welcome to my alternate reality the reality here in this part of huge and sound has little to do with the busy anxious lives of people in king county or elsewhere on the seattle side of the water you're looking at a small bay near slim washington near a state park the freeways and congress forty minutes east of here those heavily infested buildings in downtown seattle and downtown bellevue those yes i'm sorry to say it but all the viewers watching this program in seattle bellevue redmond renton and sea tac are living in infested territory infested with ideas and ways of life which are self destructive to humans the physical and psychological destruction of living in major cities is well documented stress kills stress kills as completely as a grizzly bear with just much or the struggle to get a good job and keep a good job what people put themselves through to earn money is deadly and more and more money is required of everyone each year if you want any quality of a few days ago i watched a river otter on this beach his way of life has no hints of self destruction at all he is a survivor and happy about it he was wary of me he scooted off behind some logs eager to eat the fish dangling from his mouth i moved up quietly and peeked over the logs to watch him crunch and munch his breakfast when he saw me he was off again into the water he swam out perhaps twenty feet and slipped up on to another log there he finished eating he preened his fur and he scratched his back with wild pleasure rubbing back and forth against the log he stopped only once or twice to make sure i was going to cause no further trouble he was caught smart a big fellow perhaps six feet long from head to tail his reality is clearly defined he thinks to himself i am hungry he swims out catches a fish and eats it he thinks my back is itchy he rubs his back deliriously on a bumpy log twisting and turning in great pleasure he thinks that human creature over there he looks like trouble i'm out of here in all those thoughts even sensing potential danger he does not freak out he does not lose control he simply moves to a further log and gets on with his people especially people with good jobs and big bills to pay do not always keep their cool they do not live in a reality is straightforward and spontaneous is the author most people live in a reality created for them by bosses and landlords by governments and lawyers the providers of water and electricity the collectors of garbage the providers of internet cable services all want a piece of your life ex wives and loan officers insurance companies all these and more all want to raid people's wallets month to month year to year for as long as legally possible jobs demand more and more more and more time and often jobs wish to pay less rather than more as they demand more time and the commutes get longer and more stressful the squeeze is on people living or working in major cities get squeezed from all sides at all millions of people hundreds of millions of people are trapped in such lives they consider such lives normal as if no other possible reality exists or could exist the people who make money from their slaves have more freedom than the slaves to the slaves who make over one hundred thousand dollars per year have more freedom than the slaves who make only twenty thousand dollars per year also there are tens of millions of slaves no regular income they of course are considered less useful to society than the working slaves the unemployed slaves or more like cockroaches that is a nuisance to the slave owners and to the working slaves the people in charge and corporations and governments really wish the cockroaches would simply go away and die and allow the happy slaves the busy slaves of the willing slaves to get on with their happy lives this set up even the slave owners are trapped inside a reality they have not personally created trapped in an economic reality which was created by i don't individual no single government and no single corporation nor is this economic reality created by the daily needs or the daily wishes of hundreds of millions of people economic slavery is a reality which seems inherent to human civilization though now in the twenty first century economic slavery encompasses the lives of billions of people and has become a global method of operation we call it by different names in different places here we might call it capitalist democracy in other places progressive socialism or modern communism whatever we call it the results are the same slavery slavery for hundreds of millions of people the details of enslavement change from place to place from one decade to the next but we as a species seem to be reliant on slavery what is obvious to me is this the happy river author has more freedom and gets to exercise his free will much more than most people the author gets to go where he wants to go eat what he wants to eat sleep where he wishes to sleep and make baby authors with friendly girl authors and not one of these activities require lawyers or government licenses all the important things in his life he does without one dime to anyone he clearly has no understanding of human economics and no need for human economics this is why i say the people of bellevue redmond in seattle all the viewers of this program live and work in shiny slave pens and high tech roach traps giant roach traps they spend days and nights with less freedom and less ability to use their free will than any average pacific northwest river otter if you are a viewer with a good job you will have changed channels by now thinking this guy is a crackpot his ideas hold no water he's making a fuss about nothing at all he will say in all honesty my life is fine all my friends and family are fine even my dog and cat are fine we're not slaves we're not roaches well when you can buy most anything you want most everything you want you believe you have free will you have free will because you have plenty of cash that means you don't really have free will because you're always a slave to earning and spending cash your freedom only extends as far as your bank account if you lose your job and don't find another one for four or five years your view of economic slavery might be different low paid slaves and slaves without jobs are more aware of their in slave and than high paid slaves who work at microsoft going and amazon whether you think you are a slave or not i wish to say this if you ever get trapped in your current way of life if you want to change a reality and alternate reality you do not need any pills  mushrooms perhaps you just need a change of scenery a place with lower costs and more personal control over the reality which governs your life your free will still exists even when you have less money than the glamorous the glorious one percenters it takes effort to use your free will but it is there when you need it what i'm talking about is a major shift in demographics if fifty percent or more of all millennial is moved out of major cities they could create a way of life much better than they have now even older folks like me might have more freedom far away from the slave pens i'm talking about young people in particular moving to athens ohio current population twenty five thousand or williston north dakota current population twenty six thousand there are a number of small towns all across the united states which want to grow their size and rebuild their struggling economies they want smart young people to move in and get things going again some towns are even willing to give people land if people are willing to come in and build a home and live there curtis nebraska and marni iowa will give you land where you can build a new home tribune kansas has been offering to pay down student loans for any post grad who wants to move to kansas the city will pay up to fifteen thousand dollars over five years to get some new blood in town these are only a few there are many towns right here in washington oregon and idaho which could be a place to rebuild your life to build personal freedom and build a way of life over which you have more control but you need to make the effort here is another fact of nature and tales are only anthills when ants live there when the answer gone the ant hills are only piles of dirt and shit corporations located in giant downtown office buildings are very much like ant hills if the younger worker ants decide to move to curtis nebraska well guess what the corporations will lose a whole generation of talent and scramble to get people in from foreign countries hoping to rebuild a population of willing slaves the corporations will find that process is far too expensive so they will make it possible for smart people living in rural areas to people are willing slaves only when they accept the reality handed to them free will among people is a force far more powerful than free will among the river authors free will among millennial could restructure economics and demographics all across the united states and the whole country could become a better place for people to live than it has ever been before millions of people with actual freedom actual freedom for tens of millions of people who would otherwise be trapped in in or near major cities don't get me wrong i'm not a spokesperson for any real estate firm just saying there are actual options for people who no longer wish to live where they live people who want to build a better way of life a life over which they have more control than they do in their current lives you don't have to live in major cities you don't have to commute you don't have to work for major corporations and be trapped and slave pens and be herded into giant techno roach traps