Screens...

I didn't write this, but it's an old favorite that I just thought about as I sat here in front of this glowing screen....

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How many hours a day do you spend in front of a television screen?
A computer screen?
Behind an automobile windscreen?
All three screens combined?
What are you being screened from?
How much of your life comes at you through a screen, vicariously?
Is watching things as exciting as doing things?
Do you have enough time to do all the things that you want to?
Do you have enough energy to? Why?
And how many hours a day do you sleep?
How are you affected by standardized time, designed solely to synchronize your movements with those of millions of other people?
How long do you ever go without knowing what time it is?
Who or what controls your minutes and hours?
The minutes and hours that add up to your life?
Are you saving time?
Saving it up for what?
Can you put a value on a beautiful day, when the birds are singing and people are walking around together? How many dollars an hour does it take to pay you to stay inside and sell things or file papers?
What can you get later that will make up for this day of your life?

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Home, Sweet Home.

why we are wage slaves

Because we are coerced, through the threat of violence, every night of our lives, into paying someone else for the privilege of laying our heads down to sleep.  Because every alternative, every other option, has been made impossible or criminalized.  We cannot legally eat food, sleep, or even defecate without paying another person for the privilege of doing so or risking the penalties associated with doing so illegally. 

Sleeping [legal methods]: buying a home, condo, or other form of shelter.
            renting a home, apt, condo, etc from its owner.
            purchasing access to hotel facilities.
            securing permission from someone who already does one of the above to sleep in their shelter.                     (indirect wage slavery)
            camping (short term) on public lands where free camping is permitted.

    [illegal methods]: sleeping in a shelter (home, car, RV, warehouse, apt) or on property owned by someone             else without their permission.
            sleeping in a public place other than permitted camping area.
            sleeping in a car or other vehicle.
           
    - All long-term, legal methods of sleeping require direct or indirect (dependent on those with direct) participation in the wage economy.  All methods of sleeping not requiring participation in the wage economy have been criminalized thus forcing involuntary participation in the wage economy.  Those who refuse to voluntarily participate in the wage economy are coerced into compliance by arrest and compulsary attendance at court proceeding.  Those who refuse to voluntarily participate in the wage economy and also refuse to voluntarily participate in the "justice" system are locked up.  Those who refuse to voluntarily participate in the wage economy, the "justice" system, and who actively and physically defend themselves by refusing to submit to being locked up, are beaten, shot, and/or killed. 

    -The eventual outcome of refusal to participate in all levels of the wage economy is violence perpetrated by the state. 

(This applies to long term LIVING.  Yes, one can sleep, defacate, and eat legally without participating in the money/wage economy on a short term basis on certain public lands.    However, even public lands have occupancy limits after which one can be ticketed, fined, and/or arrested for continuing to occupy a campsite.  In addition, primitive hunting and trapping is illegal and thus hunting for food requires participation in the wage economy for the purchase of weapons and permits.  And yes, many thousands of homeless people sleep unperturbed by the "authorities" every night all over the county.  The fact remains that they are doing so illegally and at some point, if/when confronted by a law-enforement agent, they must submit or suffer the consequence.)

For entertainment, do this excercize with drinking clean water, eating nourishing food - see what you come up with. 

haz-mat monster

siding siding siding....

Siding removal begins (again)

Not having walls - it really brightens the house up.   
Notice the his and her toilets...those will be side by side in the master bath.   Pink and blue toilet seats, respectively. 
 
Just kidding. 

SAVE A SURFACE MINER - SHOOT A TREE HUGGER (spotted on a car on US-119S)

 

Or, we could band together to destroy the coal companies that are pillaging our homeland, and in so doing, save the mountains that have given both the surface miner and the tree hugger's ancestors clean water to drink, abundant food, and a breathtaking landscape for eons.   Yes, there was life (and happiness) before coal..  What will be left when the strip miner has worked himself out of a job?

the old kitchen floor comes up...

Check out the gunk in this drain line!