The Georgic Economy
--A Genesis of Liberty—
When America
shifted from agriculture to industry they outsourced (unwittingly perhaps) the planting of seeds for their livelihood, to another. The professional farmers provide the food, and the professional financiers provide the capital. Americans now do the opposite
of banks;
They Receive Products,Then Pay For Them Over Time Providing
the Yield for the Banker.
In Essence, Americans began choosing products over freedom. It wasn’t always this way, the Georgic Economy is not a new concept or practice. It has peeked its perspiring heads several times in our world history. Adam was taught this economy by God in the Bible. (see Genesis) We see it again with Abraham; it was forgotten by the Children of Israel in Egypt (and it gook God forty years to revitalize it in the people)! The Greeks had it early on—they cultivated it in their rocky soil, only to have the vine blossom in the Golden Age and wilt in the scorching heat of flamboyance and frivolity. The Romans build a power-house on it, but eventually rejected it for bread and circuses. Virgil the Poet, coined the phrase to describe this economic genesis of liberty in “The Georgics” (29 BC) and had it read to Octavian; who continued his course for power, along with his people. He became Emperor in 27 BC, and the 800 year old Republic continued imploding into the pompous Roman Empire. Georgic Economies found life in pockets and bore fruit in the Great Economic Revolution at the turn of the 1st Millennium (See Will Durant: “Story of Civilization” Volume IV), in the Renaissance, and in Puritan England. Many of the Puritans, known for their “work ethic” and devotion to God, sailed to American (beginning in 1620) and on American soil this economy blossomed, birthing the greatest movement of freedom that has ever spread across the world. As the British surrendered to Washington at Yorktown, their drummers played the march “The Day the World Turned Upside-down.” (see Siege of Yorktown) It had turned the world upside-down; the Founding Era of our Nation rested firmly upon the shoulders of a Georgic Revolution.
EVERY BURST OF LIBERTY ON THE LANDSCAPE OF EARTH HAS BEEN
PRECEDED, FUELED, TEMPERED, AND PRESERVED, BY GEORGIC REVOLUTIONS.
We as Americans will not find and secure liberty by legislating it in Washington. It will not be securely founded if spurred
on only by discussion, persuasion, rhetoric, and hype. Liberty is a consequence of work—of hard work, sacrifice, patience, and
perseverance. Our Government’s over-spending on social programs, subsidizing, and other fear mongered policies, are symptoms
of the real problem:
We Forgot, and Eventually Refused to Admit, That We Must First Plant, Before We Can Reap.
It is time to “Turn the World Upside-down” again. YOU are an American! Experience a Georgic Revolution in your own life…thus it must spread across our land if we are to succeed in moving the Cause of Liberty with any permanence and authenticity. We must do this as our Founding Fathers did. This must be pursued in the natural pattern—Georgic Revolution first. The Founders lived the Declaration long before they ever signed it!
