I was just thinking of your book and the Caret system this morning as I watched the following, particularly at around 28:40 where he outlines Point #4: “The creation of ["something like"] a barter system, facilitated by interconnected central hubs (one in each community?)”
I think this hazy spot is where “something like” your Community Caret system would slot right in
I agree! I'm hoping that comes up when I interview with Sigmar Academy. He's very like-minded with Zach of AshaLogos.
Events are certainly conspiring to make my system--or something like it--feel inevitable. The status quo is getting intolerable at a rapid pace. Everywhere I turn there are more people I know out of work, out of housing, and unable to find either. As the poem goes, 'The center cannot hold ...'
Is it possible to grow communities, off the grid, free and independent, without ever seeing any oppressive social engineering creep in in future generations?
I for one certainly hope so. The founder of the Permaculture system, a system of sustainable homesteading principles, found it easy enough to build a sustainable homestead. But how to make this a trend for coming generarions?
Would the pioneers of such a lifestyle regret the roads not taken? Even the congregation in a congregationalist church has some sort of social contract. Would we regret not having a constitution of some sort?
For example...
Was the US Constitution really a step up or a step down aftet the Articles of Confederation?
Or...
How might we verify the comparative practicality of Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania banking system compared with say today's bank of North Dakota?
Puzzlements.
Dreams.
How can one be certain that the road not taken was not the best?
Re the economic advantages of slave labor, especially the large scale production of sugar, cotton, and tobacco.
See also
references to
"financial capitalism"
aka
debt slavery by feudal monopoly
in
Carroll Quigley
"Tragedy And Hope: a history of the world in our time" (1966)
.
Quote:
..................
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.
.....................
feudalism =
the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
..............
Can you see how modern practices of property tax and bank mortgage based on producing money from thin air resemble feudalism?
"Something is rotten in the State of Denmark."
-Hamlet
"You ain't just whistling 'Dixie,' brother."
-mark spark
[ :-)
PS
OK, so my mentor was Bugs Bunny.
[ :-)
BTW
Ask a judge on the "bench" sometime whether he is an agent of the Crown.
"Crown" (19th Century) =
The crown agencies also became financial institutions, supplying capital, routes for investment, and pensions to all public works and government in British dependent colonies
........
In German, the word "Bank" can mean both "bank" (financial institution) and "bench" (long piece of seating furniture), highlighting the shared etymological roots.
I was just thinking of your book and the Caret system this morning as I watched the following, particularly at around 28:40 where he outlines Point #4: “The creation of ["something like"] a barter system, facilitated by interconnected central hubs (one in each community?)”
I think this hazy spot is where “something like” your Community Caret system would slot right in
• A Call to Return to the Land - AshaLogos
https://rumble.com/v6norvx-a-call-to-return-to-the-land.html
I agree! I'm hoping that comes up when I interview with Sigmar Academy. He's very like-minded with Zach of AshaLogos.
Events are certainly conspiring to make my system--or something like it--feel inevitable. The status quo is getting intolerable at a rapid pace. Everywhere I turn there are more people I know out of work, out of housing, and unable to find either. As the poem goes, 'The center cannot hold ...'
.
Tereza, et al,
The Road Not Taken
Is it possible to grow communities, off the grid, free and independent, without ever seeing any oppressive social engineering creep in in future generations?
I for one certainly hope so. The founder of the Permaculture system, a system of sustainable homesteading principles, found it easy enough to build a sustainable homestead. But how to make this a trend for coming generarions?
Would the pioneers of such a lifestyle regret the roads not taken? Even the congregation in a congregationalist church has some sort of social contract. Would we regret not having a constitution of some sort?
For example...
Was the US Constitution really a step up or a step down aftet the Articles of Confederation?
Or...
How might we verify the comparative practicality of Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania banking system compared with say today's bank of North Dakota?
Puzzlements.
Dreams.
How can one be certain that the road not taken was not the best?
mark spark
.
.
Highlights from my notes:
Eric Williams
"Capitalism and Slavery" (1944)
https://archive.org/details/capitalismslaver00will_1
Re the economic advantages of slave labor, especially the large scale production of sugar, cotton, and tobacco.
See also
references to
"financial capitalism"
aka
debt slavery by feudal monopoly
in
Carroll Quigley
"Tragedy And Hope: a history of the world in our time" (1966)
.
Quote:
..................
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences.
.....................
feudalism =
the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for military service, and vassals were in turn tenants of the nobles, while the peasants (villeins or serfs) were obliged to live on their lord's land and give him homage, labor, and a share of the produce, notionally in exchange for military protection.
..............
Can you see how modern practices of property tax and bank mortgage based on producing money from thin air resemble feudalism?
"Something is rotten in the State of Denmark."
-Hamlet
"You ain't just whistling 'Dixie,' brother."
-mark spark
[ :-)
PS
OK, so my mentor was Bugs Bunny.
[ :-)
BTW
Ask a judge on the "bench" sometime whether he is an agent of the Crown.
"Crown" (19th Century) =
The crown agencies also became financial institutions, supplying capital, routes for investment, and pensions to all public works and government in British dependent colonies
........
In German, the word "Bank" can mean both "bank" (financial institution) and "bench" (long piece of seating furniture), highlighting the shared etymological roots.
.
.
Ch4
Prior to Am 13, 14, 15, the Constitution may have been fair enough. Freedom and self sovereignty may have been attainable. No?