- An endless supply.
- An A-Z choice.
- What you want, when you want it.
- Not my responsibility.
This is the allure of industrialisation.
But it only works by scale. To make it work, you need enough subscriptions to make it possible and worth your while.
For the subscribers: instant gratification and ease.
But at what cost? (‘cus there is always a cost, right?)
Whilst we don’t need to re-run the obvious oligarchic control and power consolidation theories, what is worth resurfacing is the kingdom of distribution.
Rule by many, rather than by few.
First:-
The Default.
By nature, wealth is distributed. Not concentrated.
Sure, there can be wealthier pockets of resources than others.
But in general, you’re likely to find opportunity pretty much anywhere in nature.
Think of mineral deposits.
Arable produce.
Livestock.
It all exists across vast landscapes.
It’s spread out.
Just think of the 200+ countries of the world and how none of them lacks a useful and sustainable quota of natural resources.
By design.
This natural advantage allows every populace to look after itself. To self-sustain.
This is dominion. A kingdom…if preserved, occupied and defended.
There’s enough for everybody.
It doesn’t mean everybody has everything – but it does mean that ‘together‘: everybody has everything.
There’s a distinct difference.
The complete picture takes:
- Collaboration
- Contribution
- Communication
A unified effort to make the most of what we’ve got.
And the final and possibly most powerful of all…
Contentment.
Where there is contentment, there is quiet and safety.
But where discontentment resides, grave danger hides.
(And the convenience trap is only a whisper away.)
If contentment is king, then convenience is a coup.
But an uprising doesn’t just arise without a spark and a lot of fanning.
The art of suggestion, practiced well with all subtlety, is what starts it.
The presentation of an alternative reality, where the apparent subjects are loved and treated better by a king who will give them what they ask as a demonstration of his love.
A temptation. A petition.
And we said earlier, it’s nothing without support. But with enough subscriptions, action becomes possible.
And then suddenly, amidst a din of maddening cries and shouting – the unthinkable:
They overthrew all they had.
And who they did it for now has the reins.
And sadly for them, the who was their desire for more – which they then become locked in a downward spiral with throughout generations of punishing repercussions.
- Runaway inflation
- Soaring debt
- Dependence on industry for everything
- Disinheritance
- Unemployment
…the list continues…
Effectively, a dearth.
Yet if we look around (and the irony is the next part would be true had it not been for the driest summer on record)…the hills and valleys are just as green and pleasant as they’ve ever been.
So nature hasn’t robbed us. It remains just as abundant as before.
So somebody did this.
But who do we blame?
The whisperer? Or those enticed by itching ears?
And how do we reverse this?
A cry for redistribution of wealth?
Or a reinstitution of self?
Going back to bearing the load oneself and being content with what happens regardless.
And accepting the reality of:
- Your portion being exactly that – no more, no less.
- And that all portions shared is more than we could ever want.
- And that, as a people, there is strength in the primacy and indivisibility of unity.
The Smallholdings Team.