This video is fairly left wing in it’s pretentious anti-Americanism and has a bit of the Falange about it but it does make a good point about the decadence of our society and how that will play out once dollar debasement and food scarcity really kicks in. I’m not sure, given the point about Americans being animals who will riot and loot when things go bad, why owning gold would protect your family (guns and food would be more useful) but I assume the creator has one of those gold selling ad sites.

Gold is a sucker’s bet for long term survival and is useful only if you think society won’t collapse. If you (as I frankly do) envision America sliding into third world status or you must re-think wealth and what it means:

Eggs, for example, are a kind of wealth. Many suburbanites have begun keeping their own hens for economic reasons (they save money on eggs) but we see more and more that a person with  small flock of chickens is doing something most Americans have little experience with – producing actual wealth. Even survivalists often don’t fully understand this idea, explaining why people who think America is about to descend into a new dark age think one ounce gold coins (or worse, gold certificates) are going to pull them through while the rest of us starve. Gold and silver have their uses (one of which is enriching bloggers pre-collapse) but gold and silver represent wealth. They are not necessarily true wealth.

I’ll give you an example. I have two neighbors in the above worst of the worst case scenario. One has a veritable dragon’s hoard of one ounce gold coins each of which are now theoretically worth $10,000 in the new, desperate America. The other has a micro-farm consisting of a flock of chickens, a couple of milking goats and a large garden. Now let’s suppose that both want to get a couple of bowls of Rob Taylor’s famous five can chili or some homemade cough drops I mixed up in my spare time. What happens? Do I make change for a $10,000 gold coin? Or do I take a small basket of eggs for a batch of chili with a home made cough drop lagniappe? Sans a banking system to standardize currency bartering with precious metals is a risky proposition which is an idea I have put forward to before. This is not to say gold will be worthless, but it will be hard to trade with and if push comes to shove, harder to digest. Historically this has always been the case.

The first verse of the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem reads:

Wealth is a comfort to all men;
yet must every man bestow it freely,
if he wish to gain honour in the sight of the Lord.

This line references the rune Feoh which represents wealth in general but its name literally means “cattle” which was the the measure of wealth the ancient Northern Europeans used. Those who study runes for religious reasons point out this understanding of wealth, as practical goods like livestock and furs, provides both historical and spiritual insight into the runic tradition. For the survival minded of any religion it is instructive to note that people who lived in a harsh environment of low technology and scarcity of resources, livestock was how people measured wealth and was the currency that common people traded with.

But perhaps that’s a debate for another day.

Enjoy:

More than 50,000 students, most affiliated with communist groups, went on a violent rampage that destroyed the Tory Headquarters as they threatened physical violence on those who didn’t meet their demands in the future.

They’re demands, by the way, were for a bankrupt England to provide them with free tuition, health care, room and board indefinitely while they did nothing but push the crime rates of England to Chicago levels. Above is a picture of a female police officer that was attacked by the crowd being helped away from the violence (courtesy the Daily Mail website)

“This is only the beginning” one thug told a reporter. I assume act two of this will be more violence, this time targeting individuals and their intended act three will be the complete destruction of England to be replaced by some China or Chavez supported Euro-Communist satellite state. These protest are eerily similar to the calls to action the “invisible committee” made in The Coming Insurrection.

English youth live in a society where there is no right to self-defense and the criminal justice system gives notoriously light sentences. Thus they have been taught that their own violence has no significant consequences. This is a dangerous situation for the targets of their rage who are identified as Conservatives but in reality will include anyone who seems to have more than them. Marxist class envy will drive this army of ne’er-do-wells to ever escalating levels of brutality as their economy collapses and the welfare state is abandoned.

And what exactly will the English people be able to do about it? They will lay down and die.

The cops could barely maintain order in this protest, when these people start burning down neighborhoods as their communist and anarchist mentors envision what will the average English family be able to resort to to defend themselves? They are not allowed the use of arms in their defense as free people should and the state (which cannot even control the criminal element) does not recognize a person’s natural right to defend themselves, their family and their property. So what will the English do?

It can be argued that the English did this to themselves and certainly they did. They have doomed themselves to rule by the strong by making themselves weak. The greatest advertisement for firearms comes from the early years of Colt Firearms when a ad proclaimed that “God made man and Sam Colt made them equal.”

Without the ability to use tools in your defense you are prey to those stronger than you. It isn’t just guns of course, weapons of all kinds can be used to defend yourself and England allows none of that. But this is no different than many “blue” states here.

I left NYC in part because the laws were such that if I defended myself from an attack it would be up to the discretion of the D.A. if I would be charged. In other words, without connections you can’t defend yourself without jail time. I moved to a state where the right to defend yourself is recognized. So should you.

Because if you think that protest more violent than what has happened in England aren’t coming here you’re dreaming. Conservatives have been demonized world wide, including here where MSNBC just ran a piece supporting Ted Rall’s call for a violent pogrom against the right. England is doomed because they let the state have a monopoly on arms but the state can never have a monopoly on force.

Don’t let that happen here. Arm yourself now before it’s too late.