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How to Create A Healthy, Wealthy, Abundant
Nation from the Ashes of America's Demise by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews
Editor
(NaturalNews) In a related article on
CounterThink.com (http://www.CounterThink.com/025688.html),
I discussed the inevitable collapse of America and the opportunity for new
nation-states to rise from the ashes. Here, I unveil how such new
nation-states might prioritize natural health as a strategy for long-term
abundance and happiness for its citizens. Here, I also discuss the
possibility of humankind taking conscious control over its own evolution as
a way to eliminate behavior traits of selfishness and short-term thinking.
It's a big topic, so let's start with how some nation-states might
restructure themselves to prioritize health and abundance. It is the collapse of America as we know it today
that will make all this possible. That's why the collapse of the existing
U.S. government is not a negative thing. It's not even a surprising thing.
Rather, it is a transitional phase of the natural rise and fall of nations.
(You didn't think America would last forever, did you?) What's really interesting about all this is that,
with the correct structure in place, a new nation-state that emphasizes
health could create a super healthy, intelligent, highly-educated population
that would be the envy of the world. Will this modern-day paradise emerge from the
collapse of America? It's impossible to say at the moment. Human beings will
determine their own fate by either rising to claim their freedom or
surrendering to total enslavement under some new tyranny. About the author: Mike Adams is a
natural health author and technology pioneer with a strong interest in
personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal
He has authored and published thousands of articles, interviews, consumers
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millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving
personal health around the world. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist
who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other
companies' products. In 2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a maker of
energy efficient LED lights that
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founded a software company in 1993 that developed the
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In the aftermath of the demise of America, there will be many possibilities
for greatly-needed improvements in new systems of governing. Some new
nation-states might end representative democracy altogether and opt for
Direct Democracy (where people vote via the internet). Other nation-states
might replace the old, outdated voting system we all know with Instant
Runoff Voting (IRV).
Many new nation-states will recognize the importance of keeping the
population healthy, and they will legalize Free Speech about nutritional
supplements, and perhaps even welcome alternative cancer clinics to operate
within their borders (which would bring a boon of economic activity from
neighboring nation states). Medical tourism could bring huge economic gains
to any nation-state wise enough to legalize actual healing within its
borders.
In essence, each new nation-state can decide for itself what kind of place
it wants to be. Nation-states in the Northeast might decide to keep their
pharmaceutical companies as kings, and thereby poison their populations into
yet another round of economic destitution. But other nation-states like
Hawaii, California and Florida might prioritize natural health and honest
food, creating a population of health, productive, happy and abundant
people.
In time, all empires come to an end. America's end is near. And some folks
in Washington seem to be accelerating its demise with each passing week. But
do not mourn the passing of the once-great nation of America: Its time here
on our planet was a great gift to us all. America taught much about what
works and what doesn't. From America's demise, we are learning the truth
about corporations: If given enough legal standing, corporations will rise
in power until they control the media, the economy and the government.
Today's corporations are the dominant, corrupt power centers of the State
just like the Church was in medieval Europe.
We have also learned the truth about democracies: No democracy can survive
its own voters because the voters demand increasingly "handout-minded"
Presidents and representatives who inevitably mortgage the country's future
in order to win reelection.
Although this particular sub-topic probably belongs on CounterThink.com
instead of this site, let me mention this briefly: I hope we have also
learned that the right to vote is not something to be granted lightly. For
any democracy to have a real future, voting must be a right that is earned
through service to the People such as serving two years as a volunteer
teacher, or organic farming teacher, or other such programs that help uplift
the People.
Simply being born in a nation and living 18 years should not automatically
qualify someone to vote. Voting must be earned in service to others, and
those who have attained the right to vote might be called Citizens (rather
than just "residents").
For a nation to survive in the long term power must only be given to those
who have attained such power after demonstrating considerable service to
others. The power to vote, in particular, is not something that should be
doled out to anyone with a pulse. It is a sacred power to shape the very
future of a nation, and it must be reserved solely for those who have proven
their service towards the greater good.
That's my take on the subject, anyway. I hope some future nation states will
consider these important ideas. Failure to reform the Democratic process
will simply result in nations re-trying the same failed system that
destroyed America. You can't do the same thing over and over while expecting
different results, you know.
Imagine an entire country running on superfoods, where toxic chemicals are
outright banned from ALL consumer products (medicines, foods, cosmetics,
etc.). Imagine a nation where people are taught basic human ethics, personal
responsibility and compassion for all living things. Imagine a revolutionary
school system where children learn in their own creative way instead of
being chained to desks lined up in rows in front of a chalk board. Imagine a
nation-state that runs on an honest money supply owned by the People and
where its national budget is not burdened by the costs of imperialistic war
mongering.
Imagine a nation-state where those imprisoned for possessing an ounce or two
of marijuana are offered free college educations instead of expensive
incarceration -- and then they go on to contribute to society instead
of existing as a cost burden to society. Imagine a nation-state where
resource conservation is taught to everyone, and people grow their own
organic food in backyard gardens. Imagine a place where the People aren't
drugged up on psychiatric medications, where children are allowed to play in
the dirt, where sunlight is not branded as "evil" and where school shooting
are a long-forgotten memory.
Imagine a nation-state where questioning the government is encouraged rather
than greeted with suspicion; where the "Pledge of Allegiance" is replaced
with a "Pledge of Personal Freedom and Personal Responsibility" and where
political activists are labeled "idea builders" rather than terrorists.
Imagine a place where families can be healthy, wealthy and safe. Where home
prices are stable, and the food supply is both safe and abundant, grown by
local organic farmers who can sell you raw milk or raw almonds without being
arrested and thrown in prison.
This modern-day Eden can be created, but only if the right opportunity for a
transition in power is grasped by selfless, visionary individuals who are
willing to risk everything to create a better future for future generations.
The nature of Man leads me to take a pessimistic view of what will really
happen. Men are inherently self-centered and short-sighted. The long-term
benefit of the many is routinely compromised for the short-term gain of the
few in power. This is universal across all of humanity, from the streets of
Somalia to the halls of the White House. All humans are self-centered, and
generally speaking, men are especially militaristic, controlling and cruel
to others.
For this to change, humans must either be educated from a very young age to
embrace the sacredness of all life (now and future), or humans must
literally be genetically altered to "breed out" the selfish behavioral
traits that now serve as a hindrance to the future of the species.
For human civilization to succeed in the long term, in other words, humans
must be altered from their current nature either through education or
science. And on the scientific front, modern human civilization certainly
has not attained the levels of maturity and humility that would earn it the
right to play God with genetic engineering of the species. In other words,
humans are not yet evolved enough to take command of their own evolution.
Should that milestone ever be reached, however, it might create the one last
opportunity for humankind to transcend its origins and create a sustainable,
peaceful world where people cooperate out of an instinctual desire to help
others rather than personal greed.
To get to that point of species self-actualization, however, modern
humankind still has a long, long way to go. Today, it remains stuck in the
infantile "war" phase of development, forcefully demanding things from
others, much like children fighting over lollipops. We must advance into a
higher level of consciousness and maturity if we ever hope to co-create a
brighter future for future generations.
Genetic engineering of the human race can only be allowed to proceed once
the people of our world have reached a state of lasting peace, with respect
for all living creatures and deep humility for the wisdom of nature. Today,
such a goal seems impossibly distant. Let us hope that the collapse of the
American empire -- and the rise of new, progressive nation-states -- might
bring us closer to the day of species self actualization.
And from that place, let us hold the intention that the living members of
the human species may one day discover a way to live in harmony with each
other and with the planet, holding all living things as sacred and
recognizing the interconnectedness that binds all living beings: human,
animal, plant and otherwise.
Separateness, after all, is an illusion. And it is from that illusion that
greed, and war, and exploitation of others springs. Once the illusion of
separateness is dissolved, the subsequent perceptual shift automatically
leads to a world of cooperation and compassion rather than exploitation and
cruelty.