# defeat fascism by being really annoying.

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Step Back
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFt27g3kX7g
- **Дата:** 11.03.2026
- **Длительность:** 2:00
- **Просмотры:** 3,155
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/20571

## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 02:00) []

Hey everybody. In 1944, the CIA's predecessor wrote a classified field manual, uh, teaching ordinary people how to destroy organizations from the inside. Not by using explosives or guns, but just really by being a bad coworker. It's called the simple sabotage field manual. It has been declassified. And here's what it told people to do. Insist that everything go through proper channels. Never allow shortcuts. When possible, defer all decisions to committees. Make the committees as large as possible, never less than five people. Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible. Haggle over the exact wording of every document. Reopen decisions that were already made at the last meeting. Advocate caution. Always be reasonable. Warn against moving too fast. Give the important jobs to the worst workers. Give the undeserved promotions who don't try. Complain about the people who do. Hold meetings when there's real work to be done. Multiply paperwork. Start duplicate files. Make sure three people have to approve everything where one person would do. Sound familiar? Here's the part that didn't make it into my new video that connects directly to it. The OSS, America's wartime uh spy agency, understood something in 1944 that we keep forgetting. The most effective sabotage looks like business as usual. Blow stuff up to break it. You just need to make it slow, confused, and full of meetings. Which means two things. working inside a broken system and you're wondering why nothing ever gets done. Maybe it's not an accident. And two, bureaucracies are fragile. They look powerful and they have armored vehicles and lanyards, but they run on paperwork and procedures. And paperwork and procedures can be gummed up by anybody with access and a little creativity. Fascism isn't a monster. It's a filing cabinet. And filing cabinets have a long history of losing things. So, go see the full video on my channel to learn about what you can do and how history could teach us.