Last week, I sat on a cliff, overlooking Dead Horse Point. I was looking for words to describe how I felt. Your words, Declaring Independence from dis-ease, are precisely the words I was looking for. I will venture back there in a little under 4 weeks, and read these words again, for the first time. God bless you Good Citizen.
My word how does one respond to such a piece? I decided the only answer I could give at this moment, whilst processing your words and planning a second read, is a paid subscription to your newsletter.
Damn good writing! Yes, cellphones and computers are a thorn in my side. So are TVs, I like music and radio. I live out in the country with family and we have a huge garden with a greenhouse on about 20 acres of property next to my sisters property which is on 20 acres also. So, most of the time I'm outside when its nice helping out the family. As I'm writing this I'm sore as Hell. It's so secluded with trees and brush you can't even see the road. My point is, technology. It's a brainwash device. I don't like leaving to go to the damn city to get things at stores. People are in their vehicles texting or gabbing on the phone while they're driving. Or they are on intoxicants and driving. Too many jackasses with their brain on something else while they're driving. I don't drive because I'm on certain meds, so I play it safe. I see accidents all the time, or accidents waiting to happen. I'll won't be surprised if I die in a car accident in the city. But, I'll be alright. Ok, I'll shut up and get my sore ass to bed. Good night and may the higher power of whatever you believe in protect all of us!
So, as I am reading this Pulitzer Piece, I'm thinkin' & thinkin', as I am most sure all your fine flock is too...
[Just a sec...To the 'readers' who read, only to cast aspersions, 'flock' is just a-turn-of-sheepish-phrase, so just calm down. We're not another cult here, so don't waste your ink].
Maybe this will provide you with a starting insight on what and how. It is by Remco Campert, on resistance. It's displayed in the Amsterdam museum of resistance in WWII:
In addition to all of the things that everyone else is recommending, I want to plug barbell training. There is no better way to experience “dis-ease” than by regularly coming face to face with our physical and mental limits. The barbell is the perfect teacher.
A simple home gym is one of the best investments we can make to ensure our independence from the corrupt “medical system”.
Hats off to you my friend. A long but good read. Will probably have to re-read several times to digest all the nuances. Quoting the Unabomber will probably raise some red flags. Unless you are just trying to ruffle some feathers it might be wise to watch where you tread. Linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Ted's a genius and victim of CIA psyop experiments at Harvard as a boy (16?). I'd like to believe we are still free to acknowledge the thoughts and ideas of an individual without condoning their violence, but you're probably right...feathers will choose to be ruffled unnecessarily.
I agree we should be free to acknowledge thoughts and ideas. It's the one's who don't want you to be able to do that, that bothers me. They are just as violent as any Unabomber if not worse. As I have stated to you in the past, I believe, sometimes you have to be a "Grey Man".
I am quite pessimistic for the people who don't know how to take care of themselves. I admit to being jaded, here lately a phenomenon I can't quite grasp is the community garden here ought to be booked solid with renters as food prices increase, but instead its losing participants.
I started two large garden plots this spring. I make my own jerky and pemmican. I will can when the garden is ready.
I just came home from 4 days backpacking in the Olympic Peninsula. It was brutal and beautiful. I have never seen such stunning country. The bugs were horrendous and I came home with a bone bruise. I would do it again.
I don't can veggies anymore, I am either growing food that stores without processing, dehydration, or making lacto ferment. If I have to buy food I will buy canned, same low quality after the heat treatment. But before that I am more focused on eating as diverse of a diet of fresh food in season as it is available. Most days right now over 20 different types of food a day!
I would rather not can, but want more food in storage. I'm largely carnivore. I will can so that I and family have safe better quality food when scarce. I also ferment and dehydrate.
That guy is too sensationalist for me. He merely caters to those who want to be entertained, which is why regenerative ag is a hot topic as these are the people who don't want to actually do anything. They want the farmers to provide everything.
Treeless ag will fail its just a matter of how long it lasts.
I don’t care about the person doing the interview. The point was about changing from the current chemical/petro style industrial farming to a regenerative method.
Gabe Brown and the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast with John Kempf https://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/from-dirt-to-soil-with-gabe-brown is one of my favorite. Gabe Brown's book, Dirt to Soil is also good. Gabe Brown is wonderful to listen to. John has an incredible depth of knowledge and does a great job in all his interviews. He asks good questions and lets his guest talk. Not all podcasters can do that.
I have enjoyed nearly every episode. I am so glad you found something of interest to you in this topic and these offerings in particular. Not sure why anyone would think that regenerative ag is not a solution to the obvious problem that we all must eat and that including animals in the process is the best way to achieve healthier people, healthier animals and healthy land.
These are important discussions with the looming food shortages, centralization, transportation and government control of food production and manufacturing.
How many 14 year olds do you know with a TV screen strapped to their heads, and a cast of 24/7 animation characters who all express their deepest emotions, their existential struggles feeling so incapable of relating to humans in the real world? To live and love here, their emotional needs and imagined physical appearances give life to their inability to have a life in the temporal world. My 14 year old wants a head set, as the virtual reality she lives in on Tic Tok/ Roblox etc is V.R. improved, and becomes so interactive she will need a nappy. The physical becomes unable to differentiate from the cartoons, never shower, eat, fuc, be.
A professor friend and scholar of digital culture was on a river walk. Sunday family requirement, strictly sans gadgets. His teen daughter snuck her phone on one of them. He threw it in the river in despair. I think his wife made him buy her a new one. That was the end of his digital policing. That was 8 years ago before tiktok. I imagine it must be an exercise in futility today.
Imagine trying to raise a child in today's climate. Wether it's antisocial media looking to monetise their attention or Marxist "educators" looking to hijack they're struggle through puberty for utterly self-serving reasons, it seems like the West is intent on destroying it's future generations.
Exactly, and it is up to the parents to protect and guide them. The times of rainbows and unicorns have ended. It is now time they stop trying to be their friends, and return to being their parents. Their very future depends on it.
I find that VR interaction is peer led. “I’m in with the in crowd”, and so it goes. To suggest stepping back to see how it might look is kinda policed as those who know, and of course those who don’t.The hypnosis digital environment is entrainment, and alleges to itself that it is cutting edge, so if you’re not in it, who are you? I’ve found using the GPS at all, means I am completely dependent! I have little idea where I came from or where I am. That is brain death and it happens very quickly.
Brain death is deadly accurate. Atrophy and decay set it everywhere when we cease activating parts of brain responsible for different activities. GPS degrades spatial and locational awareness and memory while revealing our location to Google, apple, Audi, Mazda etc and the government 24/7. Assimilation nurtures dependency which will breed misery.
He would have but it just would have cost him another half month salary, plus social ostracizing for the daughter being the only kid outside the matrix, plus her resentment for years. They make the costs of opting out so great that few will even consider it.
What teenager doesn’t resent their parents at some point? It’s just part of the process of becoming an adult. Is it harder than just going with the flow? Of course, but when was easier the correct way.
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
~ William Blake
"One the other hand, I have purposely treated the empirical physical foundations of the theory in a "step-motherly" fashion, so that readers unfamiliar with physics may not feel like the wanderer who was unable to see the forest for the trees."
~ Albert Einstein
{Preface to Relativity,
December, 1916, p. vi}
"Dedicated to all those who are stepping up at this time to uplift the human race and our planet."
~ Moray B. King
{Quest For Zero Point Energy,
2001, p. 5}
"The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man."
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
(1883-1955)
{The Dehumanization of Art (1948)}
From Introduction of:
Dropping Pebbles in Still Water
(Breaking the Unbroken Whole of the Universe, 2011, p.1)
~ Alexander S. Holub, Ph.D.
"The skillful are not obvious
They appear to be simple-minded
Those who know this know the patterns of the Absolute
To know the patterns is the Subtle Power
The Subtle Power moves all things and has no name
~ David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.
{POWER VS. FORCE
The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, 1995, 1998, 2002, page un-numbered}
Last week, I sat on a cliff, overlooking Dead Horse Point. I was looking for words to describe how I felt. Your words, Declaring Independence from dis-ease, are precisely the words I was looking for. I will venture back there in a little under 4 weeks, and read these words again, for the first time. God bless you Good Citizen.
Declaring independance from dis-ease, and embracing the dis-comfort of real living
Sorry for the extra post, but that opening paragraph is TREMENDOUS.
Wow💥 Amazing piece
My word how does one respond to such a piece? I decided the only answer I could give at this moment, whilst processing your words and planning a second read, is a paid subscription to your newsletter.
I appreciate it. Thank you Dutch Partisan.
No thanks needed. You thoroughly deserve it mate.
Damn good writing! Yes, cellphones and computers are a thorn in my side. So are TVs, I like music and radio. I live out in the country with family and we have a huge garden with a greenhouse on about 20 acres of property next to my sisters property which is on 20 acres also. So, most of the time I'm outside when its nice helping out the family. As I'm writing this I'm sore as Hell. It's so secluded with trees and brush you can't even see the road. My point is, technology. It's a brainwash device. I don't like leaving to go to the damn city to get things at stores. People are in their vehicles texting or gabbing on the phone while they're driving. Or they are on intoxicants and driving. Too many jackasses with their brain on something else while they're driving. I don't drive because I'm on certain meds, so I play it safe. I see accidents all the time, or accidents waiting to happen. I'll won't be surprised if I die in a car accident in the city. But, I'll be alright. Ok, I'll shut up and get my sore ass to bed. Good night and may the higher power of whatever you believe in protect all of us!
Brilliant, thank you.
So, as I am reading this Pulitzer Piece, I'm thinkin' & thinkin', as I am most sure all your fine flock is too...
[Just a sec...To the 'readers' who read, only to cast aspersions, 'flock' is just a-turn-of-sheepish-phrase, so just calm down. We're not another cult here, so don't waste your ink].
...about the following words by you...
"...or the ability
to organize meaningful
resistance and rebellion
that moves beyond
simply attempting
to maintain and survive."
WHAT TO DO ?
& HOW TO DO IT ?
But, alas, let me finish this Piece.
The answer may lay in wait.
Maybe this will provide you with a starting insight on what and how. It is by Remco Campert, on resistance. It's displayed in the Amsterdam museum of resistance in WWII:
Resistance does not start with big words
but with small actions
like a storm with a soft rustle in the garden
or the cat getting the folly in it's head
like wide rivers
with a small spring
hidden in the forest
like a conflagration
with the same match
that lights the cigarette
like love with a look
a touch, something remarkable in a voice
to ask yourself a question
that's where resistance starts with
and then ask that question to another person
THAT'S BEAUTIFUL !
Thanx so much, Dutch.
And I do believe in the little things. The subtle ENERGY of it all. When fair & fine intention is married to the simplest & 'ordinary' of acts.
Again Thank you.
For: TGC/Crew & ALL,
"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
{French Writer}
excellent article
Leave The Dear Lady & US, alone.
It's a form of island independence.
https://youtu.be/gLGCHAO1u-M
In addition to all of the things that everyone else is recommending, I want to plug barbell training. There is no better way to experience “dis-ease” than by regularly coming face to face with our physical and mental limits. The barbell is the perfect teacher.
A simple home gym is one of the best investments we can make to ensure our independence from the corrupt “medical system”.
https://fatrabbitiron.substack.com/p/secede-home-gym
Top advice. The body fuels the mind.
Hats off to you my friend. A long but good read. Will probably have to re-read several times to digest all the nuances. Quoting the Unabomber will probably raise some red flags. Unless you are just trying to ruffle some feathers it might be wise to watch where you tread. Linking as usual @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/
Ted's a genius and victim of CIA psyop experiments at Harvard as a boy (16?). I'd like to believe we are still free to acknowledge the thoughts and ideas of an individual without condoning their violence, but you're probably right...feathers will choose to be ruffled unnecessarily.
I agree we should be free to acknowledge thoughts and ideas. It's the one's who don't want you to be able to do that, that bothers me. They are just as violent as any Unabomber if not worse. As I have stated to you in the past, I believe, sometimes you have to be a "Grey Man".
True. Or an anon sheep with blindfold and tape over the bahaha.
Of those reading this most descriptive essay how many will actually make the change?
ZERO.
They would rather stand in line for their share of bug soup than to actually tend a garden.
Eh, that's a bit pessimistic, Rick.
I'm sure quite a few of us here now are making at least incremental changes, to include gardening.
However, I suspect pessimism *is* warranted in the sense that the people most in need of making such a change... will never read this essay at all.
I am quite pessimistic for the people who don't know how to take care of themselves. I admit to being jaded, here lately a phenomenon I can't quite grasp is the community garden here ought to be booked solid with renters as food prices increase, but instead its losing participants.
Everyone will get what they deserve I suppose.
I started two large garden plots this spring. I make my own jerky and pemmican. I will can when the garden is ready.
I just came home from 4 days backpacking in the Olympic Peninsula. It was brutal and beautiful. I have never seen such stunning country. The bugs were horrendous and I came home with a bone bruise. I would do it again.
Some are listening and heed the call.
I don't can veggies anymore, I am either growing food that stores without processing, dehydration, or making lacto ferment. If I have to buy food I will buy canned, same low quality after the heat treatment. But before that I am more focused on eating as diverse of a diet of fresh food in season as it is available. Most days right now over 20 different types of food a day!
I would rather not can, but want more food in storage. I'm largely carnivore. I will can so that I and family have safe better quality food when scarce. I also ferment and dehydrate.
Here is a great interview about regenerative farming.
https://youtu.be/pJzbdcHQ4-A
That guy is too sensationalist for me. He merely caters to those who want to be entertained, which is why regenerative ag is a hot topic as these are the people who don't want to actually do anything. They want the farmers to provide everything.
Treeless ag will fail its just a matter of how long it lasts.
I don’t care about the person doing the interview. The point was about changing from the current chemical/petro style industrial farming to a regenerative method.
Regen ag won't fix what's ailing this planet, sorry.
So, you are against integrative farming practices?
I am against the current hierarchal arrangement, treeless ag, and people who use money to buy food.
There is a higher level of integration I am believing in.
Gabe Brown and the Regenerative Agriculture Podcast with John Kempf https://regenerativeagriculturepodcast.com/from-dirt-to-soil-with-gabe-brown is one of my favorite. Gabe Brown's book, Dirt to Soil is also good. Gabe Brown is wonderful to listen to. John has an incredible depth of knowledge and does a great job in all his interviews. He asks good questions and lets his guest talk. Not all podcasters can do that.
Thank you for this podcast link as well. With 78 episodes, this should keep me busy for a while. Looks like a lot of diverse topics.
I have enjoyed nearly every episode. I am so glad you found something of interest to you in this topic and these offerings in particular. Not sure why anyone would think that regenerative ag is not a solution to the obvious problem that we all must eat and that including animals in the process is the best way to achieve healthier people, healthier animals and healthy land.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rfk-jr-the-defender-podcast/id1552000243
These are important discussions with the looming food shortages, centralization, transportation and government control of food production and manufacturing.
Thank you for the link. Great podcast. Resiliency over efficiency indeed.
Regen ag won't fix this.
How many 14 year olds do you know with a TV screen strapped to their heads, and a cast of 24/7 animation characters who all express their deepest emotions, their existential struggles feeling so incapable of relating to humans in the real world? To live and love here, their emotional needs and imagined physical appearances give life to their inability to have a life in the temporal world. My 14 year old wants a head set, as the virtual reality she lives in on Tic Tok/ Roblox etc is V.R. improved, and becomes so interactive she will need a nappy. The physical becomes unable to differentiate from the cartoons, never shower, eat, fuc, be.
A professor friend and scholar of digital culture was on a river walk. Sunday family requirement, strictly sans gadgets. His teen daughter snuck her phone on one of them. He threw it in the river in despair. I think his wife made him buy her a new one. That was the end of his digital policing. That was 8 years ago before tiktok. I imagine it must be an exercise in futility today.
Imagine trying to raise a child in today's climate. Wether it's antisocial media looking to monetise their attention or Marxist "educators" looking to hijack they're struggle through puberty for utterly self-serving reasons, it seems like the West is intent on destroying it's future generations.
Exactly, and it is up to the parents to protect and guide them. The times of rainbows and unicorns have ended. It is now time they stop trying to be their friends, and return to being their parents. Their very future depends on it.
I find that VR interaction is peer led. “I’m in with the in crowd”, and so it goes. To suggest stepping back to see how it might look is kinda policed as those who know, and of course those who don’t.The hypnosis digital environment is entrainment, and alleges to itself that it is cutting edge, so if you’re not in it, who are you? I’ve found using the GPS at all, means I am completely dependent! I have little idea where I came from or where I am. That is brain death and it happens very quickly.
Brain death is deadly accurate. Atrophy and decay set it everywhere when we cease activating parts of brain responsible for different activities. GPS degrades spatial and locational awareness and memory while revealing our location to Google, apple, Audi, Mazda etc and the government 24/7. Assimilation nurtures dependency which will breed misery.
Sounds like your friend gave up too easily. Surely he could have found another river for the second phone….
He would have but it just would have cost him another half month salary, plus social ostracizing for the daughter being the only kid outside the matrix, plus her resentment for years. They make the costs of opting out so great that few will even consider it.
What teenager doesn’t resent their parents at some point? It’s just part of the process of becoming an adult. Is it harder than just going with the flow? Of course, but when was easier the correct way.
Speechless...
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."
~ William Blake
"One the other hand, I have purposely treated the empirical physical foundations of the theory in a "step-motherly" fashion, so that readers unfamiliar with physics may not feel like the wanderer who was unable to see the forest for the trees."
~ Albert Einstein
{Preface to Relativity,
December, 1916, p. vi}
"Dedicated to all those who are stepping up at this time to uplift the human race and our planet."
~ Moray B. King
{Quest For Zero Point Energy,
2001, p. 5}
"The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by man."
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
(1883-1955)
{The Dehumanization of Art (1948)}
From Introduction of:
Dropping Pebbles in Still Water
(Breaking the Unbroken Whole of the Universe, 2011, p.1)
~ Alexander S. Holub, Ph.D.
"The skillful are not obvious
They appear to be simple-minded
Those who know this know the patterns of the Absolute
To know the patterns is the Subtle Power
The Subtle Power moves all things and has no name
~ David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.
{POWER VS. FORCE
The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, 1995, 1998, 2002, page un-numbered}