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This Christmas I was rather remiss with messaging people and wishing them a Happy Christmas and New Year. Mostly because I focused on doing the things that needed doing for my family to have a relaxed time over the holidays.
On Christmas day we basically didn’t even get out of out PJs and just watched the kids go nuts with their presents, which thanks to my wife was a literal mountain of odds and ends. She also got me some nice tops and colognes.
She wanted to go crazy with Christmas dinner but I finally managed to break through the usual female delusion that whatever they imagine is reality —the five small crazy people running around the house helped of course— they tend to break through most self-inflicted delusions of blissful parenting, and she finally realised no one cared for a specific Christmas dinner as she envisioned it, and everyone was happier just chilling out and eating random stuff and pigging out on panettone and biscuits. Including her since she did not have to stress herself out making an elaborate dinner.
The point of all this is that with our phones mostly ignored and just normal, in real life stuff going on, it was really quite awesome.
My eldest daughter taught the 4 and 5 year old to play the card game go fish. The littlest one (she’s just turned 2) got a baby Yoda stuffed toy that she absolutely loves, because she has been addicted to watching the Mandalorian. She literally likes it more than anyone else except maybe the little viking, but even he does not follow the plot as much as she does.
I even managed to read a couple of pages of one of the books that has been on my bedside for the last six months.
But above all, this time has driven home deeply how artificial most of our lives have become.
We are not meant to spend 8-13 hours a day sitting at a desk shuffling electrons from one spreadsheet and email to another poor bastard in some other office doing the same. And even if you are earning millions, which most people in that situation are absolutely not, you can’t enjoy it really. So you may have the nice house and the big cars, and the two week holiday in Bora-Bora, but IF you have children, they are being raised by strangers and you see them less than those strangers do. They are spending hours and hours and hours a day being indoctrinated in ways you don’t even realise are control mechanisms. Like for example, if one kid keeps bugging you and shoving you, and you punch them right in the mouth, that now means you’re a bad kid. Which of course is complete bullshit. And when they are small what do they really learn? What do they really need? They need to be able to rear, write and do math well.
All the rest they can learn faster and deeper at home and without any of the nonsense. You can certainly interest any kid in the Roman empire, or the real history of Christianity, or the (real) reasons for WWI and WWII along with the politically acceptable version to skate by the zombies that still outnumber us.
All while showing them also how to drive a tractor, recognise different plants and animals, teaching them how to track and hunt, cook, keep house, use a spreadsheet to keep track of things, figure out how to survey a piece of land, deal with things like bills and figuring out stuff they never teach you in school. Especially things related to alternative energy sources and so on, as well as classical physics and chemistry. Certainly everything taught at elementary school can be better done at home by any reasonably educated parent that is working as a farmer at home, all while playing/working at the daily things that you need to do on any farm.
And is farm life hard? It sure is.
It’s certainly not for anyone wanting an easy life without physical effort, and it certainly isn’t the idyllic and easy life that pretend-homesteaders on YouTube would have you believe. Especially the ones who in reality have other income which is actually what they really live on.
Even the ones that are not flat out lying about how they live, what they grow and where their food come from, can, inadvertently and unintentionally, give a false impression to people who simply have no concept of how life works when you are really trying to live off the land as your main source of income.
Despite all this, if you plan a little ahead, it is without a doubt a more satisfying way to live than most.
The main issues are to reduce any recurring costs, which means things like land taxes (in the USA at least), electricity and water bills, any recurring services like phones or internet costs, petrol, gas, diesel, and of course the basics of food.
After that, even if you did have enough space and know-how to raise animals, say some chickens and a couple of pigs for butchering and say a few goats too, the maintenance to keep them fed, alive, and protected from predators is not nothing.
And the food you might grow is dependent on the weather and many other factors that are often out of your control.
The ideal situation is you having the property with no debt, some regular income that hopefully is from passive income, and enough savings to tide you over while you learn how to make yourself more self-sufficient. Even then, emergencies or sudden injuries or illness can wipe out your safety margin quite instantly.
These are all realities you need to face and some of them that you didn’t consider will hit you too. And keep in mind that in my professional opinion, being a farmer is at least as dangerous as being a full time martial arts student or instructor in terms of potential injuries, and more dangerous than being a professional bodyguard.
Despite all this, if you manage to make yourself self-sufficient and essentially able to survive even in the event of the proverbial zombie apocalypse, you will be part of a new kind of “elite”, that is, people who no longer need to rely on the conventional dictates of those who run this world through fiat money, bureaucracy, blackmail and force.
The plan is to become immune from the pressure of fiat money first (hopefully you are immune from blackmail as long as you’re not a child rapist on film like many so-called hollywood “stars”), then organise to take over the local bureaucracy so you become immune from rules that you can avoid or countermand officially (or the other way around, whichever you can do first) which is why settling in small hamlets out if the way and populated by like-minded people is step one.
Eventually, if you are successful, force too will be brought to bear on your community, so plan ahead and remember that a smaller but determined force with skin in the game almost always can resist a larger force that is mandated by people and reasons that are completely disconnected from the people on the ground supposed to execute them.
So, yes, real life is “harder” than living online and being a wage slave. But really… is it?
Only you can answer that question, and ultimately it answers the question as to wether you are the type that prefers a gilded cage over your own freedom.
And just like on the dojo floor, all your words and social media posts mean absolutely nothing when compared to the physical reality of your actions. Or lack thereof.
As usual, the point is always the same: Know Yourself.
And if you are a wage-slave type, just admit it and stop lying to yourself.
And if you are not, nothing they do will be able to keep you down anyway, so my posts will hopefully just save you time and effort in terms of what to prepare for and what to avoid.
We are having a very nice one and I wish all my readers, whether they read here for pleasure, as fans, or even as haters, a very happy Christmas too, and a joyous 2025.
May all the evil doers who harm little children, and there are sadly too many such people in the world, suffer a lingering and painful death too.
This substack article here covers quite a lot of the current state of affairs with regard to the latest weapon that you would need to be aware of in the event of war or even just “skirmish/guerrilla” level “troubles”, namely: Drones.
Any serious conflict has now made almost all infantry obsolete if you have enough drones.
Pretty soon, it may well be which side has more murderbots to throw at the other side that wins. All the humans involved may well just become collateral damage.
Philip K Dick in one of his short stories basically had predicted an Earth where the murderbots, in all their guises, including looking like humans for some types, had essentially wiped out humanity and the story ends with one of them basically flying off to the Moon, where the last human colony exists. The murderbots can replicate themselves or build other types, so once you get one in an area… they multiply.
Add a bit of bioweapons warfare, nanobots and so on, and well… before you can hope for your AR or even sniper rifle to become useful again, you may have to wait for a really large solar flare, or the total collapse of civilisation long enough that the murderbots fall into disrepair through lack of maintenance. Of course… how you live that long, except maybe by being underground behind blast doors, Fallout style or Paranoia RPG style for those of us that are old enough to recall pen and paper roleplaying Games and the hilarious (but very murderous) Alpha Complex run by your friendly Alpha Complex Computer, is anyone’s guess.
So… along with learning terrain, map-reading and so on, you also want to learn how to hide your thermal signature (hint: An umbrella does wonders, but forget having ANY electronic devices on you at all), use your own drones and drone-making skills, and maybe, even “invent” a drone killer gun, electronics jammer and so on. Though military drones are unlikely to be stopped by anything a civilian can put together, and using such devices may well give your position away for miles.
I am not technical enough to really give you much advice beyond: Build an underground shelter you can hide in that is deep enough to survive basic bombs. And maybe do a rain-dance for hail and solar flares, as you sharpen your sword in preparation for a return to medieval times after the last automated gunpowder factories fall into disrepair.
In fact, his whole Substack is pretty cool. And his points in that post are absolutely worth keeping in mind.
And in case you want to take part in an really fun and funny idea that used to actually happen in the 1980s, you might want to get together with a bunch of friends and play this role playing game.
Then you might want to make it even more entertaining by using the actual terrain you find yourself in to play it out as a LARP. That is, an actual Live Action Role Play. The way you would do this is NOT by running around with actual guns, obviously, but rather, use say your phone camera to take a picture of the “enemy”. If the person has a body part that falls exactly in the centre of a cross that is the middle of your photograph (draw a cross on your screen if you need to in some way that rubs off) then they could be considered to have been “sniped”. Or if they get in their car and you had taped a piece of paper with written on it “bomb” and they drive off, you could be considered to have achieved a kill on your enemy.
You can, of course, play this game with unsuspecting strangers without molesting anyone, as long as you don’t break any laws, you could take a picture of “enemy combatants” (say anyone wearing any item of clothing that is red) to show your friends you achieved a hit, then delete the image. Or possibly only indicate to your friends how you would avoid or engage such “enemies” by your movements. All done without acting in ways that disturb people who have better things to do than get annoyed by people running around playing at “war” (but really learning some important things about reality even as you play).
Today, you could use similar gaming principles to practice reading maps, hiking over terrain and learning how to move about in your local area with a view towards being a small unit in a civil war scenario.
Silly as the idea may sound… are you really telling me such an exercise would not be:
A) Educational, and
B) Hilarious
Because you know it would be both. So what are you waiting for? Start practicing, because learning as you play is the way you REALLY learn.
Vox put up a good post on Putin’s Presidential Q&A. It’s worth reading because it is useful to drive points that should be obvious by now home.
Nothing that is in Vox’s post is news to me, nor has it been for a long time, in fact, far linger than I have known Vox. But his post certainly helped to bring into sharp focus for me something that I have been in essence writing about in one way or another for decades, and it is this: the big picture of things really is quite simple.
There are events from my life that stuck out and are remembered sharply even fifty years later. Many are related to shocking or unusual events but a few are rooted in the very reality we inhabit on this planet. Specifically, I recall how since the age of four to about seven, I tried repeatedly to make sense of the concept of money, and how as a child I simply could not make sense of it at all.
The whole thing seemed absurd and fake to me, and although I eventually did what everyone else does, except I did it at about age seven: give up and assume it must be too complicated for me to grasp. But the truth is precisely the opposite.
The whole concept of fiat money is absurd. It is literally invented out of thin air (and sustained by literally nothing) by a bunch of predatory, and largely also child raping perverts, to enslave humanity. And yes, I know that sounds “unhinged” —especially if you working finance yourself, right? And yet… anyone who takes the time to look into it knows I am simply stating an undeniable fact.
Fiat money has no bearing on logic, reason, justice or fairness of any kind. It is an entirely vicious, evil, and predatory controlling mechanism that we have all somehow been fooled, cajoled, ultimately forces into accepting as “the way things are”, as if it was as normal as needing to drink water and breathe air to live. But it is a complete fiction and absolutely not required to exist at all for anything we have now and indeed more and better things to exist too.
Even without getting into other esoteric concepts for which a blog post is not the place, if we just shifted to a gold standard again, it would be a major improvement.
Which is why anyone who tried it in living memory ends up having their entire country “liberated” by USA carpet bombing, colour revolutions and the death of the guy proposing it as a vicious dictator.
We could even improve on the gold standard too, with my fractionating value of gold concept, which could be related to a generic global population index adjusted yearly. This means the value of gold would fluctuate yearly on the basis of the overall global population. More people and each fraction of gold becomes more valuable. Leas people and it drops in value.
The idea being that the total amount of gold on the planet is eventually finite, and you could say that each human being could on average use say 10 million dollars of value over a lifetime, and if we assume a total of 8 billion people, that would mean the total value of the gold on Earth needs to be 10,000,000 x 8,000,000,000 = 80 quadrillion dollars. The total amount of gold currently mined and excavated on Earth is approximately 200,000 tons, so each gram of gold should have a value of 400,000 dollars. Sounds like a lot? Not really. Many people use up a lot more than 10 million dollars in their lives. And you can always fractionate the gold. So you have various gold deposits (some “banks” that is really a central fort knox type place with extreme security but also total transparency – think live cameras and open book accounting online globally) that stores people’s or even governments gold, and issues digital currency that is measured in micrograms (one microgram would be worth 40 cents in this example).
At any time a person can go to one of the “banks” (really just holding secure places that have no other function) and retrieve whatever weight of gold they are able to (say a minimum of a gram for ease of things). More importantly, anyone has the right to verify each “bank” really has exactly the amount of gold they are issuing digital currency for on each customer’s behalf.
Such a system would also have to instantly do away with usury, which is the favourite weapon of the parasites feeding on the rest of the human race currently.
Anyway…
You see how my thought about money as a four to seven year old was in fact correct, and how with another 20 years or so of life experience, one could easily describe a system that is simple to understand, fair, and would absolutely work.
Yes, I came up with this system by age 26. I never published it officially as I figured doing so at the time in any meaningfully public way might be unhealthy. After all, I am from the generation that saw what happened to the guy who posted the original essay titled Assassination Politics.
And that’s the thing. If you are just able to ignore the lies and reason things out for yourself, all the big political and economic “issues” are childishly simple to understand and correct.
They might be extremely difficult to put in practice, but not because of any intrinsic difficulty beyond the fact that the current pedovores in charge would absolutely murder you and whole nations to prevent so much as the ideas, never mind the implementations of these things.
The other thing that struck me as a seven year old was the concept of indeed free trade and specifically import/export of goods. I still recall out elementary school teacher explaining how export goods were the top quality that we would send out and we would keep the second grade stuff. That didn’t make any sense to me either. Surely if you have an excess of something that other people need you keep the best stuff for YOUR people and send out the next best thing. After all… if the other guys don’t have enough of it they can hardly complain can they?
And by the time I was old enough to know what GDP stood for, I knew that the entire system of economics and accounting was basically the purview of conmen and idiots and idiot-conmen. I briefly took an economics class for university and dropped it after a scant month when it became equally obvious that all accounting is, is a way to mask fraud, theft, lies and deceit. Sure, some people that work in that field are actually honest, I know, I worked in a closely related aspect of it for decades and still do, but the various practices of accounting, while mostly potentially harmless in and of themselves, become intrinsically easy to be made deceptive by someone adept at navigating the system. And it’s not even an injustice in many cases, because more often than not, all a good accountant is trying to do, is fend off the throughly predatory class of vermin that composes government, who live off the work of honest citizens while giving a return for it that would see them executed for fraud, criminal negligence, misappropriation of funds, nepotism and flat out theft in any just society.
See, things really are NOT that complicated. And even the more truly nuanced and deeper aspects of economics can still be thought of carefully and deeply and equitable, fair, honest, and just solutions found.
But that is not what the people who own and run things like the Bank for International Settlement and the Federal Reserve and the various “national” Central Banks, and the IMF want.
Of course not.
They want the chaos, and the barriers to understanding, real, simple, knowledge first of all, then the barriers to entry into their domain of course and above all, the barriers to doing anything at all that might change the status quo where they have infinite supply of that which they create out if thin air, but determines if your child will eat or starve, have access to good medicine based in science or poisons based in the lies they teach their “cattle” (you and yours and me and mine), that is: fiat money.
It’s all a giant, massive lie, spun in a delusion, covered by sophistry, fraudulent math, predatory “legislation”, and deeper down, blackmail, violence, war, and deception at every turn.
So what can you do about it? You can start by regaining as much of your own personal sovereignty as you can, with the aim of becoming able to be independent of fiat money too, ultimately. And this is what I have been writing about in various ways for the last four years at least, but has been a trend for much of my life. Until 2020 though, this was limited to trying to be left alone as I got in with my little life in my corner of the world. That was a mistake many of us made, and it is no linger sustainable.
It’s time to organise and create a new way of life.
You will find the beginning of this in the sticky post at the top labelled The Important Stuff. Click on that read more up there or the link here, and work your way through. At the bottom you also have links to various series that will help you put things in context.
Good luck cowboy. Hope to see you on my side of the fight one day.
IRL beats everything
This Christmas I was rather remiss with messaging people and wishing them a Happy Christmas and New Year. Mostly because I focused on doing the things that needed doing for my family to have a relaxed time over the holidays.
On Christmas day we basically didn’t even get out of out PJs and just watched the kids go nuts with their presents, which thanks to my wife was a literal mountain of odds and ends. She also got me some nice tops and colognes.
She wanted to go crazy with Christmas dinner but I finally managed to break through the usual female delusion that whatever they imagine is reality —the five small crazy people running around the house helped of course— they tend to break through most self-inflicted delusions of blissful parenting, and she finally realised no one cared for a specific Christmas dinner as she envisioned it, and everyone was happier just chilling out and eating random stuff and pigging out on panettone and biscuits. Including her since she did not have to stress herself out making an elaborate dinner.
The point of all this is that with our phones mostly ignored and just normal, in real life stuff going on, it was really quite awesome.
My eldest daughter taught the 4 and 5 year old to play the card game go fish. The littlest one (she’s just turned 2) got a baby Yoda stuffed toy that she absolutely loves, because she has been addicted to watching the Mandalorian. She literally likes it more than anyone else except maybe the little viking, but even he does not follow the plot as much as she does.
I even managed to read a couple of pages of one of the books that has been on my bedside for the last six months.
But above all, this time has driven home deeply how artificial most of our lives have become.
We are not meant to spend 8-13 hours a day sitting at a desk shuffling electrons from one spreadsheet and email to another poor bastard in some other office doing the same. And even if you are earning millions, which most people in that situation are absolutely not, you can’t enjoy it really. So you may have the nice house and the big cars, and the two week holiday in Bora-Bora, but IF you have children, they are being raised by strangers and you see them less than those strangers do. They are spending hours and hours and hours a day being indoctrinated in ways you don’t even realise are control mechanisms. Like for example, if one kid keeps bugging you and shoving you, and you punch them right in the mouth, that now means you’re a bad kid. Which of course is complete bullshit. And when they are small what do they really learn? What do they really need? They need to be able to rear, write and do math well.
All the rest they can learn faster and deeper at home and without any of the nonsense. You can certainly interest any kid in the Roman empire, or the real history of Christianity, or the (real) reasons for WWI and WWII along with the politically acceptable version to skate by the zombies that still outnumber us.
All while showing them also how to drive a tractor, recognise different plants and animals, teaching them how to track and hunt, cook, keep house, use a spreadsheet to keep track of things, figure out how to survey a piece of land, deal with things like bills and figuring out stuff they never teach you in school. Especially things related to alternative energy sources and so on, as well as classical physics and chemistry. Certainly everything taught at elementary school can be better done at home by any reasonably educated parent that is working as a farmer at home, all while playing/working at the daily things that you need to do on any farm.
And is farm life hard? It sure is.
It’s certainly not for anyone wanting an easy life without physical effort, and it certainly isn’t the idyllic and easy life that pretend-homesteaders on YouTube would have you believe. Especially the ones who in reality have other income which is actually what they really live on.
Even the ones that are not flat out lying about how they live, what they grow and where their food come from, can, inadvertently and unintentionally, give a false impression to people who simply have no concept of how life works when you are really trying to live off the land as your main source of income.
Despite all this, if you plan a little ahead, it is without a doubt a more satisfying way to live than most.
The main issues are to reduce any recurring costs, which means things like land taxes (in the USA at least), electricity and water bills, any recurring services like phones or internet costs, petrol, gas, diesel, and of course the basics of food.
After that, even if you did have enough space and know-how to raise animals, say some chickens and a couple of pigs for butchering and say a few goats too, the maintenance to keep them fed, alive, and protected from predators is not nothing.
And the food you might grow is dependent on the weather and many other factors that are often out of your control.
The ideal situation is you having the property with no debt, some regular income that hopefully is from passive income, and enough savings to tide you over while you learn how to make yourself more self-sufficient. Even then, emergencies or sudden injuries or illness can wipe out your safety margin quite instantly.
These are all realities you need to face and some of them that you didn’t consider will hit you too. And keep in mind that in my professional opinion, being a farmer is at least as dangerous as being a full time martial arts student or instructor in terms of potential injuries, and more dangerous than being a professional bodyguard.
Despite all this, if you manage to make yourself self-sufficient and essentially able to survive even in the event of the proverbial zombie apocalypse, you will be part of a new kind of “elite”, that is, people who no longer need to rely on the conventional dictates of those who run this world through fiat money, bureaucracy, blackmail and force.
The plan is to become immune from the pressure of fiat money first (hopefully you are immune from blackmail as long as you’re not a child rapist on film like many so-called hollywood “stars”), then organise to take over the local bureaucracy so you become immune from rules that you can avoid or countermand officially (or the other way around, whichever you can do first) which is why settling in small hamlets out if the way and populated by like-minded people is step one.
Eventually, if you are successful, force too will be brought to bear on your community, so plan ahead and remember that a smaller but determined force with skin in the game almost always can resist a larger force that is mandated by people and reasons that are completely disconnected from the people on the ground supposed to execute them.
So, yes, real life is “harder” than living online and being a wage slave. But really… is it?
Only you can answer that question, and ultimately it answers the question as to wether you are the type that prefers a gilded cage over your own freedom.
And just like on the dojo floor, all your words and social media posts mean absolutely nothing when compared to the physical reality of your actions. Or lack thereof.
As usual, the point is always the same: Know Yourself.
And if you are a wage-slave type, just admit it and stop lying to yourself.
And if you are not, nothing they do will be able to keep you down anyway, so my posts will hopefully just save you time and effort in terms of what to prepare for and what to avoid.
May God show you the way.
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By G | 26 December 2024 | Posted in Clown World, Farming Life, Social Commentary