Sometimes it becomes necessary to address harsh realities. Maybe you’ve noticed that according to media and voices on the ground things are a bit out of kilter. Not one to cower from a good fight, this one is mostly in our minds and since we all have one, the fight includes me.
Also, not the one to bear bad news or fuel dissent, it is merely an obligation to speak clearly and with honest discretion…besides, the topic is up, and outreach is part of WORKS.
Magic, collapsing waveforms, occult, superstitions, spirit worlds…faith etc. are not always a game since everything brings consequences for everything else. The mind is a powerful thing and if any collective consciousness expresses a polar shift, then close examination would seem prudent, since consciousness precludes realities and is the driving force behind evolution. And extinction happens.
In the spirit of objectivity, let’s put ourselves into the ancient mind of the Agrarian. Since we tend to project our affairs onto others, we can blame this spirit…who is benign and unconcerned with those affairs.
Liberty is a necessity if we are to provide for ourselves and others, slavery is warfare. The first credo of the Agrarian is “all life is sacred” and is the holiest of holy. All life being sacred does not translate into tolerance of warfare in any form since all are part of life.
It’s all fun and games till the food runs out. Being preferable to avoid warfare, we can concentrate on solutions for survival instead. Passivity has merit until or unless there is a threat to survival, and the reactionary gap closes; then, Nature seeks balance.
If liberty and happiness include property, then ceding control of property is the door next to confiscation, and slavery.
We are a people who set ourselves on a path long ago. We are tool users and will remain tool users so long as we are. Embracing that ensures our survival, denying it ensures our demise. There are many tools, and we are anxious beings. Selection is the key.
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There are so many brilliant minds espousing the solutions to vexing global problems by utilizing their “expertise”, education, social profiles etc. who could be doing so much more with the expeditious use of a hoe. They seem almost ludicrous to the adaptive mind. Many millions of people making good use of simple tools would in a generation evaporate most of those global problems. If there is a truth, it lies in moving the body.
This isn’t Star Trek, and we’re a long way from it.
Nature is objective and favors no one.
What’s not being said here is that we will all suddenly become subsistent farmers, c’mon, that’s unlikely. But tools equal freedom. Freedom from the ravages of entropy. Freedom from hunger. Freedom from slavery.
We can start now, we must start now to employ the tools and methods of the Agrarian in everything we do, since agriculture and regeneration offer solutions: to global warming, hunger, poverty and war (the struggle over resources). Maybe not as romantic as existing as a disembodied soul without needs in a temporal world; but a simple existence where our needs are met with our tools, our temporal bodies and celebration of the miracles granted us. A practical and in part peaceable existence.
Fair warning: we’re not optimistic since patterns are obvious and easily predictable and will sooner rely on our tools than optimism. Hope never planted a row. By all indicators we alone might be the cause of our own extinction, not by natural disaster, but war (the struggle over resources).
Resist the temptation to read this as exaggeration, since all of this is well within the realm of possibilities. Be aware of the war within, the psychic warfare that diverts our minds from practical solutions. Good, evil, life, death, light and darkness are all part of a single universe with worlds among worlds. Your world matters and the way you see your world makes the world around you. Live your life with conviction where and when you can. It’s ok.
Examination…
Imagination…
Realization…
Thanks to Eric Oberholtzer for permission to share his video. Slow, steady work with simple tools (even primitive) can create something attractive, useful and for trade if needed. This is currency.
Thanks also goes to Ellen from Endwell (production manager) for inspiration and technical support.
And, of course, to Megan Youngmee for journeys into ag-land, and letters from home.
Eric has a very calming voice, found myself a bit mesmerized.
Great to see a used pipe being made into something useful.
Eric and Megan both grew up only miles from the home of my youth, we went to the same markets, lived among the same communities (Anabaptist), drank the same waters and breathed the same air. They now live with their children in Peru.
I work copper myself and recycle household plumbing, some of it is Anaconda, (very pure) and a pleasure to work with.
And yes, Eric's video is quite meditative with the sounds of simple tools and quiet work.
Honestly, there's a lot more going on in that video than most people will ever see.