Archive for April, 2009

The Swine Flu and a Post-Crash Society

Monday, April 27th, 2009

There is a swine flu outbreak somewhere in Mexico or something and like 20 people in the US have gotten it.  The media has blown this out of proportion because it’s only hospitalized one person in the US so far, and yet there’s already a concern.  The flu pandemic of 1918 killed 40-50 million people.  How many people has this swine flu actually killed worldwide?  Sure, I’m all for an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  So it’s good that we are aware of this rare and interesting new flu, but the fear tactics being used to a relatively harmless flu, at least in America so far is kind of grandiose and exaggerated.  I don’t know anything about the science of how a person can get a flu from a pig, but I’m sure it’s possible.  The flu these days hardly ever kills anyone.  It’s only when the flu is allowed to progress to pnemonia that it kills some elderly and very young children.  We have the technology to cure and prevent a flue outbreak and living in this society has made our immune systems strong because of all the pollution we are subjected to from a very early age.  Sure, this is a new strain we’ve never seen before, but we have the ability to treat it and beat it.  So what’s the big deal?

With our current medical system, poorer people won’t be inclined to go to the hospital or the doctor for these kinds of ailments, which will allow the swine flu to spread among them.  They don’t have insurance to go to the hospital or emergency room, so they’re more inclined to just lie in bed and fight it out.  This is something our body is capable of, so there’s no harm, no foul.  But it will allow the flu to spread to others.  It’s not like the flu is really that bad, though.  It’s relatively benign compared to other diseases and viruses, so I really don’t see the problem.

Viruses are nature’s way of weeding out a population.  But the flu has been conquered years ago by modern science.  I’m tired of all these scare tactics used by the media, trying to put the general public into a panic just to keep the world in a state of perpetual fear.  I would understand if the flu had killed millions of people, but it is not even close to being a big deal yet.  SARS killed less than 300 people as far as I know.  150,000 people die a day on average.  More people die from our toxic environment each day than will die from some swine flu.  I don’t see anything as a pandemic until it can actually put a dent in our population worldwide.  It’s got to at least cut out 1% of our population to actually be considered a threat.  And even then it’s not really a bad thing from the Earth’s perspective.

The Earth is going to try and fight back.  This comes from the Gaia hypothesis that the Earth is a living thing and will fight back against us as a pesky species that is ruining it.  But we are always one step ahead of all the viruses it can conjure up.  We even have a way to treat AIDS now, which was a surefire way to reduce our population and cause a definite pandemic.  A virus is always contained before it can do much damage.  The Earth’s population control mechanisms are no match for us humans because we’ve outsmarted the Earth.  We use the Earth against itself even when it is trying to exterminate part of us.  This is what has led to a  population explosion.

A population explosion leads to pandemics that are easily cured by our advances in technology.  It is yet another cause of the gigantic numbers of people we have living ont his planet.  If it weren’t for all these medical advances, many of the people alive today and even going a couple generations back, would be dead.  It would probably have cut our population in half or even by 2/3.  In the uncivilized world, people in these nature-based tribes hardly ever get out of balance, and if they do, they are brought back into balance by the forces of nature.  It’s like a bowl, where the center is perfect balance and the further you try and stray from the center, the harder it is.  But that’s when humans were servants of nature, not dominating it.  Now that we dominate nature, we can go as far out of balance as we wish until we run out of all the things that allow us to go out of balance.  And that’s what’s going to happen.  Once we have nothing left to fight over, there will be a post-crash nature-based society because there will be no alternative.

What matters is what happens next is important because we can take many roads.  We can keep living like nature and all other species, or we can once again rebuild this pandemic-creating society with nearly 7 billion people and counting, with malls and strip clubs.  In order to make that choice wisely, we’ll need to be operating from a consciousness much higher than the one we have now.  The materialistic consciousness needs to go away.  The domination consciousness needs to fade.  The agricultural-industrial complex needs to be gone completely.  Man the toolmaker needs to check out of the world’s hotel.  We should become land dolphins.

But what are land dolphins?  Land dolphins would be a highly intelligent species that uses no tools and feeds of the bounty of the Earth.  We would have to greatly lower our population, but a crash would do that anyway.  But if we can become stewards of the Earth and not dictators of it, we will learn to live and love the place we’re in and be able to sustain it for millions, possibly billions of years.  The human race towards progress and neverending innovations is going to come to a halt at some point.  It’s just common sense.  It’s what we do afterwards that’s most important.  I don’t feel like everyone’s going to wake up one day and stop this society, so there will be a crash.  I just hope the people who survive that crash know what they’re doing so that this population explosion and hellish world doesn’t come back into existence.  It would seem rather pointless to not learn anything from this society, to just keep crashing and burning for all eternity.  We’re in this crazy world to learn something, that this world we’ve created is wrong.  I just hope the message gets through.

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Fires Gone Wild

Friday, April 24th, 2009

In the county where I live, there were and still are wildfires in two different locations.  I’m pretty sure they got the smaller one under control, but I haven’t checked the news today to see what happened with the one that consumed 19,600 acres as of last night.  It has displaced almost 10,000 people and 30 square miles are now burned to the ground.  The media hyped this into a frenzy the last couple of days, so I couldn’t help but comment on it.  Sure, it’s terrible that many people have lost their homes and all, but wildfires are a natural part of the world and have been for many years.  If lightning strikes a dead forest, it will go up in flames.  But if lightning strikes a living forest, nothing will happen.  So what wildfires are is a kind of rejuvenation of a forest so it can begin a rebirth.  Nothing wrong with that.  Nature works in cycles, and this is the wildfire cycle in that particular region.

Forests grow and die like anything else.  Once they become dry and without life, they become more susceptible to catch fire.  The more dead forests there are, the more wildfires we’ll see.  Luckily for me, I am miles away from the actual destruction, so I will not be impacted by this fire much.  I find fire as a mataphor for what the planet is going through, with all its financial collapses and economic recessions.  We need to build a whole new system to fix this, not put a band-aid on the existing system in hopes that the gigantic wound will heal.  The bleeding may stop for a little while, but it will be worse in the long run.  We’ll be deeper in 10 years down the road than we are now.

We need a rebirthing of the economy, a way to start over from scratch and begin anew with a better plan, hopefully learning from our previous mistakes.  Some people say that something like this is impossible.  Well, for those naysayers, I challenge you to think that if a revolution were possible, would it be worth it?  And once you come to the conclusion that it would be worth it, you realize that it is possible.  As soon as we stop our close-mindedness about certain things and how they are impossible, then we can actually make progress on that which we felt was previously impossible.  Impossibility is only in our minds, so we can change them.  I’ll give a concrete example here:

People say it’s impossible to go back to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, but it makes perfect sense.  People today think it’s more possible that in the future we’ll be downloading our consciousnessess into machines and be able to live much longer with our android bodies than to live like every other species on the planet.  While turning into androids is certainly possible, it will throw us even more out of balance to the point that we’ll be consuming planets by the solar system just to feed our ever-expanding “progress.”  Before we know it, we will have stripped the entire universe for resources.  Sure, it may take a billion years to do so, but it will inevitably happen if we get the technology to be able to do it.  But if we were to go back to living like we are supposed to, in balance with nature, at a sustainable population, then we could live forever as a species instead of crashing and burning or stripping the whole universe for resources, and then crashing and burning.

Wildfires consume everything in their path, destroying habitats that once were and leaving nothing but desolate land.  Sounds an awful lot like humans, who are responsible for creating most of the world’s deserts.  Humans, who are in some way partially responsible for global warming.  But that doesn’t really bother me.  Global warming is such a human-centered problem.  They’re all worried that their houses and businesses will be flooded.  The other animals in the world will simply move further inland and be fine.  There will be insurance company defaults because they can’t afford to spend trillions of dollars to replace all of the land and structures destroyed by the water level rising 30 feet or whatever it is they are predicting.

What bothers me the most is that we are turning the world into a desert.  Sure, after the whole world crashes, the Earth will heal, rebuild if we allow it to, so I guess it’s just like a wildfire.  After a wildfire, all the burnt trees and plants become soil for a new forest to come along.  It may take awhile, but the new forest will be more alive and diverse than the forest that was previously there.  And I feel that this is what may happen with the human race.  Our consciousness is being expanded on a daily basis and we are learning new and valuable things each day, so when it does all go crashing down, we’ll have a sustainable solution.  Not just sustainable, but expansive in the terms of making the world more alive and diverse to the extent that we generate a net positive effect on the planet, rather than the negative one we have now.  The wildfire of society has a lot to teach us about where we need to go once it finally burns out.  So, I do now believe, in some terms, that society is meaningful, but only if we learn from it and don’t allow things to get out of hand again.

I just hope my house doesn’t end up getting burned down in the process.

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Eating Whole Foods for Health

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Eating whole and unprocessed foods brings us closer to the Earth and closer to nature.  It’s also wonderful for our health.  A whole foods diet can cure almost any ailment, although not officially because I don’t want the FDA knocking down my door saying, “Are you crazy?  Only a drug can cure an illness!”  Now that I have a high quality industrial speed blender, it makes it so easy to consume whole foods without having to spend all that time chewing it.  I’m trying to work my way up to eating 90% whole foods and then go from there and see what happens.  These are the foods that sustained us as a species for hundreds of thousands of years, so why not you?  A diet high in vegetables and fruits is a great way to get yourself down to an ideal weight or even cure some of your annoying ailments created by this toxic society.

99.5% of people in my region eat mostly processed foods.  I would say about 75% or more percent eat all processed foods and nothing else.  It’s no wonder the obesity epidemic is striking everywhere we look.  People are eating too much fake food and not enough real food.  Sure, the food in those packages is convenient, but at what cost?  How many diseases could be prevented if we all ate a whole foods diet?  I would be willing to bet at least 70-90%.  But when will this happen?  Never.  People have all these logos and brands etched into their brains from the television or from billboards and love to chow down on food that isn’t even nourishing them, other than keeping them from starving to death.  Nabisco is what these people want.  They want Kraft and McDonald’s.  If it doesn’t have a brand name, they don’t want to eat it.  You don’t see too many advertisements for fruits and vegetables.

There’s a good reason why you never see any healthy food commercials.  Their budget is 1/100 or less of that than just one of these gigantic food conglomerates.  When was the last time you saw one of those 5-a-day commercials?  10 years ago?  Perhaps longer?  They don’t have the money to fund healthful food awareness.  But Pepsi’s there to step in and give a giant ad about how their new diet soda has more caffeine and more aspartame, but it mentions nothing of its value once inside the body.  It’s because it has no nutritional value, other than to make you fat through either aspartame or high fructose corn syrup in the regular sodas.  It’s no secret that the government wants those below them to be docile and unhealthy so that when they extend their power, the people in the lower classes will be too weak and unhealthy to truly fight back.  Yet another way to keep the human race controlled under central authority.

Who would have thought that eating whole foods was political?  Well, it is.  If the government had half a soul, it would allow the fruits and vegetables brigade to have more in their budget to show people what a truly healthy diet looks like.  But, like much information about other things, this information is suppressed so that giant corporations can make giant profits off  of food that tastes good, but will not give anyone even a smidgeon of nutrition.  Just Uncle Sam’s way of saying how much he cares about you.  So just shut up and eat your white flour, white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, aspartame, sucralose, MSG, soy letichin, evaporated cane juice, and enriched bleached partially hyrdrogenated oils with a twist of fluoride.

While most processed food has little if no nutritional value, it does taste pretty good, doesn’t it?  Krispy Kreme doughnuts beat a salad any day.  But at what cost?  You are supporting corporate America by consuming all these processed foods that have name brands, marketing divisions, and cool characters that get your kids to want to eat them too.  Of course our government knows what’s best for us by allowing these satanic foods to be advertised 1000-1 when it comes to air space in comparison with fruit/vegetable campaigns.  They want you to eat that processed, genetically modified crap because it will make you sick and feed the medical industrial complex that pretty much runs our country.

How many drugs are advertised on television every hour?  In America, that is.  It’s our government making us sick and then selling us the cure.  They come out looking like the good guys when in actuality they are the most evil fucks this world has ever seen.  Our air is toxic, our water is toxic, our food is mostly toxic.  Radio waves beam into our bodies every second and cell phones cause brain cancer.  It’s not even that society looks out for the elite.  We all breathe the same air, drink mostly the same water, eat basically the same foods as everyone else.  It’s just that the rich have enough money to buy treatments to mask the symptoms of their toxic lifestyles while the poor simply die.  I had a brain surgery when I was 16 and it cost $40,000.  I don’t know how much the following radiation treatment cost, but I’m sure it was large as well.  Good thing I had medical insurance back then or I might be dead as well.

Lucky for me, my brain tumor was with me since my birth and growing steadily until I was a teenager when it was removed.  But most of these ailments that are coming about in today’s toxic world are the result of living in this toxic world.  Even the treatments for these diseases are toxic.   People always want a quick fix pill to solve everything and get mad when it doesn’t work.  Most likely because they are kept so sick by this toxic world that they don’t even have the energy to go exercise or prepare a healthy meal.  Nutritional information is everywhere, but 99.5% of the United States doesn’t care because they would rather sacrifice their health for the good taste of name-brand snack foods that are only going to make their gigantic figures twice as big in half the time.

It’s so easy to eat whole foods and people just don’t do it.  They need to be informed about how we lived just 200 years ago, eating all organic and natural foods, not this genetically modified frankenfood.  But how to get the word out?  How to tell the masses that they are killing themselves slowly through fast food?  Who will even listen?  Most of these people would rather quietly die from an obesity-related disease than take control of their health.  It’s sad, really, but what can I do?  If I can’t change the system or stop the big food companies from advertising at us nonstop, then what is there to do except to lead by example?  To show the world what eating healthy really looks like is the only way to truly make a difference.  Because it takes someone to show these people what real food looks like for them to even consider a change.  It takes good results on a nutrient-rich diet to inspire change in those who will have diabetes in their 20s.  It takes courage to rock the boat and do things that are against the grain.  And that’s what I need to do, and what we all need to do.  Because without showing those who are marketed to on a daily basis how to get out of that media-induced stupor of consumption of shitty food, we will be too weak to do anything and die when this whole system collapses.

So, to sum up, eat healthy because you owe it to yourself.  You owe yourself a healthy body.  And you owe yourself the ability to fight back if there is any injustice.  You need to take control of your health or it will be gone before you know it.  Best of luck to you all and the next time you think about having a snack, reach for a piece of fruit instead of a bag of chips.  It’s the natural way.

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Green Smoothies Save the Day

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

If you’re looking for that extra boost, drink a green smoothie.  Full of nutrients and fiber, you’ll feel like you’ve just drank something out of the Bible.  It’s that heavenly.  Raw greens are one of the best things you can put in your body, so be sure to bulk up on those because without greens, your body will be functioning at a less than optimal level.  I just had another green smoothie and I can feel my body healing itself slowly.  It’s a good meal that will allow for very quick digestion and keep you full for quite some time, mostly because it has so many nutrients in so little calories.  Just take some of your favorite fruits, water, ice, and a few handfuls of greens and enjoy!

It’s hard work trying to save the world from the mistake of civilization, so I’m trying to gain an advantage by eating healthier than those who control the world.  If I can get myself in peak physical condition, I’ll be able to become a force in the blogosphere and get better at marketing this blog to the point where it will be a tour de force to be reckoned with.  After putting such living and vibrant foods into my body, I feel like the world is at my fingertips and things are looking up once again.  It’s raw nutrition that is unprocessed and completely natural.

I’ve read that once you get accustomed to the greens, you start putting more and more and less and less fruits, so that will be something even more beneficial.  They say that the strongest animals in the world are the ones that eat plenty of dark, leafy greens.  Gorillas and other monkey species base most of their diet on greens and some fruit.  We can learn a lot from this and become much healthier as a species if we eat predominantly greens and fruits, not to mention a little meat.  Smoothie number 4 had as follows:

  • 6 strawberries
  • 10 grapes
  • 2 bananas
  • 3 handfuls spinach
  • 1 bunch kale
  • 2 cups water
  • 5 cubes ice
  • 1 pear (whole)

Sweet as pie, but healthy as a full salad.  You just can’t beat it! Goes well for breakfast, lunch, and a lite dinner.  You’ll get more nutrition in one meal than the average American gets in a week, or maybe even a month.

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Vitamix

Monday, April 20th, 2009

We just got a Vitamix a couple of days ago and I’ve made a couple of smoothies so far and I must say that getting good nutrition from a green smoothie is fantastic, especially on such a large scale with the Vitamix.  It is a 2 quart blender that has remarkable speeds and can pulverize almost anything.  Here’s a sampling of what I made this morning.

  • 2 handfuls spinach
  • 1 bunch kale
  • 7 strawberries
  • 2 bananas
  • 1 cup water
  • 15 grapes
  • 1 cup ice
  • 3 prunes
  • 1 cup water

After drinking this concoction, it felt like more of a buzz than a cup of coffee.  But it wasn’t a jittery feeling, but one of energy.  Sure, this smoothie may be high on the sugar side, but I’m transitioning to getting more greens and less fruit.  I’ll always have at least one banana in there because  it makes the smoothie smooth.  It will always have tons of greens because that’s what gives the most nutrition pound for pound.  Doing this every day for breakfast will allow me to get a good portion of my food for the day raw without having to chew all of it.  It will also allow me to get nutrition that is often trapped in the food out into my body and allow myself to heal and detoxify much faster and easier than if I was to chew all that food myself.

Adding these dark, leafy greens is what gives the smoothie all its merit.  Without the greens, it’s basically a bunch of sugary fruit without anything to ground it.  A complete fruit smoothie is healthy, but it can lead to problems if overconsumed, so adding all these greens allows for a balanced and very tasty smoothie.  You can’t even taste the greens.  You just taste the fruit, but you get the green nutrition regardless.

The Vitamix is fantastic because it breaks down the food to the cellular level and allows us to absorb the nutrients that would otherwise be turned into waste.  This is all in an effort to get myself to feel better.  To be healthy.  To help myself heal.  If I can drink 1.5 quarts of a green smoothie every day, I will see great benefits in a week.   I already feel something from drinking these drinks for 2 days, so it’s only a matter of time before they really start to kick me into high gear.

I’m probably going to try and get 1/2 a pound of greens a day into my body.  At least to start.  It’s very important that I do that because they are the most nutrient dense food.  Wish me luck.