I couldn’t have said it better myself!  I think that more people are trying to move back to self reliance so they can live a more quality life. 

I think there’s evidence for the 100th monkey effect in human history. Take man’s ability to control fire, for instance. Research suggests that it spread across the global human population at right around the same time. Man went thousands of years without that skill, and initially only a handful of people had the ‘power.’ Eventually when enough people had seen it or heard of it, it spread and become rapidly accepted knowledge and application.

The self reliance movement is happening, and it is manifesting itself on a variety of fronts. If there’s one thing this economic crisis has done, is it has shown many people to be confident in their abilities to effect change in their lives and that of others. Our self reliance and a willingness to rely on local community (family, friends, local businesses) is a part of a greater movement that will also change the political and social atmosphere, and perhaps improve on it.

We may have already surpassed the 100th monkey! Only time will tell

I hope The Hundredth Monkey Effect does work.

The hundredth-monkey effect is a supposed phenomenon in which a learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to all related monkeys once a critical number is reached. By generalization it means the instantaneous, paranormal spreading of an idea or ability to the remainder of a population once a certain portion of that population has heard of the new idea or learned the new ability.

Just think of the effects that a movement of self reliance and personal responsibility would have on a society?  Perhaps, that is what this country needs to get moving in the right direction.

Rahim Samuel
Publisher, Wellnessbymanymeans.com