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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Perfect Storm
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:23:08 -0700


One thing that wealthy and powerful fear as much as they fear your vote is your independence. If you are not in debt or beholden to them in some other way, their power over you is limited and he source of their wealth is stiffled.

I am lifted by knowing people like you and maybe a few thousand more persist in the independence/self-reliance/self sufficiency dream. I share it. But we are as drops of water in the river of society.

The masses live for sugar, salt and fat; their idea of exercise is walking from the car to the elevator; their contentment is a full-belly family in a 30-year mortgage house with a credit-card large-screen TV with surround sound; their concept of citizenship is voting once every four years. Independence is limited to rants. Politicians correctly view them as sheeple and fear mostly that those who don't vote might become energized.






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