@jockey, such an excellent summation of your posts. I felt both bleak and heartened reading it. I believe you are entirely right and the only way I see of getting out is dipping out of these systems.
Here are some of the ways I've attempted to do so over the past 2 decades:
- Except for sewing up we do not use the conventional medical system. FOR that purpose, I trained as a homeopath and didn't vaccinate my children and the 3 of my 4 born in the past 2 decades have had no other conventional medications.
- We moved 7 years ago to a smallholding to grow our own food. I'm not so successful at this. My time is too spread out home educating and being a homeopath and trying to educate people about the evils of allopathic medicine. We have previously used organic box companies. The last 4 years we went back to supermarket organic produce but having read your article above I can really see a strong reason to return to box systems where the provider has carefully checked out suppliers.
- We home educated the 3 of our children born in the past 2 decades. They are currently 17, 13 and 10. Indeed, they have been unschooled. 17 year old decided to go to school at 14 and decided to try out conventional medicine for any of her problems. She is surprised when her problems are not resolved by a visit to the doctor. Indeed, her usual exclamation is "They didn't do anything!" [mine silent one is "THankfully!"] Our eldest, who was schooled, is partnered to someone who was unschooled from birth and plans to unschool her children, and even my 17 year old says she won't vaccinate [she actually said "It's like growing up in the SAS here, being drip fed indoctrination all day. Of course I won't be vaccinating!" :-D]
- With the great influence of my good friend, work partner and fellow steemian @Alanfreestone, I've started investing in bitcoin and begun to bring my [very conventional in most ways] husband on board. I've also talked frequently to my children about the pros and cons of bitcoin and the pros of steemit.
I'm aspiring to pay off our bank debts and gradually have our finances in crypto. My husband was very skeptical at first but I was using my own earnings to invest and I've let him adjust gradually. He was still not quite in the right place for me to feel confident to invest much when bitcoin dipped recently, but next time it does he will be, having seen it recover so well. I think he is becoming interested and starting to understand how it can work. People don't see flat currency for the invention it is. They see it as a solid thing and crypto as something insubstantial and 'made up'. - I built my own independent business as a homeopath [demonstrating entrepreneurship to my children] and I specialise in helping people repair their children's vaccine damage and rebuild their health after suppression and side effects of allopathic medicines.
I felt like a helpless 'system' junkie until I read your summary and realised how many ways I'd found over the past 2 decades to enable my family at least in part to exit from the system if they choose.
Thanks for the thought provoking, concise and positive post. :-)
I'll follow and keep reading.
Well what a lovely, well thought out soulful comment! Amazing! YOU rock! I will need to read your comment twice just to absorb that wonderful information! UPvoted and followed! 😃
You are certainly a role model @sallylloyd I've pretty much put myself on that same path. I'm now in a remote place that offers great natural resources (VERY thankful for that) have pulled myself out of the rat race of futility. Love the ability to order the box food when needed too. Just wanted to remark on your statement: "smallholding to grow our own food" turn the dirt up in a few places, toss some seeds in, cover with a little dirt and water occasionally. You may be surprised at what will come up and flourish. :) I know I was!