THE BANK OF ARTS AND CRAFTS
The Alliance plans to establish a Bank of Arts and Crafts to preserve and save the priceless treasure of knowledge handed down over the centuries.
Given the “Reset” that will hit Western countries and the consequent exponential rise in unemployment, an anti-globalist alternative to the globalist proposal of universal income linked to social credits must also be created in this area. Therefore, preparing a concrete, viable response that represents a real prospect of work and subsistence is necessary.
The globalist elite are deliberately wiping out treasures in our art museums and libraries for the flat uniformity of multinational corporations.
The Bank of Arts and Crafts will allow vocational training to the younger generation, which will soon find itself without job outlets due to the coming employment crisis, particularly in the service sector.
Until today, those who have scraped together a paltry salary as call center operators or Uber drivers will soon be replaced by AI operators, drones, and self-driving cars, as is already happening. Those earning a living as help in a fast food restaurant or a worker in a warehouse will soon see themselves replaced by robots. Multinational corporations are investing an enormous sum of money in technology designed to replace human workers with machines — even if the machines do not meet with the appreciation of customers, who are still accustomed — fortunately — to the value of human interaction.
For this reason, while the elite aims to centralize the management of the economy, trade, agribusiness, and healthcare industries,
we must implement a systematic decentralization, favoring small businesses, handicrafts, small farms, livestock raising, local fishing, etc.
— all those labor activities that guarantee economic independence and, along with it, the possibility of escaping the control of the globalist Leviathan, because the more numerous and autonomous these anti-globalist employment realities become,
the more complicated it will be for the globalist demons to push the entrepreneur and the family-run business into oblivion.
If we look back to our past, we discover many jobs and trades have been all but wiped out because they are considered a dangerous benchmark for the paltry supply of big business. Once upon a time, when a couple was getting married and setting up a house, it was inconceivable to choose mass-produced furnishings. Every city and every town, even the most remote, had artisans capable of customizing any furniture or household fixture. If you wanted a sideboard with two doors instead of one or a table of cherry wood instead of walnut, all you had to do was agree with the cabinetmaker to craft what you wanted at an honest price. Repairing any damage to handcrafted works for the home was also quick and easy.
The intrusion of large-scale distribution has destroyed this human-scale business model. Gone are the personal relationships and esteem for local artisans, who were known as members of the community — friends and neighbors. Today, multinational corporations force us to settle for mass-produced models constructed with often shoddy materials designed to last a short time — planned for breakdown and obsolescence — planned not to be repaired on breakdown but to be replaced. And when that model of chair with an unpronounceable name that we bought at a package store goes out of the catalog, we can no longer order another one.
The abandonment of craft and art applies to all—I repeat, All areas of handicrafts and the minor arts, but it also extends even to the techniques of cultivating fields and raising livestock. Ancient knowledge, handed down for centuries and varying from region to region, is disappearing to make way for intensive GMO crops and synthetic production of surrogates, which are harmful to our health while also having a very high negative environmental impact. Seeds, too, are not exempt from this destructive operation: Monsanto and other multinational corporations produce sterile, genetically modified seeds under patent so that farmers are forced to depend on an agribusiness when traditionally nature would allow them to have new seeds to plant every time from the previous harvest.
I am not talking about marginal jobs done by underpaid or incompetent labor in some Third World village, but about a heritage of meaningful activity that has been the pride of many generations in first world nations. Not surprisingly, the globalist elite demons view the survival of the crafts in so many human endeavors as a threat to mass-produced artifacts in China, India, or Pakistan.
Professionals in the arts and crafts — in the true sense — are at their best when they see their work formed in their own hands, knowing that their handiwork is made from suitable materials, worked with passion to build something that will last, not something designed to break down shortly after that, according to the cynical principle of planned obsolescence.
Vocational training that looks at the preservation and innovation of crafts and trades guarantees independence for those who start a business, be it a workshop, forge, laboratory, or farm. This anti-globalist rebirth of the social fabric based on arts and crafts also restores honesty to work as human productivity — on the desire to make products executed skillfully, in which to express one’s talent and manual skills.
In agriculture and animal husbandry, the Alliance will contribute to preserving and passing on the knowledge of our fathers, combining that knowledge with what healthy progress can simplify and make less burdensome.
In this sense, respect for Creation — of which we are the careful steward of material assets for which we are accountable to the Creator — will have to be guided by moral principles, as it has always been, rather than by bureaucratic fulfillments designed to favor large landowners and multinational corporations.
In this sector, too, if we can get young people to understand how much more beautiful and fulfilling it is to feel clods of earth in their hands, to return home tired but proud of their work, following the rhythms of the seasons and the alternation of toil with rest, and sowing with harvest, we will have an army of people willing to learn, and perhaps even many grandfathers and fathers eager to pass on their knowledge, their experience, their secrets. This personal satisfaction would strengthen relationships between different generations, helping to counter the isolation between youth and adults that the System uses to dominate one another.
I think of the satisfaction of a printer who has decided to reprint fine books, or the work of the bookbinder working in genuine leather, the scent of the pages that each of us smells when we open a hand-crafted volume. We contemplate the joy of the blacksmith, the carpenter, and the weaver, who are no longer underpaid clerks but valued makers of unique artifacts and custodians of age-old crafts to which they will add their talents.
An artisan who works well or a farmer who respects nature will find new customers in the various anti-globalist networks who understand and value their passion and commitment.
The community will express joy at creating an alternative to the globalist market — an alternative that shifts the critical mass toward a new way of understanding the market — that is, the ethical market — an alternative that will inevitably have a significant impact on both employment and the quality of supply.
As anti-globalists, we must recognize ourselves as creatures of God. We must acknowledge that God is the Creator of all. We must never forget that God is genuinely Sovereign and that Jesus Christ is King.
Let us not forget that, in all that we undertake to accomplish, the little that our disorganization and inexperience will allow us to accomplish will certainly be compensated by the value God will add to our work, provided we have the humility of our fathers to pray to Him, to thank Him, to ask Him for forgiveness, and, above all, to obey His Commandments. This divine order is the order broken by the anti-globalist elite that we must restore.
