Why you might as well paint a giant bulls-eye on your bank account
Vegetarians be forewarned… you won’t like what follows.
We slaughtered a pig yesterday at the farm. I have two freezers full of pork now, and countless strips of bacon curing in the kitchen.
I’ve written about this before– out here at the farm I’m able to organically produce almost everything that I eat… meat, eggs, rice, nuts, and just about every kind of fruit and vegetable imaginable. A lot of it gets canned and stored.
We even grow wheat which we turn into organic flour, plus oats and all sorts of other grains.
As I’ve described in the past, this is a pretty powerful feeling. I know that, no matter what happens in the world, I’ll always have a source of food.
And even if it’s all rainbows and buttercups from here on out, I get to eat clean, organic food. There’s hardly any downside.
Invariably as I meet people throughout my travels around the world, I’m always asked why I spend so much time in Chile.
I usually tell them about my business ventures here and that I founded a company that’s rapidly becoming one of the largest blueberry producers in the world.
But when I talk about the farm and growing my own food, people often respond with furrowed eyebrows and a hint of derision– “Oh, so you’re, like, preparing for the end of the world…”
It’s as if embracing a little bit of independence and self-reliance requires paranoid delusion and chronic pessimism.
Fortunately I’m no longer in middle school, so my decisions aren’t based on what the cool kids might think.
In truth I’m wildly optimistic about the future.
Yes, there will come a time when bankrupt western governments will have to suffer the consequences of their reckless financial decisions.
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