Restoring the Quality of Life in the 21st Century
the antidote to manufactured madness...
[Author’s note: This essay was first introduced back in 2023 as Welcome to the Quality of Life Resistance Movement, the former name of what is now Jeff Einstein Fine Art Photography. I reintroduce it here as a compassionate and common-sense response to both the inarguable 21st-century decline in the quality of life and to the recent insanity that suggests it’s in any way shape or form okay to murder or otherwise advocate the murder of those who disagree with you. Time is of the essence…]
WELCOME…
The quality of life is a reflection of how and where and with whom we invest our faith, our time, and our money.
The Quality of Life Resistance Movement is home to an independent populist philosophy dedicated to those things — faith, family, community, and country — that actively promote and protect the quality of life in 21st-century America.
What defines quality of life? Where do we find it? What threatens it? Once gone, how do we restore it? How and when does it rise to the level of political defiance? Finally, how do we promote and protect it for ourselves, our families, and our communities?
THE PROBLEM…
Barely one generation into the 21st century — with all but limitless access to everything worth knowing about the secrets to financial success, the science of health and nutrition, and the keys to personal empowerment — we find ourselves poorer and deeper in debt, morbidly obese, besieged by chronic lifestyle-related disease, addicted to just about everything, spiritually bereft, socially estranged, time-starved, sleep-deprived, and far angrier, more anxious, and more fearful than ever before. And always at war. What went wrong?
The 21st century has witnessed indisputable declines in the spiritual, social, emotional, and physical quality of life for American individuals, families, and communities alike. Perhaps not so coincidentally, the things that once defined our national character, the same things that once protected the integrity and health of our families and communities, are in sharp national decline as well. Faith, family, community, and country are simply no longer deemed relevant in today’s open-border culture of polytheistic narcissism…
Our spiritual, social, emotional, and physical auto-immune systems have been severely compromised over the past few generations. No surprise therefore that our life expectancy — even adjusted for Covid — has dropped off a cliff…
The 21st-century decline in the quality of our lives and the erosion of our families and communities coincides with the emergence of an unmistakable new tyranny: a confluence of state-sponsored default addiction and runaway institutional power — both manifestations of digital scale.
The quality of life for ourselves, our families, and our communities is now under constant coordinated assault from thousands of massive institutions — a monolithic mega-state of ideologically aligned corporations, NGOs, and government agencies alike — collectively inescapable, far too big to fail, and all but unaccountable.
The newly emerged mega-state is a dystopian nightmare come true. It combines the compliance mechanism of state-sponsored default addiction borrowed from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World with the enforcement mechanism of 24/7 surveillance, linguistic thought control, manufactured hate, and institutional terror borrowed from George Orwell’s 1984. They come together now in The Rise of Huxwell — a global 21st-century adaptation of 20th-century totalitarianism…
To be clear, neither state-sponsored default addiction nor the sudden proliferation of institutions too big and too powerful to fail are unintended consequences or inevitable byproducts of plans simply gone awry. For the global architects and engineers of Huxwell, state-sponsored default addiction and too big to fail are the plan, unfolding before us now as a good old-fashioned class war against those correctly identified as the true enemies of the new dystopian state: you, your family, and your community.
The Huxwellian class war of the 21st century is now a global class war, hard at work across the Western democracies and the entire anglosphere. The global transition from the Enlightenment ideal of individual liberty to the collective darkness of unapologetic totalitarianism was one that required generations of willful thought and patient preparation to stage and prosecute.
Not only should we not expect Huxwell to go away anytime soon, we should expect it to grow in power and influence for the foreseeable future in direct relationship to the institutional metastasis of digital scale — precisely why we need to do everything we can right now to resist…
THE ANTIDOTE TO HUXWELL
The Quality of Life Resistance Movement is the antidote to the totalitarian state of Huxwell. Meaningful resistance to the state of Huxwell requires us to focus our time, attention, and resources on the fundamental building blocks of a strong and healthy country: spiritually, socially, emotionally, and physically strong individuals, families, and communities.
That’s why the QoL Resistance Movement proposes three Calls to Action…
turn away from distraction, and turn our individual focus instead to those things and resources that promote and protect the quality of life: faith, family, community, and country;
restore meaningful ritual as the key to lifestyle moderation — the only statistically viable antidote to addiction (state-sponsored or otherwise); and
return to local autonomy as the best way for individuals, families, and communities to combat the tyrannies of digital scale and runaway institutional power.
Each of the above calls to action is designed to combat the soul-crushing and deadly impact of institutionalized political ideology at digital scale with the competence and life-affirming qualities of universal human values at human scale. In the age of Huxwell, each is nothing less than an act of sheer defiance, an act of political resistance.
Of course, the hardest steps in every journey are always the first steps. To help you take those first steps I’ve included the revolutionary Quality of Life Toolkit, a suite of three life-changing diagnostic and remedial tools designed to equip you, your family, and your community with the requisite focus and clarity of intent to help you satisfy all three calls to action.
It’s a long journey back, but the Quality of Life Resistance Movement starts right here, right now. Let’s not waste another moment…
Begin with my essay, The Quality of Life Essentials, a description of those things most essential to the support and maintenance of quality in our lives, along with a new and revised Hierarchy of Needs.
My essay, The Rise of Huxwell, describes the real threat to the quality of our lives.
My Calls to Action essay will point you in the right direction.
My The Quality of Life Toolkit — three elegantly simple but effective tools — will take you step by step on your journey to restore the quality of life for yourself, your family, and your community.
It’s all free to you and yours. Good luck in your journey!
And please tell your family, friends, and colleagues…
Thanks for the kind reaction, Cynthia. Don't know if you're a baseball fan, but check out my essay, Baseball and My Father (https://open.substack.com/pub/qolrm/p/baseball-and-my-father?r=7hc45&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web). It's where I introduce the theory that all creation is a function of rhythm, and all artists create by ear.
So refreshing and invigorating to delve into the wit and wisdom of a sane soul. Not only are your writings insightful, but they go beyond being yet another exhaustive compilation of what's bent and broken, both on the level of the individual and the system. Unlike the legions of doom-sayers and soothsayers, you offer practical, realistic DIY guides to personal resurrection. Your methods accord with my personal-evolution programs to bring people back home; to return them to the state of sanity, serenity and natural grace (kinergy.life). Thank you Jeff!