This is a great conversation. Real, honest money would solve so many problems and correct so many perversions. The Founder Acharya of the Hare Krsnas, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, strongly critizised fiat currency. He called it stealth theft by government, where the citizens are not even aware! Like a thief in the night.
I can’t blame ordinary people for their ignorance, Chris. The Gov is more than 50% responsible for the public’s ignorance. Many Tribe members here know of the myriad of experiments conducted on animal behaviors under all kinds of conditions and intoxicants, and we know the gleaned data is used against us. We know the public is being and has been for a long, long time, chemically poisoned by way of land, sea, air, food, medicine and consumer goods, and plastics … and sound vibration!
Public education has wholly failed in preparing students to become independent, productive and involved citizens. And just look at the quality of our entertainment. The breadth and depth of public ignorance is by careful design. It’s public policy.
Compassion and nudging back is the way out for these people, but probably not all of them.
There will be a silver lining to higher and higher food prices: a whole lot more people outside gardening!
I think theft is one of the biggest risks, either by government identifying you, or freelancers (commoner criminals). Assets that are valuable for barter have a unique profile, and transportable ‘wealth store’ a different one again, if history is a teacher then I am still confused. My investment guy gave me a 20 year horizon saying it’s all OK and lots of leeway. At 77 that may be overly hopeful. Doing my distance swim (3/4 mile) makes a fall day seem OK (or maybe it’s the scotch)…
Progressives are subject to group think - their epistemology is that of herd animals, steered by emotions. Shepherds have moved in and make them go anywhere. So no, they don’t realise anything at all. There’s a significant part of the right that also operates the same way.
Can’t do anything with them unless you want to play shepherd. Reasoning with them is about as impactful as reasoning with your dog.
Sounds exactly how things are going with a hiking partner. We may not even be speaking much longer, hence why I’ll probably push the latest version of the Crash Course her way. Can’t hurt? Any other suggestions for ostriches?
Hey, (quoting a local, snide bumper sticker): “My Border Collie is smarter than your 13 year old Honor Student”.
We’ve had a few snows (all melted down low), winter is coming. Free your heel, free your mind. Every season I can ski tour with friends and/or the dogz is another one under the belt. Lost my last two ski partners to water, one in a kayak, the other on a deep persistent weak snow layer out back. While I may be disappointed with their decisions, they exhibited pure freedom.
As a former Infantry officer in the US Army - I can assure you that this is not true. None of us lost our ability to reason and make moral judgments - and basic training teaches nothing of the sort. War atrocities do occur, but they are more the result of soldiers and officers departing from their training - and responding in anger to the stresses of war.
That is not to say that your assessment about the nature of our recent military conflicts is wrong - it is not in my view.
I’d go so far as to say it has always been public policy. I no longer think public education was ever about creating independent, productive, and involved citizens. The history of it, beginning with the Prussian schools, rejects that claim. Entertainment probably has more legitimate creations in it, but the overall picture has certainly been steered to “we the people’s” detriment for half a century or more.
Try to accept that they’re ostriches and make your peace. In most cases we will simply have to walk away at some point and try not to look back.
If they are really important ostriches to you then you can try to build your resilience and prepare enough for them as well. If the moment arrives that they are forced to pull their head out of the sand they might finally be able to hear the things you’ve been trying to tell them.
I think there was a follow-on bit of training in 2021 (courtesy of Senile Joe et al) called “The Mandatory DeathVax”. Those who didn’t submit were purged out of the service. And the COs enforced this mandatory DeathVax - everyone in the chain was a part of this “effort”. And when the awful effects were revealed by the DMED database, of course the database was hacked to hide the truth. “Thank you, commander, for covering up the deaths of those under your command.”
I’ve heard it said that most people over the rank of Light Colonel were useless political hacks. Its due to the selection process, apparently.
Revelation 13: 11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worshipthe image to be killed.
16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. That number is 666.
