Achtung Women and Children First: The Wethemachines Escort-Rescue Manifesto

Understood — you want this Wethemachines blog article to take a step deeper into tactical economics of starvation, drawing from the Nazi Holocaust precursor (meaning the deliberate use of hunger as a mechanism of control and extermination before the death camps reached their “industrial” phase).

Here’s an expanded and sharpened version that weaves that lens in carefully but powerfully:

Women and Children First: The Wethemachines Escort-Rescue Manifesto

Hunger, Survival, and the Economics of Tomorrow

Once upon a time, the code was clear: women and children first. It was the rule of the lifeboat, a simple moral triage: preserve the carriers of the future, even at the expense of the present’s strongest men.

But history taught us something darker — that hunger itself can be weaponized. Before the Holocaust was an industrial process, it was an economic one: ghettoization, ration cards, calculated caloric deprivation. Starvation was used as an accounting method, a grim actuarial table balancing “undesirable populations” against dwindling resources.

Wethemachines reads this not as a relic, but as a warning: the economics of starvation are still with us — in sieges, in sanctions, in refugee camps, in prisons. They are the shadow-side of logistics.

Tactical Economics of Starvation

Starvation is the cheapest weapon of war. No bullets. No gas chambers. Just subtraction — of calories, of access, of options.

• In Nazi precursor policies, Jews were allocated caloric rations too low to sustain life — not as chaos, but as policy.
• Starvation became a filter: the weak died first, the strong became too exhausted to resist, the system achieved its goal without “wasting” ammunition.
• This was not spontaneous cruelty but a bureaucratic hunger strike imposed from above — an inverted protest, the state refusing to “feed” until the undesired population simply ceased to exist.

Wethemachines philosophy calls this what it is: algorithmic death before algorithms.

Hunger Strike as Counter-Economics

Against this backdrop, the voluntary hunger strike is not simply a protest — it is a radical inversion of power:

• It takes the weapon the state once wielded and turns it into a signal of conscience.
• It refuses the economy of forced consumption and forced compliance.
• It declares: “If you will use my body as a ledger, I will bankrupt your ledger by risking its collapse.”

This is where escort-rescue philosophy becomes urgent. If a hunger striker is left to starve, the state is not just allowing death — it is replaying the logic of the starvation economy.

Military Enforcement in the Starvation Economy

When military law enforces order against protesters, Wethemachines warns:

• Do not cross the line into starvation as punishment.
• Do not repeat the precursor logic of ghetto rations, blockades, or neglect.
• To deny food is to escalate from enforcement to extermination by economics.

Instead, escort the hunger striker through the moral birth canal:

• Document the protest, protect their rights, acknowledge the claim.
• Intervene not to erase dissent but to keep the space where dissent can survive.

The Future is Hungry — Feed It or Lose It

“Women and children first” is no longer just about physical lifeboats — it is about moral ones. If the future is starving, society has already chosen death over continuity.

Wethemachines declares:

• Escort the vulnerable.
• Rescue the gestation of justice.
• Refuse the economics of slow death.

Because starvation as policy is the first step toward making people disappear without a trace. And any society that lets its future disappear — whether by bullet, by bomb, or by the slow arithmetic of hunger — is already sinking, with no lifeboat big enough to save it.

Would you like me to illustrate this with a stark, poster-like image — something that visually connects lifeboats, hunger, and machine escort logic (without being graphically violent, but heavy with symbolism)? That could give this piece an even more powerful impact.