Friday, October 22, 2010

The Revolution: Sovereignty via Autonomy

‎"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.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

The Water Baron's Theorems, Part I

We know the truth of balance
We've got forbidden talents

Preface: 
I don't know quite what realm this falls into. It could be sociology. It could also easily be philosophy. It could even very well be math. I hope you'll enjoy how I structured these theorems. This is a very powerful tool of understanding, if you can learn to wield it. Just as a heads up, I use the word 'selfless' just as much as I use the word 'selfish,' so just be sure not to skim over these and mistake one for another, or else your understanding will be shot from the beginning.

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The Water Baron's Theorems
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Part I: The Primary Duality

1. Imbalance

Most people spend their public time being explicitly benevolent, good people in order to attract/invite community and functionality around them, while in their private time, they spend time toiling for their selfish ends, usually in the privacy of their minds. Most people are afraid to admit this because this society shuns selfishness. There are many people who actually restrict the amount of selfish behavior and thought that they engage in, which causes an imbalance in their consciousness/reality continuum, by growing their benevolent outward time and not allowing their selfishness to fully develop. They are constantly geared towards understanding reality, and their selflessness bleeds over into their personal/alone time (usually reserved for selfishness). They devise ways to be good and selfless, rather than selfish,  without seeking for other people to be aware that they are doing so, as making sure that other people notice would be a selfish act.

On the other hand, there are the people who spend too much time alone, or being made to feel that they are alone. This causes them to spend an increasingly large amount of time on their own thinking about how to improve things for themselves. The fact that the majority of one's time is spent thinking about the needs everyone present; which, by definition of this half of this theorem, is only themselves; doesn't allow for them to develop in the realm of considering the needs of others, i.e. selflessness. Their underdeveloped selflessness leads their selfishness to bleed through into their interactions with other people (exactly opposite from the first half of this theorem). It's especially dangerous when someone with too much time feeling isolated moves into a situation of being forced into continuous involvement with others later in life (past childhood) and they maintain their selfishness and develop the selfless behaviors around them. This causes people to act benevolently for selfish aims. You can often see through such a facade if you know what to look for.

Important concepts in this theorem:

Imbalance towards social time causes selflessness to dominate all the time.
Imbalance towards alone time causes selfishness to dominate all the time.

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2. Self Correction Mechanisms

Considering the first case of holistic selflessness, we can imagine that as the entity comes under physical stress, as it inevitably will as a result of unflinching selflessness, they will begin to ghasp for selfishness in their alone time. They will deny that they require the breaths at first, but they will become more and more unmistakably important as their selflessness wears on them in the physical realm. Once selfishness eventually takes control, as it must in order for the entity to survive (to get food, water, etc.), it begins to manipulate the incredibly sophisticated extroverted skillset for increasingly selfish aims.

On the other hand, As the selfish entity amasses physical prosperity, they build a capacity to become generous with it, as long as they are allowed by their mental health to continue psychological development and foster ideas of selflessness (which can often fail to happen). The healthy selfish bastard will realize that the only happiness he can buy is friends, and so will do very well in business. But I jest (sort of). Anyway, in a more natural state, their generosity would be limited and dedicated to their close social group, but in the business world they are all flakes and users and there is no semblance of allegiance, only agreements on how people can mutually abuse their associations. Or else they just be as tricky as possible and abuse all of their associations, a practice which seems to be vastly more common.

Important concepts in this theorem:

Through time, selflessness produces a need for selfishness
Through time, selfishness produces an opportunity for selflessness.

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3. The selfish-selfless fractals of societies.

The culture of abuse of social interactions in the business world produces a steep advantage for the selfish, and those who can be selfish the most intelligently succeed the best. In this way, the business world breeds stratification into intelligent and evil, and good and dumb. And where poor, good men are intelligent enough to fight for their fair share in a business environment, they are shunned by the establishment. I dare you to think of an example. The good men are taken advantage of unless they can fight for their fair share against the already established stratification, which requires a great deal of intelligence, and often requires a shock of selfishness.  It is only in these circumstances that good entities can win out, but it doesn’t seem to happen too often anymore.

In a more ideal culture, there would be no culture of abuse of social interactions, and the opportunity for selflessness would happily flow to the tightly knit selfless brethren. When they can understand that they have a group of people who always have their back for whatever they need help with that they can offer (usually in the form of consciousness, be it problem solving of social situations, or brainstorming on business ideas, or simply positive recreational experiences), they are happily willing to improve their social time with the utilization of their opportunities for selflessness that they build up (as in the preceding theorem). This, though it is a selfless act, does not defy the selfish root of this type of person, as they perceive themselves to be getting something back in the situation. In this situation, good, intelligent/creative people are selected as the ideal inner core of the self ordered group, while the selfish are also selected for intelligence/creativity to aid in exploiting the outside world, to provide for the inner core of selflessness.

Important concepts in this postulate:

A culture of chronic deceit, cheating, and distrust leads to a stratification of society where the most intelligent,  most selfish people win out, and intelligent, selfless men die out. Amongst the selfless, unintelligence is favored in this system.

A culture of small community, balanced interactions with friends and associates, and cautious cooperation offers a role for everyone, and provides mutually beneficial relationships of the selfless, the selfish, and promotes intelligence in both.

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Conclusion:

In the imbalanced culture, there arises a societal rift where some who see the errs of ravenous business advocate for the extreme opposite: A culture of complete selflessness, manifesting as pacifist, socialist, and progressivist advocates. Those who vie for either extreme option see the world dichromatically. They see too much black and it makes them yearn for white, or vice versa. But they don't realize that a zebra/gray society full of selfless and selfish people working together in small groups is obviously superior. The selfish tendancies of each individual are directed towards the outside, but on the inside, as a unit, they are selfless. As the polarized culture begins to fail, as it inevitably will due to the above mentioned dysfunctionality, there will begin to arise bubbles of intelligent community such as this, which will rise to relative maximums in their economic aims. This is the natural trend, but constant reinforcement by mass media prevents many from flowing in this direction. The polarization of information between whatever sides (whose arguments usually fundamentally arise from a selfish/selfless conflict) is more than apparent, as I hope you can see. In short, The most successful communities use both selfishness and selflessness in moderation, and never assume one holds precedent over the other. We are, by far, absolutely not such a community.

Hex, of The Tension

Simple peaceful caterpillar,
impervious to all the weather,
slow enough to feel a fiber pulling taught inside its tether.
One day will feel the whims of winds,
a livid, vivid butterfly:
fast enough to know earth’s shape,
see’s some of all, her peace rescinds.

[Chorus]
Though her eyes are sharper than swords,
Her thoughts are longer than words.

Though her hands could sow a garden field,
They must carry only a shield.

Though her heart weeps to feed the meek,
Her wrath licks every cheek.

She'll sing to you in rainbowed chords,
but she can sing to you only words.
[/Chorus]

Think of it as simple,
or know it is complex.
One will make life easy,
the other lets you flex.
Focus on efficiency,
or think what else these things could be;
Have plenty of frivolity to see what could come next.

Never neglect to explore,
or the path will grow too narrow
legs will take you backwards,
without options in your arrow.
If you're having second thoughts you may need several thousand others
drones needn't options,
but let's save them, they're our brothers.

(Chorus)

We've shown it should, we know it could,
but where it could fit,
there’s no one who knows.
So what we have's not what we want,
And so it goes, we let it rot.
Because birth beckons destruction dares creation calling for death;
Because every failing frailty nurtures space for virgin breath.