Liberty Liberally - Vol II Issue I - January 2022

From the Journal of Joshua Fryfogle

Liberty, Liberally Volume II - Issue I

January 2022

Alaska

See As One

What’s In a Name?

By Joshua Fryfogle They move the masses, races, classes Problem, reaction, solution Their wealth amasses, each law that passes Provides them absolution For all the crimes they’ve redefined As somehow for the good We pay no mind to all their designs And who would think we would?

We work away our workaday-weekdays till the weekend So we can say that we pay our way But this is how we’re weakened

January 1, 2013

without your input.

‘Pen Name’ - a fictitious name; esp. one used by an author.

All of the content you read in Make A Scene (Ed. Note: this piece was written before we began publishing The People’s Paper) comes from people just like you, people with opinions, causes, things they care about. For over five years I’ve found that many people with passionate ideas, derived from real-world experience, are reluctant to write their informed opinions so that the rest of us might benefit. Teachers, politicians, religious leaders, union members, corporate suits, many of these people are scared to speak, for fear of retribution that might affect their financial security.

Many famous and not-so-famous people have used ‘pen names’, for various reasons. Maybe their name was difficult to pronounce, or lacked a poetic quality. Other times they were protecting their other professional endeavors - controversial opinions can often affect someone’s workaday life.

I’ve written many controversial political opinions, and received my fair share of scowls and snide comments from those who disagree. Good thing I’m thick-skinned and self-employed!

My opinions often exist in a no man’s land, somewhere between the illusion of left and right. Because of this, I catch hell from both sides of the political paradigm. So, I can totally understand why some people don’t want to ‘put their name’ on their opinions. We live in a fickle world, where some folks are apt to punish you socially, or even economically, if you speak your mind. Still, not speaking our mind is exactly how the world around us has drifted so far from the will of the people. We’ve let a small group of people use public humiliation as a scare tactic to stop us from speaking up.

Thank God for the ‘pen name’!

Maybe you’re a musician, surrounded by progressive friends, who will reject you if you shared your secret liberal ideas. Maybe you’re a military member who is against war. Maybe you’re more than what society wants you to be. Maybe you’re a complex human being, not fitting into the pigeonhole that was prepared for you

They borrow on our future sorrows So we work harder still Then comes tomorrow and ends the embargo On who must pay the bill The plan for plunder becomes a blunder When all that they have done Is torn asunder with wit and wonder When we see as One

What is the loss to our culture and society when these words go unwritten?

It’s a form of pre-censorship, selfsuppression. Future generations will suffer, and social wrongs continue, unchallenged.

If you have something worth writing about, don’t let fear stop you! Don’t let social persecution prevent you from your freedom of speech and freedom of press! If we all shared our thoughts, without fear of what the powers-that-be might do to us, we would find that we’re all thinking the same things. Fear is not freedom.

“Citizens! When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of people in a society, over the course of time they will create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it!”

- Frederic Bastiat

Don’t you think it’s time to right some wrongs? Isn’t it time to write what’s right?

Send in your thoughts, with or without your real name. It’s up to you, whoever you are.

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From the Journal of Joshua Fryfogle

Volume II - Issue I

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Pineapples, People and Politics

Vote Local

By Josh Fryfogle The thing about school It isn’t what you learn But that you learn that you can learn That’s the thing Your education is a tool It can help you earn But to make a living isnt living Like a king A king knows how to rule And how to so discern To learn to live and learn Anything

Decentralized economies, made up of millions of nodes - locally-owned businesses - are like walls around a city. The walls are there to protect the city, but keeping those walls solid and sure, stable and capable of repelling wild beasts, that’s a job for the people who live near that stretch of wall.

The people who are responsible for the upkeep of that piece of wall ought to be the people who depend the most on that piece of wall.

Local producers, production facilities, raw materials, and retail locations... with all of these we should at least maintain some foothold of local control.

A centralized economy is quick and easy, but easily breached at any point along the distribution chain.

Currently, we’re seeing how shipping containers are easily kept at sea by some bureaucratic BS. Macroeconomics finds efficiencies when the economic systems are seen as one whole system, and the result is surely abundance and increased quality of life. The idea that pineapples would be available year round in Alaska, for example, proves that free and open trade raises the quality of life and the quantity of goods and services in far flung places like our own Great Land.

But at what cost?

The reason why the macroeconomic centralization is so profitable is because pineapples don’t grow in the Arctic circle, but people live there, and people like pineapples. There is no doubt that a larger economy, with production of raw materials and resulting products being made where it is easiest to produce them, just makes sense. However, for a place like Alaska, where we are far and away from other populations, even those within our own state, it’s especially important that we secure our basic survival by investing in locallyowned infrastructure: producers of raw materials, producers of basic needs. Pineapples are nice, but food is necessary.

How can we secure our own local supply chain?

Awareness.

Free markets are free because people can shop... freely. They tend to spend money where they want to spend money. We must show the people that their access to basic needs might not be met in times of crisis, and that they can invest in local sources and resources in order to sure up our section of the economic wall.

No, not at all. All we must do is shift our spending, just a bit.

Do we need to replicate every product or service in the larger economy here at home?

No, pineapple isn’t necessary to survival. We need to focus our local spending where it matters - food and farms, clothing and textiles, buildings and building materials, and the list goes on.

Why haven’t politicians made this a topic of discussion?

Because a handful of big businesses are easier to deal with than countless local business people. The path of least resistance is hard to resist. Politicians go with the flow, and the flow of goods and services has been overtaken by these trans-national corporations; inhuman entities, wild beasts... and they’ve been allowed to ravage our local economy, gobbling up mom and pop shops along the way.

Politicians are upwardly mobile, political climbers by nature. They need the support of those power players to raise funds for future political campaigns. With each successful campaign, the cost increases.

Local politicians like the tax revenue, and that the bulk of their funding comes from people who don’t live here.

This disconnects the local constituents from local elected leaders, and gives that same power to outside interests, who rarely use it. They put little pressure on local elected leaders, they don’t complain about potholes or partisan problems. They are lowmaintenance, and local leaders like low-maintenance, like people like fresh pineapple.

- John Hancock

Alaskans are not in a position to Mad Max this thing. If the system collapses - as it has historically done - Alaskans are too far removed by rough terrain to go an find resources. What little we have would quickly be consumed in such a scenario. Our population is so sparse, and the weather so harsh most of the year, that should the system fail society, it will fail Alaskans first and worst.

We live here. Our economic wall is non-existent. It’s foolish. Our leaders lack vision, and they’re obsessed with their partisan kabuki.

So it’s up to us, People.

Vote Local.

Do we need to reject the macroeconomy to do it?

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