Monday, May 31, 2010

How To Make Ballet Shoes From Sugarpaste

Thought quite combed: The trade union of self-owners

mother possessed the idea of \u200b\u200bcommunist revolution, Cezary Baryka explained to him that "he would want to create a communist system, it should be divided into equal sections empty land, a step that some mountains, and there is a collective effort to plow, sow, build - and reap the harvest. Start all fairness, with God and with each other. What kind of communism, when they break into people's houses, palaces, churches, which for other purposes and are intended to share equally will not help. It is - she - common robbery. Low is the art from the palace to make a museum. It would be an art worthy of new people - create the museum items and put them in a building built in the communist forces of the museum. "

Does such a constructive way unionized?

This question smacks a bit generalization. How? Can we move into the same bag all the trade unions and treat them as a monolith? Probably not. The text, therefore, will focus on some characteristic (most?) Union activists trends, the expression of their sympathies, the initiatives they take.
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union as a "general staff", "workers 'asset' is a part, and perhaps even the core problem we face. We often forget that such a compound co-specific individuals. Instead, we see different people only 'weight'.

The opening scene Charlie Chaplin film Modern Times, we see a huge flock of rushing sheep. Next scene: modern times - a herd of people poured into the subway and goes to work at the factory belts. As far as each member of the anonymous crowd responsible for one in their working conditions? As far as we can say that "he so chose? Do you like his work at the plant for mass production, and whether he feels that by doing it fulfills its calling?

Modern Times. The man who wprzągł up (it was harnessed? - Here again the question of individual consciousness) in the modes of employment for people's needs (and perhaps "not-required"). It stands eight hours a day at the factory tape margarine. He sits at the counter, taking customer buzzing coin, and something worth of papers. Overseer prohibits him to go to the toilet. The owner of the interest has an employee in the nose, because, in fact, fascinating to him seems only to dynamically rotate the virtual bank account numbers, or bask in the luxury - not a living man.

It turns out that many employees have similar feelings: how management treats its mercenaries as a "necessary evil", which we need to shed some offal, and did not see in them people endowed with dignity. We therefore assume a union. A trade union, and therefore an organization that will fight for our "rights", "rights" "Workers". Together we determine what we mean. We put forward the request. We demand safety improvements. We want a national health insurance. Less work. Renegotiation of contracts.

We want the Epiphany was the day off from work. First, we turn to those to whom knowingly and voluntarily (?) Enlisted to serve. (From a question mark after the words "knowingly and voluntarily?" The doubts as to how informed and voluntary decision can be called a man who - found himself in the unfortunate circumstances, crushed by taxes, regulations and directives, are employed in the state collaborated with the officers of the company - and still can not see if other solutions that can provide him and his family a decent living.). They do not want to give us free? Overwhelmed with resignation? ... And can we declare a strike and refuse to join the work [at the same time desiring the money, which "belong to us" - even though we do not do this, what is knowingly and voluntarily (?) Committed]? Flown banner and go out into the street?

Whoa, whoa! There is a new concept: send to a State official's call to order the "morning wstrętnemu capitalist 'to satisfy our conditions. This method

peeled many proponents of requiring notice Epiphany day off from work. Common sense it seems quite surprising. When you arrange for an employed person, after all, we can reach our potential employer to an agreement and agree that Jan. 6 will be devoted to tasks other than professional work. Is the moral and need to refer to a public servant, a stranger, a third and even fourth - To violence, we tried to impose a solution that we can accept ourselves voluntarily? And maybe in the course of negotiations with a prospective employer come to the conclusion that, in view of divergent views, if we do not take co-operation, but after some time we will return to this theme?

The above situation may appear to some idealization. Eyes of a human situation, which has the conditions to the extent freely give up to work on someone else's order. Let us ask: is it still the participation of every man, or even most of the people? And if such an occupation, which allows the relative freedom to reject proposals for an employment (if you prefer to do something else) is something precious, the goal towards which we strive? What are the objectives of the general economy?

Among interesting thoughts contained in the encyclical of Pope Benedict XVI Caritas in Veritate appears, and this "should strive to achieve - recognized as a priority - the goal of access for all to work and its maintenance." At these words many might beak to beak with the cry "Socialism!". Meanwhile, if you look through empathetic Pope ideal without unnecessary emotion - it turns out that "access for all to work and its maintenance is not only an attractive vision, but something that expresses the desires of the vast majority (if not all) of the inhabitants of our planet. But unless everyone dreams of doing something like that could do just about forever.




Many unions place on their banners call for permanent employment, creation of working conditions in which the employee could not worry about that from day to day being thrown away.

If we agree that it is worth trying to do so, let us ask ourselves the question: how does it do?

first step to ensure that every access to jobs and opportunities to sustain it would probably sound of your specific needs and duties towards those for whom I am responsible (families, the sick, the poor - in a broader and longer term: all people). Do you honestly fulfill the duties of my state? What should be different from me? Do I devote enough time to those who should I spend? Can I still am unable alone to talk to someone for more than fifteen seconds? Overall: if still in control myself - or I gave up suffer "logic" of a brave new world today in which every man tries to put in a predetermined place in the "social structure"? Can I answer the question about what I need, and choose the appropriate measures to implement the tasks standing before me?

with these issues combine to questions more "economical." Do I really have anywhere drive a car - or I can move on their own feet? Do I need a new plasma sześćdziesięciosześciocalowej in place this last year pięćdziesięcioośmiocalowej, which is already affixed to me? Can I live without my phone? And without the Internet?




Colin Ward wonders in his essay "Self-employed Society (Society or self-Employed Society) on how it is that a man who returns home after a hard day's work [ hired] with happy to take up the cultivation of his garden. He talks about the advantages of such a deal: here a man works on his, he is the boss. Sam decides when the work begins and ends. He works because he wants to, not because they must.

How many people - by Ward - a secretly dreams about, to have a small store, to act on their own, to run a small plant! Lots of people are willing to work very hard - if it gives them greater independence (a greater sense of independence?).

Is union rather, facilitates or impedes the realization of this objective?

As an organization of employees who "fight" for their work within the system almost exclusively on the needs of others, a trade union is often the temptation to engage in cooperation with state officials and attempts to gain certain privileges at the expense of those who come to the compound in question does not belong. In the interest of many unions operating today is entering the "logic" of the contemporary system of state capitalism with all its bureaucracy and activities on a mass scale. Is not uncommon for activists and "coordinators" federal cost may seem viable in the specific duration of symbiosis with the officers of the state and controls the mass production of big business - to the detriment of so-called "average" (even though uncommon), ordinary people, which also comprises the group of "ordinary" (even though extraordinary) union members.

phenomenon of collaboration between "large" or "major" of this world to the detriment of "little people" seeing for centuries. To the numerous conflicts forces, murders, rapes, theft, war atrocities, there have and continue to occur as a result of the decision and the (sometimes tacit) approval of the ministers, managers, presidents, secretaries, kings, presidents - in a word: so. makers - in the second-sighted man, "human resource", not a person endowed with dignity. What interest have conscription slaying each other in wars caused by their "masters"? It is common knowledge that "the war whistling bullets, / The people are down with sheaves, / A najdzielniej beat kings, / And the most densely fellows are dying. " [The situation is somewhat different to those carrying out murders and destruction at the request of state officials on a voluntary basis (of both the government soldiers and employees of private firms military and security services of cooperating with state officials) - they are simply paying the killer]. What meaning and what effects it has persecuted another person who is not a direct threat to me, did not attack me, he lives quietly in his own way?

minister to each other the representatives of big business, high-ranking officers state and the spec from unfair propaganda from time immemorial tried to do so to "gray" wykrwawiał man in the service of their self-appointed masters. Those actually informed of their activities, "social engineers" (swarming yourself that will become the engineers of human souls) is perhaps a handful. It is those people who by force or threat of use of force as husband and father to abandon the family and enlisting in the army or work beyond their strength, those who threat and blackmail and forcing his wife mother to abandon the family and the resignation of care home fire ("Oh yes - some people react - it's your wife does not work?". Answer: "Actually - not" working. "She toil!") - in the name of "professional fulfillment and job the needs of others outside the home, those who demoralize young people, trying to make them passive citizens brave new world. These same "architects" may be aware of this, on how fragile foundations of their power is based. In large measure as it depends on wpajanego 'subjects' feelings of helplessness. If only we generally reject the attitude expressed in words: "It's true, it's not fair, it should be otherwise - but what can I do?" And increasingly realized that, as in a good and important way we can influence the shape of the temporal world, the doprowadzilibyśmy changes in the blink of an eye.

Tyler Durden, bored and tired of living a hooligan-a nihilist, a hero of the movie Fight Club , it realizes the pursuer and his cronies to high police officer, the extent to which it is dependent on people who were chasing - they cook their meals. Export its garbage. They combine their telephone conversations. Keep an ambulance. They watch him when he sleeps. "Do not mess with us".

It is this great power dormant in "prolach" (George Orwell, 1984), they wisely used, can quickly lead to changes for the better.

probably good example of a constructive procedure gives portrayed by Kevin Carson workers "transferee" closed and standing idly by the company (Carson writes about them, including essays posted on website Homebrew Industrial Revolution and Center for a Stateless Society ). Instead, arrange fights in the streets and demand a life for someone else's expense, on its own initiative, the workers go to work, run abandoned machinery, make necessary repairs neglected equipment. As if by way strengthen ties within the local community. They do it well, who know, without looking at what it will say "mountain". Using the rotation system of work and conduct business, make an important step on the road to independence. If the additive is adjusted to produce what is needed - that is, corresponding to the expectations of potential customers (instead of rushing hundreds of software conceptualized by designers of copies of a device, and then scratch their heads: "How would it opchnąć?") - so to speak, working in the liberal professions.

Man working "at home" is a big incentive to make the best use of their talents and self-improvement. He realizes that the quality of his work has a direct bearing on the quality of its fruits. In addition, it is easier to enjoy something yourself, self made. Such work simply is a joy.

If the union members in a similar way, or trying to become more independent and shaped its organization on the model of mutual aid societies ( Friendly Society), by itself provide such support in the disease, a common education, material assistance in the event of job loss whether the collection of voluntary contributions to retirement - the result would be a more humane society.

Maybe at the beginning there is a need to organize a union, to feel the community of interests, a sort of professional solidarity " (Understood as concern for "access for all to work and its maintenance"). Then - if we do not meet the existing conditions of employment - each of us shall give notice. And because we know each other, we trust each other, we are willing to work and easy for us to get along with each other, the combined forces will assume a new company, which produce the same as before (or maybe even something potrzebniejszego and better) - only that now on their own. We refuse to actions on other people's principles, which we perceive as unfair, and use your own initiative - We make the contribution and repurchase redundant plant from the previous owner, take over the half-ruined building of the former state enterprise, we bring it into order and start production, we start producing something in your garage or home workshop ...

In order to strengthen these initiatives, it might be worth at the beginning of the union as a priority to allow each work "at home". We need this to go beyond the "logic" of mass production and to take effective action on a local scale. The key to the case may be formal ownership of their jobs. Piece of land, factory, a small factory, plant reperujący some furniture - it would be good if the employee could say about his work - "it's my job, I work at home" (whether it is owned by one man, or some form of " joint ownership ").

After reaching such a goal the union members could devote more energy to the other fundamental tasks - such as, for example to provide for themselves and their families health care.

work together to organize at the local level helps ago to more dating a man with a man instead of an organization (or anonymous, in fact, a representative of) the organization (or an anonymous agent.) (By the way, the fact that many organizations fit in the position of "Director of Communications," "coordinators for the flow of information", "representatives of public relations", etc. indicates that the officers completely lost sight of the man and chose plunges into a virtual ocean of information. How can you take seriously the company, which employees allocate the "expert" from communicating with each other?).

It could be such a plea: Whoa, whoa. He spins you here some idyllic visions, and the whole meaning of the union lies in the fact that the persons working in a stranger, but still pushing demand that we fight for her.

you anyway. Only if it is the hands and feet? Someone might not suffer the superior and hate what he does. Simple question: how to change it? What can be done about this particular man? How can work a trade union? Stubborn

holding jobs at the same time creates a conflict with their superiors rather unhealthy situation. On the one hand: I hate what I do and where I'm doing it, on the other: I spend an incredible amount of time and energy for it to continue this unnecessary agony. [Even if it happens - for example - that a court whose intervention will be called, will award to me in a dispute with the employer was right and - if I was unfairly dismissed earlier - has ordered me back to work, it creates a strange situation: I'm still working where I do not like - because I (feel that I need?), the employer hires me - because I must. We look at each wolf, it is difficult for any interaction, even now that we have called alien third party, to make us burst. Is not that sick?].

Today, unfortunately, is very strong temptation of resorting to violence, government officials, visible in the official program documents of contemporary trade unions ("demand that state regulations / laws / directives to ensure that / cause that ..."). It is also a double-edged weapon. If we accept that the state functionaries and rob someone 'give us' - we accept also that "we take", and give someone else - and from time to time try to pacify us by the armed forces.

Battles with the police or security guards in areas which temporarily zawiadują state functionaries, or your current employer, perhaps only result in unnecessary damage to health and deepening hatred between the union and those that are currently in the service of the regime - and it has them in a special way would help to throw off the yoke of state capitalism and resignation from employment to other people's needs.

As a glove fits a quote from Boleslaw Prus, to discourage the unnecessary destruction: "He who by word and personal example goes against karciarstwu, alcoholism, prostitution - is doing well, because it seeks to avoid waste of time and money, serious illness and hideous bondage of human beings. But who breaks the public houses, doing wrong, because it does not prevent harlotry, destroys a lot of useful items, impoverishes society "(Mark Twain, Chronicles tygodniowe , Warszawa 1987, t. II, s. 79).

Kolejna sprawa: strajk okupacyjny. Instalujemy się gdzieś i nie ruszymy się stąd! Ale co powiemy naszej żonie i dzieciom – „Nie wracam na noc do domu, bo muszę pilnować barykady, żeby tylko nas nie wywalono?”. Rodzina cierpi, produkcja staje, spędzamy dość bezczynnie całe dnie, godziny, minuty i sekundy... W ostatecznym rozrachunku tracimy wszyscy – a najwięcej nasi najbliżsi.

Jak związek zawodowy traktuje łamistrajków albo wolnych strzelców, którzy pracują razem z nami, ale nie należą do związku? Czy odnosimy się do nich jak to the people, though they try to secure a decent living and working conditions by other means than we do? Can we use any unfair harassment?

Want to work here? You're welcome. If myself and my union colleagues do not want - the way free. We can make a pronounced and try to get another job.




Did I ever want to work here - we might ask in the spirit of anarchosyndykalistycznym - and fight a bit more bearable unnatural conditions of captivity? Do for a stranger? Give him what he did? There are no stupid! I give up! I want to keep a full fruit of my work! Well, at least the greater part of it. (Bows to Benjamin Tucker). We meet with my friends from the compound, together, constitute dismissal and try to raise their own interest.

If necessary, we can retrain. Brotherhood of working people better expressed in the willingness to help another, and teach him something useful than the automatic defy individuals as "fitters", "electrician", "fork-lift truck operators," and nobody else. Each received a gift, a task to accomplish, everyone likes to do something. Many have multiple talents and is willing to learn something new. The practical answer to the question of how to enable (or at least easier) to all people and every one realize its potential - this is just art.

Spore hope can be associated with organizations of self-owners - for example, farmers. Nature of their work in a natural manner that promotes the interests of the property (farm land), family ties (joint effort of the abundant harvest, large numbers of contributing children with various activities) and local [probably better - after all - neighbors-gossips (if we find just such) than the anonymous urban crowd?].

If we understand the trade union as an association of specific people designated for specific tasks without regard for public officials and "structures" (bureaucratization threatens non-stop every institution erected by human hands) - we have a healthy alternative to bureaucratic behemoths zastałych - both public and private. History (perhaps above all, family) provide us with numerous examples and guidance as we can, rather than someone else's own forces to ensure a dignified existence.

help in that, once advised by Maciej Dudek, distancing herself from the media tumult. Actually - it works! The time you save by refusing to silting their heads served to customers for sixty seconds per minute pigułami information and artificially excited to someone else's life, we use the specific action - first on a local scale.

could argue whether a direct conversation with another person, planting a few trees together with a neighbor or a home workshop to construct a useful device is always and under all circumstances, provide greater value than watching (otherwise wise) of the film or read the (important otherwise) of article - but the pendulum swung probably already too much in the direction of the artificial world and it's time to start back to reality.

members of trade unions may, at any time say "sneeze and politicians in their service journalists. We left our previous bosses. We reject slavery and organize your work on your own. After our six-hour (maybe less) working day, instead of poisoning the minds of television and newspaper pulp, we go to a meeting with a colleague-a trade unionist from a neighboring village or town and learn about how to improve its products, jointly reflect on how the best way to secure a livelihood in old age, let's look to the Internet when you want to get some tips that can help us work. "

grown amazingly, many people today narzekactwo. "My manager is stupid, my supervisor This idol, my job is hopeless "- we hear often from people who still work for the fool, or a snowman. "Something is poor? Bos stupid. Something stupid? Bos poor. Complain, but still you do for me "- could, in turn, respond with a mocking smile of the President or the Director, remembering that for centuries class representatives of the exploiters (which so aptly portrayed in the text of Christopher Śledziński Ku libertarian class theory ) parasites on those who did (trying to do?) his subjects - Also on the workers, members of trade unions. Baty, almost always getting this simple, "poor" man. As far as he was responsible for it? To what extent was aware of the need to break out of the constructed by the statists and their collaborators social structures, which accounted for them only a block useful in so far as to give him a place at the designated place? As far as remember what it says in the Church Gaudium et Spes : "Man [...] is the creator, the center and to the entire economic and social life? (How this awareness had his oppressor?)

note that the Church, which has traditionally supported the formation of trade unions, puts at the center of economic and social life of man, a particular person. Thus, at first, the man - his dignity and needs.

trade union whose members have forgotten this truth, may have to meet a very important role. Help people in a healthy social self-organization. Encourage all who wish to work on your own. Give the area to exchange experiences and mutual improvement. Care of providing material support to the needy.

Organizing a union can help us especially in the initial stage of transition from employment to someone else for that reality, where instead of employing megagigakorporacji five billion people have one billion small business, which operates five people - or five billion self-employed. Trade union conceived (in the initial stage of operation) as a tool for self-liberation of the exploited class (understood as defined by Christopher Śledzińskiego) can be converted over time based informal relationships with a group of friends, colleagues, people who collectively are able and like to do something.

Such a direction of change can foster the spirit of the proceedings in the proposals outlined by Pope Benedict XVI: "If everyone in your environment might reject the lies and violence in the intentions, the words and deeds, carefully cultivating a feeling of respect and esteem of others, it may not solve it all problems of everyday life, but they could be taken with greater calmness and efficiency. " ( Benedict XVI reflection of the "wisdom descending from above" )

Pope goes to the everyday problems of human toil, like many friends, the idea of \u200b\u200bliberty. This indicates that, contrary to the utopian dreams of statists, the paradise on earth do not we build - but our own attitude, our personal testimony can help to make the mundane world fairer. "Cherishing tenderly feelings of respect and esteem of others" can no longer be here [in your own environment: in the family circle, in their place of work (you might want to try to make these areas of life have the same)], and now to build something of value.

In this way, also make it easy for everyone to understand the choice faced: either opt for a lie and violence in the intentions, the words and deeds - or choose the path of truth, freedom and respect for human dignity.

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text is a revision of the article stated on page Liberalis as a voice in discussions on Trade unions and the consequences of their activities (protection of employee rights, strikes, etc.) .






Saturday, April 3, 2010

Boa Fleece Scarves To Sew

Resurrection Sunday 2010 Good Friday 2010

Lorenzo Lotto, Resurrection, 1543

Friday, April 2, 2010

In What Stores Is Bullet Express Sold



Lorenzo Lotto, Christ carrying the cross , 1526


Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Customizable Brine Triumph

Translation: James Leroy Wilson, "The living standard and quality of life"

economic difficulties may help in choosing a better way of life.

- Daddy, take me in his arms?

- Rosie, you're already big enough to go all the way on foot. These are just a few blocks away. He

a beautiful morning. Following their estate, dad and daughter waved friendly to people working in their home gardens.

- I wish my grandmother did not live so far away! - Said the Rose.

Dad laughed. - You are lucky that my grandmother lived just a few blocks away. When I was your age, my grandparents lived two thousand miles from me!

- Two thousand! - Milton and Rose's older brother, until speechless. - Have you ever widywałeś with them?

- Well, some once or twice a year. We flew to visit them, and sometimes they to us. But then flying it got too expensive, and terribly spóźniały aircraft - and that's no fun for either children or parents. We tried to go to my grandparents car, but there were difficulties with the fact that both my parents at the same time get a vacation from work. Arrival took us four days back - the same amount, and all to see with my grandmother and grandfather in just five days. Besides, petrol has gone up so that, even riding it became too expensive. So then we saw them once in about two years.

- But why grandparents have lived so far away from you?

- Due to the work of his grandfather - and my mom too.

- Why do not you lived closer and did not occupy themselves with something else?

- Good question. They had to stay close to the companies for which they worked, because they paid for their treatment.

- Dad, or grandparents were slaves?

Dad laughed. - No! Not that I had ... Location. - But I thought: "Maybe in a sense they were."

Milton said
- Why did the fly, such expensive?

Tata said:
- Well, that was when everything more expensive. Not only fuel - food, too. It began when the Federal Reserve prints more money to finance expenditure that the government was doing, despite the budget deficit. Spending money, despite the hole in the budget lies in the fact that the government spends more than it collects in taxes, and the government seemed a huge sum. On the cap it did nieudacznie, financing a stupid war, and this has led to rising prices of everything - from food and fuel.

Milton said:
- It sounds awful. What did you do?

Tata said
- People stopped doing what is past, and they asked why they live in it, not the other way. They asked why the airplane treat them like cattle. Why is peeled away from them at a gas station and supermarket. Many people wanted government to do something to help them, because I did not understand that it is the government was the cause of their problems. But others, like your grandmother, they started to work.

- What did she have? - Milton said.

- Well, you see all these people working in their gardens? These gardens once were not here. People had grass and walked among themselves in competition over who has the most beautiful and the greenest grass. But your grandmother came back from the supermarket one day, she sat down and said: "Enough of this. We will have our own food. " And next spring at the place where the grass grew before, my grandmother set up a vegetable garden.

So you only saw what some of the neighbors got mad grandmother. Community Housing sued her to court, claiming that her garden spoils the view and that will drop the value of other properties. But a year later more people started up their own gardens in place of lawns.

I did not end up on the same lawns. People started to make improvements in their homes to save more energy. Did not do so for the sake of the environment, but for his own pocket. Neighbors began to share their ideas with each other and work together - whereas previously they were right not to open to each paragraph.

Many other things, people also began to do otherwise. Previously, went everywhere cars, used the elevators and escalators, to then pay for the opportunity to squeeze the self-sevenths sweating in the gym. But the need for conservation has led to the abandonment of the gym. People began to use their cars less, and more often to walk and ride a bike, and the exercises consisted of floor stairs. Some families gave up their cars, opting to buy a van together with neighbors and where they could mutually podwozili. Many twentieth-century inventions, thereby avoiding the effort was available to draw hand, but people realized that if they start to work again physically manage to burn more calories and save money on energy bills. Previously, a lot of people were very obese, but schudli. And it's not because they were starving, but because they changed their lifestyle.

They also benefit from markets, buying milk, meat, eggs and other products directly from local farmers. What is offered to farmers was fresher and healthier than processed foods. People understand it better come out on this, if revenues remain in the community local, rather than wander far away to a big corporation.

That was when your grandmother, my mom, threw their work so far and opened the home baker. This violated the local zoning plan [ zoning laws ], but the people voted on the side of my grandmother, and against the government. When the government realized that it is powerless and not able to deal with this new way of life, people realized that they need not fear the government, and they became free. More and more people started to work, therefore, in their own homes and on their own account. Previously, moms and dads occupy different positions in different places, but now more and more of them working together in their own home, and this allows them to be close to their children - instead of giving them under someone else's care.

nearer and more distant family members decided to stick together. No more senseless long-distance travel to meet. In the days of my youth, many families distribute the long-distance, but now these separated families is less.

Milton said:
- It seems that has happened to you then a lot worse than today. But some say that our country is in crisis, that we are no longer are rich as ever. They say that we must "restore the size of our nation." Is this true?

Tata said
- It depends on how you understand wealth. In fact, people now do not earn as much money as before. But I do not need this. If you are manufacturing the same things for which you paid once, you do not need the money. If you have close friends, family and work, do not need a car or airplane tickets. People who want to define the standard of living based on amount of their money, they do not understand what the thing is. It is the quality of life is important - and this is now better than ever. People who want to "restore our nation to greatness", do not even know what makes a nation great. They are the "size" of soldiers' uniforms understand, political speeches and big businesses which employ numbers of people to build tanks, prisons and rockets. They talk about "freedom", but really want the government was so powerful as ever - and that is the opposite of freedom. Do we really free, and our nation does not become a really great, as long as the government is not bankrupt and collapsed. But here we are on the spot, the home of her grandmother. God bless America!

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Translation by:
James Leroy Wilson, Standard of Living Vs. Quality of Life , http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=2955&RSS=1

Standard of Living Vs. Quality of Life published at The Partial Observer 29 May 2008

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Friday, January 22, 2010

Big Motorcycle Trials

Translation: Eleutheros [1] "Freedom of choice - the best sauce"


the comments at a previous entry [ Eleutheros, The Cause, Not the Occasion , http://milesfrombabylon.blogspot.com/2008/10/cause-not-occasion.html ]: "Question: What advice would you give to someone who has a sincere desire and willingness to leave Babylon?".

do not know. I do not know the circumstances in which you live or what your tastes, do not know what resources you have and do not know your past, etc. You could easily suggest anything properly or start a tirade about the matter at all ambiguous. I must therefore limit the response to describe the most basic rules of conduct of a free man.

The above picture shows a corridor like a cathedral nave created one of the plots of maize for its high at 14 feet [just over 4 feet - editor. transl.] stem. On the left side about half way you can see one flask still sticking up, and several more - inclined. When in season, corn has matured, the stem is getting brown, and the flask slope - in such a way as to set up a shell jacket that allows corn dry in the October sun. Soon we will start a collection, let dosuszyć corn to the end, then we select a flask with shells and we will supply corn for culinary uses.

In fact, last year we have been this much corn, and that sufficed for this. You never know when you happen to barren years, so, starting with the eventuality of his arrival, the majority collected in this year's corn will keep for later. Throughout the year, corn will be ground into flour, which we need to bake the basic ingredient of our diet - corn bread. Another way is to soak the corn in lime water and make her a mass the tortillas and tamales . Natural and the main type of food is, however, in our culture after appalachijsku corn bread, which - along with dried beans, also comes from our crops - it gives a balanced amount of starch, protein and fat.

The plot - this year one of them planted with white corn, and the second - red - pressed in a fairly narrow (which may be 70 feet [about 20 yards - note. Crowd.] Wide) belt located on the slopes of the mountain valley. Nowadays, few had recognized this place as suitable for cultivation. Grain for sowing delayed year after year from each of the collections. Prepared the ground by a plow horse and a hundred years. Soil fertility is maintained using horse manure and compost leaves. In other words, if we closed the gate of our farm [ Farmstead ] of the fence and never worked the trade with Babylon, we can still grow corn and beans - into infinity. Amen.

Many of reading entries on this blog or other texts of a similar nature recoils with horror and disgust at the thought of what they see in the call to isolate in a secluded corner of the world and maintain its vital functions meager bowl of corn mush, all the days of its existence. They are in great error.

What's going on in this using basic computer technology, requiring little of their own, self-reliant economy [ subsistence economy ] - what it means to us? This question is reminiscent of Jack Sparrow, who, abandoned to its fate, together with Elizabeth Swann on a desert island, he told her, What really is Black Pearl - is freedom. As for Jack's ship - so we practiced for centuries, farming choice. A possible choice is the very essence and foundation of our escape from Babylon.

komentatorowi My answer is anonymous, therefore this: To leave Babylon, you have a choice. Unfortunately, very likely that you do not have - even if you are firmly convinced that it is. Babylon, like every system of exploitation and control can only exist through the reduction and elimination of your choice. As not to look - if you can actually make a choice, chances are that you choose what will benefit and development of you and your family, instead, what becomes of Babylon.

Babylon must eliminate the possibility of your choice. It does this by using two effective tricks. First, it offers you the possibility of making an apparent choice to divert your attention from the fact that, in fact you have no choice. Desperate maneuver to a parent who does not podołał his job as parents is the fact that - when a child insists he does not want to go somewhere - Says to him: "We must be ready to go; you want to put a shirt - blue or red?". The parent hopes to select the color of the shirt will cost the child to such an extent that it forgets that do not want to leave. The Nazis used this method to control the Jews, whom they intended to murder, it is no less worthy of condemnation, when he uses it to anyone else. And use the tactics described is an integral part of Babylon.

People always ask us, for example, what kind of alternative energy use, because - they say - if you are going to get out of Babylon, would certainly not want to be connected to the network! The choice between supply of, say, solar energy and the use of the network, is apparent. If "riding out" from oblige to pay a monthly bill for electricity, the need to maintain obarczysz losing its value and decaying system of electricity generation. What's more, if your home system is the only source of power, from what you have, the amount of energy you capable of producing is so small that you need to drastically reduce its consumption. You can not, for example, use the electric stove, electric water heater, electric clothes dryers, electric furnace or heat pump. If you want to live, therefore limiting the amount of energy that you are able to produce by such a system - it will be her first so little that by getting her to connect to the network is not carried by major expenditure for them, or significant loss of independence. Using electricity generated solely from its own This forces the apparent choice. Our house [ homestead ] we arranged in such a way that in no way is dependent on electricity. Do not get me wrong - we are pleased that we have electricity. We like to watch movies on DVD, use the computer, listen to the radio, use the electric dryer for food products, also like the convenience of doing things in the early morning and late evening when the electric light. But we are well prepared for this, to live without electricity. I already did. We have true freedom of choice - the use of electricity or not - in accordance with what the data tells us the circumstances sense. Switching from the network depending on the dependence on manufacturers of batteries and solar panels is not truly free choice, because either way you're not independent.

second way by which Babylon imposes its policy of no freedom of choice is the fact that in a situation where you can really slow way to decide Babylon tries to convince you that in fact did not have that option. To trudnić the crop and in this way to satisfy yourself though some their food needs, need to borrow money to purchase land, right? You walk to college, right? You have four wheels, you have a credit card, right?

not. All these and many other things Babylon repeated ad nauseam - so long that the idea that you could cope without them completely, does not fit you in the head.

therefore invoke the example of my corn field as an illustration of what true freedom of choice. We do ourselves (and even prepare to be done, and cook ground) as the basis of our diet of bread - absolutely no part of Babylon. so we can always choose our bread instead of eating what comes in Babylon. We buy it in bulk quantities sometimes wheat and make bread of it, but if (as happened this year) costs of transport and cause sterility by lift wheat prices to a level that is unacceptable to us, we can look at it and say, " No, do not we go for it, just go back home and eat our corn bread and beans. " Similarly, it will buy food at stalls and shops; and sometimes we eat in the city. But always have freedom of choice and if you want, you can use this liberty for months. We have heard many speakers of the Babylonians: "A man must eat, so in spite of everything, and so we need to raise money to buy food or use a credit card." No choice.

Your Escape from Babylon begins when you can say: "No - I have freedom of choice. I can eat in Babylon, if they so decide, but if the conditions dictated by Babylon [ Terms and Conditions ] will be distasteful to me, I do not have to do that. "

That's the meaning of my corn fields.

This is just an example. You can have different options to choose from. So let's go back to the beginning. What can you do? Consider carefully and honestly to his life and then ask yourself the simple and honest question about where you lack the freedom of choice. Only a credible answer to this question will allow you to make a fair assessment of his position. Is the only choice before which you stand, a distributor of fuel and the next installment for a car or poverty without being able to acquire resources life? Do you need to buy in the supermarket, because otherwise you will die of hunger? Does not the company lending you money to buy a house without an estate agent would have to live under a bridge? Perhaps no university degree and obtained no-one there darzyłby you even a little confidence? Etc. etc. If your answer is "yes", it means that you are deprived of freedom of choice and are in captivity in Babylon. His policy you receive the freedom of choice proved to be extremely effective.

is yet another interesting aspect associated with freedom of choice. Someone may niewprawionemu seem that it is a continuum, the degree of your addiction to Babylon, and therefore a question of balance. But surely it is not. There is a particular moment, a turning point, which is liberated from the suffocating embrace of Babylon.

I remember a few years ago led the conversation, which became the inspiration for entry in this blog. My interlocutor, as many using the argument that "the degree of dependence", argued that both are similarly dependent on the use of Babylon, a coin that ultimately - Like it - I can not avoid it. The difference, which I never understood, based on the fact that the need to use the money Babylon decided on what my interlocutor to do the next morning. He did not have any freedom of choice. next morning he had to refuel the car and go to work - if they act otherwise, on his personal world zawisłaby threat of disaster. I, in turn, could choose whether I will use that day Babylonian money - on a given day or in a given week, or even in any given year. Freed from the rule of Babylon. I could choose I'll go back home and I eat corn bread and beans instead of buying something on the Babylonian marketplace - as well as to decide that, in exchange for a few coins live to Babylon position the ... or that I do not. Well, eventually I'd have to pay real estate taxes and buy some kerosene. But I would go weeks or years to decide how I want to do it. During this time many things are changing, there are many possibilities, and many facts have come and gone. I do not need to do immediately, you can not hurry me, do not you give me a command, you can not make the rules under which I would proceed. It's not continuum, or the question of "degree of dependence" comes to the need to do certain things on cue, the people's conditions and for the benefit of others - or take them when he himself decide on my terms, for my benefit. This is what it means to live in freedom.

So, my anonymous friend, what you have to do is to secure the freedom of choice. Take a look at your situation calmly and indicate in which areas you are herded into a blind alley. Then I see something more than the apparent freedom of choice hinted to you by the Babylon and his mumbling to ensure that you have no freedom of decision, and each time I proceed in such a way that you could say Babylon: "No, not this time, I do not have."

And above all, looking at people's lives really free, do not look at us as if we gnieździli on the gloomy side of a mountain and greedily swallow a bowl of mush miserable. None of these things. When we choose to eat food for our modest, This is incomparable feast. Her part is a delicious, aromatic sauce - which can not match any of the venues offer najwyszukańszych even Babylon. This sauce is freedom of choice.




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[Selected comments from the discussion in the text:]


[Eleutheros:]

[...]

About four years ago it seemed that we offered the opportunity to buy twelve acres [ca 5 hectares] of land in our area. Purchase it if it would be a mistake, today, at the beginning of Peak Oil and the Crisis economic, this piece of land "worth" is less than half the sum which was required for him in 2005, roughly at the peak of prosperity in the property market. Buying

then the land would be in addition to the need to take out a loan to pay off some expenses. We hate the very idea of \u200b\u200bindebtedness, and we realized that - if we took this loan - wypruwalibyśmy of himself lived as if it were to participate in some religious crusade, until the debt has not been repaid. That would mean a serious restriction and our already modest expenses, is a full-time employment, expansion of cottage industry, etc.

decided that it's not worth doing. Our decision proved to be good for many reasons.

few years ago in a very similar situation we had to finish the house and introduce ourselves to him. In its construction have never borrowed a penny. We had a house full of very young children, and I - a job that she took almost twenty hours a week (not counting the time to get there). For a little over a year outside the home-building actually did nothing else.

got up, when it was still dark, revealed a wall, covered the day before for protection against frost, and a list in hand, I checked whether I have the necessary building materials and tools. Then I went to work outside the home, climbed back to the shop work, or the composition of the wood, and the rest of the day until late at night I built a house. I lay every stone, I cut each bar, installed every cable, pipe, and even he did the windows and doors ... This house is over 95% of the work of one man.

One night, when some 10 degrees [Fahrenheit] [-12 º Celsius - editor. transl.] came from the roof of the van attached to the desks (2 to 10 feet each) for the construction of the door, but I'm stuck in difficult terrain and could not get out onto the asphalt. So personally I wore two boards some quarter of a mile up the icy ridge to the construction site. Then, after working all morning, collecting materials for an entire afternoon and bring the boards to the top at the expense of over half a dozen trips ... then constructed a door.

Several issues related to our life is not always a light at this point, on the outskirts of Babylon were able to implement similar measures. Just that will set a goal and you start to work.

I would not be able to function in such rozgorączkowaniu for life. That would be a man wykończyło. But long is something I hate that - if I had not fallen in - wypowiedziałbym the unabated war and ran it all means.

Disposing of debt would become my hobby, my profession, my obsession. Dawałbym not leave him alone, gradually eliminating them day and night; release from him I would consider the act as natural as drinking and urinating.

Babylon sings us a lullaby, in which they commit to repay another loan installments is normal and natural order of things, who will accompany us all the days of life. Long ago I awoke from the lethargy in which it sets a lullaby. No more.



[ Dan Trabue :]

Can I quote you and give you a link to the home of your text?

Excellent entry.



[Eleutheros:]

dish!

You can, of course, cite - giving or not giving the source or author. Claim authorship of the text, if it will help someone. This is all the water on my mill.

I do not delude yourself: time is short. My answer was directed at me from various parties questions about the food, which can be stored a long time [ bulk food ], making stocks and withdrawing cash from the economy. No further than yesterday met up with friends who gave us some pallets to be done in the barn floor. They invited me inside, I took a look at their new garnkowi to pressure to milk and was very worried, because the recipe said cooking under pressure 11 pounds per square inch, and the gauge showed the 13th I assured them that all the game, the indicators are not as accurate again and the pressure slightly higher than the recommended does not hurt. These people are likely to succeed. But I was amazed at the general lack of rozgarnięcia, which rendered their questions. This lack of rozgarnięcia is widespread. Time is short and to-do - a lot.

So the most use of everything that you can find here. It's very kind of you, that you ask for permission, I am grateful to you for that, but always remember:

"L'homme c'est rien
L'oeuvre c'est tout. "



[Here Dan Trabue asked about the meaning of the quote.]



[Eleutheros:]

In the story Association rudowłosych [ The Red-Headed League ] Sherlock Holmes quotes a saying of Watson. Unfortunately, Holmes was just as smart as Conan Doyle. Sentence formulated by the French is grammatically incorrect. Instead of "L'homme c'est rien" should be: "L'homme n'est rien."

means:

Man is nothing
work is everything.



[Dan Trabue:]

Elementary.



[ Kevin Carson:]

excellent entry Eleutherosie. Quoted profusely from it in the initial version of the fifteenth chapter of Theory organization [ Organization Theory ], and then commented saying:

And that is a profitable, one does not have a total economic collapse. Described by you guarantee the success of the strategy, even if the monetary economy and the division of labor were still in some form and for an unspecified time still exist (I think it will), and most people still had to meet a significant proportion of their consumption needs by purchasing things for money. I think the situation that we're dealing with after the cyclic periods of stagnation associated with Peak Oil and other phenomena that characterize the state of capitalism will lead to its eventual collapse, it will resemble rather what Warren Johnson described in his book On the way to Savings [ Muddling Toward frugality ], and Brian Keller Return to Mayberry [Return to Mayberry ], than the reality presented in the world handmade [ World Made by Hand ] Jim Kunstler. The point is that awareness that you have no debts, you are the owner of the place where you live, and not weighed down with no obligation, and that it had forced you into this situation, you are able to secure a permanent roof over their head and food on the table without employing on-time, has an invaluable impact on your bargaining power in negotiations with employers here and now, even if capitalism will continue to be kept alive. As nearly eighty years ago Ralph Borsodi noted, the fact that he had the opportunity to "retreat" on his farm to prolonged periods of time - and an awareness of his potential employers that you are able to do so - allow him to negotiate much better terms that work for someone else's order, he agreed to take .



[Eleutheros:]

Kevin, you've got almost the essence of what I write. Reasonable from an economic point of view of cost-effective way of life based on production for their own needs [ direct-use Living ] is a good idea, even in good times economically - "good" according to the definition of Babylon. The point is simply that - while other ways of life, those dependent on borrowing / loan / cheap oil disappear in the blink of an eye, soon will come the hard times - periods of economic difficulties do not actually have any impact on the self-sufficient way of life.

will always lead to an exchange of money, as has happened over the past 5000 years and have not changed that much any more, even the greatest difficulties, or violent displacement. But the complete dependence on the money puts people in a very difficult situation.

Kunstler is not as it seems to me to telling predictions about the likely or realistic shape of the future. His book is more like a kabuki makeup on the actor's intent is to use Kunstler exaggerations to make sure that the reader without any trouble understanding the meaning of the song. The scenario of events is predictable, as is often the case in the literature: a population decimated by the epidemic, a sudden interruption in oil imports, the main crops destroyed by pestilence. And all This happens in less than two decades.

unlikely.

Kunstlerowi But it allows a quite clear way to explain their most important concepts. The most significant of them seemed to me, is that a young friend of the hero longs for the old times, although they do not know from personal experience, as he was born after the collapse of [the collapse ]. Kunstler thought the book, at least as I understand it, is that we love more in the idea of \u200b\u200bBabylon than its reality.

Every morning I drink tea, which must be imported and for which you have to pay money. People traded tea for centuries and will continue to do so. But here in Appalachia, where we have perfect conditions for growing apples, and this year the harvest is great, I can see in the grocery store apples imported from Israel and South Africa. It's almost like we made a great effort just to unurzać everything in oil and debt. I see the jars of preserved vegetables - vegetables that grow well with us - imported from India. In the name but the little common sense - where is the point in importing food from India?

And yet, if you look at the sober eye Abuse Our money belongs to the same category as the consumption of food in India.



[ Teri :]

Let me warn against something here. For two years we lived in the woods on our two and a half acres [ca ha] not connected to the mains. We had goats, chickens, geese and rabbits, even assumed, and gardened. I work full time, and everything worked with my husband. This month with pneumonia and died. I am 57 years old and do not know if I can manage to lead the same household. I had to give a few animals and move into the winter having electricity to the house - until you find time for it to somehow sort out everything. It is much easier to do, being at a younger age. I hope I can find some way to the farm has remained in my hands.



[Eleutheros:]

Teri!

I read your blogs, trying to better understand the position where you are, but I came across a description of your situation. Relying so only on what you wrote in that commentary, I have to ask: Why

what you write, you call it a warning?

If everything worked thanks to your husband who is suddenly missing, or should not have expected that his death will bring a radical change?

This spring, when one of my daughters exaggerate cabbage seedlings from the greenhouse to the field (the project resulted in a mad success, we are still in the fridge cabbage with this collection), she asked: "How radziłbyś a large garden with so if you had not had so many children? ". I answered her, of course: "If I did not have many children, I would not have such a large garden. "

If one of us (my wife or I) have died or suffered serious injury, changes are made. Life would look different. But many talked about it and we have plans and measures in case this happened.

People build their lives in Babylon, based on two (or more) sources of income, and yet no one sees the danger of sudden loss of a spouse, meaning the loss of this source (or a number of sources) of income. Aware that this may happen, it should accompanied by a man independently of lifestyle marketing, which is practiced.



[Teri:]

The point is that modern conveniences make it much easier running the farm. I know that you are not disconnected from the mains, but the greatest enthusiasts of returning to the countryside will be disconnected from it. When my husband was in ICU, I had to find someone who would take our thirteen goats (and, luckily, I managed to). Just do not take into account to cope with such situations, when he begins to think about returning to the country.



[Eleutheros:]

Teri, not what I would agree that the greatest enthusiasts of returning to the village are those not connected to the mains. They returned to the village only if.

We are connected to the mains, but we have everything you need to do completely without power, if necessary, or if we were so minded - and often we have. Turn off all the time, we use kerosene lamps (by the very short time when we need artificial light during the day), read and play on acoustic instruments instead of giving up the electronic entertainment. We do not use electricity for anything other than light, electronic gadgets and freezers. No clothes dryer, electric stove, heat pump or electric furnace, vacuum cleaners instead of brooms, etc. So the connection and / or electricity to the grid niepodłączenie anyway is not a particularly important point.

however you would-be independent farmers [ would be homesteaders ] are obsessed with the cut-off from the network and tinkering with all sorts of devices such as "inventions" Rube'a Goldberg [2], to stock up on something that the network could provide them for a penny, and without which, if necessary, could be dispensed with.

anyone who tries to lead self-sufficient life, advocate, not to let himself be fooled by the manic life cut off from the mains.

You write: "I just do not take into account to cope with such situations when he starts to think about returning to the countryside."

We think about it. You wrote that you have a little over two acres of land and thirteen goats? It is far too a lot! This operation of a farm on the way agrobiznesowy, delivered him from making the outside of the feed and - consequently - the reliance on someone from the outside, who feeds your goat, if you do not have.

You are quite the opposite. We now have two goats on thirteen acres and just write, what was at stake: if they both would have to leave for a month or two, goats perfectly able to cope alone. No one would have to deal with them one bit.

Indeed this thought.



[ Stephanie:]

RETY, I just discovered your blog - Is amazing! Also living in the southern part of West Virginia [...]

Our exit from Babylon began in 2002 ... We got rid of debts, and then moved to the suburban housing estates in the middle of Maryland requires an overhaul, but suitable for home residence situated in the southern part of West Virginia on ¼ acre [approximately 1000 sq m], which cost us $ 5,000 in cash, and even recently bought for cash (NO CREDIT!) Land on which the house stands, and we are working on going to the next stage, writhing nest and family In order to ensure the self-sufficiency. In our quarter of an acre we have chickens and a large garden ... at this stage we make every effort to best prepare for life without electricity and supermarket ... but I agree - it's all about freedom of choice! My husband has no "real" job, with a salary and boss, working from home and he is the boss, and the few bills that actually have to pay, I always manage to resolve ... But - unlike other - my husband has freedom of choice and the best part is that you can choose that will be at home with me and the children - and will, as it should, a father involved in the family ... today for most children is a rarity ...

Anyway: I love your blog ... I'll be back [...]



[ MojoMan :]

I had a great New England ice storm, and about one million people have the prospect of several days without electricity. Media reports focused, as usual, that helpless people have no electricity. Without heating, no lights, my God! - No TV! (Personally, I most worry about frozen and broken pipes). Most choose to somehow survive and calling your insurance company. (If you still manage to find a working phone without electricity.) A more determined to scour glowing empty shelves of DIY stores in search of generators. I never hear anyone talking about: "This helplessness and dependency is stupid. The device in my house so I could live peacefully and without electricity, when I wanted / needed. " The way in which current approaches to such matters, has always struck me as frightening and dangerous.

solutions in case of lack of light and heat are relatively obvious, but what you do / would you do with kept refrigerated / frozen food, when / if a few days you will be deprived of his power?

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TRANSLATOR ENDNOTES [1] Eleutheros (gr. ἐλεύθερος) - a free man.

[2] Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) - American engineer, inventor and artist. Known as the author of the drawings of devices designed in order to perform simple tasks in a very complicated way.

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Translation by:
Eleutheros, Choice, the Best Sauce , http://milesfrombabylon.blogspot.com/2008/10/choice-best-sauce.html

Choice, the Best Sauce published on the blog Eleutherosa How Many Miles from Babylon 15 October 2008