In the film "The Patriot" there is a very pleasant scene in which Benjamin Martin rides into a British fort on horseback, carrying a white flag, and being followed by two large dogs. There, he complains to general Cornwallis about the brutal treatment of women, children, wounded soldiers, and civilians, against the rules of warfare reached only reluctantly by the aristocratic filth of Europe after thirty years of war in Anno Domini 1648 at the peace of Westphalia. Somewhat later he reveals to Cornwallis some evidence of captured British officers being held at gunpoint. Cornwallis laments, "This is not the conduct of a gentleman."
To which Martin rejoins, "If the conduct of your officers is the measure of a gentleman, I'll take that as a compliment."
Just adverting on the word "noble" and this whole idea that some are more noble than others, which has plagued Christendom for a great many centuries. But your point that each individual is free and sovereign is a good one. As Jefferson wrote, we are not saddled so that others, booted and spurred, may ride us. We are all of us God's children. Amen.
The Bidens may be above the 'devised' law (great term, I like it a lot) at the moment, but they are certainly not exempt from Natural Law.
We are all suffering the consequences to some extent of their multitude of violations of Natural Law, and they are not immune from the consequences of their own actions either. It's how this universe works.
we are born sacred - as a whole.... as an already glorious piece of the entire family fabric of Life... our being is Family - and our extended families that begin collective community are our first 'peoples' of connection and community ... to build and live and create as part of that family - by and large every one of us - is to truly honour Life's living system and understand its call to continue and thrive... over population is a concern for those whose greed extends beyond their hoards into their fear of ever having 'less' and never having 'enough' ... She - this Earth / Life... is fully aware of all she creates and IS and more than willing to allow the abundance of both to nurture and feed her children with very simple means - of which to begin is don't hoard or build dams that prevent and restrict and limit - be them in your rivers or in your bank account
Today's post is instructive of the way socialism makes a goal of destroying the family. Drawing women into the industrial workforce, and the children into industrialized schools for as many years as possible. Even our churches split the family into men's, women's and children's groups. It helps me to understand why companies have restrictions on married couples working in the same workplace, yet men and women work side by side. Tremendous pressure is thus placed on people to couple with each other outside the marriage bonds, creating more disruption of the family.
Well, I can tell you what I would like to do, but I doubt that any of that could be done. I don't have any standing in how my local church operates. All I can do is refuse to give them any more of my money and stop attending. The handful of big donors fully support their unAmerican, anti-Christian goings on. I have no standing in what my local public school teaches and I would be thrown out of any schoolboard meeting I would speak up in. My congressmen don't respond to my letters, nor do my state congressmen. My governor and president don't read or respond to anyone who doesn't give them huge bribes.
If that were not so, I believe that by now education would be influenced by the parents and neighbors of the student instead of state and federal bureaucrats. And local churches would teach Biblical principles instead of Marxian ones.
I believe that Trump campaigns like a conservative, but he didn't preside like one his first term, and it's too soon to tell if he will during his second one. He certainly doesn't live conservatively.
Much of what you just said is, to my ears, an argument for the very approach that I, and others who operate in a similar mind-space, recommend.
Opt out and build parallel institutions.
The institutions we have now will not listen to us, as you so astutely pointed out. We cannot change them. And even if we did, some wicked force would just change them right back. That is no way to live. Believing that that is the only possible answer for human civilization—an endless fight to gather enough votes to achieve pretend control over corrupt institutions for a few years, before the other guy takes that control back—is to believe in an endless hellscape.
We should stop participating in that. We should build our own stuff.
I give a big amen! to Christopher's reply. He wrote, "Opt out and build parallel institutions", others have condensed that to "Exit and Build".
Buckminster Fuller put it this way: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
And Etienne de la Boetie, way back in 1576 wrote: “Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”
Well I am sure you already know we are already on the same page in this aspect. I remember the impression Clevell's novel "Noble House" made on me. Real self esteem that comes from making an effort to live up to standards that are truly admirable and which give a genuine status and standing in a community. Such a person has a feeling of obligation, a need to pass onto future generations a name and an example of which one does not have to be ashamed.
Is "good" behavior that is the result of the fear of punishment really good? It is the sign of a soul that considers himself alone weak and out to get what he can from a world which he does not love. Knowing that even if successful as to material things due to force, treachery, manipulation and deceit, he has no real connection to any other living things that isn't pretence. Can this be a real life? No, it is just pretence, empty of everything that really is important and even vital to true happiness.
I fear that once peak population is reached, the downward slide from the top of that mountain will be irreversible. Meaning that all humanity will perish, even the psychotic anti-humans.
There are data to indicate that there was some point in the past when the whole human population had been reduced to a shockingly small number of people. I don't remember the exact number theorized, but it was tiny. And yet they managed to hold the line and grow again. I think we would do that again, in spite of any precipitous collapse.
yet herein we find the very human responses we would hope to avoid. we cannot hope to change the divergent mindsets & understandings that centuries to millenia of teaching & training have created nor is it required to achieve our goal. what must be acknowledged & accepted is that each must be respected and no one can impose their's on any another.
there is plenty of room for all. it is proven that returning to local farming and local distribution is supportive and most efficient and effective to feeding all of us and more. there are numerous methods of farming that are beneficial and harmonious with the natural landscape & environment where located. there is no one answer appropriate for every location or all.
it is also known that certain words will trigger and while individuals can achieve clarity for the masses or more we can help by avoiding them. as those become recognized & brought to attention we can identify other words that can be used in general publications and documents for a distributed nation which are as descriptive.
“we cannot hope to change the divergent mindsets & understandings that centuries to millenia of teaching & training have created nor is it required to achieve our goal. what must be acknowledged & accepted is that each must be respected and no one can impose their's on any another.”
Hmmmmmmmm…… life evolved just fine and flowered on earth for billions of years before humans arrived on the scene. Then, suddenly, a new wave of mass extinctions began and an age of, as EO Wilson put it, “the death of birth”.
Humans already directly or indirectly appropriate over 50% of the biotic energy produced in earth, leaving less than half of all resources for every other species to compete for. But there aren’t yet enough of us? Over eight billion medium sized mammals all eating, farming, fishing, dedicating, clearing forests and grasslands, transferring carbon from plants and subsoil into the air, water and surface soil, damming rivers, building and filling massive waste dumps, quarrying stone, mining for minerals, polluting the energy spectrum with massive outpourings of 5G, radio, radar and other powerful bio-questionable energy frequencies, lobbing bombs all over, pouring billions of tons of asphalt and cement every year, draining entire river basins of sand to make the cement, and on, and on, and on.
But the earth cries out for more. What’s your projection of how many more humans the earth “requires”? Twenty billion? One hundred trillion? Perhaps four quadrillion or more? Seriously, do you think the human population can grow to infinity? If not, then how do we know when to stop?
Oh, right, there’s no “stop” in some people’s minds because humans are an exception to the natural and physical
Worlds, aren’t we? Man is the fulcrum of all things and limits don’t apply to us. We can simply take and take and take some more forever, and like the magic cornucopia, the biotic earth will
gladly resupply us infinitely because, you know, we’re humans after all. ‘Nuff said.
Now if we wanted a relatively large and SUSTAINABLE population in the long run, we could have it we replaced conventional agriculture with regenerative permaculture, redesigned our cities to thoughtfully incorporate natural systems, and made a variety of very doable other changes. But that would mean restricting the transfer of wealth to government, the banks and Wall Street, and we mustn’t have that! And it would mean taking an axe to the notion that humans are the center of the universe. And we ESPECIALLY mustn’t have THAT! Even if refusing to accept the concept of limits today, means leaving nothing for future generations. We’re currently in a human bubble and like every bubble it will burst if we don’t allow the air to seep out slowly u til the skin is no longer stretched taut. Whether we gently and humanely allow human populations to contract organically in life-affirming ways or stay in a state of denial until nature forces a disorganized collapse upon us, a human population reduction WILL happen, and probably sooner rather than later. The question is, which would we prefer? A relatively orderly decline to a new and reasonable equilibrium crafted from an organic migration to much more life-generating ways of living? A sudden and chaotic collapse to a very small human population winnowed down to whoever can survive Mad Max? Or the forced perpetual serfdom imposed by the predator class on the relative few they allow to survive to serve them?
I have no kids, but I prefer the first alternative. It’s a shame that so many people who HAVE kids would prefer to condemn themselves and their own offspring to alternative #2 just because their egos can’t cope with reality.
I agree that there are better and worse ways to live here on Earth and interact with its other inhabitants.
But there is no risk of over-population. Before our psychotic overlords decided to speed up the process with their covids and their poison jabs, the human population was on track to peak at around 10 billion and then start plummeting downwards.
Call up charts of birth rates. The so-called “developed” countries are already below replacement rate, and the developing countries are heading to the same place fast. Some countries’ birth rates are so low that entire cohorts are heading for extinction. I do not know the exact time frame, but with a birth rate at just over 1, it only takes a few generations for an entire population to disappear. And there are quite a few populations with birth rates that low.
We have been fed fear of overpopulation since Malthus, but it was never going to work out that way. The more an economy industrializes and modernizes, the lower birth rates go. I do not know what the “ideal” number of us is, but I do know that runaway population growth is not going to happen. But runaway population decline very well might.
Space exploration and colonization. Humanity will not be contained to this one planet very much longer.
The universe is big enough to support whatever number of humans one could project, twenty billion, one hundred trillion, four quadrillion, uncountable numbers.
It's a very big place and we are just starting to explore it.
We do need to send a message to the powers that be that they do not pre-own every planet. (I will be writing about this down the road.)
I am glad you mentioned this. I believe that the vision of the distributed nation needs to stretch all the way into the future you describe. Some people will think that is silly, but I hope most people will understand the reason why.
People think it should come from the government, it should be done for them, or change should just happen, they seem to not take responsibility of their own part.. that is the social decline.
Expecting things to be done for them, getting stuff for free, not making good decisions and expecting things to work out somehow seem to have become a believe, many are not aware of ones personal responsilities anymore.. it seems. Nor the price it has on their conscience.. hence all the numbing and distraction in society. Forgetting that there are spiritual laws that will have a price, a consequence, if ignored.
In the old days, one earned the title of nobility.. by being especially social, a person that kept it's own side of the street clean and helping others, by being a good example, by acting noble.
Most people have no idea what it really involves to act noble.. they think one is born noble with some title on their birth certificate or a big bank account.. nobility is often seen as snobbery because those that have such titles/ bank accounts these days do not act noble, they have become the worst examples, entitled, greedy, arrogant and ignorant.
Noblesse oblige- the last part, the obligation, the responsibility was forgotten by everyone.
We need examples not leaders... that always ends up in: do as I say not as I do.. or so it seems.
Wanting all the rights and positive results but not doing what that entails.
One good example are the prescriptions .. we rather take a pill instead of eating right, getting sleep and excercise.. all the way to the porch pirates.. justification, excuses and blame instead of acting "right".
It seems easier at the moment but it never is.
.. we will get the bill... sooner or later.
It will take an act of providence .. I think.
Our "examples" have been corrupted by greed and power hunger, for so long it has become "normal", successful people these days are "rich" instead of noble and socially oriented, they pretend to be, they bend the rules and laws for personal gain.. they seem "untouchable".
Ethics, morals and accountability, integrity and honesty- the "obligation" has been mitigated, ignored, forgotten.
And we all know it.
Sentiments like "being above the law", "rules don't apply to me" have become "mainstream" instead of acting proper we have started to follow the rats .. very few know that virtues are they key to a good life ... everyone hates the rich but everyone wants to be rich... some become rats, the others become resignated and hopeless... for example: if one stays at the speed limit, people get angry .. lol ... and so it got worse and worse. To the point, that people who try to point that out will be attacked, ridiculed and fought, because admitting that, would mean one would have to change and take responsibility for ones actions.
Instead, we take another pill, eat another candy or whatever... do the same things over and over again, hoping for change to come from .. yeah.. someone or something else.
Full circle. And now we have hundreds of thousands if not millions who are stuck in dysfunction.. many are not aware how dysfunctional our systems, our families, our whole life, have become. Thoroughly misled, misguided by leadership. Instead of devine guidance.
Hence my thinking that we need a miracle... a mass- awakening followed by resolute personal self governing.
Right action instead of talking, pretending and waiting...
I fogot the name. Immediately blocked the guy.. it was my post about Hunter Biden.... nothing really that would warrant it but it was obvious this person was just spreading hate and discord. No argument just insults...
Yes. This is that identification and discernment problem we are dealing with.. frustration, hate.. inability to express that in words .. and some of course just thrive on chaos and escalation. I didn't think twice to block... no more tolerance for bullies and haters..
Things are geared these days towards making us a little nutty. I try to remember that when engaged in online communications, and sometimes I try to de-escalate things. But other times, when someone rolls in all angry or condescending, it just annoys me and I can't be bothered :-)
In what I see, all emerges from the three Laws of Ethics in whatever fashion it might. With Individuals sovereign of Their crowndoms (I like that better than "kingdom" - or "queendom?"), Their Selves and possessions.
I don't much worry about how society will emerge, as long as it is Ethical, but I will say that the family will return when there is no need to account for One's energy added to afford to live richly. That is why I so avidly put out there that such energy accounting (in whatever unit - eggs to electronic bits) is archaic, and that Our planet could support at least 1,000 times the number here now.
Christopher's line, "It represents the nobility of our aspirations, and of the natural-law principles by which we live." reminded me of your writings where you discuss replacing the concept of a 'work ethic' with the concept of a 'Betterment Ethic', as humanity transitions from the age of scarcity into an Age of Abundance.
🙏🏻 💜 🙏🏻 I am honored in Your payment of attention and appreciation! Yes, Christopher and I are nearly perfectly aligned - but that I suspect He yet struggles to see a world without some tangible thing(s) accounting for Our energy added. But I think He may be coming around to that. Beyond that He and I agree completely.
In the film "The Patriot" there is a very pleasant scene in which Benjamin Martin rides into a British fort on horseback, carrying a white flag, and being followed by two large dogs. There, he complains to general Cornwallis about the brutal treatment of women, children, wounded soldiers, and civilians, against the rules of warfare reached only reluctantly by the aristocratic filth of Europe after thirty years of war in Anno Domini 1648 at the peace of Westphalia. Somewhat later he reveals to Cornwallis some evidence of captured British officers being held at gunpoint. Cornwallis laments, "This is not the conduct of a gentleman."
To which Martin rejoins, "If the conduct of your officers is the measure of a gentleman, I'll take that as a compliment."
Just adverting on the word "noble" and this whole idea that some are more noble than others, which has plagued Christendom for a great many centuries. But your point that each individual is free and sovereign is a good one. As Jefferson wrote, we are not saddled so that others, booted and spurred, may ride us. We are all of us God's children. Amen.
Fixed classes of highborn and lowborn? Never again!
Making oneself and one's family as awesome as possible? Yes!
It is time.
Herr Cook
In Canada we have a “collectivist “ democracy ruled by our bloated governments and bureaucracies
I noted the “Biden Crime Family “ definitely is not below the Law
Natural or devised
The journey you have taken us on is more important than the destination
Tusen Takk
Jon
Thank you!
Though I am also hoping for a good destination!
The Bidens may be above the 'devised' law (great term, I like it a lot) at the moment, but they are certainly not exempt from Natural Law.
We are all suffering the consequences to some extent of their multitude of violations of Natural Law, and they are not immune from the consequences of their own actions either. It's how this universe works.
These are important concepts to consider in discovering what works best for free individuals to organize themselves for cooperation without coercion.
It’s a tough path to walk, at times. How to create something without stifling the organic processes that will make it REAL?
we are born sacred - as a whole.... as an already glorious piece of the entire family fabric of Life... our being is Family - and our extended families that begin collective community are our first 'peoples' of connection and community ... to build and live and create as part of that family - by and large every one of us - is to truly honour Life's living system and understand its call to continue and thrive... over population is a concern for those whose greed extends beyond their hoards into their fear of ever having 'less' and never having 'enough' ... She - this Earth / Life... is fully aware of all she creates and IS and more than willing to allow the abundance of both to nurture and feed her children with very simple means - of which to begin is don't hoard or build dams that prevent and restrict and limit - be them in your rivers or in your bank account
I think we did lose something when families moved so far away from each other.
Today's post is instructive of the way socialism makes a goal of destroying the family. Drawing women into the industrial workforce, and the children into industrialized schools for as many years as possible. Even our churches split the family into men's, women's and children's groups. It helps me to understand why companies have restrictions on married couples working in the same workplace, yet men and women work side by side. Tremendous pressure is thus placed on people to couple with each other outside the marriage bonds, creating more disruption of the family.
What possible solutions do you envision?
Well, I can tell you what I would like to do, but I doubt that any of that could be done. I don't have any standing in how my local church operates. All I can do is refuse to give them any more of my money and stop attending. The handful of big donors fully support their unAmerican, anti-Christian goings on. I have no standing in what my local public school teaches and I would be thrown out of any schoolboard meeting I would speak up in. My congressmen don't respond to my letters, nor do my state congressmen. My governor and president don't read or respond to anyone who doesn't give them huge bribes.
If that were not so, I believe that by now education would be influenced by the parents and neighbors of the student instead of state and federal bureaucrats. And local churches would teach Biblical principles instead of Marxian ones.
I believe that Trump campaigns like a conservative, but he didn't preside like one his first term, and it's too soon to tell if he will during his second one. He certainly doesn't live conservatively.
Much of what you just said is, to my ears, an argument for the very approach that I, and others who operate in a similar mind-space, recommend.
Opt out and build parallel institutions.
The institutions we have now will not listen to us, as you so astutely pointed out. We cannot change them. And even if we did, some wicked force would just change them right back. That is no way to live. Believing that that is the only possible answer for human civilization—an endless fight to gather enough votes to achieve pretend control over corrupt institutions for a few years, before the other guy takes that control back—is to believe in an endless hellscape.
We should stop participating in that. We should build our own stuff.
I give a big amen! to Christopher's reply. He wrote, "Opt out and build parallel institutions", others have condensed that to "Exit and Build".
Buckminster Fuller put it this way: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
And Etienne de la Boetie, way back in 1576 wrote: “Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.”
🔥🔥🔥
Well I am sure you already know we are already on the same page in this aspect. I remember the impression Clevell's novel "Noble House" made on me. Real self esteem that comes from making an effort to live up to standards that are truly admirable and which give a genuine status and standing in a community. Such a person has a feeling of obligation, a need to pass onto future generations a name and an example of which one does not have to be ashamed.
Is "good" behavior that is the result of the fear of punishment really good? It is the sign of a soul that considers himself alone weak and out to get what he can from a world which he does not love. Knowing that even if successful as to material things due to force, treachery, manipulation and deceit, he has no real connection to any other living things that isn't pretence. Can this be a real life? No, it is just pretence, empty of everything that really is important and even vital to true happiness.
Well said in every regard.
"live up to standards that are truly admirable"🧡💛🤎🤍🧡
Beautiful Christopher!
I fear that once peak population is reached, the downward slide from the top of that mountain will be irreversible. Meaning that all humanity will perish, even the psychotic anti-humans.
There are data to indicate that there was some point in the past when the whole human population had been reduced to a shockingly small number of people. I don't remember the exact number theorized, but it was tiny. And yet they managed to hold the line and grow again. I think we would do that again, in spite of any precipitous collapse.
well said!
yet herein we find the very human responses we would hope to avoid. we cannot hope to change the divergent mindsets & understandings that centuries to millenia of teaching & training have created nor is it required to achieve our goal. what must be acknowledged & accepted is that each must be respected and no one can impose their's on any another.
there is plenty of room for all. it is proven that returning to local farming and local distribution is supportive and most efficient and effective to feeding all of us and more. there are numerous methods of farming that are beneficial and harmonious with the natural landscape & environment where located. there is no one answer appropriate for every location or all.
it is also known that certain words will trigger and while individuals can achieve clarity for the masses or more we can help by avoiding them. as those become recognized & brought to attention we can identify other words that can be used in general publications and documents for a distributed nation which are as descriptive.
“we cannot hope to change the divergent mindsets & understandings that centuries to millenia of teaching & training have created nor is it required to achieve our goal. what must be acknowledged & accepted is that each must be respected and no one can impose their's on any another.”
—Absolutely! This is the way.
Hmmmmmmmm…… life evolved just fine and flowered on earth for billions of years before humans arrived on the scene. Then, suddenly, a new wave of mass extinctions began and an age of, as EO Wilson put it, “the death of birth”.
Humans already directly or indirectly appropriate over 50% of the biotic energy produced in earth, leaving less than half of all resources for every other species to compete for. But there aren’t yet enough of us? Over eight billion medium sized mammals all eating, farming, fishing, dedicating, clearing forests and grasslands, transferring carbon from plants and subsoil into the air, water and surface soil, damming rivers, building and filling massive waste dumps, quarrying stone, mining for minerals, polluting the energy spectrum with massive outpourings of 5G, radio, radar and other powerful bio-questionable energy frequencies, lobbing bombs all over, pouring billions of tons of asphalt and cement every year, draining entire river basins of sand to make the cement, and on, and on, and on.
But the earth cries out for more. What’s your projection of how many more humans the earth “requires”? Twenty billion? One hundred trillion? Perhaps four quadrillion or more? Seriously, do you think the human population can grow to infinity? If not, then how do we know when to stop?
Oh, right, there’s no “stop” in some people’s minds because humans are an exception to the natural and physical
Worlds, aren’t we? Man is the fulcrum of all things and limits don’t apply to us. We can simply take and take and take some more forever, and like the magic cornucopia, the biotic earth will
gladly resupply us infinitely because, you know, we’re humans after all. ‘Nuff said.
Now if we wanted a relatively large and SUSTAINABLE population in the long run, we could have it we replaced conventional agriculture with regenerative permaculture, redesigned our cities to thoughtfully incorporate natural systems, and made a variety of very doable other changes. But that would mean restricting the transfer of wealth to government, the banks and Wall Street, and we mustn’t have that! And it would mean taking an axe to the notion that humans are the center of the universe. And we ESPECIALLY mustn’t have THAT! Even if refusing to accept the concept of limits today, means leaving nothing for future generations. We’re currently in a human bubble and like every bubble it will burst if we don’t allow the air to seep out slowly u til the skin is no longer stretched taut. Whether we gently and humanely allow human populations to contract organically in life-affirming ways or stay in a state of denial until nature forces a disorganized collapse upon us, a human population reduction WILL happen, and probably sooner rather than later. The question is, which would we prefer? A relatively orderly decline to a new and reasonable equilibrium crafted from an organic migration to much more life-generating ways of living? A sudden and chaotic collapse to a very small human population winnowed down to whoever can survive Mad Max? Or the forced perpetual serfdom imposed by the predator class on the relative few they allow to survive to serve them?
I have no kids, but I prefer the first alternative. It’s a shame that so many people who HAVE kids would prefer to condemn themselves and their own offspring to alternative #2 just because their egos can’t cope with reality.
I agree that there are better and worse ways to live here on Earth and interact with its other inhabitants.
But there is no risk of over-population. Before our psychotic overlords decided to speed up the process with their covids and their poison jabs, the human population was on track to peak at around 10 billion and then start plummeting downwards.
Call up charts of birth rates. The so-called “developed” countries are already below replacement rate, and the developing countries are heading to the same place fast. Some countries’ birth rates are so low that entire cohorts are heading for extinction. I do not know the exact time frame, but with a birth rate at just over 1, it only takes a few generations for an entire population to disappear. And there are quite a few populations with birth rates that low.
We have been fed fear of overpopulation since Malthus, but it was never going to work out that way. The more an economy industrializes and modernizes, the lower birth rates go. I do not know what the “ideal” number of us is, but I do know that runaway population growth is not going to happen. But runaway population decline very well might.
Space exploration and colonization. Humanity will not be contained to this one planet very much longer.
The universe is big enough to support whatever number of humans one could project, twenty billion, one hundred trillion, four quadrillion, uncountable numbers.
It's a very big place and we are just starting to explore it.
We do need to send a message to the powers that be that they do not pre-own every planet. (I will be writing about this down the road.)
I am glad you mentioned this. I believe that the vision of the distributed nation needs to stretch all the way into the future you describe. Some people will think that is silly, but I hope most people will understand the reason why.
Open frontiers have always been a great boon to seekers of liberty and freedom.
The less people, the more for them... and less people to control.
Thank you!!! 🙏
So you like the idea, then?
Yes. That is exactely it!
People think it should come from the government, it should be done for them, or change should just happen, they seem to not take responsibility of their own part.. that is the social decline.
Expecting things to be done for them, getting stuff for free, not making good decisions and expecting things to work out somehow seem to have become a believe, many are not aware of ones personal responsilities anymore.. it seems. Nor the price it has on their conscience.. hence all the numbing and distraction in society. Forgetting that there are spiritual laws that will have a price, a consequence, if ignored.
In the old days, one earned the title of nobility.. by being especially social, a person that kept it's own side of the street clean and helping others, by being a good example, by acting noble.
Most people have no idea what it really involves to act noble.. they think one is born noble with some title on their birth certificate or a big bank account.. nobility is often seen as snobbery because those that have such titles/ bank accounts these days do not act noble, they have become the worst examples, entitled, greedy, arrogant and ignorant.
Noblesse oblige- the last part, the obligation, the responsibility was forgotten by everyone.
We need examples not leaders... that always ends up in: do as I say not as I do.. or so it seems.
Wanting all the rights and positive results but not doing what that entails.
One good example are the prescriptions .. we rather take a pill instead of eating right, getting sleep and excercise.. all the way to the porch pirates.. justification, excuses and blame instead of acting "right".
It seems easier at the moment but it never is.
.. we will get the bill... sooner or later.
It will take an act of providence .. I think.
Our "examples" have been corrupted by greed and power hunger, for so long it has become "normal", successful people these days are "rich" instead of noble and socially oriented, they pretend to be, they bend the rules and laws for personal gain.. they seem "untouchable".
Ethics, morals and accountability, integrity and honesty- the "obligation" has been mitigated, ignored, forgotten.
And we all know it.
Sentiments like "being above the law", "rules don't apply to me" have become "mainstream" instead of acting proper we have started to follow the rats .. very few know that virtues are they key to a good life ... everyone hates the rich but everyone wants to be rich... some become rats, the others become resignated and hopeless... for example: if one stays at the speed limit, people get angry .. lol ... and so it got worse and worse. To the point, that people who try to point that out will be attacked, ridiculed and fought, because admitting that, would mean one would have to change and take responsibility for ones actions.
Instead, we take another pill, eat another candy or whatever... do the same things over and over again, hoping for change to come from .. yeah.. someone or something else.
Full circle. And now we have hundreds of thousands if not millions who are stuck in dysfunction.. many are not aware how dysfunctional our systems, our families, our whole life, have become. Thoroughly misled, misguided by leadership. Instead of devine guidance.
Hence my thinking that we need a miracle... a mass- awakening followed by resolute personal self governing.
Right action instead of talking, pretending and waiting...
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I tried sharing this comment, but Substack is being a little glitchy with its most recent rollout.
This is all quite excellent, An. Powerful stuff.
"We need examples, not leaders"
That is straight fire.
And the whole quick-fix, take-a-pill thing—look at Ozempic! It's the perfect example.
I saved my post, I will add it to your next post!! 😉
Thank you!!! 🔥
From what I gather Substack has started censoring .. I'm not 100% sure but I've heard a fee people say it now .. we sill see.
Thank you!!! 🔥🙌🙂
There was a glitch with Notes recently that made it seem like censorship, but it might not have been. Hopefully not!
I have recently been called a Traitor .. that is how dark it has become.
By whom? Why?
I fogot the name. Immediately blocked the guy.. it was my post about Hunter Biden.... nothing really that would warrant it but it was obvious this person was just spreading hate and discord. No argument just insults...
“Traitor” is quite overwrought, no matter what you might have said!
Yes. This is that identification and discernment problem we are dealing with.. frustration, hate.. inability to express that in words .. and some of course just thrive on chaos and escalation. I didn't think twice to block... no more tolerance for bullies and haters..
Things are geared these days towards making us a little nutty. I try to remember that when engaged in online communications, and sometimes I try to de-escalate things. But other times, when someone rolls in all angry or condescending, it just annoys me and I can't be bothered :-)
In what I see, all emerges from the three Laws of Ethics in whatever fashion it might. With Individuals sovereign of Their crowndoms (I like that better than "kingdom" - or "queendom?"), Their Selves and possessions.
I don't much worry about how society will emerge, as long as it is Ethical, but I will say that the family will return when there is no need to account for One's energy added to afford to live richly. That is why I so avidly put out there that such energy accounting (in whatever unit - eggs to electronic bits) is archaic, and that Our planet could support at least 1,000 times the number here now.
So again, for any reader, I offer:
The End of (Social) Entropy (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/the-end-of-entropy
Social Currency (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/social-currency
Quantifying Wealth (article): https://amaterasusolar.substack.com/p/quantifying-wealth
Christopher's line, "It represents the nobility of our aspirations, and of the natural-law principles by which we live." reminded me of your writings where you discuss replacing the concept of a 'work ethic' with the concept of a 'Betterment Ethic', as humanity transitions from the age of scarcity into an Age of Abundance.
🙏🏻 💜 🙏🏻 I am honored in Your payment of attention and appreciation! Yes, Christopher and I are nearly perfectly aligned - but that I suspect He yet struggles to see a world without some tangible thing(s) accounting for Our energy added. But I think He may be coming around to that. Beyond that He and I agree completely.
Love always!
I guess we all struggle with something.
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