Morality of life

I do not think it is moral for a man to steal the fruit of labor of another man. Yet in the name of business it is done on a daily basis.

Today I came across a quote "If ...the machine of government... is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law, let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine."- Henry David Thoreou
I love this quote very much. Yes, ultimately the government does need to collect some tax on the process of society to keep the peace and order of people, but, when that money is misused to create more need and police is actively inducing traffic violations, code violations, or budget oriented ticketing, then there's a short in the system, the same kind of short that will burn your battery and set anything that is strong, efficient, conductive, and substantial on fire and destroy the very marrow of society. Many do not realize when crime is institutionalized, it is induced and enforced. If, and only when you unplug, will you be safe from the artificial crimes, now you have to worry mostly only about natural crimes and wild animals.

I read some time ago, about the life of a handicapped lady who used to work for a fabrics company in Indonesia, she was hurt and almost killed when the decrepit building that was her factory collapsed under unregulated use. She was the lucky one, many of her coworkers did not survive. She went to work for this company for slave wages in hopes of buying a better life for her child, and now that dream is crushed, and it broke my heart just watching it. The government there will not take care of her, Walmart will not take care of her, and her company will not take care of her. What if I had bought a pair of socks or something of that nature that was the fruit of her labor? Am I not to blame in the least of ways?

Big companies make their money on arbitrage, there can only be so much killing and enslaving if we purchase and consume according to our needs. We sin as a society, while posting in God we trust, do we truly repent? If we repent and acknowledge our sins are we changing our ways so that we may walk in righteousness? Businessmen and merchants are merely vessels of the evil, we fall on our own. If slave wages are the brothels, the merchants and businessmen would be the pimps and unfortunately we would be the patrons.

So many things in modern society are not designed by God to be used in such close cycles. I am not vain enough to throw away the clothes I bought last year, yet I need to make room in my walk-in for new clothes. I can sew up and fix the curtain I accidentally ripped, but it just seems cheaper and easier to buy a new piece. I never consider how buying a new piece would induce suffering elsewhere or pollute the water some one else has to live on. I care only about how good it makes me feel. So I keep patronizing this brothel that is globalization.

Electronics are designed to fail prematurely so we need to buy another piece. Cars are designed to be completely useless long before they have lived their useful life. Kids nowadays have things for so much shorter than we did as kids. Then we try to teach them to love each other and love God eternally? They will get a new bible or even a new set of believes before we can finish a chapter with them. I drive an old vehicle that I sometimes need to pray in before I get on the road. It helps me appreciate the lord every day more and more. I fix things that are not yet meant to break. I spend time on the road to allow myself the time and space, fresh smell and scenery, emotional cycles it takes for me to appreciate the world fully. God is a master painter and I want to see what he painted.

Consuming more and more, hoarding wealth is a capitalist goal in any society. This is all okay if you choose to remain blind and pretend ignorant to the sufferings you may cause. Let's say there's not so much electronic or gas or even trees we cut down, let's convert all that to food and water. The world may be so abundant by the blessing of God that we may have threefold of how much we truly need to live comfortably. Some started to want to live even more comfortably, and as we all know, there is no force greater than that of compound interest, so a little greed in a more equip society will prove devastating effects on the rest of the world. The merchants are in the equation too, creating value by elevating scarcity of things, hence worthless stones not even rare such as the diamonds are sold for prices of gold. The military and police create everlasting need to expand themselves. There will never be an ample budget for the military, and having police will never truly reduce crimes. Asking the police to reduce crime to the level of safety is like asking a obese person to diet till he starves to death, bottom line, no one, at any job will ever remove the need of the position in doing his job. So to ensure that he will have a retirement and pension, the good officer will wait for something to happen drinking coffee and eating donut at the seven eleven so that later he can rush to the scene maybe one block away to talk about the need to hire more people on the force. Not pointing fingers, but just what I see almost everywhere.

I try to reuse what I can whenever I can, I try to fix things up so they would last longer. This is not what society wants. When you go green and get solar, the grid loses ransom for your consumption, they hire one less tech, the truck loses one shipment, the bank makes one less loan in the name of your power consumption, some one who would have made money on your maintenance takes out one less mortgage he can never afford, and the list goes on and on so the economy may shrink 10 times or maybe 100 times the money you cut back from spending on electricity. The government can never have that, so they outlaw collecting rain water and harvesting solar power. These building codes, city ordinances, and regulations of conducts are in no way in the interest of public safety, they weed out the homesteaders in the sole interest of corporate greed. Sometimes they are not even the ones doing it. Big companies own the government period.

We have enslaved our children's future, and when we can no longer keep up, they just wind up as slaves of society. Be it a student loan they can never repay or a mortgage they can never accumulate, it's all something we have so idiotically participated in drafting for them. Everything we could have prevented we simply didn't and by taking the candy of the corporations which tricked us into these conditions with carefully thought out comfort, we build our coop where eggs will be stolen from, we construct our sty where they dump their disgusting treatment onto us, and we maintain our stables where our children will forever labor. We are slowing becoming domesticated and losing our ability to live life the way God intended for us to live.

The new world is becoming the old, and we are handing in our freedom for a new kind of monarchy - the federal reserve.