We are van lifers, so freedom is our forte. I’d like to muse how we will all define our life and freedom in the time of the Great Reset. What we will tell our descendants someday. We have the freedom to choose, and I think the era we are living in now demands we choose freedom, any form of it, before it is too late.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
– Viktor frankl
That to me means a great many of things, and even when one holds onto any freedoms at all, it is a show of strength. To live any life in wild color, is perfect, but to us, we’ll do our best in van life.
Van Life is what we do, but it has always been more of what we believe in. Everyone, van life or sans van life, should appreciate Jefferson’s revolutionary sentiment.
I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.
Thomas Jefferson
I do not know why I feel the need to speak out against the Great Reset, probably because I am an overthinking Gemini. But the Great Reset is the Titanic, and most of us don’t have a spot on the lifeboat.
The Great Reset, Stakeholder Capitalism, Blah, Blah, Blah
The Great Reset as imagined by Klaus Schwab; it sounds like we are all in a computer with a bad hard drive. Not just a reset, the great reset. Now, I guess it’s conspiracy to repeat what was actually said by him, that we will “own nothing, and be happy.” So I skimmed the book Covid-19: The Great Reset.
Let me use the officially sanctioned stakeholder capitalism term instead. Authored by the same trickster, Stakeholder Capitalism: A Global Economy that Works for Progress, People and Planet is full of doublespeak. Schwab is asking us to trust the same system (shareholder capitalism) that created what we have today, and reimagine it as a new word, or world (stakeholder capitalism). It’s just more of the same. I grew up hearing the adage fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice; and it fits here pretty good. Let me pull out a little Einstein, too.
No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it.
Albert Einstein
Well, how about the same consciousness and even the same people? Shareholder or stakeholder, it is simply the top 1% gets to get more, and we get to get less. It is a system where private corporations continue to swallow our rights. But I don’t think it is inevitable.
I always like to revisit the quote by Ghandi, because it is a good roadmap to life.
“Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny”
– Ghandi
An All-American Freedom Grab
To me, as a freedom lover and a van lifer, the creatively renamed stakeholder capitalism agenda is clear: to take everything that exists in the physical world: medicine, schools, housing, farmers, industry and re-imagine it. In other words, reimagine how much worse the already race-to-the-bottom shareholder capitalism profit machine can be.
We were born to be the master of our life and our dreams, and I think many of us are falling asleep at the wheel. Citizens that think it is normal to have to pay a private corporation to enter a National Park, our public lands, is a start. And when everywhere from our crowded cities to remote National Parks are now lawless places, what good is that stakeholder capitalism? We are stakeholders that get all the costs with no benefits.
The Great Reset is a jump into the unknown for all of us, like it or not. So how can we as citizens of any respective corporatocracy fight Goliath? Maybe by sharing creative ideas, while our First Amendment rights to speech and assembly are still left standing. I guess if nothing else, we can all go out into nature, where we are always free. “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks” – John Muir
Finding Forgotten Inherent Freedom
Some of us have literally forgotten the most precious of freedoms. Just for the mere fact we were born on this earth completes our inherent freedoms that cannot be taken away. They are rights beyond law, they exist from the Divine. We’ve been conditioned to believe our most important rights are the ones written down in the Constitution, and this is deceit. Freedoms only written can easily be taken away through corrupt government, and I bet they will be as the Great Reset creeps along.
An epic tale was never written in ease; and the pendulum does swing. But, it might not always come back the way we want for many eons. We were warned. “Liberty once lost, is lost forever” – Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 7 July 1775.
