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I think rapier has some interesting angles here but ‘soft’ sort of domination may be a bit of a stretch – think Syria, Vietnam etc..
Let’s make America great again is however a hopeless cause given the context. I think they mean Great like when cars were huge and white people ran the show like the 60’s and 70’s don’t they? Raul is spot on with the whole end of growth thingy – less to go around means more ruthlessness me thinks. Bill Mollison just passed away and barely made the news even though people as notable as Prince Charles are keen students – so permaculture and the like is out- Robots, surveillance and the running out of stuff is in.
PooI know we will have structural change when the dust settles but all land confiscated….? I guess they did it to indigenous cultures the world over but that was a lot of peoples and their power structures versus very few people. I am inclined to agree with Nicole that there will be political and financial upheaval in the event of these sort of controls. Or alternatively it just gets harder and shitter by increments every. single. day.
Banks are like foxes; and netting to protect the chickens (family) is essential. I have noted that during very dry times foxes will even dig deep into dry mud to look for yabbies and they have scat filled with insect skeletons. The point is they do whatever it takes and they are out there in the shadows watching your shit and working out ways to steal and devour it!
I think if you have some land and resource under your own control – such as cash, firewood, food growing etc. and you have any spare time right now – it is worth allowing for arrangement s whereby friends and family can be accommodated. If there is more than one family or interest on site productive work goes up and so does the security of the assets on site. As the trust horizon shrinks it is worth approaching these abstract concepts from a permaculture perspective and treat relationships in a zonal framework. Zone 1 – trusted (family / close friends) is like the veggie garden and the lemon tree – keep it close and interact often. The government – least trust (zone 5) is like the wildlife corridor which has access through the property (rates and taxes) but steered away from important aspects like vegetables that need protection (which in the case of this concept maybe privacy and personal communication for example).
Or am I just trippin’ coz this new article has blown my mind – yet again.My feeling is that we all will have to be increasingly involved in a cashless and digital money world but spread our stores of wealth in numerous ways to have continued freedoms and flexibility. Stores of wood for heating and cooking, food preserved and grown etc. all buffer against exposure to financial shocks. Storing or producing things like honey or dried foods will enable people to have something of value to be exchanged for digital payment that can then be used to participate in those areas of life where digital payment is mandatory and essential like for water bills or council rates payments.
It’s about having options. Some money in the bank is useful for tax too I guess….Another good reason for why I am ramping up my honey production – tradable, non-perishable and one of the few agricultural products that enable you to ride out market price fluctuations. Assholes wanna remove cash then we’ll have to start barter and earn minimum digital money for things like rates and car registration. If they mess with that I am sticking with the push-bike – they make me register that then fuck em I’m walking.
V. Arnold – it’s so weird to watch countless tourists take photos of nature Uluruu, the great barrier reef etc and then look at their photos on their smartphones and then post images to Facebook or instagram or whatever. They barely take the sight in – and don’t get me started on Selfies. Henry David Thoreau would moan
Bend, lube and brace! So true. The expanded version is get used to way less stuff, heaps more hardwork and hardship and be uprooted fairly frequently. Given the amount of foreclosures etc. – what happens to the existing stock of homes when people move out? Derelict and vandalised? And do people just end up renting back their own house or move to some shitty flat or what?
rlmrdl – that book was spot on. Mark Shepard’s Restoration Agriculture is a good look at what can be done to rebuild the endowment – in terms of the messing up of the environment in the US – I have to believe it is really doable in the main. I have 10 acres on ordovician sediments which was strip mined for gold extraction from 1852 till around 1910 and is majorly messed up. I mean seriously. I bought this piece of shit to avoid debt and hoped I wasn’t mad and it turns out nature just needs the tiniest bit of a hand. It is looking surprisingly productive with frogs and the like after only 7 years or so.
It can be done but for the most part it just won’t for a fair while yet. People love their IKEA and KanyeWhat made America great were the endowments bestowed on the populace by nature. Topsoil in many places 6 metres deep, water in abundance, trees forever and among the largest on the planets and then of course at the end of the 1800’s Pennsylvanian Oil.
I get a bit tired of hearing american authors (Stockman) posit that it is a smarts thing resisting on it’s own foundation. Try walking in any direction here in Australia and make carrots grow in our soils – they are mostly over half a billion years old. Debt has tied the hands behind the back but remove the shackles and there is hope with conditions like they have.
