Aug 21 2009
Transforming Society – Self-sufficiency
In “Modern Society Must be Transformed or Must Fall” and “We Need a God Based Society”, I wrote about two topics about going back to a previous timeframe to start restoring the moral foundation of society. Now, it is time to start thinking about how to strengthen that foundation. The first way is to restore man’s self-sufficiency.
Now, I know what some will say; “Man is a social creature”. What I am saying is not becoming a hermit and living apart from other people (although I feel like doing that a lot these days). What I am talking about is how we provide for our basic needs.
Three of the plagues I have written about, in my opinion, undermine self-sufficiency. Those are Socialism, Liberalism and Global Capitalism. Both Socialism and Global Capitalism make man depended on others for their basic needs. And, along with Liberalism, the three say that man is incapable of fending for themselves.
In the case of Socialism, man is dependant of the state, either through the welfare system or through employment by the state. And, in the most extreme cases like Marxist Socialism, they are dependant on the State for even the most basic needs. In the case of Global Capitalism, the dependency, except for welfare, are exactly the same except that the “corporation” replaces the role of the provider for everything. Essentially, in both cases, man becomes a slave either of the state or corporations and undermines man’s basic ability to fend for himself in a crisis. Couple that with the overregulation that is forced on man by Socialism and Liberalism, it even make it more difficult for man to be self-sufficient.
There are many things we can do to break the vice-grip they have on everyone’s lives. The first thing is to learn to grow and/or raise your own food and make things that you buy in store. A small to medium sized garden can provide you enough vegetables that, if stored properly, can provide a family with much of their needs for the whole year. Add to that, if you have the space and constitution, raising animals like chickens, pigs, goats, can provide additional food like eggs, milk and meat. In addition, for what you cannot grow or raise yourselves, there are many alternatives to the grocery store or those mega stores that will remain unnamed. Food co-ops, farmer’s markets, and even going to individual farms for basic needs are all possible.
A second way is to learn to make some things that you currently buy in the store or hire others to do. If one learns the basics of making certain items that they use a lot. For example, if one knows basic carpentering, electrical, and/or plumbing skills, they can do about 90% (if not more) of the repairs around the house. Yes, you will have to buy supplies, have to always pay someone to do it.
A third way is to find a way of earning a living without relying on the government or corporation. This is one of the basic tenets of distributism. That is, moving the production power from the big “global” corporations to the local and/or family level.
Finally, there is the subject of the overregulation that hampers the ability of man to even consider being self-sufficient. This is probably the toughest hurdle to get over. There must be a grass-roots organizational effort to get people elected, starting at the local level and working up to the federal level that will work to free people from the chains of overregulation. By breaking these chains, ma will be better able to survive.
Man will never be completely self-sufficient. Like I said in the beginning, man is, by nature, a social creature and there will be some goods that it does not make sense to try to do your self. Relying on completely on others is not being social. It is being a slave. Government and corporation cannot, and must not, be sole providers of all of man’s needs.
Even in the case of “welfare”, it has not been until recent times that this has become a role of government. In the past, it was charity provided by individuals or by charitable organizations of one sort or another. This also must be taken away from the government and returned to its proper place.
The way society is structured now; it cannot survive due to the onerous weight placed on it by the plagues of Socialism, Global Capitalism, and Liberalism and will implode. We must eradicate them as much as possible and return to a place where man can survive on their own as much as possible and be able to do that.
