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Mar 2, 2023Liked by William Hunter Duncan

Having experienced pan-insanity and the flouting of the Canadian Charter of Rights, I don't put my trust in pieces of paper. Pragmatism before idealism.

If Americans are anticipating the collapse of the empire, that suggests to me the union is about to break up into regions. Regionalism and localism before exceptionalism.

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John Michael Greer imagined America broken up into regions in Retrotopia, and Twilight's Last Gleaming. It may or may not be inevitable, depending on how deep the identity of American's goes.

Pieces of paper like the Declaration and Constitution are guides. It comes down to whether or not people believe. The Constitution is much deeper and more profound than modern thinking.

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Mar 2, 2023Liked by William Hunter Duncan

JMG has given me a sense of what America is about. If he hadn't written about breakup, I'd never have imagined it. Incidentally, we Eastern Canadians imagine Alberta joining the US someday...

A constitution only has meaning if it is a reflection of the culture that penned it. So which is a more honest reflection of a given culture at a given time: the bill of rights or Jim Crow laws?

America has changed. A majority are believing in other things. What is there to do but segregate - in order to preserve your ideals, your culture, and your way of life?

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Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan...?

Jim Crow laws did not last. The Constitution will outlast America, likely.

Americans have been encouraged to be consumers, not citizens. Citizens know something about what duty citizenship entails. Consumers only care about what they want when they want it. I have heard "consumer"' in my lifetime 10,000 times for 1 time hearing "citizen". America believing in other things is not an accident of history.

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Manitoba is a have-not province. Saskatchewan... don't hear much about Saskatchewan. They have an agriculture/resource driven economy. Not as wealthy in fossil fuels as Alberta, so they possess less swagger.

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Consumerism is said to comprise 80% of the economy. So people spend most of their time working, consuming, and enjoying life. Paying taxes is your duty as a citizen. Or fighting in wars in distant lands, if you choose to volunteer.

Change is history.

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Duty of citizenship is manifold. It is about voting, holding officials accountable, knowing the law, respecting the law, NOT fighting in foreign lands for dubious reasons, taking part in maintaining community, paying taxes but questioning the very idea of income taxes, etc participation in the mundane of civil maintenance.

If consumerism were such an "enjoyable" thing inherently I don't think we would have so many consumers on anti-depressants, getting lost in media, mood altering etc. If it were good for society there wouldn't be such epic official corruption.

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Mar 2, 2023Liked by William Hunter Duncan

I care about the community I live in; I don't care about society. How are Canadians to hold the PMO to account? These officials merely declare a state of emergency, and your rights are suspended. It's the perfect loophole to avoid accountability. I'm not interested in being a citizen of a large jurisdiction like Canada. These come with intractable problems. My voice only counts in the community I live in, on local issues. It is at that scale we have a chance to address problems.

I live in a consumer culture. I practice frugalism. I'm not arguing that consumer culture is good for our mental health. Neither is our society, which is predicated on competition and violence. But to each their own. I prefer separation to a bloodbath. I don't mind being part of a minority. The majority just has to allow us to live the way we want. Perhaps that is too much to ask of them.

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Mar 2, 2023Liked by William Hunter Duncan

The globalists want America to collapse.

Social structures and intact systems are the best weapons against Agenda 2030.

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I don't like globalists, but those responsible for what Canada has become are Canadians. I don't blame China, or Russia for our economic problems, or the WEF for their globalist schemes. As a sovereign country, we can say no to the WEF. That we don't say no is evidence of our corrupt leadership.

The future will be local. I believe this after having studied the ecological crisis. Physical reality will put an end to Agenda 2030.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by William Hunter Duncan

As Alex Jones put it, "The answer to '1984' is '1776.'" Great points likening DC to King George. The Founding generation had much higher standards and much lower tolerance for bullshit than we do today. If Joe Brandon had pulled half the criminal stunts 200 years ago that he does today, getting voted out of office at the end of his first term would have been the least of his worries.

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The scale of the rot at this point truly does speak of the decline of a civilization. Here's to keeping it civil, even as we pursue justice.

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Mar 3, 2023Liked by William Hunter Duncan

Methinks the DECLINE {*DEGENERATION*} didst already take place, as testified by the nature of all that is unholy now being front and centre, whilst all that is sacred is denied and derided.

The question is : how soon might some paradigmatic ENDING that signals the onset of the long dark night that marks the beginning of REGENERATION.

Asking for a friend. 🤔🧐😎

Degeneration precedes regeneration https://open.substack.com/pub/writethevision/p/not-safe-not-effective-not-necessary

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Mar 3, 2023·edited Mar 3, 2023Author

Imminent, methinks. But then, I have been anticipating it a decade at least. I do however sense a quickening.

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Right. Back to the garden and archetypes.

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