If you haven’t seen the 7 min. video about the Humboldt Hamlet of Blocksburg posted over at Chocolate Covered Xanax, go check it out.
Image from the Blocksburg website.
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Sounds like the folks in Blocksburgh should not be paying taxes for police, fire and other emergency services. Great video btw.
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
It is a sweet travelogue, or more precisely come-home-a-log. It’s informative deep background for some of our present discussions, too, in highlighting the eternal Humboldt divide between town and country, familiar and scary, order/control vs freedom/chaos that has long characterized our highly centralized and disproportionately urbanized rural county.
As she says, negative stereotypes from afar have never contained the pleasures and values that make country life what it is for folks who love it. This insight helps explain why way-back living remains a viable minority lifestyle choice despite more than a century of bad press. Thanks for hooking this from Chocolate Covered Xanax! (and thanks to NCJ’s webcrawler for pre-distilling such gems out of the web-waters.)
“Henchman” -I think you are missing the point of Kristin’s video, which is that those of us who have our roots in the hinterlands of the North Coast have traditionally interacted cooperatively together when necessary without the luxury (or intrusion) of outside help. This has historically been the norm despite differences of opinion on almost everything and outright hostility and intermittent physical violence towards one another. It is still the norm. The only difference is that marijuana and the money that accrues from its cultivation has replaced cattle and sheep as the occasional source of friction.
Kristin and I and Henry Larrabee’s great granddaughter Joetta undertook a journey throughout the western United States a few years ago to unravel the story of Henry’s participation in the sometimes violent history of the western movement in this country, and on the North Coast in particular, during the 19th century. The end result was the temporary physical and cultural genocide of the indigenous people who had been living here for countless generations, but there is much more to be learned from the story which might be useful in moving forward in a positive way. It is a story that deserves to be told. Thank you, Kristin, for giving voice to the experience of growing up in rural Humboldt County. I hope you continue to do so.
No JB,
did not miss the “MAIN” point – it is called fending for yourself with enough caring neighbors who will help out in times of need – unlike current ideas by the FEDS that neighbors should spy on each other for things like terrorist concerns. Why do you assume I did not understand the basis of that video? There was NO PRECEPT of a sort of school classroom test to identify “The Main Point” of that particular video in the comment section. I did elaborate on how it was a great video. After watching the video, I thought about living there myself.
Again, I liked the little tidbit about service lacking in that area though – hence the taxes comment. No service, then no taxes should be paid for services not rendered, especially for hinterland folks who receive little or no service compared to those living in “developed, inner-filled” urban areas. The comment was a tidbit selection of thoughts, not identifying the tidbit as “The Main Point”. Hopefully, clarification is understood.
Again,
Thanks for the great video btw.
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
Henchman-
Point taken. Taxation without equitable County services is a fact of life in rural Humboldt County, as is the case with equitable State representation in all of rural California, and getting worse every day. My post was not intended as a criticism of your post, but an endosement of Kristin’s video, which I do not think was primarily targeted towards the theme of taxation of rural residents without equitable representation, as true as that theme may be. Sorry if you took it personally.
That was a fun video. Finally got to watch it this morning and sent it to my niece who is doing some local film making.
Hard to believe Blocksburg had so many people living in it way back then, isn’t it?
Hey JB,
no offense taken personally. I just did not want you leaving the thread without understanding that I understood the well put together documentary and the intention of what was being communicated. Again, a very enjoyable and noteworthy video. Thanks for the non-combative responses.
Jeffrey Lytle
McKinleyville – 5th District
Taxation is slavery- they just ought to close the road to “government” travel and inpose a tax on anyone who works for the british empire, collects taxes, and federal reserve bankers.
Seeing how they are forced under the threat of violence to pay those taxes with nothing in return- I would think they have just cause and reason to leave “the union”.
The former, occupied nation was once built on resistance to taxation and offshore bankers who owned kings and queens- it has failed in it’s own writings and founding papers and is no longer valid, nor is it legal.
Loved it. Beautifully done little movie.
Very nice work.
black flag is right!
DOWN WITH THE FEDERAL RESERVE!
I loved the film, watched it several times and sent it to some friends, too. I would love to live there!