If you have to call someone you don’t know to get it done, that’s a corporate solution.
We believe in the illusion of reality manufactured by corporations, and most Americans have been doing so for generations. It’s no wonder that breaking free of that illusion is difficult.
I’m trying to break free of the corporate illusion of reality and find true reality. That is my life-long fascination with the basics: where food comes from, where our waste goes, how do we keep ourselves warm in the winter, what are the minimum and essential requirements of life — the fundamental truths of life. I’m at a point in my life when my beliefs are less flexible, and I’m returning to some of the things I recognized as truth 30 years ago.
For humans, part of our reality is language, written and spoken.
These days, virtually every human problem has both a local and a corporate solution. The local solution solves the problem for you. The main purpose of the corporate solution is to profit the corporation. It may also solve the problem for you, but will probably create other problems for you, for other humans, and for the planet.
All of us need to recognize that corporate solutions always create problems, and all of us need to go as far as we can towards solving our problems without any corporate involvement and as locally as we can. It’s not easy, it’s not something you learn how to do overnight, and it’s not something you put into effect overnight, but we all have to start. Corporate solutions always create problems, sometimes for you and sometimes for others. Choosing the corporate solution is always wrong.
What I mean by contextualizing the local solution is the process of incorporating local solutions into your everyday life and your every waking thought. I mean to destroy and abandon the corporate illusion of reality.
When you shop online, you are inevitably participating in the corporate illusion.
Think about satisfying your basic needs. You can always do that with local solutions. Consider the possibility that needs that can’t be satisfied locally are not really needs, but wants created in you by your participation in the corporate illusion of reality. It’s likely that satisfying those wants will not make you feel better, but will just lead you to more wants.
Prepping is finding a sustainable, local, non-corporate solution to the problem of survival for yourself and your family.
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