Prepping: The Localization of Economies or Growing Your Own Food Vs the Globalisation of Capitalist Economies and the Virtual Genocide of 'the Poor

The fact that ‘the system’ is not made for you and I, but for the rich and powerful, should seriously be in our faces by now.

   Sharing, under the so-called Judeo Christian Capitalist Boom-Bust ‘work ethic’ does not exist on any real scale, anywhere; profit before people and a system heavily skewing the distribution of wealth is the norm. 

The monkey on our backs we’ve accepted for four hundred years.

  But we know that, too.

There are no safety nets for those no longer needed by the system, either, fifty milllion people on food stamps says it all.

   In agriculture, the core of our being, the story is one of widespread substitution of labour for capital which just means that people have been losing millions of jobs since the end of the credit-driven ‘Boom’ of the Sixties.

    Small farms? In some places they’re even ‘illegal’!

 Globalisation does not level the playing fields; the ‘winners’ are almost always the rich nations who break the rules and continue with agricultural subsidies, tariffs and quotas, the 2008 U.S. $286bn Farm Bill being an example of one that didn’t work.

I’m sure you’ve heard about that…

Most of the benefits of liberalised trade are enjoyed by big agribusiness and large-scale producers who can mechanize and lower prices enough to compete on the international market.

But we know that.

Small farmers and workers? They must lose out in this process: is the genetic modification of seeds on the one hand and the mass suicides of Indian farmers on the other just an ‘unentended consequence” of an unfair battle?

In Mexico, the passing of NAFTA in 1994 led to the emigration of campesinos (peasants) on a grand scale, as the country’s stipulated importation of heavily subsidized maize and other crops from the United States effectively led millions to abandon agriculture and migrate to Mexican and US cities (Gobalization caused the Immigration Crisis!) in search of employment in the manufacturing sector, in accordance with neoclassical theories of “comparative advantage” – and very much mirroring the means by which capitalism emerged historically through the destruction of the commons in England.

Is There An Alternative To A System Based On Usury?

  It’s already up and running.

But we’re not all fully aware of that yet, that good men have not stood aside to let evil prevail, that a balance will be restored…

We need to look beyond Capitalism to the one simple solution that is in fact working quietly all over the world as a grassroots reaction to the Globalisation of economies: A Localization of economies.

Confining the economy to the local envrironment through 1. Local banking systems and 2. Permaculture and other self-sustainable efforts must lead the way back to the personal soveriegnty of the Commons.

A way back to the pursuit of Happiness – It’s our God-given right, right?

  If free energy technology does not come to the rescue and debt servicing puts out the lights while the city water pipes burst, we must right now at least consider some insurance against a possible collapse of municipal services.

If we slowly and quietly, without fanfare or publicity, employ local people to grow food for free distribution to the needy we will provide that insurance: if the infrastructure fails, and this of course, may not happen – just more electricity ‘outages’, we will all become ‘needy’ and something like this had better be in place.

I have heard too many young people talking about ‘getting off the grid’ not to be concerned about helping to fing the best ways possible

It will take a fair amount of organization, but all it needs to get it moving is education: Just using rain water for toilet flushing will save one third of a household’s drinking water bill and ease the strain on potable water sewage reclamation costs.

Then a combination of individual, community and municipal rain water harvesting and storage systems needs to be set up, using household savings to amortize the capital expenditure, which should be further reduced by multiple installations.

  To sustain the effort we will rely on our common humanity, people helping each other in crisis, and rest assured, we are in a major global crisis as will become more and more evident in the very near future.

If pooled, all the resources are available for public works programs that could act as a buffer between electricity ‘outages’ that may last long enough to interrupt food deliveries, and possible starvation over the fact of empty supermarkets.

We are being attacked – by the system – and I am simply asking you to consider the growing ‘grassroots’ response to the attack with the establishment of an egalitarian and just socio-moral order, using Democracy and Democratic institutions.

The fact that mechanisms for self-employment can be unlocked and at least the presumption of individual soveriegnty is seen to be attainable, should be motive enough.

Perhaps in a year or so we won’t have to look over our shoulders after dark, even in our cities… Tom Dennen

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