Self-Sufficiency: A Local Solution to a Global Problem Reposted & edited for new site: Alternative Thai News Network (ATNN). Tony Cartalucci ATNN - LD October 28, 2012 ~ For an extreme in-depth look at Thailand's "Sufficiency Economy" and "New Theory" economics, please see, "Wisdom from the Orient: Self-Sufficiency."
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Introduction
When thinking about "solutions" many are quick to cite organizing a protest and taking to the streets. Let's for a moment consider the mechanics of a protest, what it might accomplish, and what it may leave to be desired.
Understanding Globalization
As of late, the expansion of this global oligarchical empire has taken a more extreme, perhaps desperate form involving staged revolutions as seen in Egypt and Tunisia, and in Libya's case, armed rebellion and foreign military intervention. However, worldwide coup d'etats have occurred before - for example, in the late 1990's under the guise of a "financial collapse" and IMF "restructuring."
Many nations fell beholden to the IMF and its regiment of "reforms" which amounted to neo-colonialism packaged under the euphemism of "economic liberalization." To illustrate how this works, it may help to understand what real colonialism looked like.
>>Also, such problems inevitably lead to a centralized government increasing its own power, always at the expense of the people and their freedom. The effects of economic catastrophe are also greater in a centralized, interdependent society, where everyone is subject to the overall health of the economy for even simple necessities like food, water, and electricity.
Image: A slide presenting the "New Theory" depicting a manifestation of greed leading the people from their rural private property and into a "city of extravagance." If Agenda 21 had an illustrated cover, this could be it.
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Image: The goal of the "New Theory" is to have people return to the countryside from the cities and develop their communities in a self-reliant manner. It is, in other words, Agenda 21 in reverse.
>> It should be noted that permanent socialism is not
self-sufficiency. It is complete dependency on the state and on people
who pay their ever increasing taxes. Socialism is not about growing your
own garden, using technology to enhance your independence or solving
your problems with your own resources. It is about taking from the
collective storehouses of the state, and when you are again hungry,
taking again. Socialism could only be very useful as a stop-gap measure
between current problems and the active pursuit of permanent technical solutions.
However, the goal of globalization is to create interdependency between
states, and total dependency on global institutions, therefore,
perpetuating problems, not solving them becomes the equation.
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