WOW!, Damned good stuff out there.

I really don't think all 5 or 6 of my readers would appreciate a list of links today. Even so, LOADS of good stuff on the nets the last couple of days.

And it all boils down to people THINKING! Not just griping as we are wont to do, but Thinking.

So much so, that I have little to add to the thought processes. Freedom won't be silenced for long no matter how much Freedom minded people are resemblant of wayward cats. Trying to get us to agree on ANYTHING is similar to herding cats in the dark while wearing a blindfold. (and I couldn't find the original place I read that but it was fitting)

SO, I decided today to talk about energy and money. Two completely different things but one completely tied into the other.
ENERGY In physics, energy (Ancient Greek: ἐνέργεια energeia "activity, operation"[1]) is an indirectly observed quantity. It is often understood as the ability a physical system has to do work on other physical systems.[2][3] Since work is defined as a force acting through a distance (a length of space), energy is always equivalent to the ability to exert pulls or pushes against the basic forces of nature, along a path of a certain length.

How is that tied into money or Vice-versa: Well, look into your day. You expend energy to accomplish a goal. That goal for most is earning a paycheck of some sort. You have agreed with someone else that your time and efforts are worth something.(and I won't go into if that is actual or perceived value at this point. Stay on topic.) Time(a measurement of space) and effort(Force) are simple definitions of energy. SO, you are paid for your energy. What is money? Nothing more than a capacitor for human energy. It's not a good one though, but the best compromise that we all agree on. The real problem comes when there is more than one definition of what that capacitor is capable of holding(its value). Look at our systems they way they are set up now. There is a distinct difference in the way that various people see said value in the capacitor.

For starters, The working class/middle class/mundano/average Joe sixpack.
He/she busts butt all day long for, more often than not, less than desired pay. I say it that way since many have had to take paycuts in some form or another to get or keep a job over the last 3 years. We put forth more effort in the same amount of time to store less energy. The capacitor is weak and holds less.

Then you have those at the bottom of the monetary barrel. The Welfare or dependent cases (to include children of the first class that haven't had to work for a living yet.) They don't see the dollar as a capacitor, but a transit vehicle. Yes, Transit. It gets them things, and places that they wouldn't be able to achieve through skill or wit, under normal circumstances. They are just 'Given' that power, with little to no input on their behalf so the actual value of what it represents is lost upon them.

Then you have the Elite/Minoría Selecta/Power Brokers. They perceive the capacitor in a completely different light than the first class of people. Similar to the difference between how a metal worker perceives the difference in a Oxyacetylene torch and a plasma cutter. They do the same thing, but in highly different ways. In this case, the capacitor is simply a quantity to be manipulated and expounded upon.

But there is a further disconnect from the first class. It also has to do with quantity. Where most MC persons are well aware of how much they make, how much they can spend, and for the most part, stay within that framework; the Elite do not. The difference in a Million and a Trillion is in magnitude to the first's power. And yet most of the people in the first group only hear a name of a number, not its relationship to reality.

Let me spell it out for those that just got lost. One million anythings is something that most people understand though may not be able to fully conceive of. One trillion anythings is a million times bigger than one million. Get it?

The difference between the mundano and the elite is that the elite do 'GET IT', and are fully aware that the budgets they use (real or not) are being paid for by the first group. SOLELY. Even if the first group can't pay 'this go round', the kids can.

They are stealing the energy of our kids for use today.

Remember that law of physics about creating and destroying energy? Well, you can 'create' money out of thin air but you can't Create the energy it represents. You either have to devalue the current capacitors or find someway of doing the impossible. (in this case, its Accounting magic, which is nothing physically real)

In the words of "The Matrix" "We are coppertops".


Where is all of this going? What energies did you expend today to charge your personal capacitors? Are you working for 'the man', or are your efforts more inclined to perpetuate you and yours?

There are many different ways you can charge your capacitors. Knowledge is one, PT is another, Preps are yet another. Even working for FRN's right now is not without some reward (though its getting damned slimmer every week it seems) But you have to put that energy somewhere so that it can be released AS NEEDED at a late. When you are packing the neurons with chemical trails, is it trivial, or is it a grouping? Do you PT to gain bulk or stamina and strength? Are you converting those nearly depleted FRN's into a more substantial form, something with a longer shelf life?

It may seem like the efforts I have displayed on this blog (my hobbies) are petty and trivial. They are not. In some instances, they are my 'practice while I can afford the mistakes' phase. Are you getting in yours? I know Mayberry is investing pretty heavily into a boat that, in appearance, IS COMING ALONG DAMNED WELL: No, its not going to ferry him and his family to safety in a hurricane. But the tricks and shortcuts he is learning are going to save the day at some point in the future. I don't look at the boat as the actual investment so much as the chemical pathways he is creating in his grey matter.(and don't get me wrong Craig; she looks great, but she is only 11'11.75" LOL ) I would have never thought to use a circular saw to cut a radius, unless I had seen(read about it) it done.

Learning tricks for the future are investing now. Preparing now is an obvious investment. Getting out and moving while you can do so without incoming, is investing (and will make moving with incoming much more livable, literally)
Packing your head with knowledge is investing. (old books I found again that may be invaluable later. Foxfire series. Way cool.(and there are plans in that one for Craigs next project)


Griping at each other over trivial points is not investing. And wastes energy that our would be masters enjoy seeing wasted. Its when our investments disappear from their books, that they start to get nervous.

I, for one, plan on making some of them VERY nervous before the planned economic collapse.


Edit for my being a shithead and not reading my own words and how they were out of line. My bad. Situation self correcting. :-)