I remember, in some past election, some politician talking jobs jobs jobs. Economic growth and jobs. I realized in that instant, how unreal the language of the modern world has become. How deceptive.
Here is the problem with this: no one can eat a job, or live in one (though I guess some have tried,) or breathe a job, or drink a job and be refreshed by it. These are false things that are surrogates for real things. Things that promote life, health and survival, the only true values of the natural world. The "currency" of actual reality. Sure, you can get a job and get money, and then get food water shelter and the rest with the money. But the money won't actually keep you alive, you can't eat it, you can't wear it, it is a poor building material for a house. You get these things indirectly, and mostly through a system of servitude to corporations. Most people are indentured to corporations through the most ingenious system of human slavery ever devised. It is a mental slavery as well as a physical one.
In the previous post I talked about government. Well, that's not the only boss trying to run your life, corporations want to do that also, indeed they are the primary means of shaping your life into a form that serves them AND government. Corporations want to make money off you: in order to do that they want you to be a compliant slave. Ideally, a slave that is ignorant that he IS a slave. Governments want to make money off you too, but mainly in America these days, they want corporations to make money off you. Because the corporations are actually in the drivers seat. Politicians are mere men and women, and those men and women are very fond of the idea of a comfy corporate position or other profitable remuneration after their time in government has ended.
Now, lets switch back to governments for a minute. If the government uses your tax dollars for something heinous and unholy, some terrible war, some terrible transgression against the rights of Man or the laws of G-d, what actually can you do about it? Assuming that people of your opinion are in the political minority, which is often the case with such things? You can't stop paying taxes, the consequences of that are rather dire. Keep that thought in the back of your head as we continue on.
Now, re: jobs. During the Great Depression, did apples stop growing on trees? Did the rain utterly fail to fall? Did the wheat not grow? Yes there was a bit of an ecological catastrophe in the plains states, the Dust Bowl. In the rest of the country, the natural world continued as it had for time untold. Spring and fall, acorn and seed, everything continued just as it had. What did not continue as well was the human world. Jobs. Indeed, somewhere in the great catastrophe that was the Great Depression, somebody somewhere surely starved to death surrounded by food, as that hypothetical city person did not know what wild food was or how to identify and gather it. Were the Great Depression to happen today, people would be even worse off in that respect.
May not, and ought not, we rebel against having our very survival being dictated by the ups and downs of this corrupt ridiculous human system?
The human fake ecosystem of jobs and money is inherently unstable. One reason is, somebody somewhere is always trying to game the system. Human beings themselves strive to bring it down, and enrich themselves. The economic collapse of 2008 was largely due to people making way too many subprime home loans, loans with exorbitant interest rates. While the economy is good and those people dumb enough to take out such loans continue to have jobs and make their payments, it's a great deal for the bank. The theory was that even if people defaulted on their loans, the bank still has the house, so it was impossible to lose. Well, that idea was predicated on the idea that those homes would always have value. In a bad enough economy, nobody will buy them. I have lived through many economic disturbances in my sixty years, and no doubt more and possibly worse will come.
So what we have is an inherently unstable economic system that people depend on for their survival, that system being a system of functional corporate slavery; a government that wants to use you and your tax dollars to further the schemes of their corporate sponsors or commit other potentially immoral acts; and a system of mental and ideological slavery that seems to get worse by the day.
And the solution to all these problems, at least as far as the individual is concerned, is all pretty much the same solution. Get a few acres of land (some place where the property taxes aren't extreme) and some sort of place to live on that land, some means of collecting and purifying water on that land, grow your own food, and disinvest from the cash economy as much as possible. If worst comes to worst, assuming that you are able to make your property tax payments, you will still have food, water and shelter. Government won't be able to tax you much because you won't be making much in the cash economy. Corporations won't be able to get their claws too deep in you because you can more easily just blow them off and go back to your farm. You won't starve, you won't be homeless. Plus, you can do just fine from working part time or temporary, or better yet, working at your own business. You are only minimally feeding the systems that are ruining the world. You may be poor in cash, but will have what you need. Land is the only true wealth, and you don't need much of it. 2 acres can be better than 10. Fewer taxes.
Better yet, your relationships with other people can be more optional and more based on shared values instead of, these are people you have to socialize with, or your co-workers, or your boss. That means, if they all have taken the blue pill, so what? You largely don't need to have them in your life if you don't want to. You won't wind up on the streets if you choose to break off all relations with them, like you might for instance if they were your boss.
There are more interconnected issues with the modern world and modern life than I have space or energy to discuss. Modern living, despite 21st Century medicine (which as must be remembered is also a profit system) is more and more unhealthy. It is mentally unhealthy as well. More and more people are falling through the cracks or falling off the sane train altogether. City living is eroding the values that our ancestors had: values based on closeness to the land and honest work. You can lie to people and con them out of their money, but your crops are going to die if you don't take care of them. No use lying to them, they won't give you food if you don't work for it. Devoutly religious people, versus Sunday churchgoers, will find more and more of their rights taken away. The system is essentially atheistic; politics has become people's default religion and that is a very disturbing thought indeed because they will start looking to government to solve their existential problems. Government? THAT government? That inept drunken power mad incestuous beast? These problems are interconnected, which means that their solutions are also interconnected.
We are looking at the prospect of a system of human rule over other human beings and nature that puts dystopian fiction to shame. We're already there now, people just don't see it. So cut yourself loose from it as much as you can.
Make Haste From Babylon
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