Georgic Economics: The Genesis of Liberty

A “Georgic economy” occurs when families plant seeds after preparing the ground; they then water, tend, protect, and eventually harvest.

In our modern day, it is experienced by families who adopt Georgic principles in their finances. It is compared to banking as well: Banks plant seeds (of capital) and harvests increase over time.

When America shifted from agriculture to industry they outsourced (unwittingly perhaps) the planting of seeds for their livelihood, to others. The professional farmers provided the food, and the professional financiers provided the capital.

We Americans now do the opposite of banks: We receive products first, then pay for them over time — providing bankers with a harvest.

In essence, Americans began choosing material comforts over economic freedom. We lost the principles of Georgics.

The Georgic economy is not a new concept or practice. It has peeked its perspiring …

Sunday Poem: Throw Yourself Like Seed by Miguel de Unamuno

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Throw Yourself Like a Seed

Miguel de Unamuno

Shake off this sadness, and recover your spirit
sluggish you will never see the wheel of fate
that brushes your heel as it turns going by,
the man who wants to live is the man in whom life is abundant.

Now you are only giving food to that final pain
which is slowly winding you in the nets of death,
but to live is to work, and the only thing which lasts
is the work; start then, turn to the work.

Throw yourself like seed as you walk, and into your own field,
don’t turn your face for that would be to turn it to death,
and do not let the past weigh down your motion.

Leave what’s alive in the furrow, what’s dead in yourself,
for life does not move in the same way as a group

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Lemonade the Movie: Hope for those Struggling with Unemployment

Produced by Erik Proulx, Lemonade is a “project by and for those who have been affected by unemployment.” It’s about people who lost their job, but found their calling in the process.

I don’t know how many members of our community have been affected by unemployment, but current statistics tell us that it’s 1 in 10.

As one who has been through the fires of financial and employment struggles, I found this message inspiring and thought it valuable to share.

I know what it’s like to stare at the cold brick wall of failure, when all your best-laid plans “go awry,” when you feel like you have no options, when you’re overwhelmed by utter helplessness.

But what if those times carried the seeds of your real power and genius?

Check out Lemonade.

Here’s the trailer for the movie. Warning: There is …

Where To Put Our Faith

For a nation that has long prided itself on being the personification of freedom in an otherwise unfree world, we’ve been sending some pretty mixed messages lately.

If one is to believe our so-called mainstream and conservative media outlets, we are essentially being offered a choice of aligning ourselves with the lying socialists or the racist imperialists.

It’s a classic false dilemma of having to choose between socialism and imperialism. Lovers of freedom must emphatically reject this dichotomy if they are serious about the cause of liberty.

Constitutional attorney and longtime freedom advocate Jacob Hornberger correctly notes that the “isms” aren’t what pose the greatest long-term threat to our liberties. Instead, he zeros in on the following:
“…the moral degeneracy…that is reflected by increasing numbers of people who see nothing wrong with torture, political confiscation and redistribution of wealth, wars of …

The Latch-Key Generation & Independents, Part 3: Generations & Independent Philosophy

This is part 3 of a 3-part article.

Read Part 1 Here
Read Part 2 Here
Generations
Independents are the latch-key generation grown up.

Raised by themselves, with input from peers, they are skeptical of parents’ (conservative) overtures of care after years of emotional distance.

They are unmoved by parents’ (liberal) emotional insecurity and constant promises. They don’t trust television, experts or academics.

They don’t get too connected to any current view on an issue; they know that however passionate they may feel about it right now, relationships come and go like the latest technology and the only one you can always count on is yourself.

Because of this, you must do what you love in life and make a good living doing it. This isn’t abstract; it’s hard-core realism.

Loyalty to political party makes no sense to two generations forced to realize …