I have been on steemit for about a week and am overwhelmed by the amount of people who not only possess the rare ability of critical thinking, but also dignity, honor, humility and compassion that all amounts to a level of spiritual awareness, for lack of a better expression, that I have rarely found within my species. This comment section is a testament to the living human spirit 2018 AD, forever engraved in the steemit blockchain. You are the beacon of humanity. Thank you all for your participation in this exercise of consciousness.
@valued-costumer I cannot stress enough my appreciation for giving us this well-versed, well-spoken, immensely inspirational insight into your philosophy. I envy you for your talents, achievements and fervor. I can directly relate to many of your conclusions, and I have also many times found myself in a dilemma where I had to weigh out my lifestyle against a change of direction to foster positive change. I too have always loathed the scam that is the financial system, and have gotten so sick of it that I have been trying to 'convert' my fellow men for years. Unfortunately, I haven't been very successful. What I tell my friends do seem to resonate with them, but I regret the lack of any significant change in behavior. They all defer to the powers that be without noticeable protest.
So far I have been trying to lead by example and 'recruit' people for our philosophy one person at a time. The reason I joined steemit is that I didn't see the desired success in my 'pass it forward' approach, and thus felt the need for a potentially greater reach. It is a great relief to have met several individuals already that share a similar philosophy. I still have not given up hope that together we can trigger actual change.
The first and most important step in my estimation that to step playing the game, stop financing slavery and war with your taxes, and take your life back. I am not proud of many things I have done in my life, but I am proud that I have never contributed a single penny in income tax. Of course I still have paid property tax and every purchase of goods includes sales tax which is a burden on my conscience. Despite this regrettable fact I believe I have so far lived up fairly to our common goal:
My problem is that I have not had any goals, other than to die old without contributing to the power of my enemies
Yet I have long been plagued by a growing bad conscience that this simply isn't enough. Even though I don't believe that I can change the status quo significantly, I know that it can be done collectively. Despite my achieving a high quality of life for myself, my conscience won't allow me to be a hedonist any longer. I can't go on with enjoying the rest of my days without having done more to alter the fate of others. Therefore I chose to not only avoid directly supporting those who enslave us, but to get involved in the resistance movement. I haven't acquired the knowledge or skill-set yet to be a leader, but I have enough awareness and principles to at least speak my voice in order to lift the weight on my shoulders a little.
You on the other hand, along with others on this platform definitely seem to have what it takes to be crucial factors in the freedom movement. I highly recommend you to check out the following mission of one of my favorite political activists:
Crowdfunding campaign was successful and it's set to launch this year. No one speaks truth to power with so much fire like this guy:
I like a lot of those folks, probably all of them, but know of but some already. They're none of them wrong in their assessment that Ken expresses cogently that the financial system is the base of the pyramid of power, and that if only that base were in our possession things would be better.
However, the base is in the hands it's in for reasons. I referred to this when I discussed how the system is perpetuated by winnowing from applicants those that will successfully execute whatever reprehensible and intellectually challenging financial acts nominal to secure funds. Mike Tyson also said this more simply when he stated that Don King would sell his mother for a dollar.
So, wrestling with those psychopaths for the money is not the solution. Indeed, it is the trap they have set. This is why I actually seek to solve the problem, rather than gain the money that perpetuates it. Should I be rapine and predatory enough to gain the money, and thus the power, I will have proved I am not the guy to set us free from it. Further, after spending all that time and effort to gain that power, what could conceivably convince me to obviate it?
Instead, gaining that financial power simply recruits new management. This is why I pointed out that the system cannot replace itself, but only perpetuates itself, and the quest to attain it's power is the exact opposite of solving the problem of freedom.
I am going to build an infrastructure that makes money obsolete.
Thanks!
I'm completely with you on this. Money is the root of all evil and must be abandoned. From one perspective it's obsolete already as it's not backed by resources anymore. Just some virtual digits in a bank account. It's the greatest deception of all time.
I fully support your mission and would appreciate if you keep us posted. Always a great pleasure meeting someone who has seen through the deception.
Well, I was sluffing off today, building a deck for a neighbor who cannot afford it, but who's own efforts were actually dangerous, so I worked for the reward of a longer lived neighbor =p.
As I said, at the pace I can be expected to proceed, there's not much point in abating your breath awaiting developments. It'll be a month or more before I get up the scratch for a printer, and likely this winter before I have much of a handle on how to use it enough to start making modifications.
I appreciate much your kind words =)