{"id":63254,"date":"2022-08-07T05:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T10:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63254"},"modified":"2022-08-07T05:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T10:55:27","slug":"rather-than-focus-on-what-you-dont-control-the-news-focus-on-what-you-do-control-what-you-grow-eat-and-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=63254","title":{"rendered":"Rather Than Focus on What You Don’t Control (“The News”), Focus on What You Do Control: What You Grow, Eat and Own"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rather Than Focus on What You Don’t Control (“The News”), Focus on What You Do Control: What You Grow, Eat and Own<\/a><\/h3>\n

Now that globalization and financialization are finally unraveling, people are slowly awakening to the national security foundations of localizing production.<\/i><\/p>\n

What exactly is “the news” other than an inducement to passivity, despair and derangement?<\/b>\u00a0Since we exert zero control over what happens in distant lands and global economies, why waste time passively consuming “if it bleeds it leads” offal designed to addict us to a steady stream of despair and derangement?<\/p>\n

Why not ditch “the news” in favor of focusing on what we do control: what we grow, eat and own?<\/b>\u00a0It’s almost a binary choice: either focus on screens of addictive offal for hours every day or act on our own behalf in the real world.<\/p>\n

Food inflation is highlighting the financial value of home gardens.<\/b>\u00a0Paul of the Silver Doctors and I discuss turning gardening savings into more ownership of something we control (for example, precious metals) in\u00a0Save Money On Food, Get Free Gold & Silver, Beat Price Inflation<\/a>\u00a0(1:08 hrs).<\/p>\n

I’ve been posting about the value of gardening for over a decade, describing the financial and health benefits.\u00a0I Dig Dirt: The Remedy for Derealization<\/a>\u00a0(July 23, 2011) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0The Hidden Value of Gardens<\/a>\u00a0(September 13, 2014)<\/p>\n

Food inflation simply increases the gains:<\/b>\u00a0One Solution to Soaring Food Prices: Start Your 2022 Garden Now<\/a>\u00a0(November 6, 2021).<\/p>\n

Municipalities can either encourage or hinder local food production.<\/b>\u00a0Cities once grew between a third and a half of their own food within city limits:\u00a0Could Urban Gardens Supply 1\/3 of a City’s Food? Yes.<\/a>\u00a0(March 13, 2010).<\/p>\n

If we’re not allowed to grow food, that’s a problem that can be solved by local lobbying or moving to a place where there are fewer restrictions on growing our own food…<\/p>\n

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Rather Than Focus on What You Don’t Control (“The News”), Focus on What You Do Control: What You Grow, Eat and Own Now that globalization and financialization are finally unraveling, people are slowly awakening to the national security foundations of localizing production. What exactly is “the news” other than an inducement to passivity, despair and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,7],"tags":[24078,2299,5969,1912,512,570,587],"class_list":["post-63254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-charles-hugh-smith-2","tag-control","tag-food-gardening","tag-food-production","tag-media","tag-news","tag-of-two-minds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63255,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63254\/revisions\/63255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}