Posted on 05/03/2025 10:00:33 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
So, supposing Covid was practice for the strongly encouraged adoption of Real ID, without which “no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name … or the number”?
So, supposing that starvation in Sri Lanka due to the utopian mandate of impractical organic farming was practice for intentional restriction of the food supply, coincidental with a managed crash of the world economic system?
If food got to be a very big issue, so that the most pressing question became, “where does food come from?” (the store), what would be the “Farm & Factory 101” you would want to know, 150 years after deliberate dumbing down in our families’ education. “We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity, in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.” – Woodrow Wilson
A pattern of development can be triangulated between something called “Enclosure” in the history of late medieval England, and the closing of the American West. In the dark ages Western Europe was wild land, in contrast with the high civilization of Byzantium. Monks like the Benedictines developed land reclamation practices of forests and swamps, helping foster what we somewhat mistakenly call Feudalism—that’s merely the upper crust, the relationship of military duties owed by the minor lords, the Squires, and the higher lords, the Barons. A better description is the Manorial system, in which the warrior class in the Manor house supplies protection to the serfs, and is owed the best share of the land and some yearly labor, but each peasant has a share of some of the best, and, against the conventional meme, actually enjoys protection in serfdom, in that their families can’t be broken up and they can’t be sold.
Zoom over to the late middle ages. The sharp operators started to monetize the value of rents, figuring how they could get out of 90 year leases and convert payment in labor and crops into hard gold. This was accelerated by the international trade in wool, from England to Italy. Under the claim that it was necessary to control which pastures animals could graze on, the land was enclosed with fencing, the peasants lost their ancient inviolable rights and were eventually driven into the cottage industries in which the finished goods buyers also sold the supplies, and became in effect The Company Store. The lot of the poorest became worst during the industrial revolution, as described by Charles Dickens in numerous books of popular literature, with 18 hour days, child workers tending dangerous machines, and the rich advocating that unsellable finished products be burned on the docks to keep the poor under control. (It is claimed serfs only worked 150 days per year due to mandatory days off for Church holy days.)
At about the time the industrial revolution was at its height, the American West was still opening up, with some encouragement to take on the dire task, fight or fail, of developing the wilderness into new farm lands, with the subsistence farmer doing everything, consuming virtually all his produce himself with very little barter of any scant excess of agricultural commodities, and possession of money extremely rare. Prior to the Civil War, when 97% of the population were engaged in the pursuit of agriculture, the ideal was self-employment on wholly-owned farms, true agrarianism—you produced everything your family consumed—without any participation in a money economy, only barter, from your own excess agricultural production, for items beyond self-production, perhaps a plow you couldn’t forge for yourself. This started to break up about 1840 with the extension west of the railroads.
Abraham Lincoln addressed the issue of farm labor economics in his 1859 “Mudsill Address” before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. Young people closely shadowed their parents in learning all aspects of farming, identifying totally with their parents, marrying young and living the hard agrarian life. (They would be amazed by public schooling’s rigorously enforced age-ghettos, of rootless young people who can’t help each other develop an adult identity, beyond what is marketed to them by enormous corporations.)
A researcher studied the simple work diary of a Yankee farmer from 1775-1795. If one his journal entries for a certain date was “made a barrel”, he had to have pre-cured the raw wooden staves in a curved shape, perfectly planed the curved pieces in the shape of waterproof staves, planed with water-tight fitting. Meanwhile, he had to forge the two bands at either end, but their shape would have to be slightly flared with a curve. Then he fit the wooden ends, and made a bung-hole and a wooden tap. In an industrial economy, he would be considered a journeyman. But on the farm where “you did everything”, this task that would have given him the name “cooper” was only one of 200 “vocations” which he was qualified to practice. His sons would have trained with him, on the expectation that they would become self-employed on farms they wholly owned; they would not be confined to a soul-prison with rootless kids of their own age who couldn’t tell each other who they were, they would be sure of their identities. But instead, their great-great-great grandsons, having been dispossessed of their inheritance at the close of the Civil War by the tax-man and Wall St., the common class forced into industrial work, would have the “life vocation” of turning a single nut on an automotive assembly line, every 8 seconds for 12-16 hours per day, six days per week, no vacations.
Out on the farm, young people’s expected life path was to acquire a wholly owned, independent spread for themselves, on which they would answer to no one. Names of remnant communities today with a continuing, strong ethos of self-employment, necessarily involving the freedom of young adolescents to spread their wings, are the North American Amish and the Spanish Catalan/Basque Mondragon Commune. The walls began to close in during the Civil War, with the draft serving to wrest the family father away from the family still on the farm, with the taxmen and bankers waiting in the wings to send them all off to factories.
These developments were in accord with calculated legislative policy supported by Wall St. and The City of London to foster a ready supply of labor to the rapidly expanding industrial sector. For several generations newly urbanized people retained the image of being able to rough it going back to the farm if times got tough. After world wars and the G.I. Bill, there was a complete break with the idea of self reliance.
There has been some surviving agrarian activity since the 1960s, but most city dwellers wouldn’t be willing to endure the dawn-to-dusk, endless drudgery of chores.
It would take a complete upheaval of the existing economic structure to start again on a more sound sustenance foundation, but the masters of the universe already have wars, revolutions, crashes and now, plagues and famines, ready to handle such necessities.
In 1978, Soviet geologists stumbled upon the Lykova family of five in the Siberian taiga. They had been cut off from almost all human contact since fleeing religious persecution in 1936.
The Star Wars epic begins with the image of Luke Skywalker tending to agricultural androids on a remote planet.
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Did some of them aim for SUBDUING the masses by using constant FEAR and PROPAGANDA? All signs point to YES.
Darn autocorrect
The Real ID act was signed in 2005. We were being required to fulfill it in my state before Covid was even in the news.
The original deadline was 2008, why did they need covid?
“Eventually states began to comply in 2012, and enforcement based on the issuing state or territory began from 2014 to 2018 depending on the facility. After numerous extensions, by 2020, all states were certified as compliant”
When I was in HS during the reign of LBJ, immigration was an issue - even then.
I often told my friends that the only solution was a “National ID card” - one that you would be required to carry at all times when outside of your own home.
They laughed.
Translated into German, this sounds like:
zeigen Sie mir Ihre Papiere, Bürger … Jetzt!
Nobody is laughing now.
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