What is required to liberate us from the absolute stronghold the debt narrative has over our industrial global culture?
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Once upon a time there was a community that believed strongly in a story. The story brought them goods and services, hopes and dreams, along with stress and imprisonment. The story was given to them but they never were aware of its origins or purpose. Instead they lived their lives by it and never questioned it. Today this community numbers in the billions. The story is told over and over as countless individuals spend their entire lives entangled by it. This is the story of debt.
Today our species is about 200,000 years old. Only in the last 12,000 years has the story of debt entered the picture. With the agricultural revolution and the development of civilization came the greatest trick ever played upon humanity. Debt controls our very lives whether we are personally considered in debt or not. Just the threat of it or even the obligation to collect it from another has trapped us into something we cannot seem to escape.
In terms of how the debt game is played, what is required to liberate us from such a trap is considered sacrilegious to all–the owners, the operators and the players of the game. We’re not supposed to unravel it and are ostracized for even considering escape. The penalties for getting out of the game are ever-looming. We were born into this story, into this game, and told the guidelines, rules and taboos. We had no say in how it was created and how it currently operates. Each of us are owned and have been owned since our very first breath. In order to escape this paradigm wrapped in an enigma it will take a change of belief that goes to the very core of who we are (or who we think we are)–most of us anyway. This belief is stronger than any religious or ideological beliefs we may hold.
How do I know this? Simply because it’s the only belief that roughly 7 billion of us participate in every single day. We are wage slaves because debt looms over usor close by –always.
We yearn for change we can believe in.
We elect leaders because of it. We gravitate towards candidates every election cycle because of it. We want political revolutions, greatness and prosperity. We want and want some more but fail to see that, in our minds, confusing those wants with our true needs is part and parcel of the debt game. If we can differentiate our needs from our wants and then live with the outcome of living just for our needs then the debt game is over. We want so much and that simply pulls us further and further down the drain of debt.
My wife and I recognized our needs and distinguished them from our wants. We prioritized. We made a choice and can live with the outcome. The outcome is a having a bad credit score. The outcome is working for cash. The outcome is working for trade. The outcome is gifting. The outcome is not owning land. The outcome is living simply. The outcome is buying used. The outcome is sharing. The outcome is avoiding creditors. The outcome is not caring about what others think. The outcome is living in community. The outcome is happiness beyond our wildest dreams. The outcome is watching people we care about continue to struggle because of their loyalty to a story. Our new story is liberation from incarceration.
I wrote an article a couple of years ago where I mentioned that my wife and I don’t have jobs and this makes people nervous. If you read the article that’s fine, but I recommend at least reading the negative comments. These comments will demonstrate the absolute stronghold the debt narrative has over our industrial global culture. They will bring to the surface any beliefs you may still harbor about a story that was placed upon our shoulders at birth. Learning from the incarceration of others may set you free.
It worked for us. Chase a different carrot.
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