Originally posted by wonderworld
I'm not one to feel helpless but I do on this subject. What do you suggest. I want to stop this too. I think sometimes it's too big to stop.
Refuse to play the game they want us to play. Grow vegetables, stock up on supplies and make or trade for anything you need. If you can weave, get a
loom and make cloth, trade the cloth for chickens or vegetables. Learn to make things, we need to be a nation of doers not just people who push paper
and decide which store the buy prepackaged stuff from.
It takes a very small space to make cheese; a table top for a loom; a spinning wheel can fit in a closet; a garden can even be done in a window box; a
hand saw, hammer and some nails and you can make a work bench that is cheaper and will last 100 times as long as the cheap piece from China that the
box store carries. Need your car fixed, ask the mechanic if he'll take canned vegetables from your garden. Help your neighbour with his new work
shed, he'll help you with your new greenhouse.
A hundred years ago we were a nation of factories, the first autos were made in detroit; our factories made the TV's and the sewing machines, the
washing machine and the irons the world longed for. Europe would have been lost not once but twice if not for the strenght of our factories and our
industrial knowledge, it was our factories that made the tanks, ships, planes and guns that bought England and France the lives they enjoy today. We
created the infrastructure that that keeps this world running. Look at us now, we buy cheap crap made overseas that our grandparents would have been
assamed to think was made hear. Everyone wants an office job, we have become fat and lazy. Why has pride become a sin? No one has the moral courage to
stand up and say
'No, I want to do something with my life. I want to be proud of my accoplishments and my life.' We have instead sold our
soul for the lie of an easy comfortable life where everything is easy, no one suffers and all the world is at our feet. It was a poison, we sent the
factories away, we closed the mines. We switched from teaching kids to think for themselves and to do things and be proud of their nation and
communities. Now we teach kids that everyone is a winner, the brightest are told to stop thinking because they are hurting the simple kids feelings by
being naturally better, for striving. In our grandparents times and there grandparents times kids learned history, the constitution, skills. We wanted
to grow up with goals, no kids goto universities because everyone deserves an education, but what are we teaching them? Are we teaching them to be
creators, or scientists or doctors or nurse? No everyone wants to be a business major or a social scientist, even young engineers don't learn to
think outside the box, they just keep doing the same things over and over.
We move forward by building again, we start small and begin with cottage industries again. In 1776 the ladies of this nation made uniforms for the men
fighting British rule. The guns of the patriots were made one at a time in cottages by gunsmith who where proud of their work. How many of us can fix
our computer, how many people have never set the clock on the VCR? If we all start learning a skill; something that we can fall back on; then a
recession will still give us a means of survival. We need a purpose in life, other than typing up memos.
Paper is the symbol of our enemy and the sickness... We gave up our money for worthless paper, we gave up our factories because they wanted us to
believe that 'information' would be the new dishwaser, something we could sell. We let them write lies on paper that destroyed our industry and
turned our people against the factories. Laws that crippled our ability to produce and encouraged us to sell our soul were written on paper and they
use our blood as the ink.
