The Resolute Renegade is a firm, principled renegade passionate about helping his or her planet and the world living on it. Four things can make you a resolute renegade: (1) reject displays of personal wealth, (2) reject high and fast fashion, (3) reject brands owned by multi-national conglomerates, and (4) start reusing, repairing, co-owning, and sharing.
1. Ruin and reject displays of wealth.
You can start noticing the shadows of greed and unforgivable poverty in the posted and shared photos of super yachts, mega mansions, high-end cars, high fashion brands, and exclusive
resorts. These displays of wealth are detestable. As long as one child cannot find food or potable water, these images are obscene.
You can ruin these images if you have photo-editing skills. Just superimpose images of poverty and suffering on decadent wealth photos and flood the internet with them. Do this once or twice a month. Or just share a “Met Gala” runway photo juxtaposed to a photo displaying economic
hardship and suffering. (Must See: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSYeYBMqL/)
2. Reject high fashion and fast fashion.
Clothes are regularly consumed seasonal items, so they amount to a lot of the world’s consumption. Did you know 2,500,000 pairs of shoes produced every hour? Did you know that 190,000 garment are produced each minute? Reject high fashion labels like Armani, D&G, Alexander Wang, Tom Ford, Gucci, Fendi, and LV, and so on. Also reject fast fashion like Zara, H&M, Forever 21, Uniglo, Mango, and ASOS. Cut leather and cotton to de-fund the red fascist states.
Instead, choose uniforms. The word ‘uniform’ means the same or similar. Uniforms save time, resources, and money. There are uniforms like those worn by nurses, servicemen, and priests, but you can make anything your own personal uniform. Just a couple of pairs of good-looking trousers or jeans and 2-3 duplicate T-shirts and shirts, socks all the same color, one pair of repairable shoes, sneakers, and one reversible jacket. With a few vintage accessories, you are set to go. Wear them to death. If people laugh at you, show them an inner label that reads “The Silent Mutiny”. If you must buy quality clothes for your job, choose high-quality non-distinct pieces that never go out of style and accessorize for variety.
3. Reject brands owned by multinational conglomerates.
Keep the Silent Mutiny strong by resolutely and radically reducing your consumption of new products, especially brands owned by multi-national conglomerates. They are focused on profit at any cost. There is a chart showing how all the brands you see on the market are owned by just a handful of multinational conglomerates. You can find it at
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/illusion-of-choice-consumer-brands/ Make it your no buy list.
4. Start recycling, re-using, repairing, and co-owning or sharing as much as you can.
This can be applied to anything from vacuum cleaners to mops, from punch bowls to food processors, and from scarves to ties. Throw-away-and-buy-new consumerism is destroying the planet. Reduce your participation in it.
Superimpose images of poverty over shared images of obscene wealth and repost.