Localism Or The Digital Gulag? 

"Tolkien once remarked to me that the feeling about home must have been quite different in the days when a family had fed on the produce of the same few miles of country for six generations, and that perhaps this was why they saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the wood-they were not mistaken for there was in a sense a real (not metaphorical) connection between them and the countryside. What had been earth and air & later corn, and later still bread, really was in them. We of course who live on a standardised international diet (you may have had Canadian flour, English meat, Scotch oatmeal, African oranges, & Australian wine to day) are really artificial beings and have no connection (save in sentiment) with any place on earth. We are synthetic men, uprooted. The strength of the hills is not ours." C.S. Lewis, letter to Arthur Greeves (June 22, 1930)

My Dad had a greenhouse and every year grew tomatoes. The smell and taste was far superior to supermarket trash. He had 2 apple trees which were nearly 100 years old and the baking apples they produced would last our family a full year. In the 50s and 60s he had an allotment which produced many vegetables. Sure it took time and work but the moral effect on the family was incalculable.

Candle lit pubs, log fires, ice houses to chill the booze, British beef with potatoes and cabbage, Stilton cheese - delicious I can live on that.

My Mum is 80 and she often talks about her childhood and how happy it was. She grew up in a village, they didn't have electricity, they grew most of their own vegetables, kept chickens. Most people in the village were the same, largely self sufficient, there was a little local shop. The local pub had been around since the 1600's. Fast forward to today, in a short time they have turned things to crap and call it progress. Great video Morgoth.

I am old enough to remember when food was seasonal. Happy times and actually healthy.

The message is a simple one: we don't need them! When one looks back at one's life, all of the things that torment one are products of what we've come to know as 'the modern world' - be it hideous urban sprawl or 'careers' that bend the soul out of shape in their commitment to materialist gain. Everything good - everything beautiful and treasured is of nature, family and God.

One silver lining about this whole energy crisis is that it utterly undermines the most basic argument in favor of mass immigration, which is: "We have the material capacity to take care of all these people that keep coming in"

During lockdown I managed to get myself an allotment for £70 a year. This year I've taken potatoes, carrots, courgettes, strawberries, apples, blackberries, peas and corn. I've now got about twenty pumpkins coming along nicely that I'll dish out to the community at the end of October. I worked out that despite the large size, this could all be grown in a small/medium sized garden. I've also learned to bake all kinds of bread and it's CRAZY just how much and how varied the food I've been able to make for free from all of this is. Not only that, but I honestly can't tell you how good it's been for my mental health. Why all our hedgerows on every B road in the country isn't made up of berry/apple/plum/pear bushes and trees is just beyond me. The entire road system could literally be strewn with food without taking up any more space. Instead it's mainly covered in shite Hawthornes. The answers are so simple and easy, but it doesn't make big money for big corporations, so it's not permitted. They'll see you starve before they lose a fucking penny.

I'm almost 40, my parents are almost 70. Recently, I've been struck by the fact that whenever we have a family reunion, all they want to talk about is what life was like when they were young, how their father or grandfather grew vegetables and was a beekeeper, how they had a party harvesting and processing oats, etc. It is as if seeing how their children live they realize the loss and everything that has fallen, victim of "progress". As they are not really politicized they don't have a great opinion of it, but in their heart this old life seems to them more sensible.

Neece one pet.. "We divin hav use for Fukin Yoos" That is my new mantra...

I'm Australian. I think about this all the time. My country could be self-sufficient and actually thrive. But the overwhelming amount of people who buckled immediately and got jabbed doesn't make me optimistic about rejecting the digital gulag. It's a pity, because we still have some brutally sour granny smith apples here.

I think that when people's lights and heating go off this winter people will eventually stand up. Tough times are coming but in the end, the outcome might be better. We do need a great reset, but on our terms.

I’ll retreat into the Shires and the woods... but they can pry my smartphone from my cold, dead hands.

I think another aspect to keep in mind is bartering. I'm seeing more and more instances of people just exchanging goods or services directly, without bringing currency into the equation

Egg and chips forever just to spite the WEF.

Used to get on the back of my Dad's scooter in the 60's and go out to pick brambles. My Mam's bramble pies and bramble jelly were legendary, and the jars were passed around to family and friends. Happy days.

They are making offgrid living harder and harder. They wont let us unplug.

Community gardens are popping up all over the place in my part of Scotland which is very encouraging. They give out free veg and do classes on preserving plus other things.

Such a lot of people have lost the skills and the knowledge of how to grow food and even cook. These people will gladly eat whatever the government gives them or produces to fit their budget. Many people have no idea what wild food is available and are terrified of eating something found in a hedgerow, woodland or field. I really enjoyed this video Morgoth, thank you.

I really really enjoyed that. It actually had me smiling all the way through. The answer to the problems we face is, just do what we used to do.. because we can. I would add that actually using a little technology and automation would actually make things much easier. In 1980 we couldn't grow mangos in the uk, we can now, so I see no need for a huge reduction in what's on offer. The shame is that in 1980 we produced over 80% of our food.. today its less than 50% and they are desperately trying to reduce that.

Here's an extreme example of the system failing: Norway is 100% self-sufficient with green electricity on its power grid. The prices historically have been among the lowest in europe for a long long time. However, in the name of free trade and international solidarity, Norway has joined the common market for electricity with the EU which has led to a 6000x increase in electricity costs. Who wanted this? Nobody. But it is being done. EDIT: The example compares low point to high point. Power was intermittently very very cheap, like 0.05 EUR/h for infinite use. Now the NORM is 300 EUR, trending upward.

I used to go blackberry picking with my mother and she would make jam, my older brother's friends would stop off on the way home from school and consume it on toast. A while back when I was visiting my hometown I checked up the lane and the bushes are still there.

I'm buying tinned fish. At my age, I'm not sure I can go be a farmer but I'd be willing to be a laborer just like my ancestors in Somerset.

Soon you'll see migrants housed in 300 year old Pubs.

Another excellent analysis....who knew this would happen? 2 years of global lockdown was always going to disrupt the intricate global supply chain....printing huge amounts of cash and the transfer of public money to private interest was always going to screw us.....

I feel fearful for the future, in a way I never have before. F Scott Fitzgerald, in the final lines of ‘The Great Gatsby’, famously wrote ‘so we beat on, boats against the current, born ceaselessly into the past’ - except we are being carried ceaselessly into the future. The transformation, as you say, will not be beautiful. Many thanks as ever Morgoth.

In eastern Europe we still live from the land. Everybody has veggies, has grapevines and fruit trees in their garden, if they have a garden.

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The Dutch don't have a lot of land but they do a lot of growing and raising.

You can grow a veggie patch, have a couple of chickens enough to take care of yourself, and your family, and maybe trade with some people in your community! We’ll develop new skills and new ways to survive and thrive. Rome wasn’t built in a day and it didn’t collapse in a day!! Community is the key, and a great place to find community is in a church!! Not some bulshit American nonsense but a local community church, people who you’ll be able to depend upon in the future, they might be woke, they might not be but eventually all that won’t matter it’ll just be your neighbours and your family. This was a fantastic video thanks!!

On the blackberries point, a few years back I got hold of book called something like Psychedelic and Healing Beers, and in it was a recipe from an English beer club from around the 1400s that had survived somehow. The same day I was walking down my country lane and noticed that I could see every ingredient for that pre-hops beer (yarrow and the like). That was an eye-opener Wild book, by the way.

The most down to earth man on the alternative scene. :)

I've had an allotment for a year now it's great growing food for my family I've grown so many cucumbers I've run out of jars to pickle them and have been eating one a day and giving them away to friends and family it's a wonderful feeling growing and sharing my produce

The self-sufficiency and independence is "not possible" because it clashes with the neolib world view. Not because it's not actually technically possible. Any argument for localism will be shouted down by arguments of comparative advantage and the gloriousness of free trade. In truth it's more about ideology than economics really.

Part of me is positive. There's no way they can think they can get away with this. Its so absurd and anti human, it can't be achieved.

Super stuff. Local led, digitally organised reclamation of the land!

The former, please. We will have to fight for it.. somehow. Good luck to us all. Thanks, cheers and God Bless!

Glad to see you're still uploading, I think I speak for many when I say we greatly appreciate hearing your thoughts. Keep it up mate.

I grew up doing the hippie back-to-the-land thing because that’s what my mum chose. Despite all the problems with hippies, they were onto something there. I know something about gardening, foraging and canning as a result.

Excellent, listening to you whilst picking blackberry's on a soft rainy day in Ireland. Never lose hope, go back to basics.

I for one welcome the coming crapstorm. Enough of the easy times, bring on the hard times so that we can all harden up with them and kick these psychopathic pricks in the balls. They surely won't be hardening up with the times, they'll stay the way we are now and it'll be to their detriment. People are right, these kinds of videos are really good. I could listen to you spilling out your thoughts on these topics for a long time. Thanks for the video!

The ink wasn't floating out, it just didn't flow down to the tip like it does on earth due to the lack of gravity so NASA spent a fortune making pressurised ink cartridges ... The Russians just used pencils like they always had .

Commenting more seriously now that I've listened to the video: I agree wholeheartedly that what you outline can work, Morgoth -- the question is how long and painful the transition will be. I've noticed how reliant we are by talking to my nearest neighbour, who owns some of the fields by my house. I'll just outline the example of his situation. He has 7 cows that he will now probably have to sell off, because the price of fodder has increased so much. It's ironic, because fodder (grass) is precisely what's being grown here, but another farmer is doing the harvesting and so on, and he also needs fodder for his own cows. Anyway, the price for my neighbour has increased from about 350 kroner (buying from that other guy who tends to his fields), but with the whole Ukraine++ business it went to about 750 kr. (because the price of manure has doubled at the least), and with the low rainfall and the farmer needing fodder for his own and more sizeable herd, it's around 1150 kroner to buy from another county, with the transport and everything. I think these numbers are right, but anyway, my point is that although of course a decentralied, localised world can work, there are so many structures that for the time being are keeping us sort of shackled and dependent on them. And even if/when people are able to better organise to collaborate and do trade without the state as a middle "man", something serious has to happen to the system itself to prevent their long arms from extending way out into the countryside, I think.

@27:30 'What do the elite actually do?' Exactly right. They see themselves as indispensable, when they're the one part of society that's entirely expendable. If the world's ruling elite vanished over night, everything would be running as normal in the morning. If ordinary people disappeared, the labourers, tradesmen, truckers, engineers, doctors, nurses, teachers, etc., civilization would cease to exist over night. "Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied" -- The Deserted Village

What a treat on Saturday morning! Localism! Cheers Morgs!

Funny, I was eating a tasteless Granny Smith apple yesterday and had exactly the same thoughts. A neighbour has an old apple tree and one of the branches hangs over our side of the fence. I tried one last year and it was shocking how much better it tasted compared to something from Tesco.

Looking forward to this. I'm very much enjoying your Substack Morgoth. Best wishes.

This really makes a lot of sense. I’ve been thinking about the idea of detaching myself from social media and my phone, minimising screen-time, going back to books. This might be the first step for me, although it’s easier said than done.

The meat being banned is terrifying to me as since i found out i was pre diabetic i went to a meat only diet and its made me feel soooooo much healthier than i ever have in my life, even my life long asthma has gone. The thought of being forced to eat stuff that actively makes me sick is depressing as fuck. i'm ok with not having any fancy foods from abroad, in fact i don't anyway, but banning meats is so dumb.

My dad said during the war days, everyone would dump all the organic waste into giant bins on the ends of the streets, the old fruit and veg peelings, bones etc, and it would all be shipped off to the countryside to feed the pigs.

Give it 12 months or so and prepare for the articles telling us this is a actually a great thing. Finally, inroads against the epidemic of obesity and diabetes plaguing the UK! Great video! For years I've been feeling that we've been living with an intentionally distorted sense of the value of things built off cheap imports. Clothing, electronic goods and furniture etc. were never supposed to be thrown away just because you're tired of them. You were never supposed to fill your fridge to bursting with excess and discard enormous quantities of food every year.

For many of us its not always a possible choice to avoid the gulag. We are all slaves of forces stronger than us, be it work or family. Some cant just do the great step and leave all behind to venture in the unknown. Some are just not strong enough. I will fight to the bitter end but the lack of allies probably dooms me. I also hate running away instead of smashing the problem.

I made blackberry jam last year (wild blackberries), the best I ever had. However, this year the drought has made the blackberries so small and hard that they were unusable. Which imo shows the problem of 'returning to nature'. It can be done, but not for our current population numbers. With the current population numbers, violence is our future before we can return to nature. The question thus becomes: violence or factory-'meat'. Excellent show btw!

I thank christ everyday I am from the country.

I've been saying and thinking what you have...I want to know how to build a community, a real one. Technocrats always think more technology is the only solution. If, and I mean IF, 'they' were worried about the environment (anything to do with the environment at all) they would be pushing Regenerative Agriculture, but they are not...they want more tech, more chemicals... more profits. Thank you for this. Trying to stay hopeful in Manitoba, Canada

Great video. I get the impression the powers that be don't want people leaving the grid. Btw, I started growing my own tomatoes this year and they're delicious

I've had the same thoughts about pubs. If they can't afford energy bills, don't have energy bills. Run the pub medieval style with candles and log fires.

I enjoyed that, as terrifying as it was

They acknowledge this local option on the WEF website, referring to 'rustic communities' that will opt out of this digital gulag.

It's obvious at first thought but it bears remembering how much the advent of the home deep freeze (the freezer) displaced and supplanted the old arts of bottling, preserving, pickling, fermenting and such. To my mind these old arts are now suddenly much more appropriate. They are talking of blackouts this winter. Yeah, they might be sporadic and short-term ( a few hours a day on certain days of the week) and the freezer might be ok for those short periods (if it's full), but this situation will always likely deteriorate from now on. There is also the eye-watering costs of electricity. I'm not planning on getting rid of the freezer right away, but it might well come to that one day soon. You need some space (a spare room), a fair bit of cheap, everyday kit, such as empty bottles, jars, pots and crocks, buckets, etc along with your pots and pans (large ones). A tub of sulphite powder for sterilising (it's cheap), some shelving erected and be prepared to do some hands-on work. Not arduous and even a little-inspiring. There is tons of information online these days, before you need get round to old books (and some new ones). I've not done enough myself, I admit, and September is upon us. All the apples and pears are still there though. In a Larpy, not-going-to-happen, kind of total self-sufficient, out of the matrix, future life (like very soon) you will be most likely to starve in the months of January and February, presuming you have all the other months squared away. The one thing that might save you from starvation is apples, and of the 'keeper' variety. You need a lot of space, traditionally the attic, and plenty of straw and a willingness to daily inspect every single apple. But of course, government and marauders long before January if the system totally collapses.

One of reasons I refused to sell of my grandparents house in the countryside. There I own a chunk of land, my own well and bit of forest. Those are enough to provide wood for heating and to at least have some vegetables going and enough space for chickens to forage. I am keeping it "just in case" and while I am not using it I allowed a couple from other village to move in and to housekeep it. Also I am 35 years old and I was lucky enough to see some of village traditions before they fizzled out. For instance there was "Prelo", social gatherings during the summer. Village didn't have street light so bonfire would be lit, people would hang around, sing and talk, kids would play around the fire and roast the corn etc. It was pretty sweet. But it also had practical side as people would do various jobs while it was happening, like spinning the yarn or knitting etc.

Morgoth and my Saturday morning coffee, pre-dawn. It's the little things in life.

Even tho I don't always agree with you, Morg, I do find the fact that you've thought seriously about these kinds of things very helpful in my own journey to understand the oddball times we've found ourselves in. I'm American, so our national issues are not exactly the same, but we face many of the same things, re: global supply issues. You mention the intentional self-hobbling of not using local coal to power your towns, and instead throttling off the power supply to the detriment of the people, and we here in the States are watching our Pacific coastal members pull the same kind of stunt by shuttering power plants, installing unreliable renewables, while legislating future bans on petrol vehicle sales in favor of EVs, EVEN AS they tell the few CURRENT EV owners not to charge their cars because the grid can't handle it. Seriously. It is madness. And willful folly. What then can the "little people do"? The answer may be different here than in England, or in Poland or Argentina or.... But I think we who are aware of the impending global-level crises should be thinking them thru. So thanks for the food for thought!

The talk about how cities could have food grown in all the random plots of land and people had their won gardens reminds me of Nat Soc Berlin. It was a modern marvel of a city, not just because of education or art or architecture; but on how much the Nazis stressed self-sufficiency and sustainability. There was a report I read once about how many gardens and chickens and all were grown within Berlin and how no other city at the time had such a ratio in a Urban zone like that to still be sustainable and be so tied to nature despite being in a capital city. But of course that was all destroyed in the war I suppose part of it was getting rid of that call back to older forms of thinking and living. Nat Soc Germany tried harkening back to older times and living naturally. But the allies had other plans it seems in hindsight. Now English and American cities are completely codependent on the outside and the nations themselves too in general to function.

The system will not back down, it's full throttle towards globalisation, which is basically a drive for more efficiency. Efficiency, control and power through more and more technology. Most people are too attached to the comforts of modern life to consider any alternatives. What is happening now has been talked about in books and shown in films for a long time, why is that? Is it inevitable? Or do we still have a choice?

The digital control grid needs electricity and replacement components to make it work and keep it going. It takes about 2 years from placing order to delivering onsite The small electrical transformers (11-33kva). For the grid however you typically require 132-400kva transformers. These take anywhere from 7-10 years from placing the order to delivering onsite. In the UK we could potentially tomorrow cover the entire land in solar panels but the existing infrastructure is not ready and would take 30-40years to upgrade it which is too long a timeline when we run on a 4-5 year political cycle. The will to power is just not there anymore. When people ask why is my electricity so expensive it is because ~48% of UK electrical power is derived from gas powered turbines. Ergo no gas (or in this case very expensive gas) no electricity (or at least a 50% reduction in efficiency. When the political class are midwits there is no will to power and no knowledge of how complex systems truly function. In summary dig up your own lawn and get ready for next January/February when you can start growing seedlings and getting them ready for planting once you have had your last frost! Set up a small solar system that can trickle charge a couple or so batteries and above all else go out this weekend and pick your own blackberries!

Brilliant monologue I have to say. I was reshuffling my pantry while listening to it to make room for the preserves I will be making today. I got 60 nectarines from my local shop and I'm turning them into all sorts - fruit crisps for snacking, chunks in syrup and I'll be making some jam too. I grew up on a smallholding so for me growing and preserving my own is the norm. I agree with you that counties could and should go back to localised food production instead of relying on global markets. It would make sense in this "climate emergency". But then we know that there is no emergency, it's all about depriving us of everything. Well, this woman will not be deprived of anything. They can stuff their digital future and lab grown food as far as I'm concerned.

All of these things you propose ARE possible but we must realize that they have anticipated this self-sacrificing shift in our way of life. If we raise our own chickens, the health inspector will come knocking and declare a new "bird flu." Produce our own cheese and the regulators will mandate pasteurization. Self-sustenance on our own land would become a full-time job, then enter the tax man. Unfortunately, we can't just abstain from the current system, we have to dismantle it first. THIS is what they fear.

This is the path moving forward. “A return to normal”. ❤️

Another great video. Growing your own food and foraging isn’t just practical. It helps connect with your ancestors. Getting back to the soil of your nation is always fulfilling. Two great writers are Cobbett and John Seymour . A big influence on me.

Most people I know and associate with around here have either started gardens, or are looking into it. People are networking with those that have more established gardens, farms, cattle farms, etc. and I can see these new networks being formed into solid communities very soon this way. This is the beginning of our future- the future without the globohomo machine, as it is already becoming irrelevant to our lives and networks.

This is spot on. I’m in my 20s, and I’ve talked to my dad about how much harder it would’ve been to seriously discuss these dissident issues, during the mid 1980s-early 2010s, when Western society was in a haze of neoliberal globalization, material comfort (the highest levels in history), and instant gratification. You’d probably get “they took urr jobs” mockery and facetiousness.

The only way out is through! Think of all the tough times we've gone through on our little island. . . this is a drop in the ocean. The strong survive and the rest were never alive to begin with.

Powerful video essay. Hello from Ireland and let's get through this winter 👍

'You will own nothing'. Actually, we live in a disposable society and so we can be said to own nothing that is not ephemeral already. We seem to be happy, as far as it goes.

I've given a deal of thought to this too and it's cool to hear you talk about it. As in, it's their system and everything we've enjoyed hitherto was because they essentially authorised it so now they're pulling the plug, who's to say 'they can't do that' ? Well sorry "they" have always steered the ship in the desired direction and it's our compliance that propels it. All the more reason people need to wake up sooner rather than later and fire an almighty spanner in the works.

I'm thankful for where I live, surrounded by a forest, with fruit trees and berries. I feel at peace here and honestly would rather live in a van surrounded by nature than live in an apartment again.

Had to watch this multiple times. A heartening dose of common sense delivered in your from the heart style.

traditional plates always had plenty of fatty meat on them. Especially in places where the winters get cold. Look at folks in siberia and the far east of Russia and how they eat. They may not be having the fancy chateaubriand-cuts, but they eat the whole animal. And these are people who've been living separated from the large supply chains, while most westerners eat plant-based diets wrought with foods shipped from all over the planet. If anything, a meat and cheese heavy plate is the historical norm.

Great video as always, I hope people take it to heart.

ive turned my yard into something decent. added some bird feeders stocked up on sunflower hearts. and now its filled with goldfinches. good feels. totally recommend adding some wildlife to your environment

The 300 year old pubs closed more likely not because the owners could not keep them open, but because doing so would violate some idiot regulations fat, worthless, parasitical bureaucrats put in place. Running a pub the same way it was done prior to the advent of quick and plentiful fuel and electricity is probably illegal.

If we went back to the world Morgoth has described, we would have to Ditch our digital presence. The problem with that is I wouldn't be able to listen to the dulcid tones and earthy wisdom of my English brother Morgoth. Great vid!

Thank you so much for explaining what's going on, and more importantly, for how long.

Great stuff Morgoth. As always.

Make babies, prepare and have graceful fun while living like the Amish ❤️🙏

John Michael Greer has a great quote that coincides with the main talking points of this video which is ‘Collapse now and avoid the rush.’ Meaning start living your life as though the collapse has already occurred so you’re better adapted when it inevitably does

Same with tomatos. Home grown are a thousand times sweeter and better tasting than the stuff from the supermarket.

I'm new to this channel and I'm thoroughly enjoying the content. It's refreshing to hear non -sensationalist monologues, delivered with clarity, sense and topped off with a familiar English accent. As for the China food situation I believe that they have learned from their history, all their great dynasties have fallen around the same time as global food shortages, which coincided with solar (in) activity. Which we are now heading in to. I'm not fearful of the future, our ancestors faced worse and survived, the narcissist members of society are the ones who may not fare well, those who embrace Nature and Order will undoubtedly arrive on the other side of this nonsense in a stronger position. Mother Nature will fix the Globalist abominations. In 200 years, Europe will look like it did 200 years ago. Greetings from Rutland, Multum in Parvo!

I've made the change personally already, local farmers markets have cheaper better tasting sweet corn , vegetables wild strawberries the local meat locker where steers go in the back and steaks come out the front I can get hamburger for 1/3 less than at the grocery store. Not only am I saving money, but I believe the quality is better. It's a win ,win. Literally there is no downside . As an aside your description of the apples made my mouth start to water remembering the apples I used to get out of our backyard as a kid. Thanks morgoth, you've been missed.

Thanks for this inspiring talk, Morgoth. What you have said is all quite familiar to anyone interested in 'green' principles in the seventies and eighties, before the movement was high-jacked by trendy business people. The solution to the problems that we now face, then still in the distance, was known as 'intermediate technology'. BIcycles instead of cars/planes, home-grown food, and home-made tools and gadgets. There were lots of do-it-yourself manuals. A writer called John Seymour was a very popular and clear teacher in the field. What is there to stop you turning up to your pub in a coat and keeping it on while you chat, sitting round a candle? (Customers - please bring your own candle.) There used to be ways of keeping food and drinks cool without electricity. I remember reading in a museum in Liverpool that half the fresh eggs consumed during WWII in the UK were home-grown. (Eggs were rationed during the war and people had to make do with horrible dried-eggs, unless they kept their own chickens.) As you say, it can be done. All power to your elbow.

Food… Fuel… Finance… the nexus of control. *Localism* is the answer

Fantastic Morgoth, as always.

Great video Morgs. I had to laugh as I was eating a granny Smith apple just as you got to that point. They are my young kid's favourite apples and usually all disappear within the day or 2 of getting them. I also thought that I used to really struggle eating them when I was their age, they were the 'adults' apple! Where I live, the council around stockport have started planting pear and quince trees along the borders so that's quite nice. Keep up the good work brother, you have left me feeling quite optimistic.

Whenever I go to a supermarket, I notice that no one buys vegan meat. The rest of the meat isle will be picked almost completely, but the vegan section remains near untouched for the whole day.

I remember new potatoes when I was a kid, we only had them for a short time of the year, when they were in season but the flavour was amazing. Even Jersey Royals now don't have that flavour, in fact all new potatoes taste bland and the same now.

Great video again Morgoth, it genuinely brought a tear to my eye.. I have always hated gardening.. this year I have grown my own potatoes and tomatoes iv been feeding myself, my family, my neighbours and work mates, I also have 2 apple trees that will giving me food for a few months to come.. and iv been eating berry's and like you im now seeing them everywhere! We shall be the 1s who survive this long term.. the tecnocrats and the people who follow them will die off and we will survive mark my words. Il send you a drink over my freind. All the best.

Good to hear from you again man. Hope you're keeping well

So many good questions being asked here. Very sobering, thank you.

That pot of blackberry jam relied on sugar and glass from a complex profit-making "system".