The Republicans are the Problem

[Reverend Rick]

I will be honest, I realise that perhaps I only have 15 more years where I will be able to enjoy the things I do. Many of the things I do now, I am growing tired of doing. The rewarding things as well. I like mowing and tending cattle, but honestly, I'm going to start another chapter in my life that involves a small cottage with low maintenance that is off the power grid.

Making money is not everything and I am growing tired of playing the game of who has the biggest and best of it all. The thing is, I would like to boost my retirement nest egg a few more years, but it really is becoming less important to me.

 

[NIX]

It can take a lifetime to really see and gain clear perspective and balance on/between what's important and what's necessary. What we really want, and what's the best way to get there and keep it solid. Very often 'the problem' is our own lack of larger pragmatic understanding (economics, relationships, location, ACTUAL options- as opposed to 'popular' options) and visionary insight (what makes you happy/happiest? what are you naturally good at? How can you creatively make a living doing that?... A living that actually supports the kind of life YOU want to live/have). I don't personally think that our educational system is geared to do this at all. Really it's up to parents to attempt to impart actual life skills and skills of self discernment, and openness to unconventional possibility. All too often we see the puzzle - the complete picture come together - when we are older, after years of attempting to jam pieces together that don't fit for the sake of a picture that wasn't ever what we thought it was.

 

[Alceste]

I will be honest, I realise that perhaps I only have 15 more years where I will be able to enjoy the things I do. Many of the things I do now, I am growing tired of doing. The rewarding things as well. I like mowing and tending cattle, but honestly, I'm going to start another chapter in my life that involves a small cottage with low maintenance that is off the power grid.

Making money is not everything and I am growing tired of playing the game of who has the biggest and best of it all. The thing is, I would like to boost my retirement nest egg a few more years, but it really is becoming less important to me.

If you can retire, it's a good time to do it. Especially if you can afford to set up an off-grid, self-sufficient homestead. You should do that while you're young and fit enough to get your fruit trees established and build your greenhouses and raised beds. Just between you and I, the economy is not going to improve. Ever. We're dealing with fossil fuel depletion and global warming, and the financial sector is not structured to be able to adapt to the changes that are underway fast enough to grease the wheels of civilization as we know it. Food and fuel will keep getting more and more expensive, and you'll keep making less money every year (like the rest of us).

This is not a right-left thing, and has nothing to do with elections or our ideological differences. This is just a tip from me to you, because I like you. It won't make any difference who is elected. Neither of them can make more oil appear or stop global warming. If you think have earned enough to sustain you for the rest of your life, it's a good time to cash in your chips.

 

[Reverend Rick]

If you can retire, it's a good time to do it. Especially if you can afford to set up an off-grid, self-sufficient homestead. You should do that while you're young and fit enough to get your fruit trees established and build your greenhouses and raised beds. Just between you and I, the economy is not going to improve. Ever. We're dealing with fossil fuel depletion and global warming, and the financial sector is not structured to be able to adapt to the changes that are underway fast enough to grease the wheels of civilization as we know it. Food and fuel will keep getting more and more expensive, and you'll keep making less money every year (like the rest of us).

This is not a right-left thing, and has nothing to do with elections or our ideological differences. This is just a tip from me to you, because I like you. It won't make any difference who is elected. Neither of them can make more oil appear or stop global warming. If you think have earned enough to sustain you for the rest of your life, it's a good time to cash in your chips.

Thanks Alceste, I like you too. :yes:

 

[NIX]

If you can retire, it's a good time to do it. Especially if you can afford to set up an off-grid, self-sufficient homestead. You should do that while you're young and fit enough to get your fruit trees established and build your greenhouses and raised beds. Just between you and I, the economy is not going to improve. Ever. We're dealing with fossil fuel depletion and global warming, and the financial sector is not structured to be able to adapt to the changes that are underway fast enough to grease the wheels of civilization as we know it. Food and fuel will keep getting more and more expensive, and you'll keep making less money every year (like the rest of us).

This is not a right-left thing, and has nothing to do with elections or our ideological differences. This is just a tip from me to you, because I like you. It won't make any difference who is elected. Neither of them can make more oil appear or stop global warming. If you think have earned enough to sustain you for the rest of your life, it's a good time to cash in your chips.

I agree with you that the economy isn't going to improve. I also don't think it will make a difference who is elected. I just take one day at a time literally. I have no resources to do anything else.

 

[Falvlun]

If you can retire, it's a good time to do it. Especially if you can afford to set up an off-grid, self-sufficient homestead. You should do that while you're young and fit enough to get your fruit trees established and build your greenhouses and raised beds. Just between you and I, the economy is not going to improve. Ever. We're dealing with fossil fuel depletion and global warming, and the financial sector is not structured to be able to adapt to the changes that are underway fast enough to grease the wheels of civilization as we know it. Food and fuel will keep getting more and more expensive, and you'll keep making less money every year (like the rest of us).

This is not a right-left thing, and has nothing to do with elections or our ideological differences. This is just a tip from me to you, because I like you. It won't make any difference who is elected. Neither of them can make more oil appear or stop global warming. If you think have earned enough to sustain you for the rest of your life, it's a good time to cash in your chips.

Well, that was a depressing post to read first thing after waking up.

 

[Alceste]

Well, that was a depressing post to read first thing after waking up.

Misery loves company.

Seriously, I do believe there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I just don't believe desperately clinging to an economic model that requires global overnight shipping for the most basic staples and collapses completely unless there is infinite exponential growth is going to get us there.

The times, they are a-changing.