tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post7062238930155851541..comments2023-10-19T10:55:19.914-07:00Comments on Robert Bonomo's Blog: The Infomocracy Dilemma: Revolution or Disengagement?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-47544992685518736842017-06-17T10:43:40.195-07:002017-06-17T10:43:40.195-07:00I must thank you for thee efforts you have put in ...I must thank you for thee efforts you have put in writing his blog.<br />I am hoping to see thhe same high-grade content by you in the future as well.<br />In truth, your creative writing abilities has inspired me to get my own, personal blog now ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-209077071011050722014-01-23T02:53:21.756-08:002014-01-23T02:53:21.756-08:00PS: Words - all forms - can be used to deceive - ...PS: Words - all forms - can be used to deceive - while the desire to be deceived is active. Yet all forms are a carrier or vehicle for a quality of presence. learning to trust discernment is learning to abide in the heart, in the presence of a 'not knowing' that is open - and into which a wholeness of perception arises. Anything coercive can be felt from the innocence of such un-claimed presence - and can also be penetrated as to what is really moving through it.<br />When we hate the hater, we perpetrate a self-hatred yet know not what we do.<br />It has to stop somewhere, that all comes home and is healed of loveless intent. Now is always a good time to come home to a wholeness that one could never truly leave, but self-attack so asserts.<br />Gratitude to the article above - and to the willingness of others here for a the life that shares, communicates, knows and trusts its movement as equally unique with All That Is. A believed lack of true worth deprives us all of such presence - and searches in darkness for what cannot be found - because You Are It - but not specially, exclusively or separatingly so.<br />Brian Steerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18269991527964330855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-8740799629874881742014-01-23T02:53:00.000-08:002014-01-23T02:53:00.000-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Brian Steerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18269991527964330855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-36083236514277486762014-01-23T02:51:02.949-08:002014-01-23T02:51:02.949-08:00The 'problem' in its various threads rises...The 'problem' in its various threads rises from a split mind that looks 'outside' while neglecting or disregarding 'inside'.<br />The nature of Consciousness itself is largely lost or forgotten within the specific use of a portion of consciousness for the exercise of a personal or private sense of power over.<br />My essential point is that awakening responsibility as Consciousness cannot merely redistribute, rebrand or repackage 'problem' as if to keep it from coming home, and expect a true foundation to bring forth fruit in our lives.<br />One has to own that which is our own consciousness and let go the tricky mentality of acting out from what one is NOT - from a disconnected coercive mentality that disguises itself ingeniously to suit its needs and not your own good.<br />It is like a parasite - excepting it is fundamentally an aspect of self-definition that automatically distorts and replaces the fundamentally felt quality of shared existence, with a sense of fearful disconnection and powerlessness. Such is the seed of the psychological drive to power that each calls 'myself'.<br />If (amidst one's commons sense responsibilities) one uses the world as a mirror instead of a dumping ground, it reflects such as to illuminate negative self-definitions that resonate, attract, reinforce and propagate through actions rising from them.<br />Materialism is blind to the cause facet of the event facet - where both are two sides of a coin. It completely overlooks and is blind to the current cause/event in its obsession with solving the past in the future - which is the denial of the living present - where Consciousness is - and within which is everything that is - including current models of past and future.<br />I attempt to re-mind readers here of a perspective upon our construct of consciousness, for which we each have so much identification and attachment, that it is utterly defended against exposure yet locked into self-definitions that are destructive or self defeating.<br />This mentality is writ large on the screen of our world, where instead of role-playing within it, we can use it to awaken, if we choose.<br />Shifting from a fear-driven linear mentality back to a reintegrated conscious freedom of being is not understandable in terms of the old paradigm. One has to - in a sense - abandon the coercive or fearful guide as one opens to the embracing inclusive guide. Such communication occurs within us in ways that guide and support and illuminate our consciousness to ourselves in ways we each recognize and accept. There is no call to push or coerce anyone into any patterning just because it has been helpful to our self. The truly connected do not need to reinforce self-belief by 'selling it', but can serve that process of willingness to reopen such connection in others.<br />The presence that is non-coercive communicates a tangible quality of knowing and being known - by doing nothing that would interrupt such a natural fulfilment of being. The attempt to puff up or magnify presence as a coercion upon life costs us our Soul-connecting awareness - and all the perspective, guidance and support that is integral to such awareness.<br />So in a sense, the message is initially stark and to the point:<br />"PUT THE GUN DOWN!". This shout is whispered within us from the gentlest peace of our being - that would take nothing from us nor deny us anything we choose. But if we begin to discern such an inner calling to abandon coercive will, so will a perspective be revealed in which we see we did not want it, nor does it give us what we want, but is blocking or destructive to our peace and our capacity for love and life shared. In THIS we have chosen differently, not as a mentality, but choosing to abandon a mentality as a frame of reference.Brian Steerehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18269991527964330855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-78140523985826507192014-01-05T12:11:59.787-08:002014-01-05T12:11:59.787-08:00Here is a comment I made on another blog (Naked Ca...Here is a comment I made on another blog (Naked Capitalism) which applies to this discussion:<br /><br />http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/michael-sandel-moral-limits-markets.html#comment-1801578<br /><br />mansoor h. khan<br />January 5, 2014 at 6:24 am<br />Jim said:<br />“it time to analyze the nature of culture as well as the nature of money.”<br /><br />Westerners need to to learn (re-learn) how to think “spiritually” in order to understand their current predicament.<br /><br />There exists a spiritual cycle that all civilizations go through and have done so since recorded history. This is discussed in detail by Oswald spengler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_Spengler, http://www.meta-future.org/uploads/7/7/3/2/7732993/oswald_spengler_in_macrohistory_and_macrohistorians_5_2_2013.pdf). And recently discussed by John Michael Greer in his blog (http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/).<br /><br />The spiritual cycle is something like this at a very high level:,<br /><br />1) Starting from Chaos, developing Myth and Religion begin to bind people together because these provide a faith based moral foundation. Very often myth and religion involves belief in and redemption in afterlife (as in Elysian fields in the old roman empire or numerous lives in Hinduism). But strangely enough not all religions (of the past) required belief in afterlife. Although, they did require belief in the unseen spirits and spiritual world and law of karma (or similar idea) in some shape or form.<br /><br />2) binding leads to social cooperation and much more social order and rule of law and increase peace. Increased Peace leads to increased use of the rational mind and rise of mathematics and science and engineering and better management methods and ultimately leading to an empire and much greatly increased rate of material production.<br /><br />3) This is when people begin to fall in love with this world (as opposed to the spiritual world). Love of science and rationality casts myth and religion aside as “untrue” but sometimes useful.<br /><br />4) Selfishness and the love of money and power rises. Hedonism rises. Nihilism rises. Relativism becomes the dominant mode of thinking. Eventually leading to Mad max and Chaos as infighting increases and lies increase in size and effectiveness.<br /><br />5) Eventually love of this world (as opposed to the love of the spiritual world, truth and knowledge) leads to total chaos and material production falls greatly and life becomes very difficult without some conception of spiritual world and belief in the spiritual world and eventual cosmic redemption and justice.<br /><br />6) Myth and Religion return (sometimes with a vengence!). Spengler calls this the second religiosity. Conception of spiritual world and belief in the spiritual world becomes a “survival advantage” giving its believers spiritual strength to endure the low material consumption life. Community feeling increases among believers leading to a more satisfying life.<br /><br />7) And the cycle continues… developing Myth and Religion begin to bind people together again…<br /><br />Mansoor H. KhanMansoor Hasan Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278225203171262545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-5596883343823863772014-01-02T11:09:32.802-08:002014-01-02T11:09:32.802-08:00"Only work itself can liberate us, preferable..."Only work itself can liberate us, preferable for its own sake. " Absolutely YES!<br />Work makes free. A much vilified revolutionary group of the past understood this. Not gold, not silver should back our money only the productivity and integrity of the nation can insure sound money. The rascals must be relieved of their post.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-88393757262680620062014-01-02T11:05:07.171-08:002014-01-02T11:05:07.171-08:00"Only work itself can liberate us, preferable..."Only work itself can liberate us, preferable for its own sake. " Absolutely YES!<br />Work makes free. A much vilified revolutionary group of the past understood this. Not gold, not silver should back our money only the productivity and integrity of the nation can insure sound money. The rascals must be relieved of their post.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-56861532146427461692012-06-10T23:13:18.431-07:002012-06-10T23:13:18.431-07:00Many good points in this article. Also, completely...Many good points in this article. Also, completely agree about the absurdity of free money. Those that propose it must think it to its logical conclusion. Money must have underlying tangible value and cannot be created by fiat. Dispensing money not backed by tangible property destroys all incentive to produce since production cannot compete with generation of "free paper wealth".<br />In Wiemar republic they had wheelbarrows of money, all worthless because no producer would expend hard assets and labor in exchange for fiat garbage free money that no one wanted. Items of real value disappear from markets and everything goes underground with "free money" and enforced "currency controls".<br />Money must be backed by something that cannot be multiplied/inflated by a parasite monopoly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-33839728385247132982011-12-10T19:38:46.161-08:002011-12-10T19:38:46.161-08:00Kinda of Continuation of My earlier comment:
It i...Kinda of Continuation of My earlier comment:<br /><br />It is so wonderful to see America interested in something other than Football and Basketball. I have waited for this "awakening" all my life.<br /><br />Ian McGilchrist this issue from a non-religious angle:<br /><br />“McGhilchrist observes that early on in a culture’s development (e.g. Greek, Roman, Post Renaissance Western ), a balance between the hemispheric modes of processing creates genuinely innovative and vibrant cultural progress”<br /><br />McGhilchrist claiming that western society is not creating “genuinely innovative and vibrant cultural progress”?<br /><br />Here is how I see the requirements for “genuinely innovative and vibrant cultural progress”<br /><br />1. Right brain’s goal should be infinity (eternal life, eternal peace, infinite knowledge, eternal harmony, infinite beauty, infinite love, infinite abundance of everything good, infinite justice, etc.)<br /><br />2. The Left brain should serve the above goal the best it can in this material world. As our knowledge increases (of course the right brain and left brain work together to increase knowledge). But it is the right brain which comes up with new ideas/models and the left brain performs the laboratory experiment to determine if the new idea will achieve the goal (point number #1 above). The left brain is the “implementer”. The right brain is however the judge and judges if the “new construction” in the material world has come a step closer to the goal stated in point number one above.<br /><br />3. For proper “motivation” the right brain must believe that #1 is possible! It must envision heaven and really believe it exists.<br /><br />4. The right brain knows that the goal cannot be reached in this world but that is ok because death is just a “phase transition”.<br /><br />more at http://liminalhack.wordpress.com/2011/02/06/devils-advocate/#comment-193<br /><br />Also:<br /><br />Here is how I see the left/right stuff:<br /><br />Left:<br /><br />1. Logical and Disciplined<br />2. Helps us to deal with the material world (hunger, need for water, shelter, etc.)<br />3. Embodies Discipline (the goods and services production process, the Judicial System, the Military)<br />4. Embodies physics and physical laws<br />5. Uses strict hierarchy<br />6. This is the focus of the old testament (eye for an eye!)<br />7. Symbolized by the Roman Empire and focus of Greek thought<br />8. Symbolized by the state (as opposed to the individual!)<br />9. Embodies submission and compliance (Opposite of freedom!)<br />10. Cold, strict and impersonal (opposite of warm, flexible and forgiving!)<br />11. Focuses on this life (as opposed to a possible after life!)<br />12. Has a difficult time with coming up with new models or theories or ways of solving problems<br />13. The left brain will take a civilization over a cliff when the civilization encounters a problem requiring adjustment to the models executing (like a computer executes code) in the left brain if not restrained by the more “flexible” right brain<br /><br />Right:<br /><br />1. Creative and Imaginative and Artistic<br />2. Able to come up with fresh approaches, new models and new theories and new ways of thinking about the natural world<br />3. Embodies emotion (love and hate), falling in love, patriotism, empathy, motivation<br />4. Is able to increase the spirit, the desire to live, the desire to fight, the desire to carry on<br />5. Is able to conceive of infinity (in time and space) and even in power (able to conceive omnipotence)<br />6. Wants to procreate (one way to defeat death in a sense!)<br />7. This is the focus of the New Testament (mercy and forgiveness!)<br />8. Symbolized by the Persian Empire and focus of much of eastern thought<br />9. Focuses on the individual and freedom of the individual<br />10. Is in control of person’s free will<br />11. Is able to conceive of and focus on after life<br /><br />I will go a step further and say that:<br /><br />It is the right brain which guides and teaches the left brain. But left helps to keep the right nourished and healthy on the physical level.<br /><br />Mansoor H. KhanMansoor Hasan Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278225203171262545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-73204632867288634472011-12-10T19:14:08.042-08:002011-12-10T19:14:08.042-08:00Robert Bonomo,
Yes. A return to spirituality is t...Robert Bonomo,<br /><br />Yes. A return to spirituality is the key. One thousand years ago the west was the opposite of what it is now (shun the world, focus only on spirituality, it was a "bad" thing to be a businessman, the best thing to do was to be a monk, logic and reasoning was considered to be in conflict with faith).<br /><br />Thomas Aquinas changed that. He proclaimed: "There is no conflict between faith and reason."<br /><br />This is how the West's March to less-spirituality started.<br /><br />It was not Greece -- Rome -- Enlightenment.<br /><br />It was:<br /><br />Greece - Rome - Collapse of Rome - Rise of Christianity - Reformation of the Church - back to Greece with ever lesser and lesser Christianity as time has passed on (which is of course the problem). The balance between focus on this world vs. focus on the next world was not maintained in the west. <br /><br />It is now the job of the Muslims to help Christians focus back on God (How ironic?). <br /><br />It was the Muslim Civilization which inspired Thomas Aquinas to help re-balance Christianity to be "more involved in the world" and not shun the world.<br /><br />Irony of ironies Islam will help the west get back on track to god (inshallah).<br /><br />Mansoor H. KhanMansoor Hasan Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278225203171262545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-16804233815588439382011-12-10T19:00:46.564-08:002011-12-10T19:00:46.564-08:00Here is how the banker's game works:
http://a...Here is how the banker's game works:<br /><br />http://aquinums-razor.blogspot.com/2011/11/here-is-how-bankers-game-works.htmlMansoor Hasan Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278225203171262545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-90706307296046248312011-11-26T06:30:54.887-08:002011-11-26T06:30:54.887-08:00"Many look at the twentieth century as a time..."Many look at the twentieth century as a time of great economic and technical advance, but history, while recognizing the the technical innovation, will condemn this century as the most vile in man’s history. The miracle that began in Greece, expanded in Rome, flourished in the Renaissance & Enlightenment and finally found its modern form in the western liberal democracy has been been gutted by a century of materialism, enslavement, slaughter and greed."<br /><br />Amen.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-37768205508511610742011-11-08T18:02:09.984-08:002011-11-08T18:02:09.984-08:00Hi Robert, Nice blog you have. I liked this paragr...Hi Robert, Nice blog you have. I liked this paragraph best : "The enlightened conscious man needs no school to raise his children, no church to know his God, no banker to validate his work and no government to choose his enemies. He is free to do as he pleases, when he pleases and how he pleases....etc"<br /><br />Not so certain that free money is absurd. It's just a hard idea to think about when we are so heavily conditioned towards the present view of money. David Graeber's, 'Debt, the first 5000 years' opens up thinking on that subject.wolfbirdhttp://uncivilisation.ning.com/profile/wolfbirdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-57835152857202185592011-11-06T15:16:09.696-08:002011-11-06T15:16:09.696-08:00A very thoughtful piece there, Robert. I quite agr...A very thoughtful piece there, Robert. I quite agree with you that 'enlightend disengagement' is the free-flowing ideological concept to promote.<br />To disengage, tune out, and block the daily propagandized scripture presentations of the media from one's leisure time.<br />To seek the resonances in daily life that make one happy or content actually slims down the once thought necessary things in life...a simple change of stimuli that revitalizes curiosity in one, and replaces the venetian-like carnival mask society forces us all to wear. I am not at home the person I am at work.<br />At work, I am an automaton, programmed and unveering of the script, lest I lose my income. At home the mask comes off, the door shuts and I am in my personal vacuum, protected from societal lies and corruption. Others go home, and the mask stays on, with windows wide open, and the silver screened box smiling orwellian.<br />My country will be the last to fall, because its people are addicted to their serfdom, have been so for centuries; and alsthough the chance came 300 years ago to follow the process which your own country and that of France underwent at that time, the fear of losing their chains kept them still and silent.<br />These really are times that try men's souls.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-71456585046326216372011-10-31T17:09:10.794-07:002011-10-31T17:09:10.794-07:00@R. Bonomo
Hope you're right. He faces perso...@R. Bonomo <br /><br />Hope you're right. He faces personal danger if he wins!lonegrangernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-60566947730613822392011-10-31T16:24:40.734-07:002011-10-31T16:24:40.734-07:00Dr. Paul is like one of those magical horses you p...Dr. Paul is like one of those magical horses you put all your money on, in the last race, and just as you are ready to turn for the door, you realize he is in third place coming into the home stretch, and closing in quickly on number two. You grit your teeth and hope.<br /><br />Bachmann, then Perry, and now Cain, all burned out quickly, just as the veteran medical man would have wanted. Does the national media have the stones to put on a debate between Mitt Romney and Dr. Paul on national television? Americans are not as gullible as they would like to think, and when people realize that Ron Paul's strongest supporters are the Occupy Wall Street folks, out the window goes their two party, divide and conquer charade. This fight ain't over, time to do a quick shot and jump in.Robert Bonomohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12180418871868488980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-16048745237249614822011-10-31T14:57:36.585-07:002011-10-31T14:57:36.585-07:00PPS. You, the author, obviously read these comment...PPS. You, the author, obviously read these comments. Perhaps you might speculate on the World According to Paul! <br /><br />He has some some mighty powerful ideas. Rumors regarding Kennedy would suggest that Paul's future may similarly not be very bright or long! <br /><br />A shame!!lonegrangernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-2048647744611965012011-10-31T14:48:49.441-07:002011-10-31T14:48:49.441-07:00How surprising! Most of he comments that you recei...How surprising! Most of he comments that you receive reveal that Anonymous still lives, embedded in the invention of another. <br /><br />It's hard to let go.lonegrangernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-4626618707174349262011-10-31T14:35:07.946-07:002011-10-31T14:35:07.946-07:00Nice article. Not new to me...been living an "...Nice article. Not new to me...been living an "enlightened disengaged" life as described for my entire sixty thirteen years. It has been excessively rewarding.<br /><br />Humans are typically herd animals except for the odd ten percent as noted. While noting, note that that ten percent, under human(e) husbandry, are usually "neutralized". <br /><br />History proves, that only a seminal event will instigate relevant change. <br /><br />Whatever occurs, let us hope that our humanity is regained.lonegrangernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-76568802121310397412011-10-31T04:39:24.565-07:002011-10-31T04:39:24.565-07:00“Why is there a world ‘economic’ crisis? Is it a ...“Why is there a world ‘economic’ crisis? Is it a lack of able-bodied workers, natural resources, factories, or infrastructure? Absolutely not. It's a lack of liquidity and/or too much debt”<br />Our fiat paper currencies are a debt to the private central bank that prints them.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01939745431788252487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-57366042600584315352011-10-22T15:59:29.012-07:002011-10-22T15:59:29.012-07:00http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/22/us-euroz...http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/22/us-eurozone-idUSTRE79I0IC20111022Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-43553388859885057702011-10-21T03:23:57.377-07:002011-10-21T03:23:57.377-07:00Why don't you get into Wilhelm Reich and Syste...Why don't you get into Wilhelm Reich and Systems Thinking and System Dynamics?<br />The structures, no the overused and very simple word "System," includes ALL OF US. So blaming others, like they do in soccer when one team is wining and slow the game or throw balls out of the field, is already a complete deception of the (stupid and perverse) human nature, unlike the normal nature is simply implacable but no perverse (like the Human Nature.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-77886311012865960462011-10-19T00:33:24.563-07:002011-10-19T00:33:24.563-07:00Jeeze, between these great, inspiring articles and...Jeeze, between these great, inspiring articles and the quality comments after each article too (like Fred's just above mine here), I told all my friends to read this article especially, more than once. There's almost too much to soak in, not to mention that's all I could think about for some hours after reading it. Anyway, it's nice to know the name of about the only actual "religion" I've been practicing now for some years. You called it "enlightened disengagement". I don't know about the enlightened part (in my case) but it sure sounds good. I'm glad I found this place. Thanks....Chuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17154617293024788088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-86182243718223237322011-10-15T04:49:41.634-07:002011-10-15T04:49:41.634-07:00Thank you for a great article! I also came from Le...Thank you for a great article! I also came from Les' Petri Dish. I agree with most of what you write, but I have a problem with the "follow all laws and pay all taxes" part of it. For me to have a pleasant life right NOW, and have the opportunity to help people, I can not follow all laws and pay all taxes. I see the point in not giving the authorities any reason to put you in jail or steal your assets. Just don't break any serious laws, but only those necessary to make life a little easier. Things to small to go to jail. If everyone just broke the laws they did not agree with, like some already do, we would at least act like free people. Not children afraid to get disiplined. Big Brother watching is a lie in one way, because we are just to many people to all be constantly monitored. Don't poke your head out. They will never catch you, except if you are unlucky or ratted out. To investigate is very costly, think about a detectives wages. Be smart and understand the system, and support yourself, friend and family, without getting to visible to the authorities. Be ethical not lawful. Don't steal from people or rob people, provide a service or product of the grid. Let the gut feeling guide you. You can be free, but that means you have to be smart, because you must deal with the consequenses of your actions. Be a sophisticated criminal. No law. No crime. <br /><br />Love and Light!!!Freddamedgjeddahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12584912032613153971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-715990029157220962.post-50808444486001940322011-10-14T13:49:50.022-07:002011-10-14T13:49:50.022-07:00Thank you for this most thoughtful and thought pro...Thank you for this most thoughtful and thought provoking analysis.<br />I think that throwing the TV out would be almost 80% of any change necessary.<br />I'll leave the solution to the economic mess to others more qualified, but Bill Still has a very enticing argument for debtless government issued money, following up with non-fractional reserve banking. He's apparently to be a Libertarian candidate.<br />On the whole, I agree with the drop-out solution.<br />Know your neighbors, grow some food, volunteer in your community, spend only what you have.<br />On a more comfortable note, I found 5 of my faves on your list of music selections, so you must be have a pretty good spirit in my eyes!<br />Great read, thanks for the energy!<br />Landed from Les' Petri DishAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com