"I know that each of us is powerful and capable, and we can succeed in this new environment if we're simply willing to accept personal responsibility and take action to become more self-reliant." - Simon Black
We often say that the United States values freedom, and that it is a free country, but how can a society that is completely reliant on corporate entities for its necessities be free? How can one whose food, shelter, and security come about from interests so far removed, both geographically and interpersonally, claim that their life is their own, and that their sovereignty is ensured? Before one contributes to the world outside their homesteads, for their own sakes, they should be self-sufficient. This is not an absolute ultimatum, as some self sufficiency can be trusted to one's neighbors, if it is mutually beneficial. But to allow that trust of sufficiency's source to extend to regions unknown, to lands unseen, to men untrusted, is a dire mistake. One must always remember: hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.
Once this baseline of individual sovereignty and security is established, only then can enterprise be ensured to be just, and for the greater good. When all persons have all that they need by their own providence, there will be significantly fewer means of exploiting others, and one's aims will have to have true value to be accepted. Think, if all members of our degraded society did not have to work for another in order to eat, in order to keep a roof over their heads, would there be many who would volunteer for unpopular enterprises? for any feasible wage?
The beast that we have become was conceived long ago, but was born, in part, when the dust bowl put people from their land, and put agriculture in the hands of ever fewer hands. Those dispossessed, among others have become slaves of fascism (corporatism). The insurgence of new bodies and needy hands allowed for the creation of war machines, as well as many frivolous and often harmful enterprises.
The cultural fad and logistical impossibility of a "universal love for all by all" dispossessed well meaning individuals from their self protection. They traded guns for flowers, and smarter men who kept them began to target tidi for robberies. They are not meant to be wanted to be used, but guns are necessary to have. These robberies aren't a myth, they were pervasive. And that same flowery movement produced the regulation of guns. As many hurdles as possible were put up, but luckily, they seem to have lost this battle thus far, for the most part.
And now they come for homes. They tax you for owning them, and they trick you into gambling them. And more recently they've lied fledglings into trying to fly to higher nests than they can reach, and taken from them all the money they've invested once their wings gave out.
The fascists (corporatists) are stratifying society into peasants and aristocrats via market manipulation and government control through lobby, and people are only beginning to see. This is the U.S.A's recent history, and by knowing it you take your future into your own hands, as many others are already beginning to.
As a reaction to the abuses of our food by the fascists, people have started crawling back towards food security. Books such as Food Not Lawns have been published, and urban gardening is an exponentially growing trend. If you don't already use your available space for growing nutritious, diverse, pesticide-free food for yourself, I would implore you to look into topics such as permaculture, aquaculture, and forest gardening. But this progress isn't ensured. Even your right to grow and share your own food is being threatened: http://www.rense.com/general91/dehe.htm
This is the real state of american politics. Wonder why no one talks about it? Don't forget, The media has undergone a similar conglomeration of ownership as agriculture, and is in hands closely associated with the biggest of the bankers. And the kinship of power doesn't stop there, but volumes can and have been written about those connections. The media: if they don't talk about it, the people don't talk about it. It has been observed by political scientists that media will not convince anyone of anything, but what it can do is something called 'agenda setting.' By selectively showing and, more importantly, -not- showing specific content, they impose the state of discourse on the people. This is quite obviously utilized. Republican v. Democrat, Mosque haters v. liberal idiots, and border watching racists v. still more liberal idiots are but a few of the 'issues' of our time. But do these speak to the real direction of society? Will these ever resolve into a consensus? Think to yourself, is focusing on such things beneficial, or ruinously divisive? By agenda setting, they take the focus off of the true divisions that are arising between the free and the enslaved.
The worrying thing, though, is that the enslaved are mostly working for the same people. The big bankers. The inside traders. Toiling day by day, the slaves get no richer. Everything is funneled slowly but definitively upwards. The lowest of the slaves are suppressed by others with a slightly higher standard of living, and those by a still richer group. But they are, all of them, taxed for war. Taxed and indoctrinated and manipulated so that they retain little of their industrial toils and they never see the alternative. It is imperative that we understand the gravity of this, our most fundamental adversity. All other issues are purely diversionary.
Again, DO NOT LET YOURSELVES BE DIVIDED. Not the liberals nor the conservatives, the progressives nor the fundamentalists, the pacifists nor the NRA, and not the drifters nor the homesteaders are your enemy. Once the republic is restored, and it -can- be restored, we will be restored our state sovereignty, and we will be once again afforded the right to self government. -Not- government by a massive and detached centralized federal power, but by the self, at largest at the level of the state. And if you don't like your state's laws you can move a few miles. All of those previous antitheticals (progressives, fundamentalists, etc) will be able to form a mosaic of governments at the state level, and what works will be adopted voluntarily by any state that decides to (NOT by the federal government at the behest of the unwilling.) This is what a republic truly means, and we must take that meaning back.
The recession saved us, in a way. It opened eyes, it knocked people out of their comfort zone. As a result, a holistic perspective of the true nature of society has begun to crystallize. From collective reasoning and innumerable sources, the truth has begun to spread. New movements have sprung up, including the urban gardeners, the gun collectors (though they've been strong throughout), the drifters, and the libertarians. These groups have an intrinsic sense of what they need to hold on to in order to survive hard times, and I implore you to learn from them all.
To join this revolution, you need only ensure your own sovereignty. Amass your own means: for protection, for sustenance, for knowledge and experience, and for activism. You must know what your true necessities are. Only once we take back responsibility for ourselves from the government can we fight to our fullest, and only then can this revolution be won.
