(12-05-2020, 10:20 PM)NightskyeB4Dawn Wrote: You are right. More important, I think they are testing to see how many of us can be bought, and what our price is.
I hope we show them, as @Mystic Wanderer said, that the majority of us value our lives and the lives of our loved ones more than this pittance they are offering, for us to be guinea pigs for their experiments, though they clearly see us as valueless.
Correct. To my mind, it's no different than someone walking up to me with a pistol and 1500 bucks in his hand, and saying "Here's some money. Can I shoot you now?"
Quote:Unfortunately, I see the future of this as @Ninurta sees it, if the majority stands firm, they will attempt to make it mandatory.
Our only way out of this mess, is to let them cut off their noses to spite their faces.
When the majority has their buying power limited, the beast will go hungry. It is time for us ants to wake up to the power we have and to use it.
Yup. Folks can get by on a lot less than they do, and they just don't realize that. For example, Grace and I were just in the kitchen, planning out a few meals. She had me dig out a bag or rice, which I did, with the comment that I used to eat a LOT of rice. I ate it with cream and sugar in the morning as cereal, ate it with chili powder and whatever vegetables I could find like onions, beans (also cheap, but loaded with protein), and green peppers at lunch, and added in ground beef at supper... but the bulk was that old standby rice, which costs next to nothing. I can live for months on end like that, with the occasional dish of ramen noodles (at about 10 cents a pack) or frozen burritos to vary it up a little.
I bet I can live longer like that than TPTB can stand to watch their bottom lines shrink and dry up to nothing.
A big ol' bag of bulk rice, a big ol' bag of dry beans, a big ol' bag of corn meal (I've eaten a lot of "mush" - which can be wonderfully varied, too - and corn bread), a few spices, a couple of cases of ramen noodles, and a few rounds for the ol' squirrel rifle to knock down the occasional critter for the stew pot, and I can live like a king for a very long time - certainly longer than "they" can stand to be broke. I've been broke most of my life, and I'm used to it, "They" ain't.
Quote:It was just an animated movie, but it would do us well to remember this truth.
Quote:Hopper: You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line.
And there it is. It may be just a "children's movie", but then again it has been said "out of the mouths of babes..."
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’