Self-Sufficiency Minimizes Exploitation

Those needs or desires that cannot be fulfilled by one’s own effort but require the assitance or labors of others are what opens one to exploitation.  Obviously, there are fundamental desires or needs that will never be autonomously fulfilled, and what would be the point of a world of co-existing beings within which individuals could fulfill their needs without interacting with each other?  But as we reflect upon our industrialized society and how far it takes each person from the capacity to meet basic needs without dependency, we understand why exploitation and misery are so rampent.

Knowing one’s self, and providing for one’s self, again become the priorities of the day.  Surrendering certain unnecessary dependencies is a great value in this world of exploitation and scarcity.  Individuals and agencies that hold power will not want to allow that to occur, because it is the energy of their dependants that feeds them.  But this is a necessary swing of the pendulum, in this time especially.