RE: Government is Slavery
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Stone Age technology was not only made of stone, and Space Age technology is not only space travel. Prior to the advent of agriculture, collective industry did not exist. It was impossible for overlords to parasitize individual households with armed gangs of thugs, because prospective overlords themselves needed to hunt and gather for their necessities. Agriculture enabled collective industry to produce surplus food, and that enabled parasitism to support armed gangs of thugs to conquer and control society.
The opposite is happening today. The advent of decentralized means of production that enables Relativity Space to 3D print space ships also enables individual households to produce modern goods themselves, and it is no longer necessary for someone who needs a light switch plate cover to buy one at a store that was manufactured in a factory. More importantly, modern security technology renders armed gangs of thugs obsolete, and overlords can no longer project force against hapless individuals with impunity, as the Houthis have shown in the conflict in Yemen by deploying inexpensive drones to attack Saudi refineries that cost $B's.
While space travel will ultimately be potential to individuals that possess themselves 3D printers capable of creating space ships, the 3D printers necessary to do that remain extremely expensive, just as the first cars, televisions, and cell phones were when they were first introduced. It takes time for development to mature, for prices to drop, and technology to disperse across the population. The laws of physics mandate what technology is possible, and what has demonstrably happened is that all increases in productivity possible now decentralized the means of production. Making larger factories, bigger steel furnaces, more capital intensive industry no longer delivers economies of scale. Particularly the parasitism of corporate controls is able to be eliminated by consumers producing themselves what they consume, as backyard gardens have long enabled. The horrific environmental costs of monocropping, biocides slathered on food, and societal disruption have finally reached the economic tipping point at which most people will financially and physically benefit from growing their own food.
It takes time for people to learn, and this is complicated by censorship and propaganda. It also takes time for development, and the crude manual implementation of aquaponics presently necessary will be replaced by almost completely automated means of producing our own food without destroying natural ecosystems, using biocides in quantity, or spending great sums of money on novel technology like hydroponics and LEDs. Time will pass, however, and the technology available to individuals to produce and process food will increase in ease of use and decrease in cost until it is no longer less trouble to eat mass produced prepared food than it is to invest in an aquaponics setup, and the environmental costs of Big Agriculture, added to the horrific toxic impact of the biocides necessarily used by industrial agriculture, only hasten that tipping point.
Concurrently, automation of production of every kind and type of modern technology will be continuing as development of aquaponics and indoor farming does. The rep rap movement exemplifies this evolution in the production of goods and services ongoing, as owners of 3D printers build 3D printers that create more owners of 3D printers. This genie is not going back in the bottle.
What this means when viewed in toto is that the egalitarian society humanity evolved in when we had to make everything we needed by hand without technology is being restored because everything we need can be automated and produced in individual households. Centralization is no longer necessary and is not able to compete economically because it requires parasitic losses to oligarch profits and creates taxable events, which producing our own goods we consume does not. This evolution in decentralization isn't going to be pushed by wild eyed anarchists and dreamers like me, but practically minded people that need to save their money and will adopt the technology they can deploy to do that as soon as it's available to them.
Automobiles, televisions, and cell phones were initially all only available to specialists with specific understanding of those devices. When they became sufficiently developed for ordinary people to use without understanding the technology, they utterly transformed the world. Decentralized means of production are yet being developed to that point, and the overlords that depend on parasitization of collective production are clearly desperate to prevent humanity from escaping their control, which is why we see the WEF rapidly trying to transition to CBDCs and smart cities that might make their wealth and power - that only comes from parasitic losses decentralization eliminate - permanent.
They cannot change the laws of physics, and they cannot eradicate technological advance - yet. They absolutely intend to retain their wealth and power, and will do everything possible to do so.
I'm betting on the laws of physics and humanity to win. I'm betting on evolution rather than revolution. I also refer to the fact of prophecy. This is not unforeseen. This transition has been predicted by ancient seers for millenia. They all agree with me that humanity will create a paradise that no longer enables overlords with armed gangs of thugs to parasitize (although there are some details of interpretation involved in my reading of prophecy).
This isn't my novel idea. I'm just pointing to the work and ideas that have long been available. I don't see any other possible outcome plausible from extant circumstances.
Thanks!
Edit: I failed to note as I intended that >75% of food today is grown by small family farmers, not corporate industry. Ending small food production will cause a genocide of unimaginable horror. Humanity will not simply be convinced to submit, because most people today depend on producing their own food, and corporations cannot replace that production.
They never will.
I interpret you as hoping for redemption. Since you speak of paradise and of winning.
In order to move from a centralised to a decentralised social order, autonomy of the small cells would be necessary, as you have presented it here.
However, I do not see this autonomy if these small cells in turn depend on raw materials that they can neither mine nor produce themselves. The 3D printers need to be filled with something, where does the filler come from if you can't make it yourself and where does the 3D printer come from if you can't build it yourself?
The building and construction plans of such technologies remain in the hands of those who have either the financial or the legal means.
The car, although the most common means of transport for the average person, is dependent on oil (and electricity). An autonomous household can neither produce petrol nor generate electricity without again relying on central resources and technologies. The sheer quantities demanded by car transport do not allow them to be mined in homeowners' gardens and yards.
Even if 3d printing technology were freely available, i.e. an open source, and they print themselves, you still need the matter for it. Where are you going to get it in the quantities you foresee? Who is going to mine the raw materials, transport them and to whom are the costs going to be given if not to those who want to buy it? If you want to make something cheap, the only way is through the mass market. That brings us back to the beginning, I think.
In order to use something autonomously, in order to achieve small-cell order, you have to go from being just a user to being an understander. Producing food absolutely requires an understanding of plant, insect and animal life, as well as an understanding of soil and air climate. In any case, it is a sequence of trial and error in practice, and only years of being a practitioner with a profound theoretical understanding of the technique you are using can bring about something like autonomy.
This path cannot be shortened. If it is, it'll be mass market. You're going from the frying pan into the fire.
Personally, I also find myself entangled in mental rescue scenarios. Such thoughts are at odds with letting go of solutions mentally and in the heart, which fuel the cycle of despair, hope and despair again.
I would say that you are perpetrating a fallacy that you condemn in those who believe that they are doing humanity a favour by setting up saviour scenarios. The latest technology is always touted as a promise of salvation.
I hope you do not take my words as offensive.
In my spiritual understanding, nothing in the world can have only one quality.
Greetings to you.
I don't understand redemption in this context, unless you mean salvation, in the Christian sense of being redeemed by a saviour that has paid some magical cost of sin. If that is what you mean, I absolutely do not mean that. I rather note that since owning means of production of food, money, communications, electricity, and etc., are more profitable to the consumer than buying those products and services, then consumers will acquire and produce with those means as soon as they can, and it is the knowledge of how to use them that is the highest hurdle we face.
This doesn't require a saviour other than the sinner themselves fixing their problem, in this case of dependence on overlords for their necessary and desirable goods and services.
3D printers can use every material humanity has ever used to make things with. From chocolate frosting to individual atoms, from mud and sticks to plastic and steel, additive manufacturing has been prototyped with such materials successfully. The core technology is the movement of a printhead by cartesian coordinates, and variable printheads and materials with appropriate metrics for automation. The rep rap movement early on designed to make 3D printers follow an exponential growth and dispersion throughout the population, while using the most crude and early prototypes of the technology. As the technology continues to develop and become ever easier to use, it will more broadly disperse and continue to add new kinds of products and materials, from moon dust to liquid water from vapor in desert air.
It's difficult to grasp how profoundly additive manufacturing technology will affect society. Assembling molecules from atoms enables an incredible array of nanotechnology, as well as making pharmaceutical corporations completely unnecessary, and tyrannical efforts to control what people put into their bodies irrelevant, because such tech can print morphine or graphene, nanobots or water, vaccines or bullets. It's not just elimination of parasitic losses, it's expansion of human freedom beyond our ability to even imagine.
Every new technology builds on prior development, and every decentralized means of production also does. However, it is not possible to prevent using the very common parts and supplies necessary to make the many decentralized means of production from what is available inexpensively. Aquarium bubblers, gutters, buckets, and LED lights, deployed in a particular way, are able to create aquaponics setups that can provide all the food necessary for the user. The invention is not the bucket or lights. It's how to use them to produce fish and plants for food. Ordinary inkjet printers can print solar panels using commonly available inks and plastic sheeting. Code and internet access is all that is necessary for cryptocurrency. What makes these things able to produce goods and services is how they are used, and these commonly available resources can't be controlled to prevent their use for that purpose without extreme disruption.
It's just using what we already have better. If extruded aluminum bars (used for the three axes support structure of 3D printers) aren't available, plastic, steel, wood, or even ceramics can serve. Small electric motors are practically ubiquitous and won't be unavailable to 3D printer makers without crashing civilization practically back to the Stone Age. You really can't print one today, but you really don't need to. They can be made by hand, and the ores can be literally dug out of dirt and smelted and refined by hand if necessary. Decentralization is simply how technological advance can improve productivity from where it is today.
Technology evolves according to the laws of physics, and each milestone is the map to the next. We cannot change the laws of physics, and all that can prevent the natural progression of technological advance is to end technological advance. What seems to be happening is that overlords seek to genocide plebs and enslave the GMO survivors, so only they enjoy technological advance. I don't think they can, and only their psychopathy and narcissism causes them to even try.
This is the nature of technological advance. However, automation changes everything. I am willing to bet you do not understand how your cell phone's parts all work, and the same is true of your car, and the fasteners in the walls of your home. We don't need to understand the inner workings of these mechanisms. We only need to understand how to use them. 3D printers, aquaponics, mesh networks and etc., are all still in the enthusiast stage of development, and individuals tinkering with them do so mostly because they are hobbyists. It's facile to see how that will change, and is changing, so all we have to do is just use them as they are designed and don't have to understand infernal combustion and crankshafts to drive across town, or print a sheet of graphene.
This is not true. During WWII Europe suffered extreme lack of petroleum available to civilians. People fueled their cars with wood, which is pretty easy to do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inkjet_solar_cell
The evolution is underway, but solar panels can be printed right now.
I don't really understand this. I'm just taking advantage of the technology available and looking forward to how technology will evolve. No saviour required. I am the only saviour I need, and what I intend to be the take away from my post is that you are the only saviour you need. We are the creators of the world we live in, when we make it.
Make it.
... For me, you are describing a contradiction in terms. But let me think it through before your eyes.... I may be wrong.
If we are not understanders, but merely users of things that are supposed to make us more autonomous, then it is still the case that others (organisations/associations of specialists) must have the knowledge that ultimately leads to the many products that are sold en masse to the individual. Here 3D-printers.
Self-determination of the individual does not work without a relevant degree of expertise about the very things that enable me to have this self-determination. But if I am exclusively a user (buyer, consumer), if I understand nothing about cars, telephones, engines, ecological and living systems, etc., but merely use them, I become all the more dependent on them, the less my imagination is sufficient for the real experience I need when I deal with a thing in a practical way (this includes people as well).
Mass products are the end result of a multitude of specialisations, which you only find in such organisations called "companies", where this special knowledge is bundled, right? It is therefore important that people come together in organisations because the individual alone cannot mine, construct, design and produce any modern technology device on his own.
The effort and energy (resource extraction included) that has to be expended on the many devices, machines and transport and distribution routes of the specialist companies so that in the end 3D printers come out of it, which are then also supposed to serve as objects of use for the masses, who on this basis achieve a form of independence from these very companies that enable them to acquire and use the printers in the first place, seems to me like a circular argument.
Where in this chain becomes anyone independent from anyone else?
The way I see it, 3D printing technology is perhaps not better than previous methods for production, but different. For example, if you want to print a metal strand of very hard material and at the same time have the printer use a laser to melt and shape the metal used with pinpoint accuracy, you need a damn good computer program (from where? Open source? What about patents?), you need a hell of a lot of electricity because the process requires a lot more energy than simple computing power, and you still need the raw material in pulverised form for the laser and printer to work.
If you were working in a group of specialised people, trained in both theory and practice, in your local area, and they had expertise in physics, chemistry, engineering, architecture, ecology, philosophy, psychology, education, spirituality etc. (i.e. a whole village), then one 3D printer would probably be a good thing for all of them. What if you tried to work with people who would only be users of this technology?
The programmer alone is just as much an "idiot" as the architect, the philosopher as helpless as a child, if he doesn't belong to a group that brings different knowledge in its diversity.
I conclude from this that we, as modern people, in highly industrialized and computerized societies, are ever more dependent on all other people, whom we don't know, never met, never will meet....
This seems to be a particularly difficult mental challenge, as we simply have to rely on the many specialists without ever establishing a personal relationship or bond with them....
Here the question begins to take on a philosophical, metaphysical, spiritual character.
This was only one aspect of your answer. There may be more, I will refer to, if I find some time and muse.
Society is people. People have always been dependent on society. This is why overlords have been able to parasitize collective production, because society has always been mutually dependent, even before the advent of agriculture.
Society has been egalitarian for the majority of time that humanity has existed. Collective industry has only been practiced for a few millenia. Until collective industry arose, overlords had no ability to parasitize it, because it didn't exist. Egalitarian society isn't novel, or potentially unworkable, because it has been how humanity existed for the majority of the time it has existed.
Something that makes it possible for non-specialists to use specialized devices is automation. Open source, as you point out, enables such software to be used without royalties, and machines manage themselves while still being able to be tweaked by users. I have a 1980 VW pickup with mechanical fuel injection. Electronic fuel injection is able to be tweaked with software, which is much easier than altering the function by adjusting the mechanism.
Regarding circular dependence of specialists, this isn't new, and has been a feature of centralized society since it arose. I have never intended, advocated, nor claimed that human beings can be lone wolves, but rather that society does not need overlords, and in fact suffers from their parasitic losses and self-aggrandizing control. Free people can work together to produce mutual felicity, and for most of the time humanity has existed that has been how society has functioned.
Regarding the lack of personal association with people we depend on, that is the present condition. Dunbar's Number is the amount of people we can have personal relationships with, and is likely the result of Stone Age people being limited in the size of local population by local resources.
Having the means to produce goods and services ourselves does not make us islands incapable of associating with one another, and does not preclude specialization and trade between each other, nor obviates larger cooperative undertakings. If a village 3D printer is possible, then a village full of 3D printers is equally possible because the specialists capable of understanding one 3D printer is capable of understanding each of 3D printers. However, since 3D printers are essentially automating positioning the printhead, it's not particularly different to use myriad materials with 3D printers. What's different is the printheads and environment in which the different materials are usable. There is essentially no difference from room temperature in that environment for many materials, like concrete, PLA, and frosting, while steel, glass, and nylon require higher temperatures, and ice, CO2, and etc., require low temperatures.
Using 3D printers, once the technology matures enough so that they are mostly automated, won't be much different than using indoor plumbing.
I can't see where in your scenario people can exist in greater freedom, since you say that 3D printing technology promotes such. The dependency on centralised supply systems such as energy generation, water supply and mass food production would, in my view, remain even with 3D technology, except perhaps for communities living outside the big cities. For autonomous communities that are off the central grids (which I believe is the prerequisite for more free-spirited living), not only would the autonomous supply of food, energy and water be necessary, but also the integration of children and elderly parents into these communities so that those who, for example, cannot yet or no longer work, remain in their midst. Such communities living and working together in larger numbers requires the ownership of land. This land must be of a certain size to provide the necessary conditions for energy needs and food.
The central systems such as social security, taxation, etc. do not allow exit, and because they do not allow exit, people cannot decide to split into self-sustaining smaller units because their energy tied up in the central systems means they have no capacity to organise themselves locally. They simply lack the time and money as well as the know-how to create a version of freedom. I think the most striking point, moreover, is that they do not even recognise or know how to live in greater freedom and accept that the large systems should and may both provide for them and dictate the rules of coexistence.
I am therefore not sure that we are both talking about the same premises, on the other hand I also think that the intervention of the powers deep into the life of the individual is neither right nor good. How, apart from total reliance on the rulers, with whose decisions a large part of every nation seems to agree, does the consent of the masses to further centralising intentions explain itself?
The communities forming or living outside the central networks would have to be released from their grip, I cannot imagine it any other way.
Hence my scepticism that technology alone makes such a thing difficult to imagine. Psychological and pedagogical considerations are also necessary.
In a country as small as Germany, with limited possibilities to appropriate pieces of land large enough for the many in a community to work together, I see bureaucracy and legal possibilities as the biggest problem.
How do you relate to that?
3D printing enables the production of goods. It does not provide, and instead requires, services like electricity and the materials used to make the goods. I have mentioned other decentralized means of production, such as solar panels, wood gas, and etc., that are ways people can make electricity and other power, themselves. Aquaponics, which I have seen used locally in an apartment which produced far more food, at least more tilapia, than the users required, makes centralized food factories unnecessary. Where people congregate in cities, water is, like the civic space itself, a resource that requires sharing by the people there, but it is something that rural people have long provided themselves with wells.
Certainly many personal means of production are far more difficult to undertake in urban settings rather than rural, as has always differentiated these settings. I presently live where I am restricted from having chickens or rabbits, and as I'd have both I am seeking different circumstances. However I live in a region where I am surrounded by farms, and currently get my eggs from a local farmer, so it's something I can trade to get and don't necessarily have to produce myself, and am not limited to factory farms for sourcing. I actually have provided chickens to someone who could have them in exchange for eggs in the past, as well.
There are more decentralized means of production than I know about, I am sure. I've seen people make iron tools from dirt, so not all means of production relevant in our present circumstances are even modern. While I note the breadth and depth of the applications 3D printing provides, that alone is not the decentralization evolution ongoing. In every field of industry today decentralization is the cutting edge of technological advance. There isn't any industry I am aware of where productivity can be increased by increasing centralization - except perhaps slavery.
Centralization is obsolete not because we have already adopted decentralized means of production, but because we will. As technology advances, productivity increases, and producers that adopt the most advanced technology outcompete producers that do not. During the last few thousand years, advances in productivity were gained by increasing centralization of production, making larger trains, factories, and etc. That just isn't happening anymore. It takes time to replace infrastructure. Trains are a good example. Many of the locomotives currently in use were built from the 1950s to the 1990s. Trains last a long time. They're extremely expensive and are therefore maintained and used as long as possible.
But trains aren't the cutting edge of transportation technology today. Drones are. They're more efficient and incredibly less expensive, delivering packages right to your door and requiring no tracks, rights of way, unions, or brakemen. Back when trains were the most efficient means of transporting goods, centralization of transportation by making larger cars to hold goods, stringing more of them together, and etc., made it even possible to ship goods that required refrigeration, for example, and greatly reduced the cost of shipping, outcompeting horse drawn wagons, and train tracks were built feverishly across the world in the 19th Century. However, some people still use horse drawn wagons today, and it took decades before transportation by rail mostly replaced wagons.
For long distance shipping of bulk goods, swarms of drones are still not competitive with trains, but drones are novel tech, and that is very likely to change IMHO. For local deliveries of small items, like pizzas, drones are vastly less expensive than pizza delivery boys, and trains have never been an option.
Decentralization isn't just happening in manufacturing through 3D printers, but in every industry there is.
It is of note that the centralization of transportation required immense capital and created the Robber Barons that had great control over who could succeed in business by their control of transport. Tales of corruption and financial skulduggery are myriad and horrific. Back in the 1980s I had a car I used to deliver pizzas, and made great money (even with a crappy car). The potential to control people was zilch, and little was possible in the way of financial crime or corruption. Today I could start a drone pizza delivery service with lunch money (except for crappy government preventing it), but couldn't control much at all because it is so inexpensive to get a couple drones. In fact, because drones are so inexpensive it's unlikely that any delivery company will be able to succeed for long in that field, because it's cheaper to have our own drones that pick stuff up for us than to pay to have it delivered - and this neglects that it's less expensive yet to just make stuff ourselves in many cases. Amazon is making $B's by taking advantage of this transition in transportation, and it is notable Amazon has no trains.
This is how decentralization makes us more free, and it does so in every industry, from food to medicine, energy production to transportation. It doesn't turn us into isolated islands, but enables people to work directly with each other, without requiring representatives that can be corrupted, or overlords with immense capital that can decide who can do business and who can't. It doesn't eliminate trade, industry, or society. It increases our productivity.
It eliminates overlords and parasitization, which is an almost incomprehensible cost of doing business today. If I need electrical outlet boxes, which I may for a job I am looking at, it isn't necessary today to buy them from a hardware store at a markup that covers all the parasitic losses incurred in producing them at a big factory, shipping them to the local hardware store, and making the hardware store owner their profit, but that means of securing that product now has to compete with me, or the owner for whom I do the work, printing them with a 3D printer. Since I am in a rural area, the boxes may be fairly expensive, and may be much less expensive to print instead, saving the end user money, perhaps time, and potentially even enabling customizing the boxes to their specific need in ways that aren't even possible with cookie cutter products produced in factories.
Recently I saw a news story about a gun buyback in Houston, TX, where the local government was buying guns to get them out of the hands of civilians. An enterprising guy with a 3D printer printed off 62 handguns and sold them for ~$3k to Houston. They cost him less than $200 to produce, and he made a handsome profit. No where more than means of security is decentralization of import, and this only hints at why. Firearms are mechanisms that deliver metal slugs propelled by chemical explosions on target. That technology is ~1000 years old, but remains useful to overlords because it's the optimum means to enable gangs of thugs to compel people to obey overlords. It's not the optimum means to prevent armed gangs of thugs from kicking down your door.
Modern security technology has far advanced from chemically propelled metal slugs, and myriad mechanisms that can prevent armed gangs of thugs from kicking down your door are potential today. But overlords own governments, own the stores where people buy security mechanisms, own the indoctrination and propaganda means that create what people understand, and in every way they can they prevent their subjects from acquiring modern security technology that can prevent them from forcing people to do what they want.
But we don't have to buy security mechanisms today, because we can manufacture them ourselves. This is why I mentioned the Houthis using inexpensive drones to blow up $B's refineries in the Yemen war. That's an example of using modern security technology against centralization, and it's why no war against insurgents has succeeded since WWII. The insurgents always win, because massive armies cannot compete with decentralization. Again, the people aren't lone individuals cut off from society, but society itself is eliminating parasitic overlords because of decentralization of the means of production.
That is increasing their freedom, prosperity, and felicity, and that suite of benefits is only just beginning to occur. There is unimaginable benefit coming as decentralization continues to develop and spread to people everywhere.
Aquaponics makes it possible to grow the food you need in your apartment, as I have mentioned. It does take some room, but not very much, and most of the mechanism can be incorporated into living space, similar to growing houseplants on a windowsill. The water can be almost infinitely recycled. The fish or crawdads need some food, and the lights take some energy - if you're not using sunshine alone. Solar panels take roofs, gravity generators require access to the ground to drill a hole into which the weight is dropped and reeled back up, windmills and waterwheels require access to those resources, and producer gas requires a place to grow flammable stuff, or a source of it, but we aren't required to live in smart cities where we can be surveilled 24/7 by overlords and don't have access to the required space and resources. Not every place is suitable for every technology, but we can also trade with one another, as I do for eggs, and may for electrical outlet boxes.
To maximize our freedom, prosperity, and felicity, is it best we do not live in bugpods that our overlords want us to BECAUSE that makes us less able to produce what we need ourselves and maximizes our dependence.
From time to time cataclysms and catastrophes happen on Earth. During the Toba eruption about 75kya, almost all humanity is thought to have died, leaving only a few thousand survivors on the whole planet, for example. Not everyone will make it through the ongoing catastrophe of global destruction of civil society being undertaken by overlords desperate to maintain their parasitic wealth and power over humanity.
But I think most of us will, and after we do, that paradise prophesied for millenia will be built by those that do, and as we can see from Relativity Space 3D printing spaceships today, we will gain abilities as the cutting edge of new technological capabilities become developed and dispersed - as they always do - that are going to create unimaginable freedom, prosperity, and felicity for our posterity.
Evolution happens. It's happening to us right now, and evolution works by those incapable of surviving to breed dying, and the survivors being the gene pool that subsequent generations come from. We will live and die by our merits, and folks that do not prepare for the coming catastrophe and war that vile overlords are going to prosecute in their attempt to completely and permanently enslave humanity are not going to be prepared.
This is why I advocate that people adopt the decentralized means of production of the blessings of civilization suitable to their personal circumstances now. Germany is particularly suffering from the machinations of overlords today, as the duplicitous AGW alarmists have almost completely destroyed Germany's electrical generation capacity subjecting their hapless people to insuperable power costs, and destroying industry and the German economy. This is not a natural catastrophe. It's completely engineered by overlords as a means of forcing people to own nothing and be happy that overlords allow them to survive. It's unavoidably obvious that a community of folks with their own ability to produce electricity in Germany today is immune to that catastrophe and will not be enslaved by that means.
Decentralization isn't just freedom, prosperity, and felicity. It's literally the difference between life and death. 1000% increase in power costs is going to kill people this winter in Germany. I hope you take action to make sure you have power and aren't enslaved by this brutal economic attack that is only possible because the AGW deception has been prosecuted by your enemies for decades.
This is not true. I am 100% disabled and qualify for social security income as I have for decades, but I do not receive it because I do not want it. Taxation can be avoided, as megacorporations that pay little or no tax prove. Decentralization is a way of avoiding taxation, because when you consume what you produce you create no taxable event. If you earn Euros working a job you pay taxes on those wages. If you spend Euros to buy beets, you likely pay taxes on that transaction. If you grow those beets and eat them, you do not incur any tax liability thereby. If instead of having a job that you pays wages you are taxed on, you simply make everything you need yourself and consume it, you pay no taxes at all.
You are absolutely right. This is why I am an anarchist. Overlords own the German government, because they corrupt it with their parasitized wealth. Government is force, and force enslaves people. Germany is not a free and independent nation of sovereign people, because government makes freedom illegal.
Government is not society. Society is not civilization. Being free is the most expensive thing there is for a reason, and that reason is that being enslaved is the alternative. The economic and political disruption that has been ongoing for these last couple years is just the beginning of the war to enslave humanity, including you personally, that overlords have undertaken. There is no alternative to preparing to withstand whatever attacks the WEF and it's minions are going to prosecute, such as the forced house arrest, social isolation, and mandatory pass to legally travel, that are now exacerbated with impossible energy costs and easily foreseeable economic attacks coming.
In every case, being able to provide yourself what you need prevents overlords from enslaving you. Decentralization is the only way you personally are going to avoid being forced into a bugpod and CBDC UBI, which will completely force you to do whatever you are told to do by your benefactors that provide every necessity, or die.
Be free. Free people have always had to make their freedom, at great expense. It has always been worth the cost, because slavery is worse than death IMHO. If I can be of any assistance in your quest and action to be free, please don't hesitate to ask of me what you will. If I can help I will. Most importantly, I recommend you find friends you can rely on where you are, or can go, that you can increase in strength and increase yours.
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Truly terrible things are coming, and it is necessary to prepare to survive and thrive through such times.
Hello,
I have read everything you commented here and had it translated to better understand. Thank you.
Though I will not refer to everything.
Where I grew up and people have houses and properties that are paid off, some are switching to heating systems via solar panels on the roofs to generate heat. The deliveries of such technologies take months compared to before and the installation is difficult, but not impossible. Some owners have pumps to obtain groundwater. Two very important resources, then, besides food.
None of those I know have a 3D printer. Those who would want to print spare parts for defective materials would have to do so according to the requirements of the parts to be replaced, and for that, one would need a special computer programme. But I won't belabour the point that I think it's a bit more complicated than you said. But remain more open to the idea than before our conversation.
It takes people in the world who don't see disaster in plain sight and know what to expect. The thing is, if everyone predicted exactly what you predicted, we would already have such high levels of panic purchases and bank runs that supply shortages and other severe bottlenecks would be guaranteed. Those who prepare now and prepare for hard times benefit from the lack of knowledge or ignorance of those who do not. Some balance in the existence of all life can only ever be achieved by not all doing the same thing at the same time.
I will be unprepared in material terms, so times of hunger or frost set in. This is not exclusively my own decision. I can only act if those closest to me thought it as necessary as I would. The place of refuge would then indeed be my hometown with my blood relatives, which, however, if no petrol is available, is no longer 2 hours away by car, but several days' journey on foot.
It may seem strange to you that one lets what is coming come with one's eyes wide open. I also don't think that, when the time comes, I will be equipped with the same composure as I am talking to you now. I may nevertheless be better prepared mentally and spiritually than those who suspect nothing.
Thank you very much for your offer of help. If you did not live on another continent, I would very much like to visit you.
I take what you say very seriously. You do not lightly consider, and while not all your reasons may be reasons I myself share, they seem to me well chosen for you, well considered per your experiences, and I respect them.
I am sure some folks around there are quite prepared for power outages, food shortages, and crises of every kind, because I speak to people from Germany, and all around the world, on other forums, where even people from UA and RU can speak directly. It can be very enlightening to see people presently at war agreeing on various matters. Sometimes it feels like the apocryphal tale of WWI enemies having cease fire on Christmas and singing carols together. Other times it seems like that would have been impossible, and people could never be less than murderously hostile in such circumstances.
I hope that if matters become very difficult for you it is in the good company of your family, and you benefit from community and strong bonds of affection.
Maybe, by staving off panic buying, as you said. But those that are prepared will benefit from each the others' preparations, in having certainly prepared differently and having things to trade, or different skills to help each other with. That's the real magic of community in difficult times, having help and other eyeballs watching your back.
I would very much enjoy meeting you. Perhaps someday we will.
I feel the same respect towards you.
Yes, you are talking about a very peculiar situation. Probably the most bizarre thing of all, that the weapons are silenced for a fixed period of time. It's so strange because actually, when you're in a fight to the death, you would think that a pause would promote the moment of awareness where you say to yourself "let's not do this". I've seen something similar in Asian martial arts films. Fighters ready to die, ready to take their enemy's life. And yet no lust for killing. The question this raises, if there is no real thirst for murder, why kill each other at all?
The only reason for continuing then seems to be that the fighters do not consider their lives to be the most important thing and death seems far less terrible to them than it is commonly feared. So, as you noted earlier, death is not the worst of evils. Those who let themselves be overcome by murderousness will, if they survive, have a hard time with it.
I am a woman, I can give life and I have given birth to it. Thus I would wish that men could face their enemies eye to eye, than that we should all suffer the banality of evil from the bondage of having before us not warriors, but righteous men.
Right, in difficult times, it is the pooling of different skills and looking out for each other. I come from a family of expellees and grew up with such stories of hard times. I had wondered at times if I would experience the same as my parents and grandparents, but I preferred not to live with that fear.
Thank you for this conversation. It gives me both, hope in that magic and also sorrows.
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I cited it from a German source, which I translated here.
It can be related in a way with what is said about the "Anti-Christ".
In my understanding, it is not the "others" (whom you call overlords or parasites) but you and I who are antichrists or decadents in the same way. However, we find our own quality mirrored in them, much more intensified and obvious. If we did not, if we did not recognise them, we could not explain what decadence or clinging to the fruits of others' labour means.
While I find there is useful wisdom in all venerable traditions, I also find all of it falls short of whatever ultimate wisdom is necessary, at least because new things are learned all the time and knowledge continually increases, moderating prior understanding.
My own understanding of Antichrist is corporations, institutions, that are legal persons, unborn, undying, inhuman, and inhumane, yet considered to have human rights, which is comparable to a toaster or any human tool being considered to be equally human, and this deprecates and degrades actual human beings to the level of mere objects, because mere objects cannot be elevated to human beings.
I consider people the Christ, as my read of the words of Jesus state directly. "All these things I do you will do, and greater things than these." paraphrasing John 14:12.
Some people are ill, and some ill people are born with broken brains such that they cannot grasp that other people are like them. Psychopaths are able to commit atrocities and prey on normally socialized people to rise to power in corporations, as seems patently obvious from extant conditions. While I joke about Klaus 'Antichrist' Schwab, it is the WEF, BlackRock, CITI, and the corporate institution itself I consider actually contrary to the principle that we are that saviour we need, and become when we treat others with love.
Corporations cannot love. They can only subvert and suborn actual humanity when granted legal personhood. That is my take on Christ and Antichrist.