"Sure, a symbol called “America” broke off from a symbol called “Great Britain,” but in the end, no human being was freed from anything. Allegedly, people were supposed to be given more freedom, but all they got was more servitude."

Between 1776 and today there were some remarkably free folks in America. In the end - today - we are a lot less free than folks were in the mid-19th Century. Today technology is enabling burgeoning independence from centralized industry. As development and dissemination of individually possessed means of production continues, more people are presented with the choice between being parasitized and dependent on centralized industry and the extant economy, or making their own goods and services in cooperation with other folks and keeping all their wealth.

The laws of physics aren't determined by banksters. Physics makes technology possible, and decentralization is the cutting edge of every industry today. Independence is being restored and vampires are being proved to be dependent on us, not we on them. When we restore the craft society that existed before the industrial revolution while keeping the luxury quality of life technology makes possible, we will become again a free society.

These are the things I celebrate.