In the shadows of capitalism
posted by Edge | February 14, 2011
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IcerocketReading this blog prompted me to write one of my own.
http://www.evolver.net/user/boadie/blog/i_have_dream
This particular paragraph rang out to me:
"Our hope does not lie in the idea that the system will not collapse. Our only hope is in the fact that the system WILL collapse, and that we'll be here to build something better, you and I and all of us, together as one. We can start building it now! Today. Right here. Right now."
In reality the system was designed to collapse, the reason for this is due to interest. Our governments get our money from the banks at interest. All money is given away under interest, Thus there will never be enough money to pay the interest. This is due to the nature of interest, It is also why inflation is required. Because in order to allow more money and the potential to even pay back the banks. The government is required to get more money at more interest.
Collapse is inevitable, but we cannot rely on it. We must shape the future we want before a collapse. When a collapse does happen it will just be the few with power and everyone else will be poor, unable to afford food. we need to change out of the current reality prior to the collapse when people are still healthy and well.
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http://www.sevenpillarshouse.
— Feb 15, 2011
http://www.sevenpillarshouse.org/article/the_etherealization_of_capitali...
THE ETHEREALIZATION OF CAPITALISM
WILLIAM IRWIN THOMPSON
http://www.yesmagazine.org/new-economy/time-for-a-new-theory-of-money
Time for a New Theory of Money
by Ellen Brown
http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_55356.shtml
Buddhist Economics
By E. F. Schumacher. The E.F. Schumacher Society
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978140573#cid-1...
IT IS TIME TO RE-THINK OURSELVES AND OUR SOCIETY
by Laurence Northcote
http://www.deepleafproductions.com/wilsonlibrary/texts/raw-RICH.html
The RICH Economy
by Robert Anton Wilson
from The Illuminati Papers
Fire Drills
— Feb 15, 2011
Remember in school we had fire drills? I don't know about your school but all of mine were 60's era concrete block and cement structures with "fall out shelter" labeled on a door in the basement. The likelihood of it burning was pretty thin, but we practiced anyway. I think to some extent that is our purpose.
Collapse is inevitable because our economy is based on oil, a non-renewable resource, and our money is based as you pointed out on interest and valuation. So we've pegged our lives on something that must by the laws of thermodynamics have diminishing returns run something that is increasing without attachment to actual physical existence, and that powered by belief in risk analysis and betting on failure.
Maybe some of our Spore meet-ups could serve as fire drills. Know the signs, assign tasks, identify resources, places to meet, contacts, training, institute alternative currencies to keep resources flowing, develop education to inform those trying to adapt to the "new normal".
But empires do not fade in a day it takes decades, then one event will exploit it's weakness and end it.
6 Tektite Serpent
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"That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly" - Thomas Paine
"We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing" - Seneca
I totally agree!
— Feb 16, 2011
And I'm glad I could inspire you. Yes, you're right, the system was designed to collapse. I do realize that.
And I agree that we need to start preparing now, which is what I meant. One of the smartest things that anyone can do right now is start getting off the grid, growing their own food, etc. Prepare for it. But do it with joy! It doesn't have to be a grim thing, or at least not all grim. Personally, I'm looking forward to getting out of the city and returning to a more peaceful life. I imagine it will be like paradise.
Did you know you can buy good land in the US for just a few hundred dollars? Build a cobb home for virtually nothing? Build your own wind turbine? Buy solar panels at a very reasonable cost? This all might seem very intimidating at first, but everyone I've talked to online who's doing this has assured me that it's all very easy once you just start taking it step by step. If you network online, there are plenty of people willing to help you. There plenty of people willing to let you come out and take a visit, where they teach you and show you some things.
Right now I'm still in the stage of saving money and networking with others. But I'm very serious about this. I'm thinking about buying some land.
This is a movement that has grown a lot just over the last couple of years. A lot of us are getting the idea that we need to start preparing. And we're happy about it too, because this system has got to go.
Anyway, great blog!
>:)
