Reply #11: Withdraw from the contract

[toddboyle]

Did it ever *occur* to you guys that the whole overall relationship between you and this corporate-state economy is optional? There are not two choices for president or your congressional seats. The 3rd choice is None of the Above, and I am withdrawing my consent to be governed, and withdrawing my time or money or labor or attention or moral support, from this political economy. I am no longer a part of the American project, until they regain their sanity if ever. And I want devolution of federal powers-- especially the revenue-- back to states, or counties, who actually serve America

Google and Wikipedia for DEVOLUTION, SECESSION, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devolution
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secess

But your immediate choice of any person of integrity who disagrees with the government, is to drop out of the money system itself, because the system is truly quite monolithic.

There are several reasons why few people do this, especially whites, dropping out from the white middle class. First, they can hardly imagine the world of choices outside the dollar economy having never experienced them, and as a result they have only inchoate fear, fear of the unknown. To name only one, of hundreds of fears--- they fear living without the sense of control and protection of owning or renting their own house or apartment. This boils down to fear of the natural elements and fear of crime, along with the desires and lust for comfort, for a place to live in pleasure, with foods and luxuries and a mate, have children etc. ALL of these things are equated with money, property, car, and a house. They shouldn't be.

I think the ethical and princpled choice is to be a deadweight mf and drain on the economy. I have been working on better freeloading skills, to live in the marginal spaces around other peoples' property in various urban or suburban settings. The enabling factor for me is, friends. If after all these years of life I haven't got a friend who will tolerate having me around then, that tells you something. Are there NO people in this society who simply live in the presence of other people in their environment? I doubt it! The challenge is to find compatible ones and move in.

This challenge leads to the realization that our previous quest to own or rent our own premises contains within it, a betrayal. The assumption that nobody will ever tolerate you around, and the unstated assumption that you intend to act like a son of a bitch sometimes, who nobody would want to have around.

Indigenous peoples always live around each other. The idea of ejecting people who didn't pay for their premises or pay steady rents to the bosses, is a mechanism setup by the bosses for their own permanent freedom and our slavery. So bring it down to earth. Be a freeloader and a parasite on this political economy, don't feed polar bears, it makes them even more aggressive, we need a 30 year depression. The work ethic is unethical. It's destroying the planet.

TOdd