Harvesting Time

From Chattel Slavery to Taxed Citizen, Different Method Same Result

According to a United Nations estimate, the global average life expectancy is 72.6 years. That equates to 26,500 spins on this little blue sphere whizzing at 67,000 miles per hour around our small star in the Galaxy called the Milky Way. We humans have approximately 3,800 weeks to figure out why we are here and what is the meaning of our existence. When it comes right down to it, the only finite thing we humans have is time. Love, money, and war are eternal concepts that come in and out of our lives in various quantities. How those three touch our lives depend on grace and one's proximity to forces of good or evil. For both good and evil are eternal quantities as well. But for our life, the clock begins its count down the very moment we are born.

If our time on Earth is represented by the four seasons, each is roughly 18 years in length. Spring represents childhood and education. Summer is the time for learning, working, and establishing a family. Fall is the time for earning, establishing legacies, and contemplating eternity. Finally, winter is the season of contentment, mortality, and decay.

In its freest sense, humans gather together to create harmonious societies that nurture and protect throughout the four seasons of life, namely nurturing, learning, earning and decaying. That is the true spirit of "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" Thomas Jefferson alluded to in the Declaration of Independence. The United States founders were desperate to avoid following in the footsteps of Israel, who in 1 Samuel 8, begged Samuel to appoint a king to rule over and fight their battles for them. The Constitution was structured to uphold a new covenant with God to self-govern and to limit our leaders to four-year presidencies instead of installing life-long hieratical kingships.

Samuel conveyed God's warning to Israel:

"...This is what the king who will reign over you will do: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your menservants and maidservants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves."

Finally, Samuel warned the elders of Israel, "when that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, and the LORD will not answer you in that day. But the people refused to listen to Samuel. ‘No!’ they said. ‘We want a king over us.’” And from that fateful time around 1100 BC to the founding of our great nation, kings have been the gardeners of our societies who dictated how their subjects matriculated through the four seasons, growing, pruning, harvesting, and plowing under. In the era of kings, the people’s time was in his majesty’s hands, for in the end, that was all the subjects truly had to offer him.

When a government, or a company for that matter, devises systems or services that saves time, the people naturally embrace it because it preserves that which is finite and is what freedom is meant to protect. Fast food did not become an industry stable because of the quality of the product, fast food operations saved consumers’ time. When the airline companies, through competition, created an industry where customers could schedule flights to and from locations and trust timely delivery, consumers embraced it because time is precious. Now, with the airline industry canceling 3300 flights over the past holiday weekend, they have effectively taken customers’ time. People missed family gatherings and special events as they wasted countless hours in airports waiting for rescheduled and flights. The airlines took a piece of those passenger’s precious and nonrefundable time.

When a government designs a tax system that is so complicated that it takes over 2000 pages of instructions and a team of CPAs to follow it, the government is abusing citizens’ time. Even if one pays a CPA to prepare their taxes, the expense for the CPA is paid with wages earned through the expenditure of time. So too for remitting taxes as well, for a citizen that pays a 39% tax rate must work longer on the government's behalf than one paying 20% and certainly a lot longer than the one who pays 0%. The dollar amount is immaterial to the harvesting of time. If a government, or a company, wants to ingratiate themselves to citizens or customers, dutifully respecting one’s time is the only way to improve a service and respect the freedom Jefferson eluded to with  the “pursuit of happiness” proclamation.

Now our elite leaders know that they are merely planting, cultivating, harvesting, and plowing under time. Therefore, a serious and concerted effort is necessary to distract citizens from this reality. These power brokers, many who were just hanging out in Davos, where instead of explaining the truth that citizens of the world exist merely as harvestable time units, they lectured the hoi polloi on how they should spend their time with regard to ESG, CRT, climate change and loving to live with less. This elite dog and pony show is reminiscent of the exploits of Harry the Hat. Those that are old enough to remember the sitcom, Cheers know my reference. Harry would occasion the bar and fool patrons into losing their money by convincing them of a "sure thing" alternative. The Davos jet-set crowd is pulling a Harry the Hat “sleight of hand” on the world while we sit back pointing fingers at our neighbors for (insert Davos sponsored aggrievement.)

Institutions, and there be no bigger institution than government, are self-perpetuating organizations. Regardless of who or what breathed life into them, institutions’ goals are to survive. Prior to the modern era, a chattel slavery time harvesting system was the preferred means to institutional survival. Moderns found that type of slavery unappealing, so they devised a new taxation slavery time harvesting system in its stead.

Both chattel and taxation slavery operate under the same premise and that is the harvesting of individual’s time. Infants, in this taxation scenario are useless squabbling and leaky pieces of flesh, however, they are the future crop of time to be harvested so they must be nurtured. Education exists to “water” the child time crop and ultimately means to separate the wheat from the chaff.  Establishing how the human time crop's time is harvested is of great interest to the state. Some will become premium time crops like doctors and lawyers and will require special post secondary educational attention. One part of that additional education for vocational training. The other, and equally important, part of education is reserved for Harry the Hat indoctrination so that thinking does not produce natural yearning for freedom.

Yet not all the time crop is destined for higher education. Others are groomed for building the State’s roads and yet others to march before the State’s chariots. Finally, and this is the saddest of all taxation slavery, some of the cultivated crop of humans must lay idle, as that status gives way to the most devious notion of taxation slavery called redistribution. When a government can ensure a permanent idle class, the taxation elites can then fulfill their ultimate godlike euphoria by commanding the transfer one subject’s limited time on Earth to supplement another’s. Redistribution in the name of fairness has created more slaves of the state then any past king ever dreamed.

What initially made the United States the freest country on Earth was the belief that time belonged to the individual. Sadly, since the dawn of the progressive era, our nation has lost that freedom edge. Our nation has been seduced by the skullduggery of “elders” who begged for a system to care for us, fight our battles for us and till our gardens for us. And now our time is at the mercy of the government “courtesans,” who themselves are oblivious to the fact that they were groomed to sacrifice the only sacred and earthly gift bestowed by Divine benevolence on them. And as the seconds of my life tick down towards shadows and dust, the moments spent embracing loved ones are cherish far more than the time wasted at the behest of kings, princes, and potentates. Because, in the end, it is these very leaders who have no concept of the fact that they themselves are mortal thus naked and penniless so shall they also return.