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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org, tawapanm@mm2k.net
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Don't Feed The System/ was I have met the enemy and he is... US.!
  • Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 10:59:53 -0700


A reply I made to an off the grid living list
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I'm not complaining all that's off topic (it is), but rather that it's naive
and useless. No matter who's in the White House, the powers that be will
still be in control, all the wealth that controls elections, the enormous
lobbies that control legislation, the monopoly ownership of the mass media,
the educational bureaucracy, the military and all the corporate contractors
that are fed by it, the entire financial industry, banks, insurance, stocks,
real estate, outsourcing of jobs, the high unemployment and underemployment
that pushes wages down, the corporate health system ripoff, the snake oil
pharmaceutical industry, the electric and water utilities underwritten by
government, the agribusiness system. The list goes on.

Our work is to support the people trying to get free, more independent of the
System, more self-sufficient, more secure in local food and goods for local
consumption. The more people who refuse to support a System they don't
believe in or can't live with, the better. The System needs warm bodies. It
needs people to work the levers of production, people to buy on credit,
people to shop its China-Marts and malls, people to vote for Tweedledum and
Tweedledee, people to pay extortion insurance for cars, housing, and medical.
It needs people paying taxes and paying into retirement plans to prop up the
stock market. But many people can realistically find ways to live and lower
their cost of living, and reduce their reportable income and hence the taxes
they must pay; they can cut down their overall participation in the System,
and deny the System the use of their lifeblood to feed it. And they don't
need votes or foundation funding or anybody's permission to do it. How can so
many people fight the System with one hand and feed it with the other?

paul tradingpost@gilanet.com
http://globalcircle.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau
That is well said, replied Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet] Candide





  • [Livingontheland] Don't Feed The System/ was I have met the enemy and he is... US.!, Tradingpost, 03/05/2004

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