Welcome To Surviving Babylon

“Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime”— Author unknown.

Surviving Babylon is the place where we look to expand on the ideas from the book “The Richest Man in Babylon.” We’re here to understand, learn and teach how the financial markets work but more importantly we are here to learn how to “catch fish.”

The implosion of the financial markets, a looming federal deficit, and a ballooning debt burden has made it clear; we twenty, thirty, and early forty somethings will be asked to pay for an unprecedented amount of entitlements. Hence, we are the post "no social security for you" and "tax everything you make" generation and we need to begin to save, invest, and live our lives accordingly. To avoid poverty and financial ruin we need to manage our finances under our own watchful eye. We are the master’s of our future and we should look to ensure that our generation and those that will follow will not be held in servitude by masters of debt creation.

In the song “Guiltiness” Bob Marley eloquently professes the immoral plight of the elite robbing the masses, it is a wonderful representation of our nation under this financial crisis endowed to us by our government representatives, leader’s, and bankers as he sings;

Guiltiness (talkin bout guiltiness)
Pressed on their conscience. oh yeah.
And they live their lives (they live their lives)
On false pretence everyday -
Each and everyday. yeah.
These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
Just the small fish.
I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish. oh yeah-eah-eah-eah.

Say: woe to the downpressors:
They’ll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
They’ll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
They’ll eat the bread of sorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! oh, yeah-eah-eah-eah!

Guiltiness
Pressed on their conscience. oh yeah. oh yeah.
These are the big fish
Who always try to eat down the small fish,
Just the small fish.
I tell you what: they would do anything
To materialize their every wish. oh, yeah-eah-eah-eah-eah-eah.

But: woe to the downpressors:
They’ll eat the bread of sorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
They’ll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Woe to the downpressors:
They’ll eat the bread of sad tomorrow!
Oh, yeah-eah! oh yeah-e-e-e-e-e!

Guiltiness. oh yeah. ah!
They’ll eat the bread of sorrow everyday.

Lyrics provided by lyricsfreak.com

Bob Marley Guiltiness

Video source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej1kjnt5cY

Here at Surviving Babylon we look to avoid these “Big Fish” and catch our own. Alone it is extremely difficult but together we can survive and thrive. Using the philosophy from the African proverb, “ it takes a village to raise a child,” we'll embark on the journey together to “Survive Babylon” catch our fish and prosper. I invite you to join our blog and we thank you for your support.

So let’s go fishing.