Last Post? from Freeacre and Murph
I think it may be time to pull up the
tent stakes and move on. I find myself in the curious position that
in many ways, my personal dreams have, to a large extent, come true.
I have my tipi now. We have prepared for a somewhat sustainable
future for ourselves, with the animals and gardening. We have
established ourselves in the community and made many good friends
here.
We have known that huge surveillance
has been going on for a long time. We decided to continue the
conversation in spite of it. We’ve had a good run. Seven years. I
think we’ve said all we needed to say regarding our political
situation, the collapse, the rise of the police state, the
deterioration of our liberty, the collusion of the financiers, the
drug lords, and our responses and preparations.
But, now that Snowden has brought it
out to the general public, it feels qualitatively different.
Countries are deciding to rebel. South American countries as well as
S. Africa, Germany, Iceland, etc. have registered their
dissatisfaction at being monitored and stalked by the NSA and
corporate overlords. Snowden is getting at least moral support from
many places. ‘Mericka seems ever more belligerent, and looking
more and more hypocritical and out of control.
When the deputy Joint Chief of Staff is
arrested for espionage, for leaking the information on Stuxnet virus,
that’s HUGE. There is some serious shit going on, and it’s only
going to get worse. The implications to the stock markets, the
reserve currency, the Federal Reserve, the money-laundering central
banks, and on and on, could become staggering. It may be the end of
the goodwill that the world has had for our country since WWII.
I do not expect the U.S. to take this
with any sort of grace or sense of remorse. I believe that we are in
for some sort of war, perhaps many wars. It could get real ugly.
Disagreement or dissent will be interpreted as sedition, and punished
accordingly. It is already being done. Take a look at this video of
the internment camps now set up for dissidents:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oyauWrG6CM4
More than that, putting ourselves on
Front Street is just making it easier for them. I am not comfortable
with that. I am not comfortable with creating a forum where my
cyber-tribe is endangered.
I keep wondering what effect this
unrelenting surveillance will have on the children growing up with no
privacy. That is the real horror. God save us all, it would be like
creating The Borg. I don’t know how one remains human with no
private moments or conversations. How can you have a love life? What
if your genetic code is accessible to your potential employers? Will
it be like “Gattika,” where you are tracked into menial labor or
professional or scientific employment based on your genetics? With
all your history, financial information, social status, relationships
and everything about you documented for all time in some computer
banks somewhere, the plug could be pulled on you at any time you are
deemed to be out of compliance.
It’s not just about having “nothing
to hide.” It’s about having nothing to live for.
SO…. What is the appropriate
response? Charles Hugh Smith says that cooking your own healthy meals
and living a happy life is a revolutionary act. I go along with that.
Maintaining friendships and loyalty to each other is important as
well. But, I question whether continuing to use the internet is
justified. It feels like it is like putting the noose around our own
necks. Shunning the corporate globalist miscreants seems appropriate
to me. Visiting each other in person would be good. Focusing on our
own hometown neighbors and friends. Cultivating a lifestyle that is
exemplary, in terms of health, compassion, regard for the Earth
-those things do not enable them and they are soothing to us.
I admit to being addicted to
alternative news. I will not give it up real soon. I don’t want to
be unaware. But, I don’t want to be enmeshed either. I don’t
believe that there is only one way to be. It depends on your
individual circumstances, age, family obligations, and lots of
things. Each of us is going to have to access how it is for them, and
how best to protect one’s self and loved ones from the shit storm
that may be coming.
I’m still hoping that Universe and
our Mother, the Earth, will somehow level the playing field. Or maybe
these goofball, tattooed, millennials will come up with something
totally out of the box that will change it all.
But, in terms of this blogsite, it’s
time to pack it in. We still have e-mail, if we want to continue the
conversation a bit less publicly. The conversation around our cyber
fire has been reduced to more or less the same few anyway over the
last several months. I still have a few things on my bucket list that
I would like to accomplish, and I feel that my time and energy are
dissipating quickly. We need to re-build around here, and that takes
a lot of energy that we don’t have. I want to paint some things.
I’d like to visit some friends and family – maybe take a ride on
a train. I plan to spend a lot less time on the Net. It only
encourages ‘em.
I have said all I have to say, except
that I love you guys, and the tipi is here for anyone of you who
wants to visit.
And, now, thoughts from the
Murphinator:
I will admit that I have conflicting
emotions concerning dropping the blog. It certainly has been a
rather important nitch in our lives. And yet, I agree with Freeacre
on the subject.
Personally, I am finding that my energy
available for different tasks, including this blog, has diminished
quite a bit. Something has to give. I've run out of things to say
and it has been that way for some time. I'm not doing near the
amount of research and cross checking of data that I used to do. I
certainly am not a Charles Smith who writes a column every day 5 days
a week or a Carl Denniger who writes 7 days a week.
We proposed some time ago that it was
time to close down the blog for several reasons and after some
discussion, decided to continue anyway. Since our rather disastrous
fire, the question is again raised.
The point raised by Freeacre is whether
we should feel threatened to any degree by the state surveillance
system. Are we at risk? While it appears that all communications
are recorded and monitored, is the public discussion on a blog
increasing the risk of retribution by simple association over time? How
far will the PTB go in squashing dissent? How far down the
ladder of influence will they go? This blog is for all practical
importance a non entity and yet....? Our readership is very small
and therefore of little consequence, and yet....
What are your thoughts on the subject?
