As of December 28, 2010, this blog is ten days old. It will take me a few weeks to add the “tons” of content I have for the blog’s sections. You might join our community, send me links and content you wish to include as a post or in one of the sections, register for blog updates, advertise your products and company.
Here is my first blog post:
It is perhaps inconceivable to the majority of people living in ‘first-world’ societies, among the affluence and luxuries of free-market economies, that they will ever suddenly confront a time of famine and scarcity and unprecedented struggle for simple subsistence living and personal survival.
Perhaps all of us live as if we constantly gamble at life’s roulette table: placing our daily bets and spinning the roulette wheel, hoping that we have covered our bets with viable alternate and contingent plans should our bets be lost, confident that we might simply walk away from the roulette table, and survive today to bet again tomorrow.
The lifestyle of the average person is supported by very fragile – though appearing very robust and durable – systems or networks of producers, distributors, and purveyors of our wants, needs, necessities, and luxuries. As taxpayers and consumers, we are the reason for such systems and networks: ultimately, the consumer pays for everything. Without the incentive of profit at all levels of organization and function within this ‘consumer cycle’ – producer, distributor, purveyor, consumer – the systems and networks would not function or exist.
“Control the land, control the people.” “Reduce labor costs, maximize profits.” “Eliminate competition, maximize market share.” “Write the laws, control the courts, control the nation.” “Make our religion the only religion, and control the nations and the world.” “Treat only the symptoms of disease and illness, and naturally reduce the population with disease and illness.” “Promote products with minimum cost and value at the highest possible price.” “Defer until tomorrow that which reduces today’s profits.” “Let the government pay for it – it is not our problem.” “Control what is taught in our schools and universities, and teach only what our social-political-economic-religious agendas mandate.” “Reduce the number of people, reduce resource consumption.” “Levels of consumerism and profits are only relative gauges of economic activity; but, profits and consumers will always exist.” “Scientists and their opinions and facts can be bought like any other commodity: tell them what we want them to say and use their statements and pronouncements as propaganda to further our goals and programs and profits.”
The previous paragraph contains a small sampling of the maxims employed by special-interest groups – locally, nationally, internationally – by corporations, governments, religions, educators, politicians, average citizens. None of the maxims even remotely relate to or promote a sense of altruism and concern for either planet earth or for its citizens: an endangered world and an endangered species. Yet, very real and committed groups, which subscribe to the above maxims, continue to make progress with their goals, plans, and programs.
Every special-interest group wants to control some thing(s), some place(s), some people(s) that would grant them exclusive license and franchise and domination. Special-interest groups only care about their selfish and short-term interests and objectives, which ultimately prove to be contrary to, injurious to, the long-term interests and objectives of the human species and planet earth.
The long-term interest and objective of the human species is the continued propagation of the species. The long-term interest and objective of planet earth is to provide a biosphere that supports life. (Note: It is a scientifically accepted theory that planet earth is a living organism with the equivalent analogous concepts of interests and objectives.)
What happens when one or more, or all, of these groups succeed, based upon measurable criteria of time, dominance, resistance, competition, profit, cost, ubiquity? As an average citizen whose primary concerns are the safety and welfare of your family, for yourself, how will these inevitable and group-controlled changes affect your ability to cope, continue, provide, sustain, survive, thrive?
You may have noticed that I have not written about the obvious potential sources of chaos and catastrophe: war – whether declared or undeclared, the intentional targeting and destruction of military and civilian structures, infrastructure, apparati, and populations, including the use of chemical, biological, nuclear and EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) devices against said targets; terrorism – acts of extreme violence and destruction within the USA or within countries significant to our consumer cycle; nature – naturally occurring events – earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, severe droughts, floods, volcanic eruptions, prolonged torrential rain; ‘outer space’ – meteor collisions with planet earth, massive bombardment of earth’s upper atmosphere by solar winds containing life-defeating levels of solar radiation and charged particles.
I realize that, because of what I have written, I might be perceived as a ‘scare monger’ or as a nervous, frightened and intimidated person. I concede that I have a healthy respect for the potential of sudden catastrophic events to occur. I think that anyone who has lived through life-threatening events shares my attitude and perspective. I survived because, in addition to being lucky, I was prepared for the event (well, as best as I could prepare) and I was prepared for the aftermath of the event (as best as I could prepare). I also prayed a lot – before, during, and after the event. Some of you may have the opinions that: 1). prayer has nothing to do with survival; 2). we tend to make our own luck; 3). preparation is everything. Without reservation, I agree with numbers 2 and 3.
You may or may not be aware of the fact that various religious organizations strongly recommend to their members that each household maintain a well-stocked cache or supply of food, water and survival-related items. At least one of the church groups facilitate this congregational effort by funding and promoting businesses that are: 1). at least partially owned and managed by members of their church; 2). focused upon the production, sale, and distribution of survival-related items, including foods prepared and packaged for archival storage.
Your number one priority, and my own, should be to prepare for our survival. It is perfectly appropriate and correct to be skeptical and to reject as fantasy everything that I have written above. However, without preparation and planning and action, you might wake up one morning and discover that I was at least partially correct, that you are not prepared for personal and-or family survival, that it is too late – simply too late, for everything that matters to you, that you love.
Survival is the first step into the future..!
In acknowledged contradiction to what I have written about ‘special-interest groups’, perhaps Survival is an acceptable exclusion.
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