B&C 1 of 3 ( article 1 of 2 today )

BEGGARS AND CHOOSERS
article 1 of 2 today

Beggars cannot be choosers.  When you are in a position to ask rather than tell, you are in a weakened bargaining position.  Even just being in a bargaining position, you have already lost any contest.  And you do understand, I beseech all the gods, the question that what is life-especially in an apocalypse-if not a contest?  I’m not talking about jockeying for position inside your tribe.  That is a far less hazardous, almost game like activity.  I’m talking the contest of life and death of your group against the world ( you may not die, just become a slave.  But you’ll see death quick enough ).

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If you don’t see the contest as one for all the marbles, you’ve already become a zombie and not even realized it ( like our economy, empire and civilization is now ).  And even if you DO realize you are in a contest, if you don’t play it the correct way you have lost before you began to play.  Let me give you an example of a preordained loss in a contest.  When you assign yourself a self imposed morality the other contestant doesn’t share.  I don’t mean any disrespect here, as the attitude is a commendable one, but it is a defeatist attitude nonetheless.

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The very common trait most in the prepper community share is one of old fashioned religious views.  Rather than your typical Papist member who uses birth control and refuses to believe in Gore Warming ( un-friggin-believable the current Pope to pushing that claptrap.  Next he’ll be ordaining females and fags ) and goes to church twice a year on Christmas and Easter, it seems many preppers are of far more fundamentalist views.  In fact, they are such adamant believers that I’m constantly amazed that I am accepted ( or at least tolerated ) as I am a blasphemous heathen. 

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That of course speaks highly of my minions, being logical and intelligent.  But there are some things they simply don’t accept.  I don’t judge, since as I stated their views are commendable.  They simply are NOT realistic for their own tribe of religious types.  Look, religions are just as political as any other group.  You have the Mormons suddenly deciding polygamy was bad after all once they decided statehood conferred more advantages than being a territory.  The Papists sanctioned torture when it made them money ( one wonders if their leftist leanings haven’t done the same the last few generations ).

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You must be more pragmatic than dogmatic in your religious practices geopolitically.  Feeling honor bound to strictly interpret the letter of their contract, they refuse to discharge their debts to the bankers.  The bankers who run our system are not only thieves,  taking all of the nations gold and taxing everyone through inflation, they are also murderers.  The wars of empire the bankers involved the nation in killed hundreds of thousands of our own people, maimed far more and killed millions of foreigners.  And you believe your contract with a thief and murderer is morally binding?

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Even if you refuse to yield on this core believe ( “it is for MY honor, not theirs” ), you need to think this through to its logical conclusion.  Your honor, if it endangers your family or tribe, is a dishonorable action.  In a contest of life and death, if you do NOT place the welfare of Yours before You, They will die.  You strongly believe you must render aid to outsiders?  You strongly believe you are honor bound to pay the thief that will continue to take MORE in the future by altering the contract?  Tough crap!  Your wife and children are more important than your obsolete loyalty to your OLD tribe.

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Loyalty is important, and yes it is important enough to die for.  In fact, without that “death before dishonor” attitude, you will never gain a tribe and survive.  What you are not understanding is that when your old tribe is disloyal to YOU, you must become disloyal to your tribe, and branch out on your own or join another.  And guess what, kids?  Your nation state run by the bankers is NO LONGER LOYAL to you!  Loyalty must be a two way street.  Loyalty must be returned, even if it hurts or it costs.  What you are doing is assuming the pain and money loss, but your current tribe is NOT. 

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This isn’t about profit or loss anyway, it is about tribal loyalty.  It was fine and dandy for a time that your tribe was a huge nation run by greedy humpers.  You could live with the greed, as it was just The Cost Of Doing Business.  The bankers were greedy asshats, but that was okay because you were getting a return on that institutionalized bribery in the form of imperial treasure.  That was the agreement.  We will fight and die for the empire, as long as we share in the spoils.  It isn’t about the money, it is about the promise to share.  Once the sharing stopped, it wasn’t about the sacrifice of losing the treasure, it was about the one sided sacrifice, the promise reneged.  The loyalty started only going one way.

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So, this is the difficult part, understanding that your current tribe should be your former tribe because of the breech of trust and the disloyalty on their part.  You desperately want to hold on to what you had, as we all need and desire and benefit from tribe.  But at some point in time, just like a divorce or putting in your two weeks notice at work, you have to sever ties no matter how painful ( I’m not talking about Going Galt, I’m saying you need to withdraw your loyalty and fealty ).  Then, once that difficulty is over, you need to do the next hard thing which is making sure you don’t screw up and join a tribe that is also problematic.

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That is where we’ll go tomorrow, trying to avoid joining dysfunctional tribes.  Because as important as tribes are, if they cannot survive they are useless ( and no, I’m not saying you leave a group that is going to die.  You only leave a tribe that has failed to return your loyalty.  But you sure can try to not join a soon to fail tribe in the first place.

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