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Old November 9th 10, 04:20 PM posted to alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent,uk.rec.cycling,rec.bicycles.misc,rec.bicycles.soc,misc.consumers.frugal-living
His Highness the TibetanMonkey & the Free Spirits of the Jungle
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Default Bunker in and let the world fall apart!

(This is an overall exposition of my ideas, aka Wisdom of the Jungle.
It's not my style to be long, but challenges such as these deserve
proper attention. Perhaps someday school children will be avidly
reading stories of the jungle such as these. I don't think even Dalai
Lama can be this deep --or free)

On Nov 8, 4:44 pm, Deidzoeb wrote:
On Nov 8, 3:29 pm, "His Highness the TibetanMonkey & the Free Spirits
of the Jungle" wrote:

On Nov 8, 3:02 pm, Deidzoeb wrote:


The thing is to lay out the SOLUTIONS that even a monkey can follow....


I read some kind of anarchist article suggesting that if we organize
communities well enough and they thrive and become really successful,
there would be no need to persuade other people or lobby to change the
system or society or the govt, because people would want to copy those
techniques and make their own communities successful and thriving.
Awesome theory, but I'm afraid some people are so dumb they wouldn't
notice, or so greedy they'd want to keep being capitalists.


The thing, my friend, is the capitalist lion doesn't want competition.
Too many of those tired of our communities breaking down would rather
live in a kibbutz or similar enterprise.


Chomsky sometimes mentions kibbutzes as examples of anarchist
communities that have been successful, although he has said the modern
ones in Israel have turned right-wing, if I remember correctly. I
don't know much about them.


They are also places where people move for SAFETY. The lion can't
provide us safety, we must look for ourselves. I'm sure there's no
place for the homeless either. I really don't understand how these
rich capitalist societies can't deal with their own homeless and then
dump the problem to charity. This charity then is tended by the
churches where they manage the food, and WHOEVER CONTROLS THE FOOD,
CONTROLS THE JUNGLE...

(yet another story)

HOW THE LION BENEFITS FROM THE LITTLE ANIMALS' POVERTY

One day all the little animals went up to the King of the Jungle and
complained about their poverty, and in particular about the fact that
every time, during the dry season, they had to travel long distances
to drink the precious fluid, and demanded a WATER WELL be built for
them... They cited how the resources that they contributed to the
kingdom were wasted in WARS and EXTRAVAGANT PROJECTS to the tastes of
the King... He, however, replied with all kinds of excuses: the lack
of resources, that it wasn't a matter of him not wanting it, but that
it was a matter of "priorities" --which was one of his favorite
words...

Meanwhile, an Owl --who had very good eyes-- had been observing life
in the jungle, and thought this way: "Every time there's a dry season
the little animals must come to the little dirty waterhole where the
Lion waits for them... Had they been well fed and strong, he would
have had to run after them and even risk resistance. And, more
importantly, the little animals are forced to fight the Lion's wars as
the quick way out of poverty..."

And that's how the Owl landed an important --and well paid-- post in
the brand new Astronomy Department created by the King of the Jungle --
to the effect of exploring life in other planets...


One thing we can do is fund
and educate the people with Credit Union funds, which is people's
money anyway. Imagine that possibility for those surviving at the edge
in Mexico. Hey, but there would be no cheap labor for America!


The secret is that we could easily afford products made with expensive
American labor, and afford to feed, clothe, shelter and educate
everyone in the world through high school and up to college if we
chose to spend money on that instead of wars and fantasy missile
defense systems.


All these issues are as complex as the jungle, so my model helps in
understanding the complexity and inter connectivity of the problem.

Yes, stopping that waste of the lion will help provide water for all.
Notice I'm not for multiplying the aid to Africa. They must grow their
own rice and beans, which they can. We can help them with technologies
and know-how though.


I don't know what the solution is to helping everyone around the world
have good standards of living, because if we try to keep manufacturing
jobs in America, are we taking jobs away from Mexico and China and
elsewhere? I don't think jobs are necessarily the solution anyway,
because that might be helping capitalists make more for themselves,
not necessarily helping workers get what they deserve.


Buying a big SUV certainly doesn't help anyone and I'm yet to see
American workers refuse to make them. So let the SUVs go the way of
the dinosaurs along with anyone behind them. I often see towns
dependent on the military industry fight for their jobs. Hey, let them
eat peanuts.


Like I see these bumper stickers: "Out of work yet? Keep buying
foreign."

Okay, I'm glad they acknowledge that the free market is full of fail
and they need subsidies to keep businesses afloat. (Choosing to buy
American is like a subsidy, because you're sacrificing some extra
money to pay for a product you could get cheaper from somewhere else.)
Although they wouldn't admit it's a subsidy.


You must make a conscious choice as to what lion to feed. Cheaper
prices make you forget you are feeding communism but it's still real.


But let's say I spend an extra couple thousand dollars to buy a Ford
that gets lower gas mileage and maybe isn't as reliable as a Toyota.
That would be subsidizing some American workers at Ford, but it's also
subsidizing American capitalists, people who are going to profit from
Ford but who don't do any work to deserve it. Why do I need to
subsidize those parasites? If I was going to subsidize American jobs,
how about a company that was owned and managed by the workers who
deserve it.


That's choosing NOT to feed any lion. There was a bicycle manufacturer
from Oregon producing recumbents, but I think the competition from
Taiwan made them quit. I'm not against competition from Taiwan where
they have a better healthcare system than America. They also produce
very good scooters, something we could be using more. (Not sure of
their carbon footprint though.)

I don't know how to boil this idea down to fit on a bumper sticker
response though. "Still buying American? How's that working out for
ya? Have they been loyal and kept you working even in hard times? Are
you supporting the workers or the rich people who can afford to invest
in Ford?"


And you are feeding Climate Change as well.


Ugh.



Here's the lion...


THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE


Once upon a time, in the deep jungle, lived a Lion and a Monkey... One
day the Monkey, tired of the Lion taking the LION'S SHARE, and seeing
that such injustice represented a danger to all, demanded JUSTICE...
The Lion, yawning and stretching, said, "You would have to have paws
and sharp teeth..." Then the Monkey, who was very clever, devised a
plan: He would go to the costume store, and look like a lion...


When the HUNGRY LION saw him, noticing that the new lion wasn't a
match for him, and fearing COMPETITION, killed him on the spot --
before the indifferent look of the little animals of the jungle... And
that's how the Law of the Jungle was re-established one more time...
(NOTE: Other monkeys survived him...)


Yeah, I don't know how we declaw the lions. And violent revolution
would probably just replace the old lions with some new lions (given
that the people who could best carry out violent revolutions are lion-
ish).


We must pacify the beast and give him a banana, a symbol of peace in
the jungle.


Dude, have you read any stories by Subcomandante Marcos? He writes
little parables about cockroaches and stuff, they're pretty cute and
manage to get across political ideas. Sounds right up your alley. Or
maybe that's where you read some of this?


These jungle stories are mine and have led to this funny character of
Wise TibetanMonkey. Well, even Buddha is being questioned. They gave
me a tough choice: "Do you want to be a Monk and live without sex?"
And I said, "No way, I'd rather be a Monkey!"

Anyway, I haven't read SubComandante Marcos --I'm ComandanteBanana--
but have read this Mexican writer, whose most famous story I
reproduce:

The story reads, in its entirety:

Cuando despertó, el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí.
("When [s]he awoke, the dinosaur was still there.")

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusto_Monterroso

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Don't you wished this DINOSAUR went away?


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