Dear Friends,
It seems to me, there are many things that take power from us and give it to the central planners, and some things we can do to take it back. Put another way, anything that gives us self-sufficiency is empowering against the central planners, and anything that makes us dependent is disempowering. This gives us a strategy to fight central planning on a personal basis, even if their power seems utterly insurmountable. Those who are able to claw back some power from the central planners will be vilified by the mockingbird media. Central planners want everyone on their plantation. The plan then should be to become independent. This way we can leave the plantation for freedom. Why should we, though? History tells a sad story of those who were dependent on central planners.
The story of the twentieth century is a woeful tale of human suffering at the hands of central planners. Oh, they called themselves different names but at heart all were central planners. Whether they called themselves Communists, Fascists, or Globalists, central planning was and is their aim. The UN is the global temple to central planning and has yielded exactly what all central planning has yielded. UN peacekeepers have raped children, have participated in the atrocities of October 7, and have helped fund human slavery operations across the planet. They call them human trafficking as a euphemism, since slavery has such a negative ring. That slander given to it by moralistic Christians. This is why we must resist central planning… it yields only suffering and atrocity. Famine for example.
Learning what plants you can safely eat, how to grow food, and how to process game in and of itself makes one food independent. Ground Ivy was used extensively for ale production in Medieval Europe, but was banned. Some say that the ban was because creeping Charlie (Ground Ivy) can’t be taxed or regulated. It grows too profusely. Hops is much more labor intensive so is easily taxed. Purslane, Water ivy, and dandelions are weeds that grow everywhere and are very high in nutrition. Knowing how to identify them and other edible “weeds” allows one to survive even if the central planners shut off the food supply. As Stalin did to the Ukrainians, Mao did to the Chinese, and Kim did to the North Koreans. If you don’t depend on the central planners for food, they can’t starve you to death.
Many skills make us independent of the central planners. A backyard garden doesn’t help with the food bill, usually, but it does give us a buffer. The ability to process game is a skill best learned at leisure and not in the field. How about weaving cordage? Do you know how to weave rope from grass in a pinch? Could you fashion a knife from a rock shard? What if you are stuck in the woods at night without enough clothes? Would you freeze to death or stuff your shirt with straw? Yes, straw is extremely itchy, but freezing to death is uncomfortable too. Can you find safe drinking water in the forest? A stream could quickly make you sick… Any skill that makes us independent of the system, if we have to be, lowers the leverage the central planners have over us.
Dependence, on the other hand, makes us slaves to the central planners. Those without any ability to fend for themselves have to fight for the central planners. To protect their survival. A dependent must protect that which he or she is dependent on. Central planners know this. So someone will fight to the death to get a scrap from someone who would allow them access to the whole loaf. This is because the dependent has no gumption. Any argument to lower the power of central planners is met with the spurious question, “Who will decide that then?” The dependent can’t imagine themselves making their own decisions, let alone allowing complex systems to work. Central planners understand why we are not supposed to feed the bears, that’s why they feed us, to make us dependent on them.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
