Ten years ago (a repost)

I wrote this 10 years ago. And while a lot has changed, not a lot has changed. We are still sloggimg it out with the world gone stoopid. We have further witnessed just how f@#ked the ~~education~~ indoctrination/grooming system has become: its out in th open now. We are witness to the fraudulant Selection cycles and that we have no voice in the rings of power: out in the open also. And still we keep kicking this can around, 2 years into Oblammy V3.0,,,, This all ends we ALL say NO!!!

diogenes:freeroamer

“The worst thing about living in the declining era of a great civilization…is knowing that you are.” – R.A. Heinlein

Time to say goodnight?

Posted by diogenesoftherifle

Here it comes, the big goodbye.

Take that as you wish, I won’t extrapolate for you.

I was walking the dawg last night and watching the world of current reality wash on by. The current town I reside in is listed at 527 persons; that number is skewed by the number of illegals that live here, but that is beside the point. I realized that this town suffers from a common ailment that afflicts many small towns in this country.

They don’t really produce anything.

Heck, other than the Trailer Company near the highway, this town is literally three restaurants, a couple of gas stations, and 8 liquor stores. No retail shops, no automotive shops, no hardware stores, no real manufacturing, etc, etc, etc. 100 years ago or more, there was a brick manufacturer here, there was the railway depot, of course farming was a staple around here as well, but people produced. Take another look at the businesses that reside in this town. CONSUMPTION.

There was a time where there was a disease called that. It ends up that disease pretty much boiled down to any number of wasting diseases like cancer or what not, but the point was, something was consuming the body. Our current world is consuming itself as well. Let me rephrase that, Our current COUNTRY is consuming itself. 90% of the jobs I have had in the past were service related: Service on consumables like computers or cars. The jobs that I did that were not truly service related were entertainment, or providing the means for it. But production? Only once and that was for assembling components for large platform televisions before the birth of flatscreens. I literally assembled a box of lenses and prisms for one color of projector and those were then shipped out to Japan or Taiwan for final production. That was in 87. Since then, our country has continually outsourced all of its production. Our economy has been and will always be based in production, so if we aren’t producing anything, what is propping our economy up?

I leave that as a mental exercise for those that have not thought things like this through. Maybe it will lead you to learn something new about just how evil governments can be, BEFORE they actually start killing us or putting us in the cheese.

Well, as you all know, I am big on learning skills and producing useful items from those skills. I would love to set up shop and produce things or even repair things as needed, to keep other people producing what they do. Note: each scratches the back of the other, but they are not in closed loop. More like they are supporting the other while climbing forward. Remember, there was a time when the Blacksmith was the center of the town, not because of his great political presence, but because everyone needed something he made or could repair. Even during the beginning of the automobile era, the village blacksmith was the guy to go to. Many blacksmith shops became the town mechanic, and even in one of the books I have on blacksmithing, they show how to repair a crankshaft for a model T in the forge: With heat and hammers, not welders and lathes.

Dio! You’re romanticizing again! Maybe. Romanticizing revolves around “those were better times” without taking into account the troubles people dealt with. I know that what they did was hard work, hell, most of our tools today were developed or started development then to ‘ease’ those burdens. That isn’t romanticism; that is thinking that our world could use a good ass-whooping and sent back out to the field to toss hay bales.

Think about this: I wasn’t born back then, even my dad, who was born in 1940 can’t remember those times as fact, but as words or pictures on paper, or the words passed on from those that did live those times. Just looking at our world as it is now, I see how those people were so much better off than we are today: maybe not with all of our toys, but in what they knew and the outlook they approached life with. I see how the academia talk about how much better educated we are NOW, but then I look back at the ‘primers’ of those days and see that a third grader then was so much better educated than our long term college students NOW. I was looking at a 5^th grade math book and the word problems were INTENSE! One example of which was talking about how much cubic yardage of aggregate and cement mix were needed for a certain project, and the description of the space was not just your regular rectangle but one with angles and multiple projections and depths to bring the whole feature to level. Literally this 5^th grade problem was an entire notebook page full of calculations (“Show your work!”) and this was only one problem in that assignment of 10.

How many 5^th graders do you know, that have been educated in our public school system that could figure that one problem out. How many high school students?

We are better educated NOW? Having looked back in time to the curriculum of then versus what I was taught in the 70’s and 80’s, I have to say “not a chance”. I know that is a pretty broad statement with private schools turning out decent educations, but by and large, public education, sucks. There are many reasons for that and I have no need to go into the myriad reasons, you all know them or at least have a good feel for what is wrong.

But we aren’t lost yet. There is a growing concern within our society that something is wrong. By the time enough wake up, it will likely be too late. But that isn’t to say that there won’t be a ‘revival’ of the thinking that was common in those days. Self-reliance, pride in work, respecting others by choice, not dictum, producing, not just consuming, Education by those that WANT to teach to those that WANT to learn, etc. There will be a return to those times, like it or not. We will have to take a few steps backwards in order to reach towards our next level of evolution; I have no doubt about that. I think it is time for this country, in its current flashy clothing and heavy makeup, to say goodnight. When we wake up in the morning, we can start fresh and try and pull it all together: We may just have one hell of a hangover though. That’s alright, we can make it. We’ve done it before.

I really believe that it is time to say goodnight: this party is over. Stay if you like, but the cleanup crew is waiting just outside and security is looking worn out and impatient.

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soffitrat on September 23, 2012 at 2:06 pmAnd pottery. They made pottery. And two banks, and a car dealer. All gone! What you describe will not be happening here. At least not with the same people. Perhaps a magical musical chairs of entire populations could bring with it the type of resolve you envision. The type of resolve, it will take, to return to a learning curve that slopes upwards.Reply
Wildflower on September 23, 2012 at 7:51 pmright now, one exists in a twilight zone between the old civilization and myrads of smaller ones aheadas the old one dies, many are just starting up now to new perspectives on how to start up tribes, freeholds, enclaves, makershops, and other small communitiesand dear DIO the more successful ones will be those whom are never perfect but realized that a diverse community that interacts within itself produces a more innovative collection of oddballs and misfits whom cooperate to “do the right stuff” better than those “perfect bastards” whom now are screwing the world to pieces….Reply
- soffitrat on September 24, 2012 at 1:50 amGood points, WF! Spot on.Reply
Ovm Militia on September 23, 2012 at 8:42 pm“By the time enough wake up, it will likely be too late.”.. for them.While those who have suffered privation, and hard lessons and tough training will be the foundation of a new order. Those with hands dirty from garden and lathe. The ones worn from a long days hunt or night on the river.
The smelly bastard that just walked ten hilly miles of trap lines. We will survive the nightmare between saying goodnight and the new dawn.We will do more than just survive, we will bury the ashes of the old, salt the earth where it stood and rejoice in a chance to stand, freemen once more.Hope to see you at the Victory Parade, Brother.Reply
- Craig Cavanaugh on September 24, 2012 at 10:07 pmAnd Lord, don’t I look forward to it. Vote Obammy and let’s get it over with…Reply
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j.r. guerra in s. tx. on September 24, 2012 at 8:31 amWell said sir, the people who repair items cannot compete with the stores that sell cheap a$$ replacements that are DESIGNED to break down in no time, forcing the consumer to buy the cheap replacement again (and again).Reply
pickdog on September 24, 2012 at 8:48 amGood points Dio. Yeah, the party is over but most have not a clue that the lights are turning off.Reply
Craig Cavanaugh on September 24, 2012 at 8:53 amI can see a “Postman” like scenario as being our not too distant future. Though what we become on the other side of that I think will be radically different, more like the way things were in the 1700s, societally speaking. Even after the Revolution, folks did not think of themselves as “Americans”. They were Virginians. Pennsylvanians. New Yorkers. North Carolinians… It was… Heh…. Local local local.Michael Boone’s mentor Daniel Wright wrote a book, and in it he wrote at length about what he called “kinglets”. That is what Michael’s valley was, the first kinglet. It was way before its time, but I think its time has come. Kerodin sort of has the right idea, a community of like minds built around some sort of productive industry. In Michael’s valley it was a saw mill. They did well, until everything you described above slowly nibbled away the folks who were willing to work. That, and Daniel’s passing I think, he was the glue that held those folks together. Anyhoo, I think you’re right. Time to say good night…Reply
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