a lower-risk alternative to the open assertion of rights to timber, game, or fish. - More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish democracy,” the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs. - Tacit coordination and lawbreaking can mimic the effects of collective action without its inconveniences and dangers. - “shortcuts” in walking paths often end up becoming paved walkways. - Compare the above to the behavior of Millenials. Could Millenials be practicing a form of anarchism? They do not believe in hierarchy, but in mutualism. Their poor work ethic could be a form of resistance. How can we test this? We would need to put the same Millenials in a different context, one withut hierarchy and dominant power. Would we have a Lord of the Flies situation? # Quotes