INDEX
• How much can you Do ?
• Respect for yourself and others.
• Easy to be weak; easy to give up.
• Martyrs die alone and are forgotten.
• Getting the Best for you, and for all.
  • Economic Dependency, making life Hard.

  1. How much can you Do ?
If you are like many persons who have acquired CFS-ME, you have been quite active through much of your past. You have shown determination, drive, stamina. You may have had a decades long history of this form of self-challenging combined competitive and joining in lifestyle. You got used to self-direction, individualism, and trust in yourself ... rather than reliance on others. Now, You've found yourself transported to a Space that is likely foreign and threatening. You have been there many times before. At least, you THOUGHT you had been there. This time is different. ALL those other times, YOU stuck it out, pushed through, found new options, and, won or succeeded. This IS different. YOU are not staying on a Recover track. WHY?

This IS a sickness state unlike any of your previous experiences.
THIS is a Package of serious illnesses. Few, if any of them, are simple take-a-pill, rest, or add some supplements and herb teas for a week or two recovery realities. THIS time, you either become aware of the Fact that you have many of the Symptoms of CFS-ME, or, you remain in confusion, or, you find some other diagnosis. Look around you. There are tens of thousands of other people who have this Package of illnesses, and, they are NOT recovering! If YOU are going to Recover, you are going to have to do something different than those others.

A lot of options will have to be participated in before you Recover, if you truly have CFS-ME. And, if that diagnosis is correct, you will not be able to plan, schedule, do, and follow through on all of what is optimum for you, without help. That means accepting the humility to admit that YOU can't do all that would be best for you. That means taking the risk to ask others to assist you, and, allowing them to lose your trust, or, earn your Trust.

2. Respect for yourself and others.

3. Easy to be weak; easy to give up.

4. Martyrs die alone and are forgotten.

5. Getting the Best for you, and for all.

E. Economic Dependency, making life Hard.
Human life was not always a struggle with so many demands and choices.
We know this from history, both written and paleontologically.
Little is new that we have not encountered in some similar fashion.
The only demonstrated trend is that as we repeat, the errors increase in size and devastation. Perhaps it is time to consider some fundamental changes in What we Believe, and What we Assume.

Interdependence (Trade) or Dependency (Colonialism)

It would be shocking to read of the plight of the Chinese workers
if it wasn't such an old and oft repeated example.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6211261.ece

When subsistence workers convert to industrial/commercial economics, the first value lost is independence, and the second, is freedom. Now, the worker is dependent upon an employer, who in turn is dependent upon market demand. Market economics is often geared to the beliefs and fantasies of the buyers and not to the reality. Huge profits can be earned on fad items of questionable longevity and practicality as well as on other products which become and remain popular largely by popular and marketed myth as well as by the power of personal vanity and the desire to be included in a group of buyers on the basis of possession.

Good products of quality workmanship are often higher in price than their competition. A public content more with possession than with practicality, often buys cheap. Manufacturers of poor quality are rewarded and stay in business to make more items of poor quality. If the worker does not follow orders, they are replaced by those of the many who have too much debt or financial responsibility to remain unemployed long, or, to take the increasingly costly risk of attempting to become self-sufficient.

Colonialism is when any economic entity totally depends upon another for their market. This removes all choice excepting "Do what the buyer asks/demands" and "Set your personal limits, lose your market, and starve". There could be other options IF the worker had more self-sufficiency, now lost to too much personal spending relative to personal income. Interdependency is when both the worker and the employer/purchaser see each other as equals, with respect, and barter services and products that have a personal and close meaning to each.

Colonialism is more about the worker losing assets through poor "investment" and the buyer willing to pay the worker a much lower amount for a service or product than the buyer would agree to do the work or provide the service for. Often, the worker, in this economic model, is seldom able to purchase and own or experience the benefits of the service or product they produce.

Mainland China is a modern example of many gone before, including Britain-USA, Spain-Mexico, Portugal-Brazil, France-SE Asia, Japan-China, Rome-Mediterranean, Eygpt-Middle east/North Africa. Many others in history and reality are in the form of political groups no longer known as nations, or, never known as more than "economic families". Ownership by occupation without opposition was an earlier "law" of ownership. It is sustained in the little known and exercised laws regarding squatters's rights. In many western locales, if a person uses your land for 7 years and you make no formal effort to have them stop doing so, they "own" it. Most modern ownership is not by occupation or possession, but by decree and political law.

In 2009, the Chinese resident is alive today, and totally dependent economically, having lost all ownership to the land of their forefathers, hundreds of years ago .. to emperor/administrator/warlord rulers. So did all Westerners when the British Crown declared ownership of ALL land as Crown Land, in the 1600s. That allowed the king to tax the "landowners" rent ... to pay for wars. Nothing too radically new as the Lords and Chiefs which occupied most of the lands previously in Europe and elsewhere, by choice of force, did the same. They charged those who lived and worked their farming plots or ran their artisan guild shops in the territory of the Lord, "protection" taxes/rents to keep order against the lazy and the ostracised who chose to visit and steal for their livelihood. There became too many people to live in harmony and plan and prepare for the patterns of loss and plenty in nature. Order and stability became a focus.

Colonialism is also known by the names, Plantation Economy, Mortgage Debt, and Credit Card dependency. The USA-China economic structure of today is little different from that of the 1812 USA War of Independence from Britain. China buys little from the USA. The USA buys trillions of dollars of product from China. The "Balance of Trade" is totally one-sided .. colonial.

The Chinese and China will continue to be subjugated to horrible health and environmental disasters, under the justification of maintaining local employment and satisfying a "foreign" buyer of demand, until, they are ready to close their borders, provide for themselves, and exclude the North American and Australian markets. The potential for interdependency has passed. There is little in products which North Americans and Australians can make for the Chinese market. In particular, the USA has minimized most of the production facilities it once had and marginalized their workers.

You may have a deed to your property but it is granted to you by the sovereign of your nation, who acquired the legitimacy to do so from the British Crown, which set the rules of modern property ownership! Chinese can work on their land, and pay taxes (now like rents), like us, or, work for whom their government sanctions to operate a business.