Personal adventures in the Financial Crisis

Transparency is the new way of the world. We must become what we want to see in the world. The path there is increasing transparency with yourself and with The World/Future. TV was a drug used to satisfy our need to know others, our need to seek connection the the whole. TV is gone and now we have the Internet. What I write is a personal record of my journey through the Financial Crisis, the Collapse of the Dollar, America's decline, The Second Great Depression, The Beginning of the New Age, or whatever this period of time will be called.

“One man's transparency is another's humiliation.” ~Gerry Adams

I have decided to take the plunge out of a collapsing system.

“It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.”~Harry S Truman

I have accepted personal responsibility for the world I create.

“If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.”~ Leo F. Buscaglia

I have exercised my right to stop paying some of my debts to a handful of Major Financial Institutions in an act of civil disobedience for the world they have created and as a strategic reallocation of capital. I have accepted the impact to my credit score, ultimately your credit score is nothing but a Good German Score anyway. If I am going to learn how to live outside of a collapsing system I am willing to accept the consequences of rejection from it. I am willing to join the ranks of the Millions of Americans who find themselves in the same situation. I am not afraid of poverty, I've been there before and still know how to find happiness.

So I record my family's journey for my own use, and the use of others. I am fully aware that every scribble on the cloud is a part of a permanent public record, so I do this for others in my time and all time to come. I do this for my children and their children. I do this for the Son of Man.

Today I discovered one more consequence of Strategic Default, my local Credit Union will not accept you as a new account if you have a collection out on you. So, lesson to anyone reading this: transfer your money into a Credit Union BEFORE you stop paying Credit Cards. So now I'm stuck not having a morally acceptable place to put my Final Check for today, but I will find one. There has got to be a place to put your money that doesn't mind if you're a Good German or not. I'm not to the point of stashing cash under my mattress yet, but there is a reason people who lived through the previous depression developed that compulsion. A depression in the 2010's will look a whole lot different then the depression in the 1930's, and it is up to us to make it what we want it to be.