Rebellion: On Language, the Metric System

How can I personally rebel, without getting the sack and making my family homeless? It's all well and good that some of the highly intelligent folks that I've met recently can refrain from paying taxes to the Empire and still make do, but for the moment I have to keep rendering unto Caesar. (My time will come.)

For the moment, here are a few small things that go a long way because I can be a virus in the corporate world:

1. I speak and write in Standard English.

You're thinking, wtf?!? Well, think about it. The Empire think it's the norm, the 'greatest country etc.'. That's so bloody provincial, and what's worse, they don't even know it. They exclude themselves from the rest of the world, relying on TV for how to think and speak.

Here's the deal. American English (including English spoken with an American accent) is spoken only by the inhabitants of the US, which are a fraction of English-speaking countries. The US inhabitants are chauvinistic enough to remark that anything outside of their narrow world is 'British English', a term which makes no sense unless you haven't studied Geography (with a GPS made in China, 'why bother?', I'm told).

So I set my document base language and spell-checker to English/Canada, (here is how), eschew all but Standard English, though I do admit some LOLCats influence ;) I speak in public and teach quite a bit, and have told hundreds of other people like myself, trapped in the Fortune 500 prison, exactly why.

2. I refer to Corporations in the plural.

Looks a bit weird at first, but get used to it. I simply refuse to recognise the 'Corporate Personhood', in which the Empire grant special privilege to corporations. With which privilege they sack our Commons.

Standard English, by the by, refers to corporations in the plural. I recommend that we all do so in Free Vermont.

2. I use the Metric System, exclusively.

An Independent and Free Vermont must practise Free Trade with the entire civilised world, if we are to survive. Everything should be measured the same. Why did the Empire almost go metric in the early 1970s, and then switch all the signs back to their accursed old system? Why do Americans fail to function in the larger world? Can't tell time, temperature, distance, can't leave the tour bus.

Fortunately, with secession, that's no longer Vermont's problem. Let us [today] cast off the provincial and obsolete measurement system of the Empire, along with its increasingly worthless currency, and finally become part of a larger world !!!