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By:A. Non Conformer
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The Three Major Challenges for Have-Nots and Want-Nots This is an old story. Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime. He is able to rely on himself. To update the story, however, we now have to add that many of the fish are either endangered, already extinct, or too poisoned by polluted lakes, rivers, or the ocean (mercury anyone?) to be safe to eat. To eat now, the man may have to rely on the same economic system responsible for the pollution and extinction. He may have to find a job in that system to get money to buy food, thereby playing a part in furthering the pollution and extinction and working against future self-reliance in the bargain. The indiscriminate and insufficiently regulated use of corporate might and technology has made self-reliance more difficult and the planet less healthy.I recently saw a bumper sticker which said, Peace begins when the hungry are fed. I cant disagree, but I think, when hungry people can feed themselves is necessary to keep peace going. All higher values of civilization are built on a foundation of feeling secure with the basic requirements of life. Depending on others who have food or money to spare is not security. Depending on organizations for employment does not provide much more real security. The American economic system, where a person is competing with an ever growing population for a job, then spending that paycheck on necessities plus ever more acquiring and consuming to help recover from the stress of that work life, all of which provide those wealthy enough to be investors with ever more money to expand business activity to keep creating ever more jobs for that growing population; that system is anything but secure. Look at the growing numbers that cant fit into it. (I thought Ponzi schemes were illegal.) Even the apparent security it provides for the wealthy, only means they or their heirs will be among the last to lose it. It is unsustainable, an obsolete system slowly coming to an end by its own inherent flaw; it uses up the resources upon which it is based. After depleting many of the resources in the U.S., we have spread mistrust and made enemies by our ways of accessing and extracting resources from other countries. This policy is now adding to our insecurity.Insecurity breeds conformity. Like herd animals, there is a sense of safety in numbers where no one stands out. The growing worries this entire situation produces is making us more conservative politically, more intolerant of differences, more uncomfortable with diversity, and afraid of more liberal ideas for change. We have a growing obsession with power, the antidote to insecurity. We are attracted to, we support, we promote, growing power in all its forms: sports, religion, government, finances, the military. We need our God defined as an all-powerful father-figure in control of everything and who approves of our group or nation more than or instead of others. We prefer a government with more power to control peoples thinking and behavior so its more like our own. We okay our financial institutions and corporations ever merging to become larger, to out-compete those from other countries. We like an ever more powerful military with ever more firepower and destruction in its weapons, even when we cant afford it or the planet cant handle it. We go after ever more money, bigger vehicles, and personal firearms to feel more powerful. I dont believe its working. We are more insecure than ever.Challenge Number ONE: With a century of people migrating from rural areas to the cities, the first major challenge may seem wildly anachronistic. Most of the nations farmers are old. They wont be growing food much longer. And its way too expensive for younger people to start up in their place. But we need more farmers in the future or a few corporate conglomerates will end up owning and controlling food production like they do everything else. (And then well really have to dance to their tune.) Actually, maybe the bigger danger is urbanization of farm land. Development makes corporate investors much more money than growing crops. Are we to end up importing most all our food? (And that will take more imported oil.) For real security, become a farmer. However, I dont mean todays industrial-type farmer. (No security there.) I mean a small organic farmer, a garden farmer, or a gardener. Whatever label can fit your choosing, more real security is gained nowadays by growing your own food on your own place. It is a modern version of subsistence farming. Growing your own is simply the most efficient way to provide food for your body. This first major challenge is to live frugally enough to save income enough to buy a piece of land, sufficient and suitable for producing your own food as necessary. A reasonably-sized back yard in a city can work, though a half acre gives you more options. An acre on the edge of a small town or a few acres in the country in a community of close neighbors is ideal. This is still possible to find in the U.S. and in some other countries and, with patience and searching, it can be done on a minimum wage job.NOTE: Im not talking about a house here. Im talking about a piece of land. The word paradise comes from a Persian word for garden (not house). If a modest house happens to come with your paradise and you can afford it, so much the better, but its the soil and ownership that provide the security. It is a small piece of bare land away from current or potential development that will have you looking in the same price range as buying a new (or used) car.Once you find it, you are advised to get your land completely paid for as soon as possible. You can always get something on it to live in. (See chapter three.) If buying a small piece of land is simply not an option for you, then leasing, renting, squatting on suitable land, organizing and participating in community gardens on vacant land, trading labor with a local farmer or land owner; these are still healthier for you, your community and your planet. At the same time, tend to your other health habits and have no more children or only one or two. Then you have basic security. People have been growing their own food for thousands of years with the arts and civilization and peace flourishing. They were too successful. The result was too many children and the necessity of large and brutal cities. We better understand and have contraception now.To accomplish owning enough land to produce your own food, you may have to relocate, temporarily to earn the money, or permanently, to find the land. The size of the piece depends on many factors, chief among them being how many mouths would be eating and whether you would want the option of selling any of what you produce. (That option will get more tempting in the future.) A self-reliant person on his own land doesnt have to go along to get along. You wont have to go against other values to keep a job. From this base of security, you will have the most freedom and time and energy for the second major challenge in your pursuit of this good life.Challenge Number Two: Your second major challenge is your highest responsibility. It is to take the gift of life you have received and develop its potential, its strengths, its talents, its goodness, its worth to humanity. This is my definition of.

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