| New Age Life Boats | | | | machine. |
| This nation born in bloodshed, grew mighty by | | | | If we should decide we will no longer sail the ships of |
| bloodshed - and perishes in bloodshed. Or maybe not. | | | | state or competitive nationalism, rather than go down |
| Is it unreasonable to imagine we have as good as a | | | | with the captains, we must totally abandon ship. To |
| 50/50 chance? Help! Call 911! Done. Now what? The | | | | leave one foot in the ship of state and the other in the |
| alarm clock rings and none can silence it. The people | | | | New Age lifeboat, is to cause the kind of pain the |
| of the world fear and tremble. The great warrior nation | | | | image suggests. It's all about choice. You choose to |
| goes again to war. | | | | change or you are changed by those who pay for the |
| The war on terrorism, like the great wars on poverty, | | | | privilege of training you. If you don't choose freedom, |
| crime, drugs, disease, education and family, will never | | | | you have chosen slavery, no matter what you call it. |
| be won, or ended. This is because the people who | | | | As Shakespeare might have said, A slave by any |
| profit from war, write the rules by which we agree to | | | | other name will smell as foul. |
| live. As long as business and government have | | | | For those searching for the New Age lifeboat, it is in |
| unlimited credit, backed by workers, taxpayers, and | | | | your yard and in your home. You book passage on |
| consumers, war will continue and expand. America will | | | | this ship by learning to feed yourself. Not by using |
| perish. | | | | utensils as you were taught as a child, but by growing |
| The message of 9/11 is change or perish. The people | | | | the food you need to live a healthy and prosperous life. |
| of America are getting the message. How about you? | | | | Produce the basics of life and trade the surplus for the |
| Have you heard the message? Have you learned to | | | | rest. Love yourself. Feed yourself. Love your neighbor. |
| count your blessings, which include the ability to change | | | | Feed your neighbor. Sounds like a big job, no? It isn't. It |
| your ways and by so doing those of your neighbors? | | | | can be done with less time and effort than most folks |
| Have you learned you can no longer depend on the | | | | expend to buy poisoned, processed, disease causing |
| people you trust with your very life? Have you | | | | groceries. |
| decided to abandon the sinking war machine for a life | | | | Farming is hard work for lousy pay. This is true enough |
| of peace and harmony in the little lifeboats of the New | | | | for anyone who has not learned better ways than |
| Age? If so, welcome aboard, we desperately need | | | | grandpa and the corporate farmers have. New Age |
| your help. If not, we'll try to save you a place and do | | | | methods of profitable gardening, orcharding and vinting |
| without you - no hard feelings. | | | | are readily available for the reading of a few books. It |
| The name of the New Age lifeboats is Independence, | | | | is a spiritually liberating exercise to produce good food, |
| the unfulfilled promise of our founders. From birth we | | | | by the pound or by the ton. Even small towns form |
| have been dependent on others for the necessities of | | | | garden clubs to share know-how. |
| life; food, clothing, shelter, love, caring, companionship. | | | | The next best thing for you to do is to help your |
| You name it. We demand others provide it and we | | | | neighbors grow good food for you, by purchasing their |
| pay whatever price we can afford. The more we can | | | | surplus at the local markets, regardless of price. You |
| afford, the more is supplied. | | | | are not just buying food from such people, you are |
| We pay top dollar for doctoring and get greater | | | | buying insurance, that there will be food for you when |
| disease as treatment only spirals in cost. We die for | | | | the ship hits the bottom and you are swimming for the |
| lack of money and cure. Does this make sense? Of | | | | lifeboats. |
| course not. So why do we continue this fraud that kills | | | | The thugs of world governments hold power by |
| us, makes us weak and foolish? | | | | creating dependents from otherwise free people. They |
| One of the key answers is Tell-A-Vision. Once a | | | | borrow credit, pay salaries, collect taxes, make rules, |
| week, TV news will tell us to pursue a healthy lifestyle. | | | | hire and arm enforcers with lethal weapons. All |
| Get regular exercise. Drink more water. Eat more | | | | because people let them do this and expect them to. |
| fruits and vegetables. Eat less meat. Get more rest. | | | | Then the people are taught they have no power to |
| When the typical viewer/watcher gets this message, | | | | change anything. The people believe what they are |
| paid for by corporate sponsors, s/he will have | | | | taught by the repetition from cradle to grave and |
| received 100 messages telling her to watch more TV, | | | | nothing changes for generations. |
| drink Coca Cola, eat burgers and Doritos. Get new | | | | Personal independence allows the thinking person to |
| drugs from her doctor. Turn off this electronic mind | | | | withdraw support from her/his providers, because |
| bender. | | | | indirect provision is no longer needed or desired. So |
| How did we learn the alphabet, our math tables, | | | | ends the support of national and global secrecy and |
| science, history? We learned by repetition, repetition, | | | | the oppression of the poor by the rich. So ends the |
| repetition. Science has proven that anything repeated | | | | exploitation of the peaceful and humble by the |
| often enough becomes accepted as truth by the | | | | ambitious and boastful war mongers. |
| subconscious. By this simple method, the Machine Age | | | | He who creates an empire on an acre or a continent, |
| has created entire nations of uncritical, unthinking, | | | | is obligated to defend it against every threat, internal |
| uncaring robots. There is hardly one of us that wants | | | | and external, real and imagined. He is in competition |
| to be a cog in the machine that is Enron, Exxon, Arthur | | | | with every other empire builder, seeking to expand his |
| Anderson, World Com, Quest or America, because | | | | holdings. War is unavoidable. Peace is what they call |
| we perceive the machines are breaking down, as they | | | | the cease fires between battles. |
| always do. America is looking for its soul - and finding | | | | The empire builders need our support. They will have it |
| it. Hooray for America! | | | | if it takes scaring us to death and a lifetime of |
| The message of Tell-A-Vision is consume, consume, | | | | hypnotism. But as Ronald and Nancy Reagan told us, |
| consume. We have lost so much respect for the | | | | we can just say no. No, I won't depend on |
| customer of yesteryear, we are called consumers. | | | | warmongers to protect me from all the threats they |
| Implied in that label is the idea we produce nothing of | | | | themselves create. Nor will I pay them to provide you |
| value and our purpose in life is to consume what we | | | | with their wonderful services. It is so clearly a gang |
| are told, and like it. We are nothing if not obedient and | | | | style protection racket they run, in the name of the |
| we are sad to learn how much truth there is in this | | | | people. Throw out some life lines. Man the lifeboats. |
| implication. If and when we learn this truth that oils the | | | | |