Incapable of Honesty: Everything needs to grow

Quite important, I'd say, to offer ourselves this occasional reminder:

An entity that is controlled by their stock price OR any entity that is driven by debt and interest — 1) stock price: any corporation 2) Debt: individuals, families, smaller businesses, governments — MUST GROW in order to survive financially. Industrial growth requires the destruction of the natural world on a large scale.

Is the path beaten? We're clear on this?

This is very bad, because growth isn't possible without intense destruction (and there is less left to destroy everyday), and the money we're using isn't real (by which I mean, it isn't directly connected to a debt, and there is no intention of ever repaying it) Side note: I recently saw a link to this: an asshole you might have heard of, Peter Schiff, laughing about how the American Debt can and will never be repaid. That is obviously true, but that idea is quite useful in getting your head wrapped around the idea that money isn't real.

Financial collapse has already taken place. It's just that the very powerful have a vested interest in pretending it didn't (creating more fake money, "qualitative easing" etc.), and they're going to consolidate their power, while using a bunch of misdirection and over-the-average-Joe's head nonsense about the nature of things.

Back to the point I'm attempting to hit: further growth (on a global scale) is impossible. Can't be done. Thanks. So when these assholes, like Barack Obama, talk about a Jobs Bill, let me translate:

Obama: We're going to take fake financial wealth (maybe... and just a little bit) from the rich, and then pay for the rest by creating fake money (the so-called American military and banks enforces the need for other countries to accept this money: see Hussein, Qaddafi) in order to get more people to work — often doing not at all useful things — so that they can have some of that fake money. And, so long as the fake money training keeps chugging, it can be used to get you a roof, food, a car, and whatever bullshit you deem "needed".

That is the plan. It is, needless to say, a very very very very very bad plan for the overall well-being of the planet.

Here's a plan worth working towards:

1) Dump property rights in the fucking trashcan. Over a million homes sit empty in this country. Most of these homes are shitty (not because they aren't "nice" but because they are designed with the accoutrements of industrial society) but they're better than camping outside in the winter. Idea: try to start sharing land in your neighborhood, if this is possible, for projects. Also, just start using city land as if it were everyone's to use. Do this with all unoccupied land, if you can think of something to do with it. In a minute, I'm going to pick-axe the grass in the unused parking strip across the way from the place I live, throw some cardboard over it, and add a few inches of compost (sheet-mulching) — in the spring it will be ready for seeds. A little less food that has to be trucked = preparing for the world we'll be living in.

If you're going to participate politically, focus your attention on property rights (I know, not easy)... because any talk about MORE JOBS and SHARING THE (financial) WEALTH is fucking insane. Work for money (jobs) is a shitty paradigm.

People are sick and dying because of stress and disgusting polluted food. Give everyone a home, and we'll take a little nick out of the stress factor... health just went up.

2) Stop thinking selling your time for money is a "good" thing (even if you like your job, in which case, that's great). I know it is currently necessary... I know I know I know. Unless you're willing to nomad (essentially illegal in itself in this place) you need to make money somehow — but stop thinking it is a good thing. It isn't. It is later than you think, you'll die soon, exchanging your time for money is a bad idea. What would you exchange your time for? Nothing! Which is not to say you don't do things... goodness no! Plenty of work to do. Obviously. But your life is not a fucking quid pro quo, damn it — especially one where the shitty end of the stick is exclusively yours to carry.

3) Turn off the fucking television. It is showing you the creatures of the corporations (media and the corporations who advertise there) who absolutely rely on their stock price. As we've already covered, they are inherently insane, and you'd be wise to get away from their message.

4) Use the computer to help you not need the computer. Habits are hard to break. Good luck. Use the machine to get yourself interested in growing food, building/modifying/repairing shelters, and then go do it. Oh, wait... plenty of other cool little hobbies can be picked up online, as you ween yourself away from the 'puter. I've recently taken to watching online drawing tutorials and practicing — fun!

Alright, I was going to ramble more, but the rain has stopped gushing, I'm getting out there.

Enjoy.