A Quiet Revolution

Let’s face it. [Keeping It Real]

Most of us were raised in an environment where our housing, utilities, food, energy, transportation, healthcare & communications were all provided for us in exchange for money.

Very few of us, I think, inherited our housing. (I didn’t.) We more than likely had to acquire it with money. And then we all have to keep paying money to keep it.

While some have their own well water & septic systems, most rely on municipalities for these services in exchange for money. And most buy the majority of their food and pay for electricity and/or gas/oil to power & heat their homes.

And this is why the Powers-That-Shouldn’t-Be have control over us — because of our need for money to live. But do we really need money to live?

It’s Not Money We Need

Despite what most people think, it’s not money that we need to live. It’s housing, water, sanitary waste management, food & energy (& of course, good health) that we really need.

If we all possessed those things without having to spend a dime, then we, the people, would be a force to reckon with.

But the fact is: most of us don’t — not in this generation.

However, some do, and they are paving the way for a quiet revolution.

Off-Grid Homesteading

I believe off-grid homesteading is how we get control back over our lives. We provide the aforementioned things for ourselves.

But how?

Switch our Dependencies

We have to switch our dependencies — from the System to a tight-knit community of people seeking to live outside of it. We have to need one another.

Why? So that we will turn to each other to get things done.

Work to Become Independent

And then, we work together to achieve independence from the dollar (for the previously mentioned things).

In a better world, we all would have had parents who stayed together and raised their families to:

• stick together,
• hold a high regard for truth, life, the family unit, the natural world & its natural law & order and our fellow man,
• rule themselves,
• work to take care of themselves using the natural resources at hand,
• get along with their fellow man without the use of force, and
• govern their affairs well.

And in that better world, communities of families such as these would be self-reliant and strong. But this world we find ourselves in today is far from that.

I believe we have to aim to do all of the above. And I think off-grid homesteading is the key.

Reproduce After Like Kind

And finally, we need to reproduce after like-kind and lead the next generation into doing what the last generation should have done for us.

Does that sound a bit harsh? Maybe. But I’m just keeping it real. 🙂

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