Grow freer.

money is tight for us now so i got our taxes done, hoping that we'd get some money coming in. last year we got $1600 back.

oh no, not this year. this year we gotta pay over $1700!

remember that stupid economic stimulus we got last year?! oh yeah, we got $1500. that was this year's refund. did they tell us that?! of course not: they're politicians!

meanwhile they've passed a $800 billion economic stimulus package. fuck. great. more debt. the rich will get richer while the middle class continue… Continue

there's a lot to be said for education and being well-read. doing the work, the research, is fundamental. that said, constantly quoting other references is yet another form of giving your power away.

we can share our reference material with each other as a means of sharing another dimension of what we're communicating about, but it still, ultimately, comes down to personal preference. individual choice. someone i'm talking to may have a bibliography memorized that takes six months to recite, bu… Continue

what matters, more than money/economics ever will/can, is the connections between people.

no matter what happens to the economy, the government, folks on the other side of the planet, we have each other. we have our energies: we can work and do things together to make Life worth living. THAT is what matters.

no matter what silly games folks on the Federal Reserve or Bildeberg play, they are built on nothing. air. thought.

and we have our own thoughts.

we need not give our power away to other… Continue