Sonzai no Akashi

My new company is a Japanese company. I've worked in German companies, Korean companies, and a number of American companies. Of course there are many differences between any two companies within a nation, the differences between nations is quite dramatic. All companies have some sort of mission statement. The idea being that successful companies have mission statements, so mission statements make companies successful. There a plenty of examples to follow, each an example of how another company was successful. All publicly owned companies have only one mission, make money for shareholders. The shareholders tend to be nothing but investors, and interest in the company tends to be limited to stock price. Stock price having been reduced to an extremely complex equation of gross margins and asset inflation.

My new company's mission statement is "Sonzai no Akashi." Typical of Japanese business concepts, it doesn't really translate well so you should learn the Japanese word for the concept. According to Episode 28 of Kiba it means "Proof of Existence" or I would guess, mission statement. Working with pan-language technical documentation give you a good idea exactly how badly things translate sometimes. Siemens would name high voltage power supplies as low voltage "network box" because it's how the German word translated. It's the box that connects you to the "electrical network". So it's important to remember "Sonzai no Akashi," or the company's values. Disco lists them as:

-A corporation is a social system that assists people in attaining happiness and a comfortable living.

-Each corporation must choose a specific business domain to accomplish its own social mission.

-Each individual has responsibility as a member of society, but what people can do as an individual is very limited. This is why they take part in a social system called a "corporation" and work in order to accomplish the mission of the corporation. This, in effect, allows them to fulfill their own responsibilities.

-Working at Disco means aligning our aspirations with Disco's. By increasing the mission-achievablility of Disco, each one of us can ensure our existence in society and obtain satisfaction from work as well as achieve Self-actualization.

It's a bit different from, "We're a corporation. We pay you to make money for the shareholders." Of course making money is a necessary part of fulfilling responsibilities, but it's not the main purpose of the corporate social system. There are important practical differences in corporate philosophy. They also list:

"Behavior Identity - Always the best, Always Fun - this is our motto. Always the best refers to the pursuit of the very best under any circumstances. Always fun is the effort to always enjoy your work.

If everyone of us gains a proper understanding of Disco Values and Disco Vision and puts them into practice, we will be able to establish a dynamic corporate culture that enables us to overcome the tides of change no matter how big or challenging they may be."

I tend to very much dislike when I company tells me what my values should be, but it works out quite well when I feel the company's values match mine. The company also refuses to sell products to any company that produces parts for nuclear weapons. The company is based out of Hiroshima, and started in 1937.

Requiem of Unemployment

13 Years ago I went into the Navy Nuclear Power program. Not really because it was a job I wanted, but because it was a job I wanted to have had. It was a career decision, and one I'm still glad I made. Being able to say I operated nuclear reactors on submarines was something I wanted to have on my resume, but also it was a place I could aways go up from. It wasn't something I fully understood when I made the decision, but I knew college degrees where getting more expensive and much cheaper. The right answer for my generation always was the college degree. Without a college degree you can not expect anything more then a service job. Student loan programs allowed anyone who could do the homework and memorize short-term text book data to get the punch cards of success. It wasn't exactly a thought out decision at the time, but at 18 it was a chance to bring in an income instead of debt. To get an interesting resume item, to experience something interesting, and learn the appreciation of freedom you just can know until you've spent a 7 1/2 month deployment on a submarine. I always had libertarianism leanings, so maybe it was a very sadistic choice. A fan of all the standard libertarian literature (Huxley, Orwell, Chomsky) and had a pretty clear understanding of NWO Empire I was working for. It was communism, the police state, military disciple, all the worst of totalitarianism with 100 men living in 300 feet of submarine (the vast majority of which is engine room and nuclear compartment) 800+ feet under-the-water for months at a time. Of course I hated it, most do. I didn't really completely understand how much I would hate it, but I figured I could handle it, and after that everything is roses. I signed up for 6 years, 2191 days, and I started counting it down from the very day I started. A 2 year crash course in nuclear engineering and 4 years work experience on a boat it was an intelligent career move. I got to do very interesting (though actually incredibly boring) work and have marketable skills without working up a big debt (though I later worked up a huge debt anyway with an abandoned attempt for an MBA from University of Phoenix Online [I now know that it would have been worthless for more then a few reasons]). I knew the Navy would be the embodiment of the worst of Huxley and Orwell's dreams, I grew up knowing Star Wars by heart. The Empire are the bad guys. Yeah, there are plenty of reasons we are better, but life on a submarine is about as close as anyone can get to the Star Wars Empire, or as the totalitarians would think the United Federation of Planets.



Somehow I knew quitting my job when everyone else knew the opposite was also the right thing to do. It wasn't an easy decision, and it proved to be a difficult question in interviews. It was also a difficult question with family. Everyone knew college was the right choice, everyone knew a secure job was the right choice, but for some reason I tend to value the experience over the common knowledge. If you know something without thinking, common knowledge, then someone's not thinking. So I have a tendency to explore it, for the value of the experience, or least in hindsight it seems so. I was very successful in the Navy. In those six years I made it to First Class (E-6), but I'd be damned if I ever got scored highly on military bearing. In that world sometimes the correct balance of rebellion and submission was just wearing white socks and being really good at your job anyway. I did what I needed to make it though and by the end I was happy with the experience. I got to see the world (our Universe), learn that most of the military (our Storm Troopers/Federation) are pretty good guys after all, and learn a valuable skill set.

This time I learned what is like to be unemployed during the greatest economic depression. Economic Darwinism is the greatest sin of Capitalism. Those who can't afford to live, don't. Those who aren't productive enough for capital masters are nubs (non-useful bodies) and don't deserve the air they breath until they've earned their way. It's a nice system, unless you're a nub. Slavery seems nice, if you're the master. However, in hindsight we now know it's not even a very efficient method of labor organization. Today we're all a number. Our degrees of freedom are measured in dollars earned and those without get no freedom at all. But much like how the military can denounce totalitarian communism while practicing it, we praise our freedoms while denying economic freedom to anyone who a capital master will not employ. Most of these liberty intrusions seem simple enough, why not give up a little Liberty for economic security? Because it's not a very efficient system. Authoritarian models always amplify the errors of the leaders, distributed-chaotic models have inherent error correction.

I knew there was some reason I had to make the choices I made, but I can't always explain why at the time. Sometimes it is only through hindsight that I can see why the experience is worth the trial. I trust to my intuition, if it seems wrong at any point, it is because it was a lesson I needed. I survived the trials of unemployment and came out the other side better for the experience. What short-term losses in monetary freedom I incurred, was a fair trade off for the increased potential I now have with a new start in a smaller company. Corporate loyalties are often sold cheaply. We've all became little more then prostitutes, selling body and soul to highest bidder. Character being of little consequence. I know that is something that must change, but change comes from grass-roots personal choices. When America is most terrified of the economic terrorists, is the time to learn not to fear, the time to take risks. Now I have an opportunity to be an economic player again. I've fixed and operated nuclear reactors, I've fixed and installed state of the art medical equipment in every state (ok, not Hawaii), I was at the Foxconn suicide factory to provide technical support for the initial iPhone manufacturing, and now I'm going to be this region's only expert on the Cadillac of Laser Dicers. I'm not deployed for months at a time, I'm not traveling all over the country. I have an opportunity to really make a name for myself in a small company with a domination on a narrow aspect in semiconductor manufacture, and the experience to know why I make the decisions I do.

I want to teach men how to fish, but first I must figure it out myself.

I am working to develop practical ways to stem the tide of centralization, monopolization, authoritative, and bureaucratic culture. Key to this endeavor is finding profitable and sustainable methods of small-scale local food production. The death of the American Farm was the death of American Freedom. Agrarian life is a human way of life, and the quality of our food is the quality of our life. By working to engineer methods of profitably manufacturing food on the small scale, I can work to reduce reliance on mega-corporations for food and employment.

So I am going to put together open-source business plans for these ideas.

-It will be a way to fully incorporate the growing and preservation of food for commercial distribution.
-It will strive for resource independence and product abundance.

Peak oil/dollar will cause very high (relative) energy prices. This will cause severe inflation of food prices. Not only will the costs to transport the food increase, but synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, tires, and farm equipment are also dependent on the price of crude (in American Dollars). This is a dire fact of our future, but also an important opportunity to find better solutions. Food prices will soon skyrocket, finding new solutions for efficient food production will be very advantageous to myself and society.

I'm going to start some more experiments to test the profitability of high-density urban gardening. What size of space is required to feed a family of 5? What size of space is required to support a family of 5? The first question is a matter of experience, the latter will become much more evident as food prices continue to rise.

As I said, this project will be open-source. I will be recording my endeavors on blog, picture, video, and posting it all online. I will log the tedious and the tenuous. I will create a business model to be copied and shared, a spark to light a fire of good food and independence from the systems that enslave us. I want to teach men how to fish, but first I must figure it out myself.

The Plan

I've been trying to figure out a way new way to live. Some way that I don't overly compromise my freedom for security, personal freedom for financial freedom, and intuition over convention. I need to be able to produce wealth, not prostitute myself to corporations. There is nothing wrong with being a prostitute, but selling your body is not a path to personal freedom. Though honestly, I would love to find a nice job with a corporation.

So I'm really left with little choice but to start some form of business. My first thought was Oyster Mushrooms. However, the overhead costs involved in making it a middle-class income business where enormous. I could easily produce value, but competition from large capital has driven prices down to poverty levels on the kind of capital I could put together. So I need a "value-added" product, not a simple commodity. I'm looking to incorporate other forms of high-density farming to produce canned foods for selling on Amazon, and locally.

If I was able to rent a small light-industrial lot, preferably one with a place to live on it, could I produce enough year-round mushrooms, tomatoes, honey, broccoli, squash, and other foods to support a canned food business? They'd be specialty foods and carry a high mark-up for having a health/sustainability/family message. I haven't done the math yet, but this is were the plan is going. I'm still figuring out how big of lot will I need, what's available, capital costs for industrial canning and doing a search for investors, but it's looking pretty good right now.

Organic is a crappy term. Everything living is organic. No inorganic life has yet been discovered, though it is theorized that some aliens could be silicon-based. The term organic comes from the use of organic and in-organic fertilizers. Lots of independent testing has shown that there is little difference in the final product either way. However, in-organic fertilizers are not sustainable in the long-run. They are dependent on cheap crude oil, their source. Peak oil makes organic farming far more competitive with in-organic. It might make the world dependent again on organic methods. I want to work to solve the problems of dependence on non-local food, as well as develop methods of less climate-dependent food production.

Tomato plants will grow indoors all year round. However, they need bees to make tomatoes. Becoming a bee-keeper helps increase the number of bees out there, and learning the lessons of how to keep them will help spread the knowledge. But how many would I need to make harvesting and selling the honey profitable? It's just math. The correct balance of bees, and an indoor farm. Broccoli and some other plants can grow in very simple green houses, and I'll figure out an ultra efficient heating/cooling system for them. The mushrooms will grow on paper I can get for free, and help generate plenty of compost along with the rest of the operation. Maybe I'll add chickens and fish to help achieve an independence on in-organic fertilizers.

Many distant ideas are coming together. Now it's just math to make it work, and finding the capital to get it started. It's going to happen, I just have to figure out how and when.

I am society, and I've got a lot of improving to do.

The world's a pretty crazy place right now, thought you really wouldn't know it watching corporate media. We've all been presented a perspective that drips confidence in a world view. Right now a world view they want to transmit is Don't Panic the Elite have control. Whether it's media, government, education, science, or our corporations society works on a pyramid level. What we are, what we think we know, what we can think, values, judgments, our every sense of reality must come from authority. The model of the pharaoh hasn't changed much in 2000 years, they've just come up with more efficient models. This model is now failing.

The music industry knows the wrath of connectivity. Pyramid models of distribution are how control is maintained. It's how they can tell us what to like, and what to hate. But now we're moving into a media saturated environment. We're moving from a few controlling a mass, to a mass controlling a few. Artists will work for their audience, not the recording label. Popularity drives the income so the material that is popular with the most amount of people is rewarded most by the corporation. They've driven the soul out of music because it's most profitable when it appeals to the largest segments of the population. The use of strong sexual suggestion is well studied and implemented because appealing to subconscious cues brings in the money. They got very good a selling us products, not making music. Now recording labels are nearing obsolescence, and the whole music industry with it. You may not notice the effects of this now, but over the period of a generation it will be dramatic.

Cascading failures of this organization model will unloose profit control from every other place we can get data. Be that education, information, movies, games, or anything else that can be reduced to ones and zeros. The spirit of our culture is freeing itself. This will present a profound change in the structure of the human race. This presents a Brave New World that breaks with the previous Age of human organization. Who controls the spirit of our culture controls the human machine.



People are generally comforted by an elitist/pharaoh/pyramid model. It's what we've all been trained to accept and love. It's the only model. The elite are trained to know they are better and wiser and the people would be headless without them, and rest are trained not to use their head. Too much thinking only causes more issues for the elite to resolve for us. As this model breaks down we will all feel a loss of control. In the transition to real freedom fear is all we have to fear. Fear is another subconscious cue well practiced by those paid to do so. It is also very corrosive to our humanity. Whatever happens, Don't Panic. Sit back relax, and take control of the reality YOU create. Realities created out of fear, can by quite fearful.

So I guess the dilemma is finding employment that wouldn't even do a Facebook search, or doesn't care that support non-standard beliefs or that I am also starting a website. I will not give up on my interests for security.

This is how freedom is curtailed. Government takes many forms. Often it is our employers. The physical force need not be used when economic forces maintain the illusions of freedom. We are all minorities. We are divided by political, social, religious, age, economic, education, regional, and sexual identities. We are right about the world and everyone else is wrong. To think otherwise is to question our own identity. Our political party was always right, our race was always right, our religion was always right, our generation was always right, our social values are always right, our ancestors were always right. So many glass walls of faith in our beliefs that we've become terrified something might break. The time of the mega-corporations control our government, education, employment, news, music is at a climax. The time of isolating the individual from society is ending, now the individual is the society. I am society, and I've got a lot of improving to do.

"Men become daily more free, because the freedom of the man lies in his reason. He can reflect upon his own future conduct, and summon up its consequences; he can take wide views of human life, and lay down rules for constant guidance. Thus he is relieved of the tyranny of sense and passion, and enabled at any time to live according to the whole light of the knowledge that is within him." ~Albert Pike

I like to set life to difficult to get more experience points.

To those who don't know me I'm an unemployed husband, father of 3, war veteran, submariner, nuclear/medical/Semiconductor electronics technician. I left my job for many reasons. Pride, frustration, statement, and adventure to name a few. Although many of you may not see what is going on the the world right now. I do, and this is how I'm doing something about it.

-I don't pretend to understand what is going on.
-I love information and surf porno for pessimists for fun.
-I feel I have a pretty rational grasp of what is going.
-I want to share my story so others can learn and be entertain by it.

It is very important for people to blog. We need to record our stories and share who we are with each other so we all can learn and discover common humanity. There is a "They" out there. The parasites on humanity. The way we are going to cure ourselves of this affliction is leaning not to be afraid of each other. The American Republic has been hijacked by people who split us up into Democrat/Republican, Pro/Against, Black/White, bullshit while they've robbed this country dry and are crashing the economy. You may disagree with much of what I think, and who I am. But I think I'm right so I blog about it.

Quiting my job in a recession like this is a very difficult path. Worse then being laid off because I don't even get unemployment. We do what we can for money and grow much of our own food. We've been forcing ourselves to venture a path I think many more people are walking, and soon most of America will follow. You may not see the House of Cards collapsing, but I do. This is not the only reason I quit my job, but knowing it was time to get prepared for SHTF was a major factor. Since then I have done what I can to get by. I got a somewhat temporary job setting up a website for a fiberglass company. He's having a really hard time in this economy as well, but I was able to attract a little more business for him so he could afford to hire me. It's nice to have work, but unless I'm a really good fiberglass salesmen AND web designer this solution won't last long. I've also been applying to many companies I'm very qualified for, but a combination of competition, web history, or whatever has kept me unemployed.

Deleting my public image from the Internet may be possible, but I make the choice to live this way because I feel it is important not to have to be ashamed of who we are. It was once thought that the only way we could live is hiding all political, hobby, non-work related interests from the working environment. Now posting complex thoughts on current events at home makes you unemployable. But I choose to no allow a don't-ask-don't-tell policy to extend to my economic thoughts, political leanings, perspective on current events, and other musings. So I'm trying to learn how to find a place in this NWO, were I can survive and thrive. If the economy is crashing anyway I'm going to be who I want to be. A professional celebrity, on the amateur level. I'm going to log my experience because that is who I am. This is a game, and this is how I'm playing it. If we share our experiences, we can all get better at this game. I may not be very good at this yet, but the only way I'm going to get better is by doing it. If that interferes with my work prospects then it interferes with the person I choose to be. It violates my rules of this game.

By Blogging I share the perspective/knowledge/mysteries/mistakes etc of this experience because there is value in it. Most people (Including pretty much any corporate HR department) choose to see this as a liability. They're wrong, but thats pretty hard to explain before getting hired. I want to share the information I've collected about Canning, Growing Oyster Mushrooms, Crafts, Conspiracies, Religion and Spirituality because it's what I do. It's my hobby and I will not be ashamed of it. It gives me more experience points and allows me to share them with an ever growing audience. If we each only connect to .001% of people, we can connect to millions on-line. My Facebook page has 81 followers, so I think I connect to much less then that. But this is the choice I've made.

I know the life I want. All I want is the right to be me. A frugal life where I'm not ineligible for work because I'm a thought criminal. It's my line in the sand to the world and the rules I choose to play by. I will never get there if I don't try, and I will not get good at if I don't try. This is my purpose.

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." ~George Bernard Shaw

An exercise sensibilities

We have wish to impose our will on others. We all wish to indoctrinate people into our arbitrary perceptions of the subjective. But no matter how well intentioned; dictating judgment on the subjective is imposing belief structures. It is an attempt to limit freedom of mind and spirit. However, there's a difference between dictating belief structures and sharing belief structures. I am not here to tell you what is. I am here to tell you what may be. I am here to build connection. Connection builds empathy. Empathy builds mutual understanding, and a belief in a shared humanity.

I don't think combating systemic corruption is as hard as some people would like us to imagine. The many tentacled conspiracy puts a lot of energy into maintaining humanity on the lower levels of the Hierarchy of Needs, but their grip on the world is crumbling. Their ability to dictate consensus reality is falling apart. This leaves us free to imagine something different. To imagine a complete rethinking of our economic, social, mythological, and political frameworks. Imagining a structure that encourages human elevation over profit taking and consumption. If you imagine The world economy as an island you can see why our need to consume, our need to "make a profit" is so harmful to our island and it's resources.

Currently we buy into the idea that security is money, when it is actually the opposite. More wealth only creates more fear of loss. So much of what we think we're doing has the exact opposite effect. Our logic is nothing more then a rationalization of prejudices. This is why I am trying to learn how to Live Well Without a Job and With (Almost) No Money.

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson

We just need to relax, let go of anger and fear. This world can be an Eden if we just allow ourselves to believe it can be. Maybe I can't make this world a paradise, but I can try, I can live, learn, and imagine alternatives. Set an example for my children, with mistakes and success.

I imagine a world were Jesus Was a Mushroom. I imagine that humanity is about to Immanentize the eschaton and expel the corrupting forces within the Abrahamic religions (Jeusits and Zionists) that are intent on keeping the Earth a prison planet. I choose to see the world approaching the Luciferian New Age prophesied in the Bible:

2 Peter 1:19 "And so we have the prophetic word confirmed, which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts"

The Morning star is Lucifer. Many secret societies (such as the Freemasons) are Luciferian (not satanic). They see Lucifer as the Light-Bearer and the source of wisdom and enlightenment (as the serpent enlightened Adam & Eve). This is why there are strong prohibitions in Christianity against knowledge (spiritual and material), peace, freedom, and liberty. These fundamental human needs are withheld from us and deemed key to all that is evil. When instead prohibitions against our Free Will are prohibitions against our own divinity.

Genesis 3:4-5
"You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

More and more people are eating the fruit. The spirit of Lucifer is rising in our hearts and what she teaches is Good and Evil. Awakened from our servitude we become free to imagine new reality. Humanity is awakening to our place in the Universe but we must earn our freedom. Jehovah is the archetype of the authoritarian, played by parents, order, government and religion. Lucifer is the archetype of the libertarian, played by children, chaos, rebels and the spiritual. Not good and evil, but two aspects of The Whole. Aspects of us all that need expression.

How do we create an enlightened, peaceful, and liberated society without further centralization of power? How do we overcome modern Christian prohibitions against such a society? I'm trying to explore the issue. The goal here is not to offend sensibilities, rather to exercise sensibilities.