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This Wired story is subtitled “Why it’s smart to disobey officials in emergencies.”

For nearly four years - steadily, seriously, and with the unsentimental rigor for which we love them - civil engineers have been studying the destruction of the World Trade Center towers, sifting the tragedy for its lessons. And it turns out that one of the lessons is: Disobey authority. In a connected world, ordinary people often have access to better information than officials do.

MemeMachineGo! advises beating the rush. Start disobeying them now.

Discordian Research Technology notes:

DRT headquarters is located in a tsunami risk zone, and the area has several well-marked evacuation routes in case one happens. It’s obvious that in the case of such a disaster, actually using one of the marked routes would be suicide (at least during tourist season.) The gridlock would set in as soon as the sirens started up. There are dozens of other roads leading to the hills, though, and while those that take comfort in being told what to do get stuck in traffic, we’ll be happily speeding along an actual escape route, which will be free of tourist traffic due to the decoy routes the authorities so kindly provided.