Rather Than Focus on What You Don’t Control, Focus on What You Do Control
BY PGF
2 years, 3 months ago
Though not a fan of precious metals, this article, via WRSA, points in the right direction. Likely before my lifetime, I did not know that cities once grew up to half of their own food. Localized Production is, beyond any doubt, a foundation of national security. (Bold in the original.)
Now that globalization and financialization are finally unraveling, people are slowly awakening to the national security foundations of localizing production. Home gardens were called Victory Gardens in World War II for a reason. Reducing dependency and increasing local production is national security in a nutshell.
Which makes more sense–air freighting tomatoes thousands of miles or growing your own? Globalization and financialization have so distorted our economy that if it’s cheaper to fly in tomatoes then that’s the “most profitable choice.”
But is maximizing profit really the only “value” we should be calculating? Thanks to an obsessive focus on maximizing profits, our economy has been stripmined of essential production because it’s always cheaper to produce stuff somewhere else where labor and bribes are cheap and environmental controls non-existent.
Localizing Production doesn’t mean just food. Sustainability is a Globalist buzzword for you owning nothing and eating bugs. Real sustainability is your family, friends, church, and team moving to self-sufficiency. Not simply stockpiling goods but production of anything a smithy, craftsman, and what was called home economics can produce. The results of your ability to move in this direction as much as possible may one day soon be tested. But overall, it’s a better life, I say again: it’s a better life, a more meaningful and fulfilling existence locally.
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On August 7, 2022 at 11:22 pm, Dan said:
Local production and sustainability is a worthy goal. And it was much more feasible a century ago. Now so much of what we use in daily living requires high tech skills, expensive machinery and difficult to source resources to create. Not feasible on a local level and for some things simply not possible. To maintain independence and freedom people need to identify those things they can’t create locally and easily and start seeking ways to replace those items with things they CAN create themselves without needing large multi national companies being involved. That means at times doing without some of the luxuries in life.
On August 8, 2022 at 9:15 am, Ned said:
My former pastor made fun of preppers- on the last day I ever attended that church – insisting “I don’t want your buried rice.” Also preached that illegal aliens were “children of God” and should be accepted. Meanwhile, the church bulletin requested canned food for their food boxes.
Corporate churches that teach distorted views of Romans 13 will tell their flock it’s all good. No need to prep for family and community security.