Just a Thought About What Laws Really Do

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." ~ Plato 

Good people are good, and will do good things, and if they chose to do bad things the laws will not stop them, because they had no choice. For example if a good persons child is starving, and they can not figure out any other way to feed the child short of stealing something. The good person may engage in an immoral act of theft, because letting their child starve would be even more immoral, but no law would ever stop them from doing so.

Bad people will ponder over ways around the laws, so that they can conduct the immoral actions without any punishment. They will figure out ways to steal and not be punished. This causes harm to good people, but the good people because laws prevent them are discouraged from doing anything about it. 

What laws end up doing then is protecting bad people, allowing them to do as they please to good people. Good people thinking that following the law is the most moral thing to do, do not seek justice for themselves. Laws therefore cause injustices to be committed, and no punishment to befall the one committing the injustice. 

However without laws the same good people will continue to do good things, and when a bad person preys upon them that person will be stopped and a reasonable punishment bestowed upon them. How do I know the punishment will be reasonable? They are good people, and no good person would want to bestow an unjust punishment on any other person. When some good person does a immoral thing, because they saw no other way, than a just punishment would also befall them. We have good people being punished for the slightest of indiscretions, and bad people who gave their actions a whole lot more thought getting away with their indiscretions.  

The Need For Money

Does anyone else remember being young, and thinking it was actually possible to create a money tree? How about the first $100 bill you got, it seemed like you could get anything you ever wanted to with it? The first job you ever got, and how rich you felt?

You may be wondering why I bring all these things up. It is because starting at a very young age, we are taught that money is what we need, money will get us everything we want, money is the end all be all of existence. If you have lots of money, you are successful, and worth more than those who have less money. If you have very little money, than you are lazy, you have failed, you are a bum. These things are programmed in us, starting very young. We are bribed with money by our parents. Get good grades, do your chores, and so on, and we will give you x amount of dollars.

We were lied to, it wasn't our parents that lied to us, and they were lied to too. Our government depends on people wanting money, if people don't want money, than this whole thing called government comes crashing down. What we need and want is food, shelter, entertainment, novelty items, and so on. No one really needs or wants money, they need and want the things money can buy.

What if I told you there were other ways to get those thing? That money is just one way to get what you need and want. You could chose to work for a farmer, and instead of being paid in money, you could get paid in a percentage of the crops. You could trade your labor with a landlord in exchange for rent. You could trade, and barter, and get wages in forms that are not money.

What is the point right, there is a point to everything, so why do I tell you what many already know, but just don't think about every day. The point is it is this worship for money that is instilled in us at a very young age that causes many of us to never feel satisfied. You can make more and more money, but no matter how much you make it seems you just find more things to spend it on. What if I told you, you don't need more money, you are fine, and you have enough? We must stop this worshiping of money that has become so prevalent in our society. It is destroying us. I am not advocating communism, I am not preaching a socialist construct, I am simply asking everyone to recognize that it is not money that nourishes you. We do not need to suckle off the Federal Reserve tit. We can even be capitalists, and still not need money. Money is a tool, it makes trading easier, but it is not something we need, it is not something to worship like many do. 

Myths and About Me

Myth one: Land is too expensive, it will take millions to get enough land. This stems from people who have looked for lots of land that is already zoned for residential. I am not looking to buy residential land, I am looking to buy farm land, and you can get 70 to 100 acres for $200,000.

Myth two: This idea was tried several times in the 60's. In the 60's many communes came to be, true. This is not a commune, this does not try to force ideology on anyone, does not require anyone involved to contribute everything they have to it, and has very little in common with a commune. This is an attempt to make a self-sufficient township, the goal is to make it not that much different than living in any other town, just hopefully be able to produce all that we need, and limit governments involvement in our lives some.

Myth three: This will be a barter only economy. I don't even know where that one comes from, there might be bartering, people might use the US dollar, people might use an electronic currency I plan to make, the economy will be completely up to what the residents chose to do. The idea is more freedom, not to force people to do things they don't want to do.

This idea is very doable, I have done my research, and I know what I am doing.

About me a little:

I am a 36 yo computer programmer, I know plumbing, some construction, how to make construction materials, good knowledge of growing crops, and livestock, all things computer oriented, mechanics, and more. I am a knowledgeable individual. I understand economics, and sociology, which will allow me to organize a community with a great chance of success. I believe in freedom, I am not a dictator, my goal is to give people more freedom, not less. A fee similar to paying city taxes, will be all that is expected of you, and it is likely to be less than your current city taxes.

In conclusion, please ask questions, and don't jump to conclusions, because chances are your conclusions are wrong.

Thanks
Andy Shambaugh

As a Nation Slowly Falls

I watch in horror, as the place I call home changes before my eyes. The evidence is so plain to see for me, but many refuse its existence.

Corporations nurturing themselves, by suckling off the government tit. I picture a beautiful vibrant creature with many heads, and numerous tits, all of them occupied by a corporation, bank, or politician. More are coming, but where shall they go? As they approach closer, one tit becomes two, and they greedily begin to take their nourishment. They were fat as they approached, but now grow fatter, as they take their stolen nourishment. On the other side of this animal is one tit, and many faceless beings struggle to get at it. This tit does not split into two as the ones on the front of the animal, this tit remains only one, and the animal seems to struggle to ignore its existence, and the existence of the skinny, starving, who so desperately crave nourishment, at its backside. At times it is momentarily distracted as the numbers multiply at its backside. It then allows drops of nourishment from this back tit, as soon as the numbers at its back dwindle the nourishment is shut down, as if the meager drops it was providing on its backside was too much of a sacrifice for the greedy at its front to sustain.

Police enforcing the will of the wealthy. I picture an army, so strong in numbers, and with weapons capable of immense destruction. At its backside there are people who have grown fat, they bark orders at this army, which it follows without question. At the army’s front is a crowd that that is so immense that it dwarfs the size of even this great army. The army divides this crowd into smaller groups, and then attacks the smaller groups with great force. The portion of the crowd not divided yet stares in horror, and voices their displeasure, but they continue to stand and watch. As I watch this I cannot help but imagine that if it is to continue that the large crowd will continue to dwindle in size, until it becomes nothing. Many in the crowd now huddle among each other, the army sees them as no longer a threat, and the army now ignores them. The vast army continues to split the portion of the crowd that stands against them into smaller groups, and they continue to decimate the smaller groups. The rest of the crowd continues to stand and watch.