Struggling with the university of hard knocks life

I believe we are all preprogramed to want and desire the American dream of home ownership. That wanting anything less makes you some how less American. Individuals who have deep vested interest in the market understand this. Which often results in the American dream having a steep and often unaffordable price tag. The pursuit of home ownership often comes with a hefty mortgage, and even heftier interest. A $100K home after a life of interest, repairs, and maintenance quickly turns into $300K. With a never ending recurring property tax payment due intill you die and sometimes is even due afterwards.

Many Americans never pay their homes off. Or worse they pay their homes off just to do a reverse mortgage to cover personal medical bills, a nursing home, and their own funeral expenses. Leaving their children often with debt vs. an inheritance. Some call it normal, consider it aceptable, but I call it madness. Why operate within an obviously flawed and immorally broken system?

I grew up in a lower class home on the edge of poverty. My parents struggled and made it to the lower ranks of middle class. At the cost of their health and irreplaceable time. Only to pass the boton of slavery to me, to start the game of life all over again with nothing. No experience, no advise other than just take things day to day... A boot and a smile, welcome to the real world son. They considered it tough love, a helpful learning experience, character building.. I call it what it is, sick and twisted torcher. Why is it considered normal to throw your own children out? Most children at 17-18 years old are ill-equipped by public schooling, have no parental guidance due to both parents having to work during crucial years of learning development.

It's the university of hard knocks life and thats were most of us get our real education. Getting beat up and thrown down by life's big roller coaster. The problem is we choose to repeat the same mistakes as our parents. We pursue something that is always just out of reach, a carrot dangled in front of our noses. Blindly we fall into the same debt enslavement trap and spend our entire lives supporting the economy; It is failure by design.

As a Father myself I will say, as long as I can take breath, none of my children will ever have to face the cold cruel world without my support and devotion. That I will spend my personal struggle building a sustainable homestead and they will learn hands on how to be self-sufficient and have the tools to support themselves if needed. I will hand them a boton of sustainability vs. a boton of entrapment and serfdom. This is the new age, not the archaic oil soaked wasteland of our parents generation. It's time for an evolution!

That is why I call my homestead, Homestead Defiance.