Newfie wrote:Rocman,
That's a good point. Our culture goons folks to become wage slaves. And perhaps rightfully slow. Re People Are Sheep thread.
Some do not fit that mold, and to some extent we idolize them.
So what's better depends upon the person. What we have is a mix of ideas that put people under stress, slave wage is almost inevitable, but we long to be the Marlboro Man.
ROCKMAN wrote:Sub - "Plumbers and carpenters and farmers are ultimately more crucial than minor bureacratic functionaries." As been said before: "First, kill all the lawyers". LOL.
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I see your points. after all, things are going so well in the EU, and south and central America. Anybody counting on any govt, to feed you or protect you, is insane.
Prepping is nothing more then following our forefathers way of life. We like it. Here, we don't have to go to a store for likely a minimum of 24 months. We do go cuz we like fresh veggies.
We also jabe Heirloom. Seed vaults like 20 of them, for crops seasonally. And herb vaults for indoor growing. We purchase gold and silver.often, buy low, sell high. And we believe that if you physically don't have your money in your possession, you don't own it. Keep a lot of booze and trading stuff.
My tribe would be very comfortable for many years, God forbid an unfortunate event should happen. I pray not.
Just a little different life philosophy. Seems very much like all you independent self reliant long distance sailors.
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Actually, things are going quite well in parts of Central and South America, Panama is booming for example, but I still would not assume any govt would cover my butt.
Our place in Guatemala is in a small (about 200 people) rural village, accessible by water only, which receives no govt services of any kind (no police, no fire, no nada). The Guatemalan and USA Govts could collapse and it would make no difference at all.
Cog wrote:What is unsafe about Maine?
Pops wrote:I always favored rural but the conditions there nowadays are deplorable...
Pops wrote:light hearted sarcasm my friend, lol
<<deplorables>>
too easy to give a straight faced delivery when no one can see your face...
Ibon wrote:Pops wrote:light hearted sarcasm my friend, lol
<<deplorables>>
too easy to give a straight faced delivery when no one can see your face...
I got the sarcasm...deplorables.
I was thinking about those deplorables today. Liberal progressives worried about micro aggressions and racism toward minorities and people of color have had zero problem denigrating and villifying and joking about rural white americans and christians in the hinterland. Rural Americans and small rust belt towns, big motivated supporters that helped get Donald elected, suffer such high rates of economic disenfranchisement, ghost towns, big box stores, factories closing, etc. Michael Moore has tuned into this quite brilliantly.
Should any of us be surprised that a goon like Donald Trump would come along and win their hearts.
All those red states. Pretty shocking really. Is it all about Donald awakening an inherent racism or is there something deeper here? Are democrats paying a price for ignoring the hinterland?
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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