Re: Deeper Than a Mud Puddle

It's actually a very short story about the dangers that people might face from the government when the economy goes into the tank and the infrastructure begins to break down ( which it already has as we have all been witnessing) as the oil starts to run out. I doesn't take more than 5 or 10 minutes to read. I enjoyed it so I thought maybe others would too.

It deals with one of the things a lot of us are concerned about and that's the building of camps around the country and the fact that we already have the largest prison system in the western world and are privatizing it to boot and hiring out prisoners to work for cents an hour - many of whom are in there for petty crimes in comparison to the real crimes that the real criminals are getting away with all the time. It shows how insidiously these things can take over. Also it behooves us all to begin now to live our lives "outside the system" and in the way that is moral and ethical and especially to start to grow our own food. Everyone should have a garden of some type and people need to learn to do practical and useful things.

One of the reasons that I am so impressed with you is that you are doing it already and have learned how to gather herbs from natures' bounty. This is rare. We can no longer trust big agriculture to provide us with safe food since it is for profit and there are no more ethics in the for profit system. We are now getting genetically modified food and they don't even have to label it anymore so you don't get to know. They are trying to make it illegal to save seeds and such by patenting seeds.

It's scary, but all we can do, I think, is simply turn our backs on it stop participating in the madness and get together with like minded people and start to live the right way in harmony with nature as some people in this story did.

I believe it is all starting to come apart - You can not keep on using up all the earths resources for profit so everyone can have cheap smelly plastic stuff made by slaves and a few people can be fabulously wealthy and some of the slave can be used to run the whole thing so they get to think they are not slaves and think that nature is not going to turn her outrage upon you.

I hope we are at least beginning to wake up now. I think it's a grass roots thing. We have to do it for our spirit.

That's my 2 cents

Anyway it looks like no-one else took an interest in it - I didn't write it by the way - my husband found it on line and sent it to me so I thought I would pass it on.

I am not that familiar with the Amish way but I think it is a hierarchical and patriarchal system and I am not into those things. It never works because nobody likes to be bossed around.

What does work? Not sure but I would like to try a horizontally and spontaneously organized society from the bottom up. Don't really know if it would work until we try it. It has been tried a few times but was eventually squashed by bigger guns. Right now in Argentina there is some of it happening successfully, and even around this country there are worker owned small businesses that are successfully holding their own with no ceo's or hierarchies. I think it takes a highly evolved, intuitive, ethical and intelligent population to pull it off. Not to much of that here but there is some. Look at young people like forward - so bright and capable of real independent thinking.

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