The last few years have been full of struggle, stress, and the potential of doom and gloom. As a result my thoughts have often drifted into a world of self reliance and the value of things in time of need. The one thing I have not figured out is why buy gold, silver, or any money? You can't eat it for food. You can't burn it for warmth, give or take paper currency if you have enough of it. The real wealth is in land... farm land and the seed, water, fertilizers, minerals, and ability to work it.
It's just like a rich man to go into the wilderness with a pocket full of gold to weigh him down. Last time I looked the animals would not trade their meat for gold. Plants will not feed you for gold. However, if you master your surroundings and can apply some knowledge anything is possible.
I must confess I have thought this for a long time but I heard on "Coast to Coast AM" radio last night that I may not be off my rocker as far as I thought I was.
Now the biggest enemies of self reliance are; the love of money, planned obsolescence, GMO crops, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission), the long haul shipping of food, and all government regulations and taxes imposed. All of these things caused our short sightedness.
This is my reasoning. Money is a placeholder for labor. When you buy something it is the labor you are buying. Everything starts with dirt and especially minerals. The minerals are gathered and processed by hand or vegetation starting the labor stream that ends in products and services. So we are buying organized dirt. The price of which items is assigned according to the need of the product or service and the value of the perceived organization and construction. This balancing of labor and market value creates a free market. When money becomes more then a placeholder for labor as products and services become more refined, it transforms into a poison when people see it as an end (or magic power) without a connection to work done. Money is then a poison for work to come.
Planned Obsolescence decreases the true value of labor by leading people away from the core elements of self reliance. True self reliance is only possible if people are able to live under their own hand or effort. Planned Obsolescence is the equivalent of busy work. It dumbs down the skill set of people to a few repetitive strokes with the intent of keeping people busy and unfocused on government. This policy affords the limiting of personal "value added" decreasing the value of labor two ways. The first, the people are compelled to sell their time at a fixed price even if the market is climbing. Second, people are compelled to re-buy products wasting labor on redundancy as they lack the skills to avoid the expense.
GMO crops exacerbate the mineral deficiency diseases caused by poor soil conditions. Remember everything comes from the dirt... even people. We count on nutrition density form vegetation to feed our meat animals and our selves. If we lack any of the 60 documented or 77 total bio-available minerals in our diet we suffer 1 or more of the 900 (plus) diseases associated with their absents. GMO crops are designed to grow on fewer minerals then conventional crops. They contain elements that bind with minerals to render "neutral" chemically and electronically active bio-available minerals. GMO crops grow with fewer then the 9 minerals required for heirloom seeds. This is way under the 60 humans and animals (food meat) need daily.
The FTC has in the past levied fines to farmers for growing their own cow feed crops. Talk about a waste of stolen labor. When a government compels people to pay taxes... they are stealing. Taxes need be voluntary. Fines, fees, licenses, and the like should never exist. Where is the governments beneficial work? They misinterpreted "General Welfare" in the Constitution to mean compete with the father's role in the family. They force a tax burden reducing the incentive as fathers now have two yokes to pull. They forced a situation where women have to find employment to aid in paying taxes. In general the government as is has taken food away from people, gleaned it, and sent back the gleaning. How are we supost to be happy with this? How many people have real labor time to spend on their families?
Last, since I covered the government intrusions under the FTC, is the interstate and international trucking of food staples. Removing a community's food production from the community destroys the community's infrastructure needed to feed the community if shipments of food are stopped.
Untwisting this mess:
Well, the only way to untwist this mess is to fire the government for supporting the bankers running the world.
