Localism in the 2020s, Part 5 (Pandemic) – It All Starts With You

And it was in the midst of shouts rolling against the terrace wall in massive waves that waxed in volume and duration, while cataracts of colored fire fell thicker through the darkness, that Dr. Rieux resolved to compile this chronicle, so that he should not be one of those who hold their peace but should bear witness in favor of those plague-stricken people; so that some memorial of the injustice and outrage done them might endure; and to state quite simply what we learn in times of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise.

– Albert Camus, The Plague

It’s likely the past few weeks have been some of the most surreal you’ve ever experienced; I know it’s been the case for me. The largest cities in the U.S. are essentially on lockdown, the stock market is in free fall and grocery stores are being stripped bare. It feels like a very dark moment, but in such darkness I see the light of a new beginning. A new beginning that starts with each and every one of us.

One of the things that helped me navigate the last couple of months in a state of relative calm is a longstanding understanding that something of this sort was inevitable. Not a pandemic necessarily, but something was bound to come along and slam us unexpectedly, and that when it did, the impact would be shockingly disruptive given how completely brittle and phony our economies and societies have become.

It’s this deep-seated recognition that the world paradigm we reside in isn’t long for the ages which allowed me to stay focused and relatively unemotional as this pandemic unfolded. I’m also extremely lucky to have a wife who showed tremendous resolve and decisiveness by immediately taking preparations for our family all the way back in January, before even I was ready to act in a meaningful way. While people called what we were doing panicking, it was just thoughtful and reasonable preparation. Preparation that allowed us to remain calm in early March as things started shutting down, and as many found themselves flatfooted and confused.

As a result of our being emotionally robust as things unfolded, we were able to help friends and family in some small, but important ways. In one case, I was able to successfully help nudge a friend into convincing his wife not to fly overseas to a wedding just a few days ago. I was also able to share resources with a friend in Seattle early on, which made him more aware of the severity of the crisis and prompted him to get groceries before the crowds descended. Most importantly, I connected with a close friend who’s a doctor in a hospital in NYC, and was able to get key thoughts and information into his hands well before many people in his profession were taking it seriously. Knowing I was able to make a material difference in certain people’s lives, which they in turn were able to do for others in their own circles, has been a tremendous blessing.

I’m not sharing this to toot my own horn. Regular readers know I rarely discuss my personal life on these pages, but the reason I mention this now is to demonstrate that anyone can do what I did and have a meaningful impact. I didn’t need a blog or a big platform to have important discussions with friends. I was able to calmly take action and reach out to them because we had already prepared and accepted what was likely coming. Anyone can do this.

It’s impossible to overstate the impact you can have as an individual in times like these. We’ve all seen the federal government response. From statements like “it’s just the flu,” to Trump signing charts of a short-covering rally in the stock market and the CDC’s inability or unwillingness to test Americans in the early days, this entire episode should prove to you once and for all that the centralized cavalry isn’t coming. You are the cavalry.

In Part 3 of this series on localism, I described units of sovereignty starting with the most significant and basic unit: the individual. It’s in such moments of crisis that we’re each provided with a rare window of opportunity to see things a little differently, to alter our perspectives and even our consciousness. The financial crisis a decade ago was the most transformative experience of my life, specifically because it so completely shook me to my core that it changed me at my core. My entire life trajectory was forever altered in a positive way as a result of how I processed that crisis since it pushed me to see the world and my role in it from an entirely different, and far more healthy, point of view. I suspect the current moment in time will do a similar thing for countless others. It will give billions of people the space to question everything, which is precisely what we need to be doing.

I know a lot of people are concerned the centralized government will use this crisis as an opportunity to become more authoritarian, and I get that concern. While I think it may seem like that at first, I truly believe the opposite outcome is what will transpire in the medium and longer-term. I think this moment will provide the space to question everything and to reverse course. It won’t come from the top down, it must come from the bottom up, and I think it will. Stay safe, stay focused, and do what you can.

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16 thoughts on “Localism in the 2020s, Part 5 (Pandemic) – It All Starts With You”

  1. Love your articles & your ideas – agree 100%… this is a turning point Michael – it’s not only greening the planet, it’s exposing the whole rigged game… Best wishes

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  2. Yes it all starts with the individual… who chooses to prepare and then extend themselves to the other units who all make up the unitary whole, as in we’re all this together. Perhaps talking politics is outside this picture, but I don’t think so. I think at this time of crisis, we need to see a bigger picture, so I offer Stephen Zarlenga’s (and others) plan. Check the link to the IMF analysts’ take on ‘The Chicago Plan’.

    I also wonder if now isn’t the time to press for the Universal Basic Income to stimulate the dying economy from the demand side…. maybe the vultures to whom we’ve sold ‘our’ country are unsettled enough to consider it… not to mention the crying need for Medicare for All. (FDR needed the suffering of the Great Depression… )

    https://www.monetary.org/pdfs/home/AMI.pdf

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    • I deeply disagree. it starts with small groups / clusters of families, not the individual. authoritarianism starts with fooling people that it starts with the ‘individual’ and preoccupation with individualism leads people to selfish consumerism, so they are more easily divided and conquered.

      me too.
      me me me.
      I”m not a christian, but the truth to power dialogue of christianity, or any ‘new’ religion for that matter starts not with ‘me’ but with a higher power, with unity, with small groups of like minded people forming radical consensus in the face of destructive forces and chaotic mob behavior.

    • I always make a point of reading the thoughtful comments you make here. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe the Chicago Plan was put forth in response to a call by FDR for solutions to end the Great Depression..What eventually was written up instead as legislation as the solution was the Glass Steagall Act of 1933 and other changes to the law such as amendments to the Trading with the Enemy Act, making all Americans basically enemies of the state, et cetera. I too am a fan of the American Monetary Institute and for years belonged to the Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform (COMER) its CDN equivalent. Of course now the fight is just to retain cash as currency when the central bank cabal is looking to introduce a one world crypto currency of their own using block chain tech as the settlement operation while bringing the entire world human population under their auspices. currently about 40% of the population does not have a bank account and therefore are beyond monetary control.A Steven Guinness out of the UK has been doing yoeman service in following the bankers moves to establish greater control over all of humanity over the years and is worth the read…link here: part 1 of 3 https://stevenguinness2.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/mapping-out-the-banking-elites-goal-for-a-cashless-monetary-system-part-one/
      .

      Universal basic income might be better used as a debt jubilee while society decides how real banking reforms must be made.
      “….but if you wish to remain the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and credit.”[as debt all owed to themselves]

  3. I wish I shared M.K’s optimism that the current event will awaken the people on a individual basis to their individuality and all the good that can come from each of us. Too many are too easily manipulated at one level or another. From being consumers of the MSM to consumers of limited hangout alt media platforms, both serving the pyramid cap.

    Knowing that this current medical event can’t even be scientifically pronounced a new and specific virus, let alone one that can produce illness in humans doesn’t help the fact of the manipulated and desired reaction of the population as requisite for the ulterior motives now greatly on display. The interconnections between this event and NWO institutions in their conspiracy to advance a power grab is just too obvious. The major players using this event are the WHO, the WEF (world economic forum of private public partnership tyranny), various UN agencies promoting Agenda 21 (Bloomberg’s new agency vetting corporations as to their greenness or threat of dissolution) the World Bank and others (NGOs) with their vast army of ‘agents of (NWO) change’ at the local level has been established by reading the documents at their various web sites. This supposed epidemic and others of recent years has been claimed to be the outcome of man made global warming by the head of the WHO if you care to see how it all dove tails.

    Myself, I managed to convince my wife of the need to stock pile within reason non perishable necessities back several years and to rotate use of the perishables so that we always have some in excess of our immediate needs. Corned beef keeps for over two years in the can if anyone is interested. My veggie garden can supply us (two people) with potatoes from one season to the end of harvest the next. Rice, wheat flour and the makings for bread is always a good idea. A freezer is great for frozen storage (sliced apples and such), especially if you hunt and harvest a deer or two to keep yourself in largely uncontaminated animal protein. Other stuff as you deem appropriate, like vitamin D3 etc…..

    https://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/does-2019-coronavirus-exist

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVrckUMUPAY

    good luck everyone….

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    • Yeah, its not the virus and it’s insignificant mortality rates that I fear. Only the response and how it the crisis being used. This is just like 9/11. Big event, that should be disruptive but isn’t, and rather seems tightly controlled, especially the aftermath, allowing leaders to benefit and “shine.”

  4. It is amazing how FEW people actually have a plan how life could be improved during or after a period of chaos such as we have now entered, and I am glad to hear of those who have one, regardless how similar or different to mine. (We cannot get anywhere if we don’t know WHERE we want to get to.) Herewith my plan in brief –
    1/ True democracy is the foundation for my proposal, and rule one is the abolition and outlawing of ALL and ANY political parties, collaboration, collusion, or “behind closed doors”deals, compromising the conscience or representative voice of any elected member.
    2/ PUBLIC utilities and services must be and remain publicly owned, funded, and CONTROLLED. – Health, police, army, roads, prisons, to name only some obvious ones.
    3/ BANKING must be included as a PUBLIC service, not a private or corporate “for profit” undertaking.
    4/ Funding of all public services should be through a very simply collected and universally contributed tax on TRANSACTIONS – not on earnings, income, savings, profits, or any other complicated combination.

    Other PUBLIC services would become obvious with a little reflection, and directed and ensured by 1/.

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  5. I actually felt embarrassed and sorry for them yesterday as I watched gym employees wipe equipment and mop the floor nonstop, continuously, in the name of a hoax. The numbers of deaths just don’t rate this response. Now I know how the legions gathering seashells on Caligula’s orders felt. But everyone staying home and committing economic suicide to show their obedience to and trust in the admitted serial liar that taxes us is in the same boat.

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    • Couldn’t agree more , throw a scientific name on the cold virus , and panic the world , so they don’t notice how we ( Government ) have destroyed the world markets !
      My oh my have we really become so simple ?

  6. As the days wear on it does seem to me that this situation is being used as a beta test for public reactions, social engineering, etc. To what degree this virus is real vs. over hyped I cannot say, I do have my suspicions though.
    The comments I see here and elsewhere stating a one or the other viewpoint show me the division in this country for sure. The argument of its the individual vs. the collective is certainly rearing it’s head, just as the flag wavers and the political team’s are and have been doing.
    My opinion regarding self and collective, is simply we are both, always and at the same time. Never can we separate from it.
    It will be up to us whether we follow the top down orders back to “head in the sand normalcy” , rescuing the fraudulent markets at all cost or realizing how none of this makes sense to continue and therefore throw off this great imbalance of life on earth, plant our seeds and watch them grow from the soil, bottom up. This is a catalyst event!!! I do not want to go back, I want to move forward, I want to love life again!

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    • You are correct that the pyramid cap is using this instigated event as a power grab or setting up an easy power grab at some future time of their choosing. This is plainly obvious!

      We are all individuals first before we are members of any collective and this allows for the full development of our humanity and hopefully our talents. The problem within society arises when its members loose their way as regards their morality as individuals and in aggregate. The old ‘as above so below, as internally so externally’ as Natural Law exacts consequences for human behaviors. In a nutshell Natural Law governs the behavior of all sentient beings wherever they exist in this universe and manifests as the reality we create for ourselves through the aggregate morality or immorality of our actions. Before any reform of politics or financial matters can be achieved the individual must reform themselves as an addition to the collective community.

  7. We are in a form of spiritual war folks. Those who are blessed to see the banker / NWO Wizard of Oz must enlighten as many people as possible, of the scamming. Nothing will change until the debt based monetary creation stops.

    The bankers and their lackeys are taking the piss this time. They must also be afraid of pitch forks. They are blowing up the real economy with this scam. The point is though, they just print more money to cover up the scamming. Bail out one trillion to main street, when they have robbed trillions more in the bubble and their own bailout. America, Europe and UK are closer to insolvency. Japanification awaits.

    Localism is the key for food supply security. There were many small shops and local suppliers in World War 2. Now there are few and the local suppliers have been absorbed into supermarket systems. Campaign for local shops and supply chains when this is over, as the people will have seen the bare shelves. I never thought I would see that here in Scotland in my lifetime. Also boycott made in China. Do without it if it is made in China. Or there may be a communist America.

    Pray that the kabbalistic deception is lifted from the populace.

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  8. Here is the dead giveaway that the MSM news organizations purposefully used this “crisis” to create mass hysteria:

    “Obama declares H1N1 emergency”

    October 26, 2009

    https://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/24/h1n1.obama/index.html

    “Since the H1N1 flu pandemic began in April, millions of people in the United States have been infected, at least 20,000 have been hospitalized and more than 1,000 have died, said Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

    That was just 11 years ago.

    Did the MSM react the same way that they have to Covid19, even though there were 931 more deaths in the US than when Trump declared a national emergency?

    Not even close.

    There was no creation of the Orwellian “social distancing” terminology.

    There was wailing and screaming and gnashing of teeth about why Obama took so long to react.

    People still went to sporting events, etc, there were no bans on mass gatherings, and the NFL, NBA, and NCAA football & basketball were not “suspended”.

    What’s the difference this time?

    11 years later, and after the Trump Black Swan event blindsided them, the elites are freaking out.

    So this is a power and control grab. And it’s an excellent dress rehearsal for the next one they manufacture.

    The good news is that it clearly shows how scared and desperate they have become to maintain control.

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  9. This crisis started in 1913, doubled-down in 1971, and will play itself out in its own time.

    People need to calm down and understand that the underlying economic fundamentals are sound [and will re-structure], as it is only the unsustainable debt-money system [which caused massive systemic distortions/dis-locations] that is failing.

    Everything comes and goes. Better times lie ahead!

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