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Digital existence is fine.... until the grid goes down! It is always wise to live as if that could happen tomorrow.

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Absolutely! That's another thing I've harped on over the years. To deaf ears. "That will never happen" seems to be the pat comment on that. It's so good to see you Ms Leader! It's been a long time. I heard a fascinating interview that you did with James Delingpole back in May. I'll post the link here in case someone is interested: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/hd3eb5udu97y5us6/2024-03-26_Frances_Leader9obkz.mp3 I'm honored that you took the time to comment on my post. :)

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The Word Herder led me here! I do struggle to get out of my own corner of Substack sometimes. I am glad you liked my interview with James Delingpole. I did one with Jerm Warfare on the Black Nobility and another with Doc Malik about my life in activism and how I feel about electro-magnetic frequencies recently. You can find them all listed in this special post: https://francesleader.substack.com/p/all-my-recorded-interviews-and-video

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I'll check it out. :)

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You are saying SO MUCH of what I have been saying/thinking, I could have written this myself!

But I'm glad you did it, because it takes a long time for me to type with two dog toenails.

GREAT POST!!!! And, HEAR, HEAR!!!!

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Thank you Word Herder! Though I'm not canine, great dog minds think alike! Haha.

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Woofadoodledooooooo! lol

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Fun story -- a few months ago, I got a bonus from work. It was a gift card to its merch store. They couldn't let me choose where I wanted to spend my extra money. It had to be with them!

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oh good grief. yay, lucky you :-/

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I've had those bonuses in my working life as well Fat Rabbit Iron! Most of us would always be grumbling, "I would have rather had the money".

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Sad story -- nothing lasts forever. Humanity will either reinvent itself or perish. Today, living each day in survival mode is not necessary in America and most of the developed world. Yes, there is a hidden world with hidden people that actually produces most of the stuff and necessities that we all buy/use. Until either the slave labor revolts or are replaced by AI/robotics, nothing will change. They won't and eventually it will.

It's a Brave New World that we will leave to our progeny. Familial lines will not matter, knowledge/wisdom will not matter only the basic human instinct to control the conditions in which we live. I hope they can survive as individuals, but I tend to doubt they will escape the blending of humanity and the subsequent reshuffling of available DNA by those who have the means/authority/power to do so.

If the path we are on is unhindered, a hundred years from now, our current culture/lifestyle/civilization will have been forgotten and/or deemed antiquated and ignored.

I started to write that maybe a WWIII scenario was needed to blast our way to a more 19th century way of life so we can re-evaluate potential futures, but I think the same future will be fulfilled, only faster than the first time.

The answer my friend is blowing in the wind.

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Incredible comment Brian. I tend to agree. I think that's why I've been so desperate over the last 20 years, and especially the last 5 years. My age has a lot to do with it. Those of us who are in our late 50's, 60's or 70's (those who are enlightened anyway) can see what is happening and are desperate to do something about it because we know what this hellscape is going to look like after we are gone. I believe most of us don't want to leave this dystopian nightmare to anyone, thus the urgency to try and turn this around. I still have a bit of hope. But not much.

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I have read that 99% of all species that ever existed on Earth are extinct. The Great Lakes did not exist 20,000 years ago. Ice sheets used to cover most of North America. What I am saying is things change. Be sure you find enjoyment, pleasure and love in your current, everyday life. It may not change today's culture but then again who knows what future archeologists may find (of yours) that influence that generation to acknowledge that the past was hopeful of its future and learn from it. Wouldn't it be funny if the most popular baby name in the year 5,000 will be Rob D? ; )

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My farm is near a big farm that was run that way in the late 1800’s. “Big “ company store that is now owned by others and just a quaint general store/ post office. The original family which profited off of Swedish immigrants still own a lot of the land.

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Fascinating. I'm a former miner (for real). I did that for 30 years. I actually own a home that was built by "the company" back in the 1950's. I've also lived in other areas where many of the old "company houses" were still standing and I have friends that own them as well.

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I guess some people always take advantage of other’s desperation. Most of those tenant farmers were very strong, and went on to run their own farms.

How I love photographs of those strong young men and women!!

My husband was a super strong man that grew up on a farm in the far north with no running water or electricity. He worked in a potash mine as part of the ground crew clearing slurry lines in 60 below weather and loading etc. He moved up to the assay lab and then on to other things.

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I think there is a fine line between taking advantage of and providing an opportunity to desperate people. I think it is abhorrent to turn desperate people into slave labor but as you say, "Most of those tenant farmers... went on to run their own farms.". I have been dirt poor but somehow managed to make enough good decisions to rise above the desperation. Sounds like your husband did likewise.

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