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Originally posted by Jeremiah65
How do we break free of the farm?...How do we change it?
Great questions....
The answer is as multi-gray shaded as the situation itself....
I get where your going but this isn't gray.... And these questions don't fix anything.
We do it by self reliance and self efficiency...do not rely on 'the system" anymore than you have to.
Taxation w/o representation.... Tax evasion??? That'll get you in more trouble...
If you can grow basil and oregano in a windowsill box in a New York apartment...that is one thing you are not relying on the "system" for...
That's not enough to make a sandwhich but I do get where your going.....
The best thing you can do is to do everything you can to not require someone else...that might sound kinda harsh and wrong but it is that "need" that the system feeds on....
Even if we were 100% self reliant we would still need help.
Feed yourself as much as you can...
Don't we already? I work and get taxed like the rest~
Shelter and clothe yourself 'as "much as you can"..
The tax man makes it hard but you can still shelter and cloath yourself in todays world.
That might sound counter productive but it is not.....it will take years...generations...to break the mold...but it must be broken. We can be self sufficient, if we only choose to do so. It is reliance on a phantom system that is destroying us a culture....true thought.
We need each other...but we need each other to be our best and most productive selves....not running to the store for a wooden spoon that we could make for ourselves or for our neighbors....
edit on 2/8/2013 by Jeremiah65 because: (no reason given)
We don't need the Gov...we can do this all on our own....the Gov has become "Frankenstein's Monster"...we thought we were creating a benevolent entity and we made an abomination....we can do better than this if we choose to do so....
Originally posted by Jeremiah65
If we buy our herbs from the local vendor...that is far less evil than buying it from Wal mart or another mega corporation.
Dude...I cannot say there are things we can deny the monster...it happens...it is expected.
What we can do is narrow our expectations to the local and live within it. I am never going to tel someone else how to live or behave....it is not within me to do so....
BUT...I can recommend things like where to get their spices or veges...hot sauces or such. I don't want to change the world with an army...I want to change the world...by changing the world...get folks to change what they perceive as important. Not going to happen anytime soon....when losers still think one idiot is more valuable than another....it will continue.
Sorry...I don't think Justine Beiber is going to help contribute to feeding people's kids.....