don't be a slave. slave to money, slave to mortgage, slave to rich things. You do not need them. You don't need a big house with a big bed. Sleep on the ground, with only the moonlight for your bed cover. Then you are free. They cannot own you. They cannot enslave you. Only you can do that. Do not be a slave. Be free. In a world of slaves, the free man is god.

Democracy is the tyranny of the majority, it has nothing to do with freedom.
Referendum is control, of politicians, of laws, of individual actions of the police and military.
Until you have that you are not free.

This has all happened before.
America has already had its Gracchi
The time scale is compressed.
The Barbarians will be at the gate much sooner
Enjoy the Pax Americana, your children may very well see its end
Those romans thought it would last forever too
Even near the end, they thought so
They were wrong too

The oligarchs do not want innovation
They control the world now
And know they can lose control
Innovation they cannot control
No control means fear
When they fear you they will destroy you

Democracy is not freedom.
Ask those Africans brought to or born in America until the 1960's
Did they get freedom from this great democracy?
Democracy ensures that the majority will marginalize the minority.
No, I am not a communist, that abomination called Communism in this era is no different than democracy.
It's all a colorful curtain for the rich to rule behind.
as always so now.

Every government, no matter of its good intent
is eventually bought out, purloined, or threatened into servitude to the oligarchs
No autocrat ruled without the good graces of the rich
No democracy existed without being corrupted to benefit only the rich

The world is an illusion
Nothing is solid, there is only field waves
Hold an apple in your hand
It looks red, but the light that your eyes see reflected lies to you
The apple is actually every color except red
Red is the light that refects off of it and into your eyes
Touch it
But you cannot touch it, the atoms that make up the apple repel the atoms in your hand
What you feel is the Coulomb repulsion force
Not the apple at all
Even those atoms don't exist
They are merely the illusion created by quantum probability

People are afraid to face their own mortality
They need faith to cling to
If it feels right, it must be right
This is hubris
Test your intuition
Pick a card out of a shuffled deck after guessing it
Where you right?

People think the world was some idyllic place before man came with wars and violence
The truth is the opposite
Ask the rabbit
How peaceful his world is
Beset on all sides by cats, foxes, hawks
Then comes the winter and flood
The world is a brutal, deadly place
Only through strength and quick wits can a living thing be safe

The tiger lies to kill the deer
The rabbit lies to hide from the fox
All things lie by instinct
Only the strong always tell the truth
Brazenly telling the world
I do not need deception

A solar flare can knock out all electronics
half the world can go dark, data wiped on magnetic media
imagine that, it can happen, it HAS happened, it will happen again
in the late 19th century it was not that big a concern
electricity was knew, only telegraph operators witnessed any effects
but today, it would be a disaster of world wide importance
Or maybe a comet will hit earth.
it has happened before, it WILL happen again.
humans are a fragile thing, their civilization even more fragile
every great culture thought they would endure forever
and did not.

Charity is a thing rich people invented to make themselves feel better
now they can steal and plunder from the poor and reassure themselves
they are not bad, because they give to charity
charities are run by the wealthy, and they take 30%-90% of the take
and they all feel so good about themselves
And those they give to? what of them?
because I have known poor people
hard working people, proud and decent, just unlucky
they refuse any charity, not one took it, not one
if you want to help them, you have to get to know them
find out what they want of their life, what they are good at
what skills they have that are useful
and then find a way to make that profitable for them
but charity, that is what beggars take, what criminals take
those with their hand out waiting for something, would rather wait
then do any actual work

Pretty is nothing
gold is pretty, what good is it?
will it feed your hunger, will it quench your thirst?
it can be hammered into pretty shapes
where are those shapes now?
there have been many golden idols hammered into shape
where are they now? melted down
but the beautiful things in stone are still here
the beautiful things in iron are still here
give me stone and iron, tough and hard and lasting
pretty is nothing to me.

Gambling
Video gaming and casinos and lotteries
a trap for the unlucky and those bad at math
also for those in dire straits, an act of desperation, one last chance
The wealthy prey on these unlucky souls
take their money and congratulate themselves
then sock that cash away into their bank accounts
where it does no good, buys nothing, creates nothing, helps no one

be a nomad, be a ghost, live with only what you can carry quickly.
In this new world, a world with too many humans and a finite amount of land,
the powerful will come for your land eventually.
if you try and hold on to it, they will crush you.
You can still be free, but you must hide from them, when they look for you already be gone.

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