What you said about capitalism hit a real chord, TL. I've come to think that it is ultimately as destructive to a society as communism. It takes longer to wreck a country, but wreck it it will. Everything devolves on the highest bidder. I haven't had time, with my many projects to study it, but I think the old Catholic doctrine of distributism deserves a nod. It isn't about distributing the wealth someone may have to others, but about distributing the means of production: instead a multi-thousand acre mega farm, you would have 50 family farms, etc. Be that as it may and in the realm of 'I wish....", I think we are in for a big collapse regardless of who wins the election, the country just isn't working right any more and the animosity the various groups have for one another means we are sitting on the plug in Mt. Vesuvius. Anyway, God speed to all of you, and let's hope we come out of this situation alive.
Gabby, As John Wayne famously said, "If you give 100 people a dollar each and come back in a year. One person will have almost all the money. It's always been that way."
I fear that human nature is against the old Catholic doctrine of distributing the means of production. Look at how there were many computer companies and systems at first, and now there are only a few.
Free market capitalism is the best economic system discovered by mankind so far. It has many faults, including the income and wealth inequality, but free markets (capitalism is a term invented by Karl Marx. I think it should be discarded) have raised more people out of poverty than any other.
Today, there are fewer people living in poverty than at any time in human history. The gross wealth inequality in the USA today comes from the Federal Reserve and fiat currency.
Assuming that the Biden Crime Syndicate has been financed by Ukraine, China, George Soros, and others who hate America, it must be acknowledged that challenges by drug cartels and child trafficking gangs can only be met by a tougher, meaner gang. If the Federal government actually has an interest in preserving the nation, it must be understood that the government, as it exists today, is simply another criminal gang. On the other hand, as is most likely, the current Marxist government is in league with the gangs and Kimberly Cheatle still has four months to complete her mission of assassinating Donald Trump.
I hesitate to say more because I have no desire to be another of Biden's political prisoners.
Suffice to say that as long as the Marxists have their goons in the FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, et al, any who would stand up to Leviathon is taking his life in his hands. But what is life without freedom?
Charles, The involvement of the big banks and the CIA in drug trafficking and money laundering is well documented. The child trafficking money is still hidden. The government doesn't want to touch this issue just as it wouldn't with Jeffrey Epstein. The government gangs know that people, especially mothers, get very upset and take action when children are being abused and murdered.
Celia Sanchez founded the Cuban Revolution in the early 1950s. Sanchez and her fellow women in the countryside, were furious that President Batiste was sending his henchmen into the countryside to kidnap children for the high rollers in the Mafia casinos in Havana. Children would be raped and killed by the high rollers.
Sanchez organized the women into an Army. Fidel Castro was more of a figurehead at first. Cubans are very macho and a woman couldn't lead the revolt.
If you go to Cuba, you will find many statues of Sanchez and many schools, roads, etc. bear her name.
The child trafficking scandal in the USA will never be covered in the MSM.
T.L. - Thanks for another quality piece. Agreed: mental fortification, awareness, and resolution are primary. While better than nothing, being the sole 'watchman at the gate' is rarely a long-term solution. Finding other like-minded individuals might be the next logical priority. How to do that? Exploring options on a public platform isn't wise. Proselytizing neighbors and relatives may be the immediate choice, but the numbers and geography tend to bring additional issues. Considering the emotional-intellectual gumbo of society today, would a "Neighborhood Watch" concept be viable? If 'safety in numbers' is valid, some organizational consideration would be the next step.
It is mindset. And spiritual mettle. Both of which are required. Our spiritual center transcends the fallen nature of both physical world and us, and our mindset becomes the tool we need to hone and sharpen and orient toward the challenges of our time.
All the debates around self-organizing and the various human systems of social ordering, political ordering, economic ordering etc. are downstream of our own grounding of spirit and orientation of mind. The eternal questions of who we are and to what we serve.
Which are themselves products of modernity, as we have traded many shiny beads for our own sense of who we are, from whence we have come, and for what purpose we steward our way of life.
That we can wax, and armchair philosophize about all that is downstream of these essential ideas reflects the enormous material abundance of our time. The idle luxuries contemplating these abstractions was made possible by the kind of progress that has produced both the cleaving of our hearts and minds from that center and the material comforts of this world. That is no accident.
We are in a remarkable time. We are all conditioned to never let go of that fist full of rice in the cage because we have collectively forgotten our own story.
A system that operates on all matters of these 'contracts of adhesion', non-negotiable, extreme disproportionate bargaining power, and lack/denial of services for the weaker party are not just "legal" but the preferred practice of all businesses and institutions of the vampire economy.
That alone should illustrate just how continuing to participate within this system is to merely increase one's grip on that fist full of rice while lamenting the clubbing that will soon be fatal. Not just to our little meatsacks in time, but to this supposed way of life that we value and the physical and spiritual legacy that has been entrusted to us by our people.
Our posterity already has very little idea what has been lost. Soon they will have zero knowledge and it will indeed be year zero in perpetuity.
They still won't even let me join. I have to check every now and then out of curiosity, but I don't care, except that this small town's folk are highly dependent on FB to know what's going on here.
Hi TL...I can say as a Colorado native (still living in my hometown and have never lived anywhere else), Colorado was NOT always a liberal cesspool, in fact I remember when Colorado used to be a red state. That is until approximately 2012 when we were (unfortunately) one of the very first states to legalize marijuana (we had an influx of Californians). They mostly took up residence in the Denver/Boulder area. I’m in southern Colorado (a small steel town that both my German and Irish immigrant families settled in back in the early 1900s). At some point, even all the smaller towns combined could not outvote the liberal numbers coming out of Northern Colorado. I have always been sickened that Colorado was known as a sanctuary state...when in truth, it is DENVER that is the sanctuary city. I am further sickened and angered that this scum of society has been allowed to take up residence in my state. Even though this gang is primarily in Denver, no doubt that it’s just a matter of time before they start migrating to southern Colorado. Unfortunately, I-25 runs right thru our town and it is a hub for human, drug, and sex traffickers.
For the first time ever, I am truly considering relocating (but not unless our kids would /could relocate as well) from the state I’ve called home for all of my almost 60 years. But truth be told, that would most likely be futile as this disease (known as the illegal immigrant invasion which includes gangs and many other unsavory people) will just continue to spread to every nook and cranny of the United States (you can run, but you can’t hide). Soon, everyone will be experiencing the same. I want to fight for this place I call home!
At 70, my husband has recently (the last few years) become a real gun enthusiast. He was carjacked in 2017, and now has his concealed carry permit. He has tried to get me to “carry” as well and until recently, I was not interested or motivated to do so. He even bought me a small .22 and for the first time ever, I am considering it cause I fear things are only going to get worse (at least in the near future)!
Thank you for sharing your truth and wisdom...something I look forward to every week! Take care!
Most people know I grew up in Colorado as well, mostly Eastern Colorado, then about '73 we moved to the Front Range, it was still largely rural, sugar beets, barley for Coors, corn and the oil industry dominated all but Boulder and Denver. A ton of Texans moved to Colorado right before the Californication and no one noticed, but California ruined it within about a decade. When I moved to Texas, I knew I should have always lived here. I should have cut my ties with Colorado a long time before that and I did spend a great deal of time out of state before I made the move. It's sad to see the great climate and sights of that state get outweighed by communism, but that's the truth of the matter.
What you said about capitalism hit a real chord, TL. I've come to think that it is ultimately as destructive to a society as communism. It takes longer to wreck a country, but wreck it it will. Everything devolves on the highest bidder. I haven't had time, with my many projects to study it, but I think the old Catholic doctrine of distributism deserves a nod. It isn't about distributing the wealth someone may have to others, but about distributing the means of production: instead a multi-thousand acre mega farm, you would have 50 family farms, etc. Be that as it may and in the realm of 'I wish....", I think we are in for a big collapse regardless of who wins the election, the country just isn't working right any more and the animosity the various groups have for one another means we are sitting on the plug in Mt. Vesuvius. Anyway, God speed to all of you, and let's hope we come out of this situation alive.
Gabby, As John Wayne famously said, "If you give 100 people a dollar each and come back in a year. One person will have almost all the money. It's always been that way."
I fear that human nature is against the old Catholic doctrine of distributing the means of production. Look at how there were many computer companies and systems at first, and now there are only a few.
Free market capitalism is the best economic system discovered by mankind so far. It has many faults, including the income and wealth inequality, but free markets (capitalism is a term invented by Karl Marx. I think it should be discarded) have raised more people out of poverty than any other.
Today, there are fewer people living in poverty than at any time in human history. The gross wealth inequality in the USA today comes from the Federal Reserve and fiat currency.
Assuming that the Biden Crime Syndicate has been financed by Ukraine, China, George Soros, and others who hate America, it must be acknowledged that challenges by drug cartels and child trafficking gangs can only be met by a tougher, meaner gang. If the Federal government actually has an interest in preserving the nation, it must be understood that the government, as it exists today, is simply another criminal gang. On the other hand, as is most likely, the current Marxist government is in league with the gangs and Kimberly Cheatle still has four months to complete her mission of assassinating Donald Trump.
I hesitate to say more because I have no desire to be another of Biden's political prisoners.
Suffice to say that as long as the Marxists have their goons in the FBI, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, et al, any who would stand up to Leviathon is taking his life in his hands. But what is life without freedom?
Altering a quote by Karl Popper "there is no way in which to speak that one might not be arrested."
T.L. I would add that even not speaking will get one arrested.
Charles, The involvement of the big banks and the CIA in drug trafficking and money laundering is well documented. The child trafficking money is still hidden. The government doesn't want to touch this issue just as it wouldn't with Jeffrey Epstein. The government gangs know that people, especially mothers, get very upset and take action when children are being abused and murdered.
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/celia-snchez-manduley-the-most-famous-woman-you-ha
Celia Sanchez founded the Cuban Revolution in the early 1950s. Sanchez and her fellow women in the countryside, were furious that President Batiste was sending his henchmen into the countryside to kidnap children for the high rollers in the Mafia casinos in Havana. Children would be raped and killed by the high rollers.
Sanchez organized the women into an Army. Fidel Castro was more of a figurehead at first. Cubans are very macho and a woman couldn't lead the revolt.
If you go to Cuba, you will find many statues of Sanchez and many schools, roads, etc. bear her name.
The child trafficking scandal in the USA will never be covered in the MSM.
Great article. Yes. It all starts in the human mind. "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!"
T.L. - Thanks for another quality piece. Agreed: mental fortification, awareness, and resolution are primary. While better than nothing, being the sole 'watchman at the gate' is rarely a long-term solution. Finding other like-minded individuals might be the next logical priority. How to do that? Exploring options on a public platform isn't wise. Proselytizing neighbors and relatives may be the immediate choice, but the numbers and geography tend to bring additional issues. Considering the emotional-intellectual gumbo of society today, would a "Neighborhood Watch" concept be viable? If 'safety in numbers' is valid, some organizational consideration would be the next step.
The single best authority on organizing locally is The Civil Defense Manual by Jack Lawson.
https://civildefensemanual.com/
Ordered. Thanks.
Excellent.
It is mindset. And spiritual mettle. Both of which are required. Our spiritual center transcends the fallen nature of both physical world and us, and our mindset becomes the tool we need to hone and sharpen and orient toward the challenges of our time.
All the debates around self-organizing and the various human systems of social ordering, political ordering, economic ordering etc. are downstream of our own grounding of spirit and orientation of mind. The eternal questions of who we are and to what we serve.
Which are themselves products of modernity, as we have traded many shiny beads for our own sense of who we are, from whence we have come, and for what purpose we steward our way of life.
That we can wax, and armchair philosophize about all that is downstream of these essential ideas reflects the enormous material abundance of our time. The idle luxuries contemplating these abstractions was made possible by the kind of progress that has produced both the cleaving of our hearts and minds from that center and the material comforts of this world. That is no accident.
We are in a remarkable time. We are all conditioned to never let go of that fist full of rice in the cage because we have collectively forgotten our own story.
A system that operates on all matters of these 'contracts of adhesion', non-negotiable, extreme disproportionate bargaining power, and lack/denial of services for the weaker party are not just "legal" but the preferred practice of all businesses and institutions of the vampire economy.
That alone should illustrate just how continuing to participate within this system is to merely increase one's grip on that fist full of rice while lamenting the clubbing that will soon be fatal. Not just to our little meatsacks in time, but to this supposed way of life that we value and the physical and spiritual legacy that has been entrusted to us by our people.
Our posterity already has very little idea what has been lost. Soon they will have zero knowledge and it will indeed be year zero in perpetuity.
Well said.
T.L.,
I for one, have become so befuddled by the myriad barriers for the people
to thrive, (from factory food, to constant spraying of toxins, to criminal gangs,
to the absolute determination by leaders to steal every dime for themselves,
and cohorts. Life is a nightmare and is on course to double down.
FB blocked post.🙄
My post?
Yup. Said I was trying to ‘get hits.”
They still won't even let me join. I have to check every now and then out of curiosity, but I don't care, except that this small town's folk are highly dependent on FB to know what's going on here.
🍻
Hi TL...I can say as a Colorado native (still living in my hometown and have never lived anywhere else), Colorado was NOT always a liberal cesspool, in fact I remember when Colorado used to be a red state. That is until approximately 2012 when we were (unfortunately) one of the very first states to legalize marijuana (we had an influx of Californians). They mostly took up residence in the Denver/Boulder area. I’m in southern Colorado (a small steel town that both my German and Irish immigrant families settled in back in the early 1900s). At some point, even all the smaller towns combined could not outvote the liberal numbers coming out of Northern Colorado. I have always been sickened that Colorado was known as a sanctuary state...when in truth, it is DENVER that is the sanctuary city. I am further sickened and angered that this scum of society has been allowed to take up residence in my state. Even though this gang is primarily in Denver, no doubt that it’s just a matter of time before they start migrating to southern Colorado. Unfortunately, I-25 runs right thru our town and it is a hub for human, drug, and sex traffickers.
For the first time ever, I am truly considering relocating (but not unless our kids would /could relocate as well) from the state I’ve called home for all of my almost 60 years. But truth be told, that would most likely be futile as this disease (known as the illegal immigrant invasion which includes gangs and many other unsavory people) will just continue to spread to every nook and cranny of the United States (you can run, but you can’t hide). Soon, everyone will be experiencing the same. I want to fight for this place I call home!
At 70, my husband has recently (the last few years) become a real gun enthusiast. He was carjacked in 2017, and now has his concealed carry permit. He has tried to get me to “carry” as well and until recently, I was not interested or motivated to do so. He even bought me a small .22 and for the first time ever, I am considering it cause I fear things are only going to get worse (at least in the near future)!
Thank you for sharing your truth and wisdom...something I look forward to every week! Take care!
Most people know I grew up in Colorado as well, mostly Eastern Colorado, then about '73 we moved to the Front Range, it was still largely rural, sugar beets, barley for Coors, corn and the oil industry dominated all but Boulder and Denver. A ton of Texans moved to Colorado right before the Californication and no one noticed, but California ruined it within about a decade. When I moved to Texas, I knew I should have always lived here. I should have cut my ties with Colorado a long time before that and I did spend a great deal of time out of state before I made the move. It's sad to see the great climate and sights of that state get outweighed by communism, but that's the truth of the matter.