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Being Right

7 December 2009

Finally, and for the first time in a long time, I feel as if my understanding of the world is correct and that it’s time for everyone else to come around to what I think instead of the other way around. Specifically:

We cannot continue spending money we don’t have, as individuals, as states, or as a nation.
Farming is one of the most important activities anyone can engage in, and being a farmer who takes care of his land and everything else under his care is one of the most honorable things anyone can do.
We all need to grow as much of our own food as possible.
We all need to be responsible for our own health to the greatest extent possible. That means exercising every day, not eating trashfood, and not burning the candle at both ends.
We all need to be independent, both as individuals and as families. You only rely on others when you absolutely have to. That does not diminish the importance of community.
Debt is bad.
Engaging in foreign wars should be avoided at all costs.

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No, not “pissy”!

15 October 2009

This is from an email to a friend. It seems quite pithy now that I reread it.

I do think that our opportunity to choose between two corporate fascists every 4 years serves no purpose other than perpetuating the myth that we live in a democracy. But if you give most Americans that myth, along with cheap food and gas, they seem to be quite content to go on supporting whatever our government has to do (war, torture, environmental destruction) to maintain the status quo for one more day. What’s it going to take to rouse people out of their apathy? How do we convince people that life should be about more than NASCAR and cheap big macs?

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The “Conservative Woodstock”

2 October 2009

An old friend of mine sent me an email about the “Conservative Woodstock” that took place in DC recently. Here’s my response to him:

Thanks for the message.

BUT — anyone who is singling out Obama for blame is deceived. They are ALL (including Obama) part of a ruling elite that is uninterested in the well-being of average Americans. NONE OF THEM care about us. They care about wealth and power and perpetuating the same for themselves. The show in DC was conceived, designed, and implemented solely to turn the people’s attention away from the sickness and corruption of the ENTIRE SYSTEM and make us think one man is the problem.

With any luck the ruling elite’s time is almost over, but it won’t be if we allow ourselves to be distracted from the heart of the problem: the worship of money and material possessions and the abandonment of the ideas on which our country was founded.

The problem is that we’ve sold our souls for a few creature comforts and cheap trinkets.

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Oath

10 April 2009

For many people, maybe even most people, this question is meaningless or irrelevant: What is the United States of America?

But it’s a question I’ve been asking myself for years now without ever arriving at a satisfactory answer. What is it that causes that swelling of pride in your chest when you hear the star-spangled banner play or you read a news report of Americans doing something noble and good in the world? There are people out there who don’t feel anything like patriotism, and there are people out there who have never questioned and only accepted.

But for questioners such as myself: What is the United States of America? Is it the citizens? Is it the people running the show in DC? Is it the land?

I don’t think it’s any of those. But now I do think I’ve come up with my answer: it is the ideas laid out in the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.

And I’m starting to feel that we’ve gotten so far from the ideas contained in those two documents that it’s time for all of us to do something about it. I don’t want a revolution, but I’m beginning to believe that the government of the United States has been captured by the financial sector, and that the citizens of this country are seen as no more than slaves to the elite ruling class.

And for what it’s worth, a long time ago, I took this oath:

I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God.