We are definitely being very skillfully and systematically transitioned, so that most of us won't see the descent into absolute slavery until it is far too late. I sure hope you are wrong in some of your assessments. I don't see how any community can be truly self-sufficient, unless it exists where there are no real estate taxes.
I don't think any community can be truly self-sufficient either in this current rendition of the digitized-legal-infrastructure.
When there we were still operating on the legacy paper-systems, communities could play out the legal loop holes with various Co-Op Schemes. The Amish have enjoyed relative self-sufficiency for a long time; the bribe money needed to maintain such a community wasn't as costly (bribe money = mortage, land tax, property tax, licenses etc).
Now i can hardly see if this is at all possible. I often sit atop skyscrapers in my city...and i have a very good pair of binos...i scour the landscape and i see the whole western world becoming Hong Kong.
When i travelled Hong Kong in the early 1990s, it struck me how unified most Asian/oriental cities were...skyscrapers, narrow roads, many back alleys, convenience stores, eating-out-culture to supplement the lack of space (thereby creating a booming economy via the food and beverage industry in local areas), and to maintain all such rigors of daily neccessities...the HK ID card was introduced.
I had been given one of these cards since 1996, when i was 6 years old...just before the passover back to China in '97.
Now i cast my bad eyes across this landscape and behold! I see the corrupt-uniformation of everywhere...how can communities possible survive?
I have been going back to reading Frank Herbert Dune. Especially the first book. I love the Fremen and their culture; some of it may be fictional, some of it may be based on various desert tribes. I have read Dune I, II and III many a time (I don't enjoy "God Emperor of Dune"...it's too tragic and sad for me...but Leto II the Godworm's observations on the human condition, of societal progression, genetic adaptation according to the times, are all poignant lessons for me).
It may be that we have to live outskirts on the borderlands. However in a recent conversation with the excellent @valued-customer, found here:"L.O.E.S - 5 - A Message To All Millennials"...I would like to bring your attention to the below sentiment:
I'm grateful for this heartfelt reminder that not all is doom and gloom. I am not one to fall into the black pill mosh pit. No way Ma'am. (wow i just realized if you switch the letters around...Ma'am can be spelt as Mama' LOL)
In my video there, I lament that the pre '96 kids (Gen Y's, thats me) were able to catch the last train of the old world. I don't include Gen X because they were already on their way to become digi-fied. In the video i comment on upholding old world "relics" (the old ways, traditions, lifestyles, thinking, cultural heritages, ethnic arts). Maybe i came across as saying that we should forsake the new and preserve the old.
(in Cantonese accent) THAT NO GOOD!
We have to embrace the new techniques and technologies being introduced into the world. Yet we can't be overcome by it or controlled by it. Many modifications are needed for us to adapt to this brave-clown-town.
We are in dire need of all elders to come forth and show us youngsters what the flame is...this life-fire ought to be re-appreciated and then the torch passed down to the ages, with careful instructions/guidelines on how to maintain the semblance of our rich old world, whilst navigating the updated world.
What do you think Elder @owasco ? Please advise this young grasshoppa.
I'm grateful for this heartfelt reminder that not all is doom and gloom.
This elder has seen wonderful things come of terrible strife. Opportunities open up as mindsets break down. We are humans, more powerful that those entities that have spent the last few thousand years dominating us. We haven't been robbed of our powers, but rather have allowed them to be forgotten. We still have them, rooted in male and female, which is why those powers have long been under attack, our last defense and their last act. Thankfully, it is impossible to rid us of our powers, we merely need to remember them, to root ourselves in love. Earth does not have our backs, Earth has the backs of no things. We can reason and feel and love, our oppressors cannot. We msut ride the earth like the Fremen ride their worms.
I, too, anticipate hearing what Owasco has to say. But I will note that I have long enjoyed simple fare. I like hearty food. Some veg boiled in milk and butter with some meat. Cornbread with butter and honey. These meals were possible to the poor to make from what they themselves could provide for millennia. Today it seems inconceivable to provide your own veg and meat. We don't have cows! Butter is something that can only come from stores nowadays. Stew comes in cans, and cornbread mix in a bag.
An individual cannot be self-sufficient in these things living in an apartment block. Even living in a rural area isn't enough, because you must have a lot of land for a herd of cattle, and cows must come from herds with bulls, even for a small holder that only has one cow. This is a big problem for me, because I come from dairy people that had herds of cattle back in the day. When the dairy products I have bought off the shelf all my life are no longer provided, I cannot just move back to the farm. The ability to eat as if I lived on a farm, or even amongst farmers, was availed me by their products being on the shelf at the market, and this has enabled me to be lured far from the farm. Now, when the products aren't available on the shelf in the market anymore, I am generations removed from the farm, and there is no route back to the farm where I can get those products. The way is shut.
If we don't make a way, we will soon discover we are dependent on overlords, and instead of veg, meat, and butter, all that is on the shelf is goyslop made of crickets. The corporate owned dairy farms have been transformed into black soldier fly factories. I'm sure none of us, not even the most rabid devotee of the fake climate crisis, wants to crack open a can of crisp, refreshing maggot milk, so we are going to have to do something to head off this coming crisis - because they are telling us that is what is going to happen. Humanity cannot all live as peasants on small farms bordering endless steppes while also having the blessings of civilization and global communications and travel.
That is not true. We can't have those things and that life as long as we are dependent on centralization and the overlords that are dependent on it, in turn. We can actually all live on farms in our commieblocks, grow our own veg, and have our own private aircraft - but we have to actually build commieblocks that way, with fields for cattle to graze on, and have to have the ability ourselves to manufacture quadcopters we can ride in. We have to merit that life, not just clock in and out of our corporate jobs and then drink beer and watch TV or screech at one another on social media. The transformation is inconceivable, the very idea of floors in apartment buildings dedicated to grazing cattle beyond ludicrous, the idea of building your own flying car completely insulting. Not having paychecks from corporations run by these superhumans that know how to run everything is impossible, and this is what we are indoctrinated from birth to believe.
It's not true. While it's true I can't make this transition happen today by myself, I can start it. I have already. I have begun adopting technology that enables me to be a producer of the goods and services I need, and as these tools continue to develop, I need to continue to adopt new iterations that provide more fundamental capabilities. One such tool is a simple breadmaker. I don't need to buy bread off the shelf anymore, I just need to buy bags of bread mix and then put that in my breadmaker (lol). I joke a little bit, but I don't need to have a bakery to make bread, nor do I need the skill bakers develop. I can literally just push buttons because AI has the programming to emulate that skill. The stoves that our mothers that baked bread used didn't have that AI, and the 3D printers our hobbyist neighbors use to make cosplay toys don't have that AI today, but they will. Just as I don't need to have any more skill at baking than is required to dump a bag of mix into the breadmaker and push the button, soon we won't have to have anymore skill at making quadcopters to make them ourselves either.
If we want 3D printers with AI that can run them automagically, we are going to have to fund their development, because our corporate overlords aren't going to pay us to build the gallows on which they will hang. Two centuries ago the most common form of transportation was the Mark I foot. Most people couldn't afford a herd of horses and the land to keep them on, or even an acre with a barn to keep a family horse in. They walked from their hovel or hitched a ride from some commercial entity that did keep horses. If you asked them about everyone having private automagical carriages to ride around in they'd have scoffed, yet less than a century later this became possible in the West, and in the US today it is the default. We can't expect ourselves to see the future from our present circumstances, but we can start to build capacity that is able to make that transition happen. We have to be wary of cargo culting, but if we actually take the steps between where we are and where we want to be we can avoid that.
I have seen a 3 bd. apartment with an aquaponics system using sunny windows and LEDs to grow crops fertilized with 3 2000 gallon tanks of tilapia they kept in the garage. They produced WAY more than they needed for their personal use, because they produced a crop for sale. It is not at all unreasonable to have a system in a normal home to produce all your necessary food today (even though it won't include Bossie providing milk). It is even possible with some thought to make such a system highly aesthetically pleasing, pools and fountains and garden windows decorative, rather than utilitarian and industrial. This is especially true if architects design apartments for this purpose before they are built.
This can literally even include whole floors of pasture for cattle, if we want. It's up to us to aim at the future we want our posterity to inherit from us. If we don't choose something that isn't on the shelf provided by overlords - who are sure as hell choosing the future they want - then we will get the future overlords want and provide for us. We are only as sovereign as we choose to be.
For some years now I have been gradually increasing the number of homes I provide services to. I have constantly sought to attain goodwill rather than money because I don't want to buy off the shelf. I want to change these homes so they fill the shelves. It's taken me a while, but I have just ordered a greenhouse that will be dedicated to aquaponics, I've created a small commons and am working on agreement from landowners to put a picnic table and a firepit there, and also on a chicken coop. With eggs at ~$10/dozen, this is an attractive proposition, and I've been knocking back bramble for years to create the space for it, and that's just the beginning of the transformation I am intent on. Wherever we are, if we strive to be the change we want to see, we will achieve it. Every kind of work we do can be adapted to facilitate these changes. Janitors can implement Roombas. Cooks can implement breadmakers. Wherever you are, whatever you do, you can aim at where you want your grandkids to end up.
For the people who have forgotten what the initial inception of Cryptocurrencies were for (it was for your privacy and security, ensuring your financial transactions to be fully in your control, as well as being a great store of value...store of value is determined by it's utility, flexibility and practical usage...which BTC and all the rest, including Hive and Blurt tokens, do not meet), i urge you to reconsider thy approach.
Most of you are into Cryptocurrencies just to make a quick buck...you take too much precedent on the fiat-unit of measurement...and you bank your happiness on such a unit of measurement. It blinds you and in the end you will fall and bow down to the system.
Yes you will, you know you will.
Unless you take your freedom, privacy and security seriously....you will fall prey to the system come 2030. It isn't hard to observe.
Or unless you can find a way to live self-sufficiently without the need of any type of currency (like for example if you've made connections with guarded self-sufficient-communities outside of city-scapes)...you will be needing XMR...aka MR X.
We are definitely being very skillfully and systematically transitioned, so that most of us won't see the descent into absolute slavery until it is far too late. I sure hope you are wrong in some of your assessments. I don't see how any community can be truly self-sufficient, unless it exists where there are no real estate taxes.
I don't think any community can be truly self-sufficient either in this current rendition of the digitized-legal-infrastructure.
When there we were still operating on the legacy paper-systems, communities could play out the legal loop holes with various Co-Op Schemes. The Amish have enjoyed relative self-sufficiency for a long time; the bribe money needed to maintain such a community wasn't as costly (bribe money = mortage, land tax, property tax, licenses etc).
Now i can hardly see if this is at all possible. I often sit atop skyscrapers in my city...and i have a very good pair of binos...i scour the landscape and i see the whole western world becoming Hong Kong.
When i travelled Hong Kong in the early 1990s, it struck me how unified most Asian/oriental cities were...skyscrapers, narrow roads, many back alleys, convenience stores, eating-out-culture to supplement the lack of space (thereby creating a booming economy via the food and beverage industry in local areas), and to maintain all such rigors of daily neccessities...the HK ID card was introduced.
I had been given one of these cards since 1996, when i was 6 years old...just before the passover back to China in '97.
Now i cast my bad eyes across this landscape and behold! I see the corrupt-uniformation of everywhere...how can communities possible survive?
I have been going back to reading Frank Herbert Dune. Especially the first book. I love the Fremen and their culture; some of it may be fictional, some of it may be based on various desert tribes. I have read Dune I, II and III many a time (I don't enjoy "God Emperor of Dune"...it's too tragic and sad for me...but Leto II the Godworm's observations on the human condition, of societal progression, genetic adaptation according to the times, are all poignant lessons for me).
It may be that we have to live outskirts on the borderlands. However in a recent conversation with the excellent @valued-customer, found here:"L.O.E.S - 5 - A Message To All Millennials"...I would like to bring your attention to the below sentiment:
I'm grateful for this heartfelt reminder that not all is doom and gloom. I am not one to fall into the black pill mosh pit. No way Ma'am. (wow i just realized if you switch the letters around...Ma'am can be spelt as Mama' LOL)
In my video there, I lament that the pre '96 kids (Gen Y's, thats me) were able to catch the last train of the old world. I don't include Gen X because they were already on their way to become digi-fied. In the video i comment on upholding old world "relics" (the old ways, traditions, lifestyles, thinking, cultural heritages, ethnic arts). Maybe i came across as saying that we should forsake the new and preserve the old.
(in Cantonese accent) THAT NO GOOD!
We have to embrace the new techniques and technologies being introduced into the world. Yet we can't be overcome by it or controlled by it. Many modifications are needed for us to adapt to this brave-clown-town.
We are in dire need of all elders to come forth and show us youngsters what the flame is...this life-fire ought to be re-appreciated and then the torch passed down to the ages, with careful instructions/guidelines on how to maintain the semblance of our rich old world, whilst navigating the updated world.
What do you think Elder @owasco ? Please advise this young grasshoppa.
This elder has seen wonderful things come of terrible strife. Opportunities open up as mindsets break down. We are humans, more powerful that those entities that have spent the last few thousand years dominating us. We haven't been robbed of our powers, but rather have allowed them to be forgotten. We still have them, rooted in male and female, which is why those powers have long been under attack, our last defense and their last act. Thankfully, it is impossible to rid us of our powers, we merely need to remember them, to root ourselves in love. Earth does not have our backs, Earth has the backs of no things. We can reason and feel and love, our oppressors cannot. We msut ride the earth like the Fremen ride their worms.
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I, too, anticipate hearing what Owasco has to say. But I will note that I have long enjoyed simple fare. I like hearty food. Some veg boiled in milk and butter with some meat. Cornbread with butter and honey. These meals were possible to the poor to make from what they themselves could provide for millennia. Today it seems inconceivable to provide your own veg and meat. We don't have cows! Butter is something that can only come from stores nowadays. Stew comes in cans, and cornbread mix in a bag.
An individual cannot be self-sufficient in these things living in an apartment block. Even living in a rural area isn't enough, because you must have a lot of land for a herd of cattle, and cows must come from herds with bulls, even for a small holder that only has one cow. This is a big problem for me, because I come from dairy people that had herds of cattle back in the day. When the dairy products I have bought off the shelf all my life are no longer provided, I cannot just move back to the farm. The ability to eat as if I lived on a farm, or even amongst farmers, was availed me by their products being on the shelf at the market, and this has enabled me to be lured far from the farm. Now, when the products aren't available on the shelf in the market anymore, I am generations removed from the farm, and there is no route back to the farm where I can get those products. The way is shut.
If we don't make a way, we will soon discover we are dependent on overlords, and instead of veg, meat, and butter, all that is on the shelf is goyslop made of crickets. The corporate owned dairy farms have been transformed into black soldier fly factories. I'm sure none of us, not even the most rabid devotee of the fake climate crisis, wants to crack open a can of crisp, refreshing maggot milk, so we are going to have to do something to head off this coming crisis - because they are telling us that is what is going to happen. Humanity cannot all live as peasants on small farms bordering endless steppes while also having the blessings of civilization and global communications and travel.
That is not true. We can't have those things and that life as long as we are dependent on centralization and the overlords that are dependent on it, in turn. We can actually all live on farms in our commieblocks, grow our own veg, and have our own private aircraft - but we have to actually build commieblocks that way, with fields for cattle to graze on, and have to have the ability ourselves to manufacture quadcopters we can ride in. We have to merit that life, not just clock in and out of our corporate jobs and then drink beer and watch TV or screech at one another on social media. The transformation is inconceivable, the very idea of floors in apartment buildings dedicated to grazing cattle beyond ludicrous, the idea of building your own flying car completely insulting. Not having paychecks from corporations run by these superhumans that know how to run everything is impossible, and this is what we are indoctrinated from birth to believe.
It's not true. While it's true I can't make this transition happen today by myself, I can start it. I have already. I have begun adopting technology that enables me to be a producer of the goods and services I need, and as these tools continue to develop, I need to continue to adopt new iterations that provide more fundamental capabilities. One such tool is a simple breadmaker. I don't need to buy bread off the shelf anymore, I just need to buy bags of bread mix and then put that in my breadmaker (lol). I joke a little bit, but I don't need to have a bakery to make bread, nor do I need the skill bakers develop. I can literally just push buttons because AI has the programming to emulate that skill. The stoves that our mothers that baked bread used didn't have that AI, and the 3D printers our hobbyist neighbors use to make cosplay toys don't have that AI today, but they will. Just as I don't need to have any more skill at baking than is required to dump a bag of mix into the breadmaker and push the button, soon we won't have to have anymore skill at making quadcopters to make them ourselves either.
If we want 3D printers with AI that can run them automagically, we are going to have to fund their development, because our corporate overlords aren't going to pay us to build the gallows on which they will hang. Two centuries ago the most common form of transportation was the Mark I foot. Most people couldn't afford a herd of horses and the land to keep them on, or even an acre with a barn to keep a family horse in. They walked from their hovel or hitched a ride from some commercial entity that did keep horses. If you asked them about everyone having private automagical carriages to ride around in they'd have scoffed, yet less than a century later this became possible in the West, and in the US today it is the default. We can't expect ourselves to see the future from our present circumstances, but we can start to build capacity that is able to make that transition happen. We have to be wary of cargo culting, but if we actually take the steps between where we are and where we want to be we can avoid that.
I have seen a 3 bd. apartment with an aquaponics system using sunny windows and LEDs to grow crops fertilized with 3 2000 gallon tanks of tilapia they kept in the garage. They produced WAY more than they needed for their personal use, because they produced a crop for sale. It is not at all unreasonable to have a system in a normal home to produce all your necessary food today (even though it won't include Bossie providing milk). It is even possible with some thought to make such a system highly aesthetically pleasing, pools and fountains and garden windows decorative, rather than utilitarian and industrial. This is especially true if architects design apartments for this purpose before they are built.
This can literally even include whole floors of pasture for cattle, if we want. It's up to us to aim at the future we want our posterity to inherit from us. If we don't choose something that isn't on the shelf provided by overlords - who are sure as hell choosing the future they want - then we will get the future overlords want and provide for us. We are only as sovereign as we choose to be.
For some years now I have been gradually increasing the number of homes I provide services to. I have constantly sought to attain goodwill rather than money because I don't want to buy off the shelf. I want to change these homes so they fill the shelves. It's taken me a while, but I have just ordered a greenhouse that will be dedicated to aquaponics, I've created a small commons and am working on agreement from landowners to put a picnic table and a firepit there, and also on a chicken coop. With eggs at ~$10/dozen, this is an attractive proposition, and I've been knocking back bramble for years to create the space for it, and that's just the beginning of the transformation I am intent on. Wherever we are, if we strive to be the change we want to see, we will achieve it. Every kind of work we do can be adapted to facilitate these changes. Janitors can implement Roombas. Cooks can implement breadmakers. Wherever you are, whatever you do, you can aim at where you want your grandkids to end up.
That's what to do.
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We dogs don't understand much, but if the past is to be believed, among men, power changes hands quite often.
See ya, Woof! 🐾
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For the people who have forgotten what the initial inception of Cryptocurrencies were for (it was for your privacy and security, ensuring your financial transactions to be fully in your control, as well as being a great store of value...store of value is determined by it's utility, flexibility and practical usage...which BTC and all the rest, including Hive and Blurt tokens, do not meet), i urge you to reconsider thy approach.
Most of you are into Cryptocurrencies just to make a quick buck...you take too much precedent on the fiat-unit of measurement...and you bank your happiness on such a unit of measurement. It blinds you and in the end you will fall and bow down to the system.
Yes you will, you know you will.
Unless you take your freedom, privacy and security seriously....you will fall prey to the system come 2030. It isn't hard to observe.
Or unless you can find a way to live self-sufficiently without the need of any type of currency (like for example if you've made connections with guarded self-sufficient-communities outside of city-scapes)...you will be needing XMR...aka MR X.