Reply #223: I disagree, and I've walked the walk

[greengestalt]

Helped my Grandfather live his last years in dignity and it didn't hurt my college or job.
Learned a lot that helped me much later from him, esp. as we are undergoing a recession/depression.


What is undergoing is the "Assault on the family" by the elite interests. Now, most on the left wince at "Assault on the Family" thinking of the right who use it as a buzz phrase to justify hate speech on those with, ahem, 'alternative' lifestyle choices. But there is an assault on the family done by rich elite corporate interests that has been going on for centuries now. More or less it's outlined in 1984. Remove the family, remove the lover, the state becomes the new family, the new love.


An old school family is a "Clan" where they all live in the same building or collection of buildings and everyone contributes to the collective pot, sharing good and hard times together. The old people are usually active and do what they can too, the hobby of 'whittling' got its start in old people using knives to cut kindling for fires.


The factory system doesn't like this. A collective family can support members during a long strike and periods of unemployment. A collective family wants not just money, but time from their members. A collective family will remember how much money someone working an 'outside job' sent them, so when he's "Burned and Turned" he can come home and rest for a long time and either look for another job later or re-join the family fully. And a collective family is a political unit that can work with others to use representative democracy to its fullest.


The controllers want every man an island alone, always fearful and on the edge of a cliff ready to lose everything if the powers that be (of man) will it. A scared, frustrated, constantly unfulfilled individual and even those they allow to become "Successful" will always be too fearful of losing everything to try to do anything out of line.


And, look at the families of the rich elite, especially the very long lasting fortunes. Overall, though they have a lot more space and more homes, yachts, etc. They tend to behave like the "Clan" system themselves. Young are nurtured, the family money is sheltered, very very venerable people still have a lot of respect and say. They just don't want "The masses" to do what they should and take away some of their wealth.


But you mentioned the issue of long term care and advanced age. Well, there's a solution to that. Too much medicine is wasted not to save or improve life, but by prolonging death. Instead of doing nothing but prolonging pain, one should accept a gradual decline and death, using medicine only for comfort and quality of life and as little as reasonable.


And, when/if they achieve total control, the elite will simply start "Euthanizing" people once they get too old or outright "Exterminating" undesirables, like those fired too often or unwilling to work for them.


BTW-That and Muhammed's forbiddance on Usury are the main reasons behind the pogrom to purge Islam and exterminate much of the Arab population. It's written in Islam to care for elderly, to not abandon them. That's not a primitive thing, its an advanced thing. But the controllers, the parasites do not want that.