Live free or die trying.

This site aims to be a practical guide to becoming free.

Freedom must be built from the foundations up- rather like building a house.

Many people shout about freedom. Few people take the trouble to build it into their own lives.

It is both deadly serious and a great deal of fun.

The one thing it is not, is easy.

You must be prepared to lose friends to become free.

Your friends will keep you in bondage to your employer and the tax man. They may care for you deeply but they know that once you are free you will have nothing in common with them.

The state will also try to keep you from being free.

Most of us live in societies that value freedom and human rights- yet the state has become so gigantic that it takes half of our wages before we see them. What would they do if we were to free ourselves from our jobs?

Popular culture will stop you going free.

No magazine or paper can be published without advertising. This means that no magazine can challenge materialism.

The banking system will keep you from going free.

They need to keep on making loans. This is why we find ourselves working for mortgage companies and credit card companies rather than ourselves. We survive on the little they leave us after they have taken their cut. Whenever we look like becoming free then they step up the marketing and sell us another pile of debt. We deserve it, after all!

I believe that the first step to becoming free for most people is to pay off all of their debt. 

So let us start here.

I am creating a section on this site called Debt.

You will find out how to break the chains of debt and be free.

Join me.

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Pale green.

I am Pale Green. Do not look it up. I have just invented the term.

To be Pale Green is to recognise the value of a clean environment and yet still value human beings. The world is not our master- but we have to look after it.

Pale Greens are not anti technology and do not want to return to subsistence farming.

Nevertheless we tread lightly on the earth to preserve the wealth and luxury we now enjoy- not to abolish it.

Pale Greens are not a Trojan horse for socialism. Many deep Green projects can only be carried out by regulating every area of life. Pale greens believe in the individual.

The Pale Green Page

Freedom is the issue.

Never talk about anything other than freedom. You will always lose if you do.

Talking to a Marxist?

They will talk about equality of outcome and call it justice. In reality this involves the abolition of choice in the economic sphere. They wish to make you an employee of the state and you had better do as you are told!

Never try to justify the present system. It has many faults. Tell them you will not follow their orders.

Talking to a feminist?

She will talk about hereditary guilt. No matter how wealthy or powerful she may be- she will see herself as a victim. Every single man is guilty of every single bad act that has ever been commited.

They have been since birth!

She herself remains blameless of anything!

What gives her the right to heap blame upon other people?

What gives her the right to decide how people should dress, how they should enjoy themselves or how they should speak?

This is the real issue. Return to it and you will win.

This blog is a practical guide to freedom. This is the real war. Can you be free?

Wages for Housework

 

Good Housekeeping 1927

There was a moronic campaign in the 1980’s by which feminists demanded free money in return for cleaning their free government hosusing and then living in it themselves. The irony of this demand is that life itself pays for housework and there is no need to take from other people.

Home cooking is always cheaper than eating out as well as being better for us. With more time it would be possible to buy food even more cheaply in discount stores- and it would also be possible to reduce waste.

Housework seems to offer a diminishing return as more hours are invested in it. Ten hours a week provide food and a habitable living space. This will produce a return of about six pounds a day because cafes will be used a great deal less. This translates as a four pounds twenty an hour. This is quite a reasonable return but less than one might demand of an external employer. Nevertheless the benefits of housework tend to accumulate over time. A habitable space tends to raise the spirits and is rewarding in itself.

Housework is the ultimate in self employment. It is done for ourselves and those we love. No government or company profits from it which is why both government at business promote wage slavery as a lifestyle. Feminists have been duped into giving up the one area of life that they truly control (the home)- in return for wage slavery.

From this point on I will be selfish- I will ignore those great Cuckoos in the nest- government and business. I will live as a human being within my own home. Furthermore, I will do this on a low wage.

By aproaching the issue as an economist I will achieve a form of freedom.

Live as if free.

Incentivize yourself

Paying off debt can be a dreary slog. It is important to reward yourself along the way or you will never make it.

These rewards should be..

a) Cheap. An expensive reward would put you right back in debt. Not good.

b) Productive. Do not reward yourself with destructive treats such as getting drunk. You need your wits about you in order to become free. If possible use the act of clearing your debt as a means of installing good habits. This may involve replacing KFC with home cooked food for instance. You will emerge from the programme, not only debt free but thinner as well.

c) Sustainable. Be gentle with yourself. Perhaps you have bought an expensive Hi Fi and wish you had not. Enjoy it anyway. Do not punish yourself by denying yourself the use of it, even if the debt is oppressing you.

Here is my own real life example. It relies upon small treats that cost almost nothing. Small luxuries can become very significant once we know they are a hard earned reward.

This is my reward for maintaining my debt repayment programme.

1. Bubble bath. Bought at Aldi, I would guess this costs me approximately 5p per day.

2. Fabric conditioner. I love the smell of fresh laundry, particularly with fabric conditioner. It makes my shirts slightly easier to iron too. 5p a day?

These are such tiny luxuries that it seems strange to mention them- but they are appreciated and give me a small measure of encouragement every day.

Facebook

I have created a Facebook Group (London School).

Evolutionary Psycology.

I am sure this has occurred to Richard Dawkins but I am not aware of him explaining it.

All animals have one sex that is more keen on reproduction than the other. Both sexes desire reproduction but one sex invests more in it than the other. Bird songs are nearly always produced by the male- as is bright plumage. This is because eggs are laid by the female.

The exception is the species where chicks are cared for by the male. Here we see females with bright plumage.

The one exception to this rule seems to be the human being.

Females carry the plumage. Females wear make up and have adapted bodies (large breasts and bottom) that do not help in survival. Yet females carry the young and feed them until they are weaned.

So what is going on?

I think this is because females use this to control men after mating to ensure survival of young. Women are always controlling. This may seem harsh but control is not always bad. Some women do this by making men feel very good about themselves.

The art of living is to recognise this and make the decision to allow this or not in a conscious way.

So.. now I have a proper job.

I have been shaken a little by the crunch and have done something I never thought I would. I have taken a job with regular hours.

Normality can be addictive. One can get used to a regular pay cheque. I shall be careful.

Our first priority..

Whatever our long term goals are- we must first survive the credit crunch. I have long predicted such a crunch, but even I was surprised at the speed at which it took hold.

My first articles will therefore be on this subject. Most of the coverage in the print media is about the effects of the crunch on wider society- in other words, other people. This is rather dis empowering as it gives us no plan of action. My articles will be a survival guide.

Why am I qualified to write such a guide? I am qualified because I have no qualifications! I am a security officer who somehow manages to live as if I were a wealthy man. Many economics professors cannot balance a chequebook- and having a secure job encourages bad habits.

Your income is almost certainly greater than my own and yet you probably live less well. Never mind. You will soon be debt free and living well.