Our silent revolution

Survival is a discipline of attitude, knowledge, skills and actions; survival is not mandatory!

There is no doubt that our personal liberties have been slowly

stripped away from us. Some have been taken with our consent and some

without. All over the internet there is talk of the coming revolution

but I have doubts that we would even be able to manage society if we

stripped away our government. No matter how ineffective it is right

now. Here is the solution to that problem.

Our generation is only the dawn of the revolt, as our freedoms have

slowly been replaced with “securities” we must also slowly undo those

changes. It starts with our children. If you are one of the whack

jobs that’s waiting for the day to “take the power back” that’s not

going to happen. We cannot raise our guns and demand our freedoms

back. So put that surplus rifle back in the closet or better yet, go

out and enjoy the sport of shooting with it. Of no fault of our own

we have been raised to conform to society and the accepted norms. We

have to raise our children to be smart and independent individuals.

This is how we get the power back.

When I moved to the Deep South over a year ago, I realized that it was

like a different world. The thing that I hate the most is the school

system. It seems that adults are always right and the children are

expected to obey. That simply does not work for me or my children.

If we teach our kids that the adults are never wrong we are setting

them up for the same failure that we are experiencing in this

generation. My children judge the people they meet on their actions.

Although they have young minds it is our job to mentor them on how to

deal with these people.

For instance, Let’s say I am in a packed grocery store and the person

in front of me is in one of those motorized carts, the basket is full

of shit food and the rider is about 450 pounds. So far I think that

everyone sees this on a daily basis. So my 5 yo daughter says “daddy,

why is that fat man in a go cart” so I reply “because he can’t walk so

well honey.” At this point the fat man looks at me with disgust and

says, “is that all you are going to say to her?” I reply “what would

you have me say dude.” “Tell her that it is rude to comment on

someone’s weight like that, if she was my child she would get an ass

whooping” he replies. So I say “NO, I’m not going to discipline my

child for making an honest observation and asking me a question. If

you don’t like hearing it, keep your fat ass at home. ”

Who is wrong in this conversation? Am I really supposed to discipline

my innocent baby girl because this guy has an eating disorder? Is she

supposed to be programmed to never speak the truth even if it is to

ask an innocent question? Does society expect me to defend the lazy

against the innocent because the lazy have a right to be lazy and the

innocent should know better than the question that. I will admit

that I should talk to her about how to ask such questions in public

but there should be no discipline associated with it.

Here is another example: My children question authority but recognize

only two unquestionable authorities, my wife and I. Even then they

will ask WHY more than I like. I will not beat this out of my kids.

I have also had adults speak to my children as if they were not worthy

of an intelligent conversation, in my house. I don’t need to stop

this from happening, my kids know that they are on their own turf and

adult or not, my kids will demand respect in their own home. I will

not rescue the offending adult from the children’s rath. They will

have to figure that one out on their own. As it may seem like I am

allowing my children to be disrespectful, that is not the case. They

are defending what they know is right, even as a child one deserves

respect in their own home from EVERYONE that comes to visit. This is

not negotiable in our home. Now if my kid is walking home from the

bus stop and the stranger drives up and says, your dad asked me to

pick you up and take you home. My children would question this, tell

him to piss up a rope, and run home. Not because I have programmed

them for this, but because they are learning to trust their instincts.

They are learning this because every time they do something

instinctive I don’t squash their individuality. I mentor them and

guide them on how to deal with people in general.

It is not necessary to always be nice to everyone, in order to be a

nice person. It is not necessary to obey every rule, in order to be a

good person. It is not necessary to take advantage of every

security, in order to live a secure life.

If you have not read the new issue of “SURVIVAL QUARTERLY MAGAZINE” I

would suggest that you pick it up. Read the article by Jeff Fleming

titled The Trap is Set. He is one of my favorite authors in that

magazine and there is a lot of good information about some of the

liberties that we have given away, Now you know how to take them back.

When you are done with that article you might as well flip to the

front of the magazine and read my article, Elementary Trapping.

Be Well–NM

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