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Sad, but true, John

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On Jan 20, 2014, at 1:55 PM, "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net> wrote:

> 
> I like your ideas very much Dan but I see a few problems in trying to 
> realise them.
> 
> The herd are not just consumers, they are also television watchers and I 
> don't think they ever show on television how many people here in West Cork 
> or in most parts of the world live. The interiors of all the houses in 
> glossy magazines don't look a bit to what I am used to and people here on 
> these muddy farms don't dress like what they are told to aspire for.
> Maybe we could start with publishing something that gives a different view 
> of reality?
> 
> Let us also not forget that religions are not at all forgiving for those 
> who 
> think or do their own thing. Danger here!
> 
> Maybe if we think hard we can come up with something to effect a change?
> 
> A few months ago I saw a short video by an American comic who gave a means 
> to spoil the NSA's spying on all of us. He thought that we should all 
> include some terrorist talk in all the phone calls and emails we send. It 
> was brilliantly funny but I have seen nobody yet brave enough to go for it. 
> A pity.
> Another disappointment with the spies is that they must know all about 
> elite 
> pedophile rings and other depraved and highly illigal activities from big 
> bankers and politicians but never a word do they release out about these 
> things. (This idea from John Rappoport).
> So I'll just blow up one more bridge today and then off to bed! If you 
> don't 
> hear from me again I may have been droned :)
> 
> John
> 
>>> "I wanted to physically make the world a better place," Janes said.
>>> With his family's help, he bought 40 acres of forested land on Denman
>>> Island. It came with two trailers.
>>    The problem isn't the world, it's the herd. You don't have to
>> improve the world, you have to turn the direction of the herd. The point
>> of civilization is to isolate and drive the herd into a corral and teach
>> them to consume purchased products. The money from those purchases
>> constitutes our democratic voting process.
>>    If you want Change, keep it in your pocket. You don't have to
>> isolate yourself from the herd, and in fact doing so is less effective
>> than staying in the herd and spreading the consciousness that
>> consumerism is killing the future. Nobody is going to listen to a nut
>> job on an island, but they will listen to Warren Buffet when he buys a
>> used car instead of a new one and lives in a modest home when he doesn't
>> have to. They will listen to a neighbor who always seems content with
>> life more than one fighting for a rung on a ladder.
>>    The next step is turning the herd completely around, to where the
>> goal of humans is to contribute to the natural world rather than extract
>> from it.
>> 
>>    The crux of the problem is that Consumerism is THE religious basis
>> for our civilization. Capitalism could still take place based on
>> generosity to nature instead of extraction, but the opposite end of the
>> labor/owner dichotomy would benefit.
>> 
>> Imagine a company where the CEO's job is to serve the employees' needs
>> in order to get their work done tending a world for the sake of their
>> children. The highest profit would be a permaculture type of place in
>> the world where individuals are free to pursue useful interests, rather
>> than trying to kill each other for the last dried bean.
>> 
>> What a concept, eh?
>> 
>> Ideologically, it sounds impossible, but logically, we have all of the
>> tools and systems in place. We just don't have the awareness or the will
>> because people have been kept living in the dark for so long. Many need
>> a kick in the pants, but most just need a flashlight to find their own
>> keys. The desire for a private island is just another tool used to get
>> people to work harder for a weekend off (or a retirement doing anything
>> but what they are trained for).
>> 
>> Dan C.
>> Belgium, WI
>> 
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