The natural, organic, whole foods community needs to take a lesson from the Russians. Not so long ago one of my sons was at an auction in California when he entered into a conversation with some Russian immigrants who had taken up a taxi business in San Francisco. As he spoke with these new comers to America he was curious as to how life in America compared to the life they had left behind in Russia. In essence what they reported was that the housing was better here in the US as well as the roads and other infrastructure like power and water. But as for the business and what those who engaged in business had to do it was about the same or no different because of the taxes and controls of government. The Russian concluded by simply saying “here in America thing are really about the same, except here, Americans think they are free in Russia the people know they are not”. These Russian immigrants were able to see what Americans cannot, that freedom in the US is not freedom rather it is an illusion that exists only in the minds of the American people.

Thinking we are free, but not being free, is a powerful illusion that is destroying the natural, organic, whole foods community and ourselves as a nation. Americans have escaped the reality of their own slavery, as has the natural, organic, whole foods community and now as a people we are blind to reality.

In part 10 I will discuss the further illusion of the myth of freedom and how it relates to the natural, organic, whole foods community.

Let me know your thoughts by posting comments below and in my next blog entry I will examine more about the illusion of freedom in the USA and how it relates to the natural, organic, whole foods community.

Senior Editor & CEO,

Harvest Source Whole Foods Journal

Senior Editor & CEO, Harvest Source Whole Foods Journal

Darrell W. Ross is a Graduate of Idaho State University with a BA in Art. A consummate energetic business man for over 40 years in a broad diversity of family business ranging from Construction, Excavating, Tree Service, Federal Contracting, Real Estate, Property Management, Retail, Natural Organic Whole Foods Distribution, and Publishing. Darrell is very happily married to Marcia his wife of 39 years and mother of their six Home Schooled children and currently resides in Burley, Idaho where he practices his healthy living with Marcia and their two youngest Zachary and Caroline, and gives daily “elderly care” to his elderly parents, Wesley & Jennie.