Reply #7: anything to avoid pulling together [View All]

[Two Americas]

I think that we have been trained to fear and avoid each other, and much of the "get off the grid" mania is fear of people. We think that if we empathize with others, that we might "catch" loserdom, or poverty as though they were contagious diseases. We see our own personal survival as dependent upon - well, dependent upon not allowing ourselves to be dependent on one another, yet we are for each other the only true source of what we need.

We must only associate with "winners" so that the "winning" will magically rub off on us. We must only "think positive" so that we can "visualize abundance" and wealth will then flow into our own little pockets so we can escape the human community, run from our fears, distance ourselves from our neighbors, and triumph over others.

People will go to any ridiculous extreme to avoid pulling together with others, to avoid working as a team, finding common cause, forming groups of mutual defense and support.

There are thousands of small progressive family farms, struggling and desperate for labor, all working within the parameters of a threatened public agricultural infrastructure, dedicated to the public welfare - inspection, public water and soil management, research-driven sustainable practices, and community-based cooperative effort for the purpose of feeding the people. There is a desperate shortage of new farm owners, and much help available for those willing to commit to a life of contributing to the public welfare in an unambiguous way and meet the personal challenges required. Help is needed getting the food to the people, and getting people closer to the food source.

We need people on the front lines of the battle for justice, and human survival depends upon it in this growing crisis and time of much suffering and deprivation. There should be no tolerance anymore for people retreating into expensive, self-absorbed and self-centered fantasies and worlds of self-delusion, and indulging in these at this time is no less than a crime against humanity.