Just wait till eating organic is made illegal and deemed a terrorist act for being antisocial to the Borg collective. That'll probably come about the same time using cash will be made illegal.
On a positive note I arrived at my mom's house on Vancouver Island yesterday in the Pacific Northwest and right away saw 2 honeybees on the raspberries! I guess an ocean of weather from the west tends to clean out the pesticides a bit.
Just another example of the failure of modern economics to deal with the most basic of challenges. I always harp on this, but at its root all money (and thus profit) is a claim on ecological production. It is illogical to destroy the ecosystem in the pursuit of profit which is actually just a claim on that very ecosystem's functions. There is a parallel with the imminent demise of the US dollar. Soon any dollar profits you make won't buy you much of anything because the ecosystem they currently lay claim to is being (has been) destroyed.
But according to mainstream economics there is no ecosystem, just "producers" and "consumers". The ecosystem is deemed to be an "externality", an afterthought that some person in power might take pity on and decide to tweak things a little bit to protect in the interests of Smokey the Bear and summer vacationers desiring a pretty place to go camping. Mainstream economics has barely advanced in a century and any advances it has made have taken us in the wrong direction, further entrenching the Keynesian model's denial of the real world outside of textbooks.
At least in ecological economics there is an ecosystem that provides essential services to the economy but it's still separate from the economy. In thermo-economics the economy is actually a part of the ecosystem. It is so obvious that when you destroy the ecosystem you inevitably destroy the economy; I don't understand how any moderately awake person could deny this. Money is a social construct and without a functioning ecosystem money and people will cease to exist; seems to be the way we're headed. When the dollar dies so too will the USA. Both are now inevitable.
I like following Dave Kranzler of Investment Research Dynamics because back in the 90's he was also a Wall Street scumbag and he admits it and openly talks about how money corrupts. But he realized it, got out, and now criticizes it.
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As long as people are kept fed, entertained, and told that everything is awesome, then practically nobody bothers to lift their head and look around.
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And that's only made possible because of the US trade deficit and reserve status of the dollar. You can understand why TPTB fight so hard to prop this system up since when the dollar goes a lot of people aren't going to be fed anymore or be entertained with the latest gadgets from China and then questions might start being asked by the average Joe.
It's been lamented by so many here, but it is truly amazing to see in people I know, nice intelligent people who want to do the right thing, the pathological resistance to even looking at evidence or narratives that might call into question their faith in the mainstream. It is just so addictive to them, I guess you could say comforting, they just will not open up to the possibility. One of my best friends thinks I'm a crazy about 9/11. For years they've told me I'm crazy yet they refuse to look at the evidence, but they're certain I'm wrong. He suggested I watch the Southpark episode which he believes debunks the 9/11 truthers… I of course did that and yet months later now he refuses to spend half an hour looking at a basic youtube video on 9/11. He always comes up with an excuse: "not today". I suggest that it's because he's afraid the evidence will be undeniable and he'll have to change his world view, which he then vehemently denies. Then why won't you spend half an hour, Mike? I did it for you. It's because deep down he knows I'm right but doesn't want to admit it, plus he'd rather go on denying the sky is blue than admit that I was right all along regardless of what I'm saying… No one likes a told'ya so.
