I’ve just watched part of Guardians of the Galaxy 2.  The plot line was everything I’ve come to expect from the Marvel writers, in the Men In Black sense.  Still, it got me pondering.  Yet another movie that claims a human can own a planet.  Right up there with Jupiter Ascending.  So, I have to ask, can any human really own a planet?

Now, in ownership relationships, there is usually a binary dependency relationship.  The owner depends on the slave, and the slave depends on the owner.  However, the owner can always get another slave, for slaves are fungible.  Slaves, however, don’t always get to just up and leave their owners, and are therefore in the weaker position.  Now, the Earth depends on Humans, and Humans depend upon the Earth, that is obvious.  However, Humans can’t up and leave their planet for another.  The Earth can do without humans.  It can just get other slaves to dig the soil and move stones around for it.  Maybe the beetles will do it next.

Therefore, The Earth owns humans, not the other way around.  Next, we apply a simple scaling algorithm: As Above, So Below.  Does that mean that humans can not own their land?  Their houses?  Yup.  Does that mean that humans do not even have sovereignty over their own bodies?  Yup.  Human bodies are utterly dependent upon a proper gut microbiome and not the other way around.

Does that mean that therefore mean that humans do not own their own souls?  Oooh, tricky question.  I would have to postulate that the answer must be yes.  In an animist universe, human spirits are not self-governed, because they are dependent upon something more than that something is dependent upon them.  Perhaps this is why I have told the gods and demons that my children are not mine to give.  If I do not own my own soul, then I can not sell it to the devil, nor can it be redeemed by any one deity claiming to be able to set it free.  Perhaps, it is more like a gut microbiome, and the billions of soil microbiota.  All of these things own infinitesimal shares of my soul.  You’d never get them together in a shareholder’s meeting to approve a hostile takeover, and they don’t vote by proxy.

As I listen to Dr. Ingold’s youtube video on the social relationships of reindeer, a lot of different thoughts pop into my head randomly.  See, anthropologists are studying human relationships with other humans.  The Abrahamic religions insist that mankind is different from animals, above them on the spiritual hierarchy as the bearers of souls.  Sometimes you have to pick apart some basic assumptions to get a better model of the world, while still understanding that the map is not the territory.

What even is a human?  Why do I ask?  Well, it wasn’t too long ago, that certain medieval Roman Catholic priests were insisting that women did not have souls.  It also wasn’t that long ago that certain people insisted that people without white skin, like, say, Australian aboriginals, or dark African slaves, also were not human.  If they weren’t human, then obviously, they could be bought and sold, treated as property.  These concepts have not left Western Civilization.  How could they?  They permeate the thoughts of the old, the books which they wrote, the laws still on the books, the songs still sung in churches.

At the same time, everything is interconnected.  Who here can claim a relationship with a dog?  Who here can claim to be their cat’s servant?  How did we ever get to the place where it is assumed that humans are separated from the world around them, and only relate to each other?  That is not the case.  I have relationships with the soil which grows my food, the plants I eat, the fruit flies I cultivate on my apple orchard and in my compost, and kill every year in my house during applesauce season.  Humans have many more relationships with non-humans than they do with humans, especially if you count objects.  Do you know anybody who is in a relationship with their car?  Do they treat it better than the humans in their household?

Why is it that humans are held to be separated from their world?  They’re not.  The electricity in my skin passes out of my body and onto the mouse, the keyboard, the floor, and vice versa.  The fungi and bacteria on my skin get replenished from the soil under my fingernails, from the homemade raisins, from the sourdough starter on the kitchen windowsill.  Why would I want to separate myself from the world if gods and spirits are in it?

Ah, so here we come to the crux of the matter.  If a human is mere matter, a mere body, then of course an anthropologist would only study the relationships between this body and that body, because that is all that they can see and measure.  This is the result of a strict materialist worldview, which we know must not be correct.  There is more here than matter.  There is at least dark energy, and parts of atoms which zip across the universe in an instant, first here, and then over there.  Telepathy and precognition exists.  Not reliably, but still there.

If a human, instead, is a spirit, then that becomes a lot more interesting.  It means that spirits can exist without bodies.  It means that spirits can be anchored to a time and place or not, that spirits can inhabit humans, but also animals, and plants, and water, and soil, and rocks, and plastic, and computers, and stories.  Especially stories.  Then, if humans are spirits, we can talk about spirits’ relationships with other spirits.  The old trope about having a relationship with Jesus takes on more meaning, even though obviously Jesus just isn’t all that into me and doesn’t answer my calls.

If a human is much more than a fire monkey, is much more than a meat popsicle, how does that change your worldview?  How does that change the assumptions you make about what you want to do, and what your will is in the present?  If I treat myself as a demon, who can only interact with the material world through the human body I’m possessing, does that mean that I would necessarily take better care of this body than if I identified fully and completely with this flawed vessel which will eventually break down because I’m not a Sith Lord?

I don’t have all the answers, and why would I?  None of the other spirits do either.  Yet relationships of spirit to spirit are still worthwhile, even to tricksters, even to the destructive ones.  Knowing for sure that I am a spirit which does not die at the expiration of this human shaped body changes the foundations of my morality.  I am not a Jew in Egypt, whose entire foundational myth is to kill the firstborn children of the outsiders, to steal all of their resources, and flee in the middle of the night with those resources towards greener pastures like locusts.  Perhaps instead, I am a tree; taking root where I have been planted, and growing towards the light above, as well as the bigger growth towards the darkness below.  A tree which only grows toward the light withers, but a tree which only grows towards the darkness, with the help of the fungi network, can maintain life and sprout decades later still alive.

Now that the Fog of War has well and truly descended upon the global playing field, and the news is lying to us all the time, we can step back, ignore the rabble-rousing, and ask some deeper questions.  What exactly is the United States doing about its population increase?  What is the United States doing to modernize its agriculture in the face of oil imports being cut off and the climate changing?  What is the United States doing to increase the productivity of its work force?  These questions merely beg the question of what Albert Bartlett would have to say about that kind of thinking, for things can not increase indefinitely.

It is interesting to see the kinds of terrorists backed by governments around the world.  There are assassins who go around killing Presidents and microbiologists and the like, because they are told to do so.  There are also corporations who go around killing people with heart disease, cancer, and medical mistake in much larger numbers, and are given immunity from lawsuit by law in some cases when they do so.  There are laws preventing people from receiving effective plant-based medicine, and causing lots of untold deaths via that angle as well.  The food, and soil itself, has been stripped of its vitamins and minerals, with the good food being grown special for the elite class.  We know what the United States is doing about its population increase.  The repeal of Obamacare and lack of access to basic nutrition, housing, medicine, and education are just small pieces of the bigger picture.

The United States is one of the top three oil producers now.  It doesn’t intend to change its agricultural practices of stripping the soil bare of the microorganisms required for soil health any time soon, nor does it intend to stop watering the desert and causing sinkholes.  The other countries will lead the way into restoring their traditional and effective agricultural practices long before the United States manages to do so.

There are less working age people with full-time jobs than there have been for a long time now.  The robots have taken over manufacturing, and are working their way into retail, as well as agriculture.  Inequality of income is also mirrored in inequality of employment.  Productivity is up, but so are the unintended consequences, the casting off of risks onto those who can not bear them.

This is how roads and bridges fall apart while B-21 bombers and fast-breeder reactors that don’t work yet get built.  There are places where, when Empire centralizes, and squeezes its fingers for more star systems to slip through, you can find yourself outside of the grasp of Empire.  These places increase as the grasping hands of the senile and greedy squeeze tighter.  Empire loves to seed excessive violence in these places, in the hopes that they will beg to be back under Empire’s boot heel.  That’s why they’ll infiltrate and fund your local protest group.

Some analysts think that the psychopaths and sociopaths who populate the working groups to steer civilization have no right or wrong, no good people or bad people, only winning the great game in mind.  I’m not so sure, actually, that winning is the goal.  It was the Gnostics who clued me into this.  When God is not a good guy or a bad guy, when utopia does not exist, when perfection does not exist, then we might as well run this place ourselves.  However, running this place ourselves is not the same as winning.

Surviving another day is not the same as being the best, nor should it be.  Those who are at the top know that they don’t know everything.  They are not omniscient.  They are therefore also not omnipotent.  Not even close.  If they’ve been playing the game long enough, they know that they’ll never be these things, and stop trying to win, just as the old Buddhist monk stops trying to be happy.  He simply is, right here in the present, and losing is sometimes better than winning, getting lost is sometimes better than following the well-trod path forever and ever without straying.

Armistice Day isn’t celebrated in the US, but its distant cousin Veterans Day is.  On this day, many people celebrate that two sides to a war finally decided to stop sacrificing millions.  The word “sacrifice” is often used in this context, and it is no wonder.  Moloch is hungry, you know.  If it isn’t Moloch, then perhaps the Tree of Liberty is hungry, thirsting relentlessly for the blood sacrifice to appease itself.  Perhaps it is to be noted that these deities or ideologies requiring periodic blood sacrifice will never stop requiring blood sacrifice.

Oh, I see, you thought war was just about materialistic death and fighting over materialistic “things” such as land, oil, gold, or other resources?  Well, perhaps it was.  Is material reality all there is?  Or is everything illusion and a hologram and nothing is real?  Well, look at that.  That looks like a philosophical false dichotomy to me.  As with all old and deep truths, the answer must be a paradoxical “both.”  The material is all we see, yet the numinous animist spirits are all that is.  Which means that the rocks are alive, because everything material is connected with red threads in the tapestry of spirit.

What then are we to make of declining physical health?  When my body betrays me and refuses to heal, is that because of the physical causes of degeneration and inflammation and infection?  Or is it because of a spiritual problem such as stress and carrying too much worry and feeling too much sadness and hatred and loneliness?  And why would we need to know which one caused the other anyway?  Isn’t the answer “both”?

Untangling monism from dualism is tricky when you’ve got skin in the game.  Obviously, there is a mind-body connection.  A hyperthyroid condition can cause anxiety instead of the other way around.  But a connection between two things, no matter how much overlap there may be between them, does not necessarily mean that they are the identical thing.  Am I my body?  Have I identified with this meat-bag so much that I have forgotten who I am?  Or is there a difference?  Am I more than this body?  Am I a spirit instead merely wearing a body temporarily?  Am I Ik or Oversoul 7, inhabiting all material objects at once yet unaware of myself in others?  What are we to make of telephone telepathy or precognition if the material is all that there is?  What are we to make of being very limited in psychic powers if the spirit and the hologram is all that there is?

Perhaps, then, the War In Heaven is much more than a myth.  If what is bound on Earth is also bound in the heavens, then can peace on Earth cause peace in the Heavens?  Is that what happens when billions of humans get together and all think about one thing?  Perhaps such things are what magic and prayer are about.  The physical affects the spiritual, and the spiritual affects the physical, even though they are not the same thing.  Knowing which one to use is not necessary, because you’re supposed to use both!

It is turning out to be a very expensive medical year.  So far, I’ve been to four different specialists, because one thing led to another.  I have learned a lot about biology on google this year.  My approach to research is not necessarily doctor approved, but I do it anyway.  I take a multi-pronged approach.  I look at the official sites like mayo clinic, I look through the pub med research papers or abstracts that I have access to, I look on the quack sites as well to see what they recommend that is free or very cheap that might work as well as their comments, and I scan through forums to see first-hand accounts of descriptions of conditions that aren’t garbled medical code-speak.

I’m a big picture kind of person.  When a problem is multi-system or multi-factorial, that’s my jam.  I’ll spend hours looking at a problem from a lot of different angles, until I reach the point where I can spend a few hours saying to myself “so that’s why” over and over again.  Condition A leads to Condition B which leads to Condition C and is complicated further by Condition D.  Only Condition B is obvious.  I’m hoping for some testing to see if Conditions A, C, and D are also real, although that isn’t strictly necessary, because the same thing used to treat Condition B is also used to treat Condition A and C.  Condition D, however, that’s another matter.

It’s annual enrollment time.  People are looking at their medical insurance options for next year, and since the new POTUS has changed a few laws, people are finding that their premiums are increasing.  I know one friend who has $6000 in premium payments, and a $7000 high deductible this year.  Next year?  More where that came from.  My family’s medical payments are not as high as that, but still aren’t nice.  Since I’m well over the deductible already, I have economic incentive to actually get this stuff checked out before the end of the calendar year.  So does everybody else, judging by the scheduling delays I’m experiencing.

This is the way the world ends.  Not with a bang, but a whimper.  It is interesting to see how the older doctors cope with, or don’t cope with, technological progress in computing.  These days, most younger doctors document everything they do on the computer quickly and efficiently.  One doctor I saw used paper and pen, a tape recorder, and faxed the referral.  I liked him.  He’s sharp as a tack, and paid close attention to me instead of documentation.  When I brought in my two and a half pages of typed descriptive medical history, he appreciated it.  When it is all written down like that, you can see the patterns better than asking me question after question about everything.  Plus, I communicate better in writing than orally, probably due to Condition D and Condition A, although Condition C might have something to do with it.

As usual, I go into a doctor’s office knowing what I want out of it.  Do I want drugs?  Tests?  A better understanding?  A referral?  Then my legal training gathers the evidence and presents it in a way that hopefully gets me what I want.  Sometimes, however, the 70 year old doctor sees things that I didn’t notice.  Google research gets you a long way, but not necessarily all the way to where you need to go.  Sometimes you need an experienced outsider’s viewpoint to see more clearly.  I never would have considered Condition D on my own.  Even the best researcher needs a colleague or mentor to banter with in order to think through a problem better.  This, by the way, is why people talk to deities and spirits and ancestors in their head.  Because it works, when the culture doesn’t allow them to show weakness by admitting the problem exists in the first place.  That’s why the dominant of witchcraft is arising, why the millennials are more likely to be Animist than Christian or Atheist.  If you pay attention at the edges of conversations, you’ll notice.

I rewatched the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie yesterday.  Jack Sparrow is always good for inspiration.  The breathing in of his character’s way of moving through the world works pretty well.  You know what the Black Pearl is?  Freedom.  He knows exactly what he wants.  He just isn’t quite sure how to get there from here.  I want my shoulder to work again without pain.  I’m not sure how to get there from here.  Along the way, complications arise.  Well, life is like that, eh?

No matter how hard things get, no matter where Jack finds himself, he never gives up his dream.  Taking his ship back from cursed people who can’t die?  That is totally possible, even if improbable, and it is one courageous decision at a time that gets him there.

The thing about pirates, is that they are not hierarchies.  They don’t obey authority out of loyalty.  They obey authority if it gets them closer towards their goal than not doing so.  The only rule is: what a man can do, and what a man can’t do.  That’s some serious heresy right there.  Every organized religion in the world is against that right there.  That right there is free will.  It is the Satanic equivalent moral code: “Do what though wilt shall be the whole of the law.”  There is no worshipping the powerful undead, only negotiation, parley, bargaining.  Captain Barbosa is a trickster.  If you don’t specify that you get left behind when the Black Pearl leaves and never returns in exchange for the medallion?  You go with.  The lawyer training in me smirks in amusement.  You can never cover all contingencies with your increasingly complicated negotiations.

So why is it that people deal with the Devil, then?  Why do people deal with tricksters when they know the trickster will exploit every loophole?  And why is it that tricksters seem to keep their bargains instead of just taking what they want by force?  Why can’t tricksters just do what they wilt?  I don’t have a good answer, and obviously some of them are not bound by bargains at all.  How do I know you’ll keep your word?  I don’t.  Unless you are honorable.

If you are an honorable person, then doing what thou wilt is not the whole of your law.  Not by a long shot.  Instead, you do what you were tricked into saying you would do, even if it feels wrong.  You keep your word, even if it does not benefit you.  You obey authority, even if it does not benefit you.  This means, you’ll take the drugs your doctor prescribes, even if you are sure that a lifestyle change is what you really need instead.  Maybe what you really need is to not be abused by the people around you, to feel safe because somebody has your back instead of stabbing you in it instead of pills.  Maybe you shouldn’t drink milk when you’re lactose intolerant, even if your doctor insists you need the calcium for strong bones.

Sometimes authorities are full of bison large intestinal contents.  Sometimes, they order you to do things that don’t make sense in your specific situation.  Sometimes, they order you to do things that don’t make sense in general because nobody thought about the real assumptions and looked at the demographics.  Do people who never drink dairy products because they come from a race of people who are lactose intolerant really have higher rates of osteoporosis?  Really?  No, they don’t.

The scientific method is broken, because it only looks at one little material thing.  It doesn’t look at the energy side of the equation.  It doesn’t look at the stories.  The meaning is just as important as the physical reality.  That’s why it is important to acknowledge the power of corporations and governments and religions and the pharmaceutical industry, even if technically those are just ideas and make believe.  That is why it is important to consider yourself a pirate.  As a pirate, you are not required to obey any authority out there if it does not benefit you.  That is magic.  How do we act, when we realize that all governments exist by magic, all property ownership exists by magic, and all currencies exist by magic?  I don’t know about you, but maybe magic is important enough to dedicate quite some time to studying how it works.

Maybe I should use all of the tools presently at my disposal to get closer to my end goal of freedom.  One small step at a time.

I’ve got a little PTSD problem.  It took quite a bit for me to admit to myself that I had the problem in the first place.  See, my identity is a brave and non-anxious warrior who is capable of fighting and running and emotional self-control.  However, I am human, and there are some things I’m terrified about.  I found the Litany Against Fear to be quite helpful. I took the time to remember the scary memories and too look at why I was so damn afraid. Well, it turns out I had good reasons to be terrified at the time. When I compared the situation then to the situation now? Nope. It is not rational to be afraid now, at least not overwhelmingly so.

I’m afraid that my body will fail me, that I’ll be trapped and helpless, that people will invade my bodily integrity without my consent, and without explaining what is going on. Sounds reasonable to be afraid of that, no? And, it will happen again, statistically speaking. When I stare at my fear as a grown adult, I can accept that I don’t always control what my body does, that sometimes it will fail me. I can accept that I will not always be able to fight or flee, that sometimes I will be stuck in a state of pain and suffering with no foreseeable way out. I can accept that sometimes people are assholes, authoritarian egomaniacs, and the like. Once I face my fears, I can look within myself, and see where it goes. I can see that I’ve created an imagined identity for myself that is at odds with my lived bodily experience. I can change that identity just enough to incorporate my non-perfection.

Accepting my body’s non-perfection, I can use what I’ve got. Accepting my trapped nature, I can find other things that I’m not helpless about. Accepting that some people are assholes, I can show compassion and strengthen the non-assholes, and let them know that they are not alone. Together, we overcome our fears. But first we have to look at them, to stop avoiding the pain, the suffering, the sorrow.  Perhaps I am more than a warrior.

Let’s see here, since I last wrote, we’ve had the Las Vegas shooting incident, Hurricane what’s her name absolutely destroying the critical infrastructure of Puerto Rico, the Catalona vote, Japan seeking to purchase nukes from the US, a mainstream article declaring that the UK oil industry only has about a decade of production left, a wrapping up of the US Senate’s Russia-Trump investigation, The Saudi King visiting Moscow, and the Fukushima operator given the green light to restart nuclear reactors.  Okay, so it has been one of those intensely emotional newsweeks then.

Already, there is speculation that Puerto Rico will only gain electricity a few months from now, which means they are going to die in large numbers because they have no crops left and their water system is a mess.  While Germany sends resources to help, the US, well, I suppose paper towels are resources?  Meanwhile, Dominica and Haiti have also suffered substantial losses, and nobody talks about them much in my circle of friends and news.  Probably has something to do with the US citizens in Puerto Rico, and the debt that can never be repaid?

There is also rampant speculation that the Las Vegas shooter was, shall we say, helped significantly by the Deep State to increase the feasibility of police State overreach and gun control.  Normally, I’d be all over this stuff, because I love conspiracy theories.  The more woo-woo and bat-shit crazy, the better for my entertainment.  Yeah, the chances of somebody showing up with that much ammo and guns, and removing that heavy of a window all by himself without training, and with an injury preventing him from lifting much does sound just a little bit farfetched to me, although still within the realm of dedicated premeditated possibility.  Was he a lone shooter on anti-depressants again?  Was he MK-Ultraed?  Do I care anymore?

Once again, I find myself with toxic news burnout.  There’s always a Hurricane, or an Earthquake, or a Tsunami, or a Terror Attack, whether false flag or not.  It really doesn’t matter to me whether the guy had help or not, because the outcome is the same: more divide and conquer and more police interference in daily life.  That’s just another POSIWID benefit.  We don’t care about the shooter’s intentions.  We don’t care about Mr. Global’s intentions in attempting to create a cashless society.  We only care about what actually physically happens.  It makes a lot of things simpler just to consider things that way.  What happens?  Fear fear fear.

With that much fear hanging around in the air, people isolate themselves.  They don’t reach out to each other for help, or just simple companionship.  Some people do, who have been taught appropriate manners and coping mechanisms.  Some people do, who have an active meditation practice, and can see the fear for what it is, toxic, and where it comes from, seeing the inevitable pain and suffering of the entire planet.  That’s what you’ve got on social media, by the way.  Even through the lies, you can see the fear, the knowing they’re being lied to, the knowing they’re lying to everybody else, saying everything is fine.  When it isn’t fine.  How could it be fine?  Most people, when they witness pain and suffering on any scale, aren’t fine.  They have sympathy pain and suffering too.

Today, I acknowledge that I am afraid of some things, and that I feel pain, and that I suffer.  Oh, but those people over there are suffering more!  Yeah, that may be true.  However, there are always people “more” than you.  More intelligent, more hungry, faster, more frightened, more disabled, more compassionate, more awake, more selfish, more successful, happier, and more depressed, than you will ever be.  Don’t let anybody diminish your pain that you feel.  Don’t let anybody diminish your worth, your sanity, your ability to make good decisions with the limited information you have.  Don’t let anybody tell you that you have to be sad for anybody else all the time.  If you look for evil and sadness in the world you will always find it.  Instead, look for happiness.  Look for the truth, even when it is surrounded by lies upon lies.  Don’t live your life in fear.

Sleep is a very essential part of being alive, at least for humans.  If you don’t sleep, bad things happen.  Aside from the obvious, being tired, sleep deprivation affects your metabolism, your healing time, your mood, the bags under your eyes, your blood pressure, your ability to handle hard work or blood sugar swings, your ability to think straight, and your pain.  If you sleep less than 6 hours per night, you’re more likely to die.  You’re more likely to get into an automobile accident.  You’re more likely to have heart disease, or develop dementia.

Athletes need more sleep.  We just do.  Sleep is the time when a bunch of internal cleaning, healing, and growth happen in the muscles and bones, in the circulatory system, in the endocrine system.  However, injuries causing pain tend to decrease the amount of good sleep you get.  If you can’t sleep, you can’t heal, and you hurt more, which causes you to sleep less.  That’s why good physical therapists will try to get you to find a position where you can sleep.

There are things you can do in order to get better sleep, but it is never a one size fits all.  I know that I work best when I get 9 hours sleep at night.  That doesn’t mean I’m lazy.  That’s just how long it takes.  My husband needs a mere 7 hours per night.  That’s fine too.  Sometimes I need naps, because parenting is hard work.

There are times when it is difficult to get to sleep at night.  There are times when my brain races, planning something for the next day, going over something that happened from all different angles.  For me, sleep requires that I relax the focus.  I have to look at the pretty unfocused ever-shifting pictures.  Focusing on any of it keeps me from sleeping.  Knowing this, I can set up a meditative anchor for going to sleep.  Safe and relaxed, everything can wait until the morning to go over in my mind.

Metaphorically, this means that we need periods of rest to balance the periods of massive productivity.  We need periods of fasting to balance the periods of feasting.  We need periods of stillness to balance the periods of burst training.  We need periods of trash science fiction novels to balance the periods of hard mental thinking work.  We need periods of being warm balanced with periods of being cold.  We need periods of slow breathing balanced with periods of breathing hard.

What do you do to get enough sleep?  How does your sleep get disrupted?  Do you need to go to bed earlier?  How could you stop using stimulants or sedatives to get the restorative sleep you need?  Does your family respect your need to go to bed earlier than them?  Or later?  What about your children?  Do they get enough sleep?

I find it hard to write blog entries in chronic pain, but things are quite a bit better this week than last week.  I was listening to some high octane speculation that the CIA is positioning themselves to take over the US food supply.  Heh.  I do so love my conspiracy theories.  They serve as one of the best pain distraction methods out there for me.

So, let’s work this one through.  If Mr. Global wanted to centralize control over the US food supply, how would the psychopaths handle that?  Oh sure, the first thing that comes to most people’s minds is Monsanto.  Well, that’s a lovely can of worms there, now isn’t it?  Oh, but there’s much more than that.  What is the number one retailer in the US?  I’m not sure, but if you said Amazon, you’d probably be pretty close to the mark, right?  After all, they did just buy Whole Paycheck.

Some people seem to think that Mr. Global wants to poison the population through controlling the food supply, but I’m not so sure.  See, Mr. Global doesn’t need to.  If the Deep State owns the major food corporations, and controls the google algorithms so that if you denigrate Hillary your posts don’t get seen, then they have no need whatsoever to poison the food supply.  They just need to control your access to it.  It is easy.  If they don’t like you, your identity gets stolen, and you can’t purchase things online.  Moving towards a cashless economy also tightens the net and noose.  Your class status symbol becomes whether or not you have a bank account with a chip card.

That way, if you are a food supplier who doesn’t use Monsanto products, well, suddenly Amazon and Whole Paycheck just don’t buy from you anymore, for whatever reason.  Then where are you?  If you are a consumer who doesn’t buy their food at a big box grocery store, but rather from their local farmers’ cooperative using digital or local currencies, you are evil, and must be stopped using every labeling and workplace safety and tracking regulation violation in the book, plus they’ll misplace your permits.  Oops.  They’ll also harass you with as many inspections as possible, with illegal methods used in the inspection process.  You can find those youtube videos if you look.

Then, there is relative pricing.  If I’m correct in my wild speculations, Amazon is perfectly capable of pricing items differently for different purchasers.  Yes, Prime does that, but not just Prime.  The same is true with big box grocery store rewards systems.  I know Safeway has Just4U coupons that are individualized.  You better believe that rewards systems will influence purchasing decisions, the same way that somebody who suddenly watches daytime TV due to an injury will find themselves in need of granite countertops and a bigger flat-bed pickup truck.

If there were at least 100 years of research, funded by the big moneyed elites, into how to shape public decision-making (cough elections cough), don’t you think they would have learned a lot by now on how to manage both sides of the Hegelian dialectic?  It’s why everything is divide and conquer and be labelled.  Are you pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine?  Are you pro-Hillary or pro-Trump?  Are you pro-gay marriage or anti-gay marriage?  Hint: the answer is neither.

To get out of the identity politics trap, the secret is to be an individual.  I am me, not a woman.  Woman is not my identity, just like disabled and in chronic pain is not my identity.  I am me, not a Demoncrat or Rethuglican.  I am me, not cis-gendered or queer.

So very many people want to label everything, to count everything.  How many e coli can fit in the head of a pin?  How many people will be left to be counted after peak oil/climate change/the great EMP depopulation (pick your black swan of choice, plenty to choose from)?  No.  Wrong question.  Why on Earth do we need to count these things?  Why do we need everything and every person to be barcoded and labelled?  No, nobody gets to tell me who I am.  Especially not the government and the deep state which is lying to me about the things happening in Space and Antarctica.

Yet, do you see how your official virtual identity could be used to deny you access to food?  It creates fear.  Fear creates slavery.  At the same time, you are not an individual, because your community also exists in fear.  It doesn’t have to be that way, though.  Communities are still capable of coming together, figuring out how to get their interdependent needs met on a local scale, and cutting a bunch of the dependencies to the parasitic tapeworm economy.  Doing it on your own is not an option unless you live in the wild Alaskan outback or something.  What are the local sources of food around you?  Here, there is not nearly enough on a local scale to even begin to feed the millions of people within 100 miles.  Yet, that doesn’t mean I need to drink soda and eat doughnuts all the time, now does it?

That’s because my identity is not a rebel, nor is it an anarchist, nor is it a government informer.  I am neither a centralizer, nor a decentralizer.  I am just me, and everything is permitted.  Nothing is forbidden.  Not even just plain old following the laws and being really boring.