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Locrian

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23. we don't even know how to "live" anymore

Thu Feb 21, 2019, 05:16 PM

Feb 2019

It's the way our "system" was basically designed to work.

The way money and the concentration of wealth works is to require ever increasing "activity" to prevent the collapse of the entire pyramid scheme.

>>We need to event a new economy of local wealth – and starve the cancer.
YES - this ties in with the way local currency used to be the norm and it was not based on hoarding wealth, and on EXTRACTING wealth from areas.

In Life Inc., Douglas Rushkoff presents the unnerving, unbelievable, but ultimately undeniable proof that our world has been overtaken by an absolutely artificial economy.

https://rushkoff.com/books/life-inc/

How you get completely away from it I have no idea. Gradual ideas? Yes.... somehow we have to change the system but absent the hard reality of natures' limits I don't know.

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Parasitic Ideas and the Endarkenment make us the victims of our own successful civilization [View all] ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 OP

an incredible post, professor rampartc Feb 2019 #1

Another one - the ultra wealthy? empedocles Feb 2019 #2

Right on! hunter Feb 2019 #3

i like that term - the republican/parasitic political party sold all those certainot Feb 2019 #4

You're right, I think talk radio is a major vehicle for these ideas ProfessorPlum Feb 2019 #5

i think the dem party and progressive orgs must get active re talk radio and stop ignoring it certainot Feb 2019 #6

2000 was the turning point. radius777 Feb 2019 #11

Many, many Democrats were fooled into "being patriotic" and supported the misconceived war in Iraq DemocracyMouse Feb 2019 #18

Other parasitic ideas: Locrian Feb 2019 #7

THANK YOU for saying that. Democrats buy gas guzzlers too. DemocracyMouse Feb 2019 #19

yes Locrian Feb 2019 #20

You've touched on something new there. DemocracyMouse Feb 2019 #21

we don't even know how to "live" anymore Locrian Feb 2019 #23

You've touched on something new there. DemocracyMouse Feb 2019 #22

Sovereign Citizen is a prize winner pecosbob Feb 2019 #8

Thanks. This was a very good post. Firestorm49 Feb 2019 #9

This is succinctly brilliant lunatica Feb 2019 #10

Excellent. k & r n/t Pobeka Feb 2019 #12

Thank You Professor proud patriot Feb 2019 #13

Good post. There is a flip side to this that gives me hope--the historical arc of good ideas. tclambert Feb 2019 #14

Really thought provoking, Tumbulu Feb 2019 #15

You've heard of "Rags to Riches to Rags in 3 generations "? Lars39 Feb 2019 #16

Excellent post! MrScorpio Feb 2019 #17