Poll(s) Of The Month : What Has The Most Intrinsic Value?
This month's (May, 2024's) poll(s) in the Mirrors For The Mind, Heart and Soul series
Hey everyone, in this month’s poll I would like to highlight (what I have come to recognize as) the universal truth of how learning to honorably forage and garden provides food for the mind, body and soul. I also wanna take the pulse of what others feel are things that have intrinsic value as I am a perpetual student and always looking to take a step back from limiting perspectives to re-consider a boarder more holistic perspective.
What has value and worth regardless of outward circumstances?
What can we rely on whether or not the flimsy human centralized infrastructures are functioning or not?
What retains the highest degree of value in any and all situations?
Well, I think you may be able to discern which my choices in the above polls are based on what links I shared above and based on my past posts, but I am interested in what all of you think.
For me, the choice to grow heirloom crops, flowers and trees from seed is not only an investment that leads to exponential nutritional abundance that increases one's physiological health, it also nourishes the imagination, increases one's knowledge of those things which have intrinsic value, fills the heart with joy, gratitude and peace, all while providing poetry for the senses that serves to nurture the soul.
Unlike fiat currency, gold or gems, fresh homegrown berries, herbs, fruit and veggies have intrinsic value. The skills and knowledge you gain while growing your own nutrient-dense food is also something that has intrinsic value.. when we share this knowledge and seeds (literal and figurative seeds) this intrinsic value increases exponentially and (unlike fiat currency) is accessible by many.
These are some of the many reasons I feel one of the best choices any of us can make is to create/build some living soil where we live and plant good seeds in the rich Earth. In doing so, we invest in the well being of not only ourselves but we also to invest in hope for tomorrow through leaving this place a little bit more beautiful and fertile than when we got here
Hard assets (whether cash or gold or food stores anything else) can be stolen from you and events can be brought about by humans (or happen naturally) that (even in a best case scenario) would render your cryptocurrency inaccessible and useless for long periods of time (EMPs, CMEs and/or some kind of Digital ID/Internet Drivers license requiring biometric scans to access internet).
Knowledge, skills and experience related to food cultivation, foraging and preservation cannot be stolen from you however, and thus it has intrinsic value as it is applicable and accessible in any and all situations.
Every little bit of food you cultivate for yourself and learn to preserve not only increases your resilience, health and ability to boycott corporations in the here and now, it builds those skills and experience that have intrinsic value for the future. Those are the skills and choices that have the most power to starve the corporations and build a new way of living to leave them behind.
In my opinion, assuming one will always be able to buy food from someone else (because one is wealthy and/or lazy and does not want to get their hands dirty and work with the soil) is a choice to leave one's self vulnerable and is not a solid strategy for weathering the storm ahead.
Also, to me these are worth more to me than all the jewels, gems and gold on Earth!
I would also argue that many of the seeds/beans shown in the pics above they are just as (if not more) beautiful visually. Also, you cannot eat gold, diamonds, sapphires or rubies... nor can you plant them in the ground and increase their value 100 fold in a single season, while also building precious soil in the process and simultaneously increasing your health/emergency preparedness.
When these seeds shown in the picture above are combined with act of composting, it means you are contributing towards the fabric of an ancient living decentralized economic model. We invest our time and materials, and the ‘asset managers’ and ‘investment strategy team’ (comprised of myriad bacteria, fungi and decomposing insects) invest molecules of biological currency for us, storing those units of currency in the form of fertile soil. We can then withdraw from our account through using the ‘key code’ that is embodied in a living heirloom seed we plant in that soil (which unlocks it’s potential and allows us to withdraw part of our savings account in that living soil/seed bank in the form of life giving food, medicine, oxygen and poetry for the senses).
Composting is medicine for the land and medicine for the soul. It offers us a tangible way to connect with and give back to the living planet that sustains us all. When one looks at the act of composting through a more linear or utilitarian lens it is an act that facilitates the transformation of free materials into something extremely valuable and useful for emergency preparedness, saving money on grocery and medical bills.
However, those are just my thoughts and perspectives and I value hearing what all of you think so I look forward to discussing the subject matter that was the focus of the polls above in the comment section below.
Giving a choice between heirloom seeds and family is a bit odd. The vast majority of people with children are obviously going to pick family. I could see if you don't have close family, picking heirloom seeds. But if someone said, "hey, would you rather have your children or plant seeds?", I am going to choose my children without a second thought. I also value heirloom seeds, but not more than my kids.
on poll 6, I would actually lean towards an EMP device to fry drones and robots rather than the old growth forest I selected.
however, an adequate power source for the device is low enough feasibility at my socioeconomic caste level that I went with the trees.
with 7, I grudgingly selected goodwill with neighbors over "other," based on the hypothetical concept of good neighbors. I've had those in the past out in the country. here in the city, not so much. my next door neighbor here in town was great till he sold his house to people with too many dogs that won't maintain the fence keeping them in their own yard. fortunately, the ducks they ate were all uselessly male rather than the females I hoped for when I bought the ducklets. since the chosen selection is currently only hypothetical, I would prefer "other" with some more realistic situation.