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Aneirin -> RE: Benefit scroungers ? (7/2/2010 4:15:57 PM)
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Ah, another who sees the trap our quest for civilisation has brought.
We have everything, everything is at our fingertips, we should want for nothing, but that thing has come at a high price, for we must pay, pay and keep on paying even for the things we don't need, nor want, for it is there just in case we change our mind and must at all costs be maintained, other's livelihoods depend on it.
As I am a forager, today, whilst reading another book, the Edible Seashore by John Wright and introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, that tit from River Cottage, I came upon all the laws we can unwittingly break for just seeking a meal. Everything is tied up tight, all designed to funnel the law abiding people into the paying culture where they just have to pay, it seems, to even breath air in this country.
The book I was reading did say though one has more of a right to a life of their choosing in Scotland, where the Scots have resisted the land owner control of everything.
But, to live a life of one's own choosing, is that easy, is it even possible, I don't really know, as all the common land has now been sealed up, one cannot start off by building a shelter of their own to live from even temporarily, so to avoid the ged off my land backed up by the local plod, not just farmers land, but any land, for every last bit of it is owned by someone. Those that have tried a compromise, are called travellers and we have all been taught to hate them to a point whether they be no threat nor trouble at all, they are a pariah that begs hassle from the plod wherever they are seen to be and the battle of the beanfield was an example of the disgrace that the police have become towards any that are different. But even a tent is a roof, but a tent too long in one place or not on a designated paid for camping site is called vagrancy, the occupant becoming a criminal for being homeless.
So what is it, how can even a person not seeking an alternative life start off, the simple answer, with no money you can't, no legal work without a fixed abode and no fixed abode without money and so must fall at the mercy of welfare and submit to controlled public hatred and government abuse just for being a person with no money.
Sure many will say there is lodging available for the poor, aye true there is, they are called hostels but they are very few and very far between, one to qualify for hostel status have to go down routes of torment and self destruction for they, what little places are available are reserved for the weakest in society, the mentally ill, criminal and often substance dependant.
What it is to be single and a single healthy male in this country with no money, is to be the unwanted, for we are the target of everyone's abuse if it becames known our status. Sure, we want to work, but work whatever it is must be sufficient to pay for accomodation and lets not forget food, for that also is an essential and with that given where the work may be, travel which by public means is not cheap nor reliable. So for many if they still have the spirit and desire to work they fall into debt for the minimum wage is not enough to even at a basic level live by. Those that reside in Ivory towers forget that due to their meddling, prices are forced to rise, and the poor feel the oft unnoticed minor rise in costs on such things as food and of that the most basic food stuffs.
Can someone please tell me how it is a loaf of bread now costs circa £1.50 a loaf.
Then there is the public question as to why those on the benefits, the scroungers are so unhealthy for they always seem to be smokers and drink alcohol like fish with a problem, little is it known by those that poke fingers is tobacco kills hunger pangs and alcohol takes one out of reality to see the world they are in as more tolerable a place beyond the cares or pressures of their existence. Aye, and drugs too for the unwise but at least I personally have resisted that route, but very nearly a few years ago went there the pressure was that much !
Oh, and lets not forget the depression, for that is only too common with the poor, a debilitating disease which makes even the sunniest, most care free of days remain the dull rainy gray it always is.
I have had it heard that the finger pokers ask why is it when the poor eat they eat what is considered not good for them, the bread crumb covered mechanically recoved shapes that supermarkets sell so cheaply and in general do themselves no favours with the diet they choose. Well most also would like to eat organic, but organic comes at a cost prohibitive to many who are even in a fixed working lifestyle, so it stands those without anything if they can afford food must eat what they can get as everyone knows stuff labelled as food just fills a hole and is another way to fend off the food pangs when tobacco is unaffordable.
But what being jobless and homeless or just plain poor does, is change ones political perspectives and that is what any governing body is really scared of, so the fingers are pointed at the erstwhile weak and defenceless in society just to keep the majority on the government side as just what would happen if the working, caring( ? ) majority either learned or themselves became the subject of that which is the truth about the society we live in ?
Never mock the poor, for wheel of life can turn in any direction and anyone can become subject to it's most devastating effects oh too easily, it did for me and I am very, some say even too cautious
But the lifestyle I may have my eyes on, a craft co operative, one of the many communes down this part of the country, even with that I am at the present stuffed, because of the mechanism this country operates. For commune existence is not the free and easy alternative life many think it is, for one must have money to buy into the society, for those who operate an alternative lifestyle have had to find money and buy their own land and remembering of course a caravan in a woodland is not bricks and mortar and so no mortagage is ever available even if a financial institution was kind enough to give these dwellers a chance. Currently I am told I will need about 35, 000 to set up my craft and live in what is basically a muddy field before I even consider making any money, as I must be able to buy into the commune.
I am as a result of my situation constantly looking and considering the options and fast running out of ideas of just how to live beyond the unsustainable lifestyle I have now, but at least I have seen fit to seek advanced education, primarily for the qualification, but moreso for the networking and exposure I need if I am to follow my dream of a return to the society of the world and work and whatever may or may not come from that eventual step.
Bur Splorff, your dreams, all I say, is research it deep, answer every question and with that take the worst possible case scenario for anything to happen for many who have struck out to follow their mind's desire have found their dream to not be the idyll they once thought it was, for life in civilisation is hard enough, out of it ever so much harder and with some only a few steps up from that of the poor and homeless. You have money, hoard money and it may work out, but of that money be frugal and really question your desire for stuff before you even consider to put your hand in your pocket, something I on a low income have learned very well.
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