Emailed to me from Simon Black. ~ Noa

Sovereign Man

Notes from the Field

Date: October 7, 2011
Reporting From: Hong Kong

Before getting in to this week's questions, I want to comment about the Wall Street protests in New York.

There's no question that people are sick and tired of the status quo all over the world. Their apathy has turned to anger, and their anger is turning into action. The 'Occupy Wall Street' movement is a major sign of this... as are the demonstrations across Europe, the Arab Spring revolutions, etc.

(Hell, there are even some angry people in Hong Kong... though they go about their protests a little bit differently...)
 

The Wall Street protests could very well be the spark that leads the United States into a real revolution. But just remember what I wrote about 'revolution' a few weeks ago when I was in Egypt:
 

"From a celestial perspective, however, 'revolution' denotes one complete orbit of a planetary body around its center, as in the earth's revolution around the sun. In other words, after a revolution, you end up right back where you started."

Are hundreds of millions of Americans, plus billions of other people around the world, willing to accept that government is the problem, not the solution? That the entire foundation of the monetary system they've come to accept is a complete fraud? That the entitlement programs they depend on are insolvent?

If not, then they're just going to vote in another set of idiots who bring them right back where they started... more debts, more regulation, more confiscation, more asset seizures, more forced redistribution, more inflation of the currency, more bailouts, more deficits, etc.

This is always the major risk in 'revolution'; you hope to replace evil with good. It doesn't always happen that way. The French got Robespierre's reign of terror in the 1790s, the Chinese got Mao in 1949, and the Egyptians traded Mubarak for a military dictatorship this year. What will happen in Spain? Greece? The US?

Now... if you're the type of person to let others dictate your fate, then I encourage you to sit around, wait it out, see what happens, and hope for the best.

If you're the type of person to take matters into your own hands, then every single one of these protests, police brutality videos, and government responses should serve as a constant reminder to become more self-reliant. Being dependent on the system is no longer an option for thinking, freedom-loving people.