In order to be a patriot, first one must question the tea. Why is there a monopoly? Why is it sanctioned by the King? Why must we pay for war? Why should we serve to benefit the distant monarchy? Who benefits? To obtain knowledge of the possibility that tea is being used to exploit requires questioning. The original patriots questioned the entirety of the situation.
After questioning, the original patriots called out to peers and communicated their information. They let the whole community know that the tea they enjoy leads to their exploitation, the exploitation of others, and the profit of uncaring company strangers. No matter how good the tea is, no matter how pleasing, if it is enabling exploitation, patriots question, reject exploitation and literally or figuratively toss it into the sea.
GAS IT!
"The future depends on what we do in the present." ~Gandhi
If there is any commodity today comparable to tea in 1773 it's dino juice, bubbling crude, burning water, black gold, petrol, or Texas tea. Texas tea is comparable to black tea as both are liquid. They are more comparable and similar in that tea was, and oil is, a means of exploitation. Tea was a tool for exploitation centuries prior, while Texas tea is today, only in an exponential fashion. The potential of tea to exploit was minute next to petrol to do the same.
There was merely a casual physical dependence on tea. There is an overwhelming, ever-infiltrating, global, industrial, institutional and individual dependence on petroleum products. It is not a natural dependence; it is an institutionalized dependence. Today tea, coffee and all things caffeine make up the most widely consumed beverages on the world. Coffee is second only to petrol in global trade. Yet, tea, coffee and caffeine are but a sideline venture in terms of global use and exploitation, compared to petrol and octane. Caffeine may be part of a nice drink, but petrol is literally and figuratively in everything.
Today petrol is needed in order to obtain and distribute everything, even petrol itself. The movement of people is dependent on petrol. Production and shipment of everything is dependent on petrol. The tea business and every other business are all dependent on petrol. Nearly all individual and institutional energy needs are met by burning petroleum products.
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