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Nobody is in Control

Friday, March 5th, 2010

Last night, I happened to see a clip from the documentary Zeitgeist: Addendum.  This prompted me to go over to Youtube and check out the entire movie because it seemed to be very interesting.  It was mostly about our monetary system and how we used and still use exploitation of poorer countries to build our wealth while systematically destroying any wealth the poorer countries had in the first place.  It also talked about the Federal Reserve and how we can never pay back the debt owed to the Fed, because from the beginning the money was given to us at interest, so therefore we will always be in debt.  This debt makes us all slaves of the Federal Reserve and the corportocracy .  This got me to thinking that it is civilization that is in control and not any person or people.  We are victims of environment and are just adapting to what we were born into.

I encourage you to watch this film and get an idea of what they are talking about.  You’ll find out how the banks essentially create money out of thin air with loans, among other things.  What I got from this film was a distinct feeling that none of our leaders can save us unless they boldly go where no leader has successfully gone, in America at least, for the last century.  They need to fight the establishment.  Too bad this type of behavior usually gets them killed or labeled a terrorist.  It is just so hard to go against what is destroying us because there are so many powerful people who benefit from our current system that it would take a full-on revolution for anything at all to change, and it this would not cause changes sufficiently enough.  What we truly need is a true dismantling of civilization.  We need to get rid of hierarchies and corporations, whose only motive is to acquire power and make profits, ever-increasing their power to the point where now 1% of the population controls over 40% of the wealth.

Our over-competitive world based on a scarcity mindset is what propels all of this.  If there was an abundance, many of these behaviors would go away.  But there is scarcity manufactured into the framework of civilization, to keep everyone fighting for what is perceived as a small amount of goods, services, and everything else.  If we just shifted our thinking from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset, we would see events happen that we would have previously thought to be impossible.  It is a fundamental choice between fear and love, but when is the last time you heard that on the news?

We are conditioned from an early age that the world is a scary, dishonest place and we, through our own experiences and beliefs, perpetuate this value system.  We strive to get ahead in a world where getting ahead will only get us so far, seeing how we are kept in the dark on anything that truly matters in the world today.  For example, a couple of years ago, Bush signed the NAU agreement, which made Canada, the USA, and Mexico one entity.  You didn’t hear about this on the news because no media outlet even reported on it.  Why?  Because if they did, all these questions would come up.  Why didn’t he get approval from Congress?  Why didn’t they vote on this?  How the hell did he get away with doing such a terrible thing right in front of our eyes?

Because, essentially, power does what it wants and lets all of us deal with the consequences.  They take our freedoms away while expanding their power until they have all of it and we have none.  It is easier to squeeze tighter than it is to let go.  But this pathological need for power is heading towards doom, so are these people really in control?  I would argue that for now they are, but soon, very soon, they will have everything come crashing down on them and be forced to live as equals with the rest of us, the most terrifying thing ever for someone in power.

When this civilization crashes, either from its inherent insustainability or from simple revolution, those in power will lose their power over everyone and everything.  I hope that we build a society based on abundance once all of this happens.  A society where everyone is treated equally and we work cooperatively to solve the problems of the world.  We just need to dismantle this power structure, take down the Fed, and start anew with principles that will not be corrupted by any source.  But how do we do this?

We need to look at our roots before civilization corrupted us to fully get back what we used to have.  We need to drop the dogma that primitive people lived crappy lives and died young.  We need to actually look at non-civilized peoples from all times of history and create models based on the best attributes of each tribe or culture.  We need to respect the Earth and all of its creatures.  We need to abandon our fear of nature and all fears in general.  Fear accomplishes nothing, but fearlessness can overcome almost any obstacle.  Like I said above, the fundamental choice between fear and love will get us started to rebuilding  a natural life that will not only remove the shackles of corporate slavery, but will allow us to be what we are truly born as, truly and utterly free.

Then at that point, nobody will truly be in control.  And we can finally live our lives the way nature intended us to.

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Humans: Pathology at its Best

Monday, March 1st, 2010

The human race as a collective is very sick. We are damaged goods, broken. In today’s civilization, it is impossible not to be broken because all we see around us is hordes of death, destruction, murder, robbery, genocide, disease, overpopulation, etc. Our culture has turned us into a bunch of living, walking, breathing zombies that care more about how they can get ahead than how we can all work together. It is a natural reaction to the kind of world we live in today. We feel that we always have to be better than other people because we will see more opportunities and have a better life. An endless path of progress until our ultimate demise. This type of thinking is flawed. It is exactly the type of thinking that brought us such great innovations such as the Holocaust and genocide of the Native Americans.

We are so far out of balance and our consciousness shows that.  We continue to destroy our natural habitat in favor of sterile monuments and monumental buildings that represent little more than corporate dominance.  We are slaves to this accident called civilization.  It may not be accurate to call it an accident, because we knew damn well what we were doing and what we are doing now.  The problem was that we became addicted to the power.  When we finally mastered agriculture and the domestication of animals, we became more numerous and were able to gobble up more land for our consumption.  And as this spiraled out of control, our numbers grew larger and larger and central authority was established because once we reach a large enough number of people, there has to be someone in charge, no matter who they are or what their motives are.

And so it goes.  We initially developed agriculture as a survival mechanism to help us through one of the ice ages or other trauma that happened some 30,000 years ago.  We had to adapt and because we had developed such large brains from either eating tons of meat or other factors, we were able to take control of our food supply, which seemed perfectly rational at the time.  It was either make some food or go extinct.  So it is our own superior intelligence and mental adaptability that will ultimately be our demise.  I don’t blame the early homo sapiens for doing what they thought was necessary because had I been in their shoes, I would have done the same thing.  I don’t think they ever thought what would become of our world thousands of years down the road.  They were just doing what they had to.

Let us not forget about the Industrial Revolution that created orders of magnitude more people than grain agriculture.  Let us not shy away from all our medical advances that allow many people to live that would have otherwise been selected out due to living a natural life.  We just keep extending our power beyond our empathy until it is too late.  Where is this civilization going anyway?  Do we really want a world with 15 billion people and over 1 billion Americans?  Is that what we want?  People living in pods designed by GE and eating Monsanto GMO crops?  Because that is the only way we are ever going to feed and house a population of over-consuming, overpopulated humans who just don’t know when to stop.

Thankfully, our civilization should crash well before that nightmarish scenario ever happens.  But people are working to make all our unsustainable technologies more sustainable, which is a nightmare if you ask me.  Do we really want a police state sustainable?  Or a one-world-government?  Do we really want 1984?  Is that what we are shooting for?  A high-tech security state where every move we make is documented and even our private thoughts are being read by government officials?  Because that is where we are headed if we keep up this civilization.  I just pray that we crash fast and hard in the next century and never recover to the point we are at now.

We can gobble up all the natural resources and all the land, but then what?  What is the means to this end?  When there is no more power to be taken, what will those in power do?  When humans have control over every living being, will we expand into the universe and start making all universal life our slaves?  Technophiles are the ones who dream this kind of stuff up.  And they are the ones who are making many of the decisions.  They say that there is always a solution to maintain the status quo and to keep moving in the same direction infinitely, but that is not the case.  It is only a matter of time before we run out of the very fuel that is powering us.  It took millions of years for all the fuel we are using to form.  And in a couple of centuries, we have depleted nearly all of it.  Does that seem very logical and rational to you?

So what are we supposed to do about all this?  I would argue there is nothing we can do on a small scale that would make any significant difference.  The only suggestion I have is to learn how to be self-sufficient and how to live without some of the manufactured necessities we now are blessed to have.  The electricity will come off.  The water will stop running.  There will be catastrophic crop failures.  It’s just a matter of when.  And it is a matter of knowing how to get by on much, much less than we have been.

And it is also shedding this notion that we are entitled to everything this Earth has to offer.  Not to mention taking what the Earth gives us and not forcefully creating our food and shelters in such a way that we destroy the majority of all other life around us.  It is getting rid of all these unnecessary laws and regulations that are just used to control us when what we truly are are wild animals.  And until we embrace our wildness and get back to nature, we will see how we used to live just by watching the animals and how they live.  We will regain more and more of our primal selves and start to realize that the way we live now is totally insane and the way every other creature on this planet lives makes perfect, logical sense

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DNA and Natural Selection

Friday, January 15th, 2010

At our very core, us humans are all the same. We all want to survive and to pass our genes on to the next generation. It is built into our DNA. This is why the act of reproduction feels so good. We are programmed to reproduce at any cost possible because we originated from a world with very few humans with very low survival rates. Natural selection took care of the people who were ill-equipped to survive and the ones with the strongest genes lived on to replicate their DNA time and time again, ensuring the species a better chance of surviving. This was back in our hunter-gatherer days.

In comes agriculture. This new invention forced upon the entire world over time increased our population due to a greater abundance of food, and this led to more people and more food and so on to the point where we for the most part do not go hungry and have more than enough food to feed the world many times over. More and more people are surviving that would have died back in the hunter-gatherer days because survival has gotten easier and easier every generation, evident by all those people you see walking around. So we have a diluted gene pool that just keeps reproducing at the speed of light, with exponential population growth, leading to a resource scarcity and a destruction of our Earth’s ecosystem. The stronger gene people mixed in with the weaker gened people and turned us all into a homogeneous population of consumerism-obsessed “zombies.” Now I use the term “zombie” to refer to the mass of people on Black Friday who want a good sale so badly they trample a Wal*Mart employee to death. We are overcrowded and we sense in our DNA that there will not be enough to go around, so we become agitated and fearful.

We are living so far out of balance, even our own bodies can sense it. Every time I see a tree being cut down or factory-farmed animals in cages, I feel for them. I feel like we could be doing so much better as a race, but instead we look after our own narrow-minded self-interest instead of working towards the greater good for all of the world. We buy sneakers made by child slaves and fur coats made from dead animals that were seen as no more than a commodity, an expendable life for the purpose of fashion. But we don’t want to know. We don’t want to think that the animal we are serving up for dinner spent its entire life in a cage, never seeing the light of day and then was slaughtered in a very bloody death, but all cleaned up by the time we get it at our local supermarket. It wouldn’t have to be this way if there weren’t so many people that we had to start domesticating animals and using them as tools to serve us, rather than allowing them to live their lives as well.

I would argue that natural selection became human selection after some time in civilization. We exterminate all life that doesn’t benefit us, and we keep the things around the we use or find nice to look at. Everything else is expendable. Our own selfish needs, brought about by our selfish DNA, which cares about nothing more than survival of itself and its species, will go to great lengths to make sure we have everything at the expense of every other living creature on this planet.

We are what we are. It’s hard to change a species’ consciousness. We are doomed to keep up this behavior for quite some time until we crash and burn into a place where we are forced to live like we once did, but who knows if we’ll just repeat the cycle over and over for all eternity, crashing and burning, then rebuilding, then crashing and burning again? Since the human lifespan is not infinite or even more than a century at best, it’s hard to really know if we will ever learn from these mistakes we’ve made or if we will ever change our ways. It’s possible that we are hardwired to keep up the destruction, even well after we have lost everything due to resource depletion. Always the optimist, I know.

It’s possible that we may find that balance again where we live with nature and enhance it, but how we get to that point is beyond my knowledge. Even a plan that looks good on paper is going to hit many, many obstacles that will destroy any hope of a nature-based human world. Humans will go extinct in the future, but it will take a long time, but this exploitative and self-important type of behavior will certainly hasten our demise into oblivion, which is a good thing in that scenario anyway because we’re not living in balance. If we could find a place where we fit and stay there in a nature-based culture, it would also be fine because we could exist for millions of years and still have everything we started with.

But I don’t know if humans are capable of going back. Time will tell.

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A Virus With Shoes

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Bill Hicks once said “the human race is a virus with shoes.”  I find that to be very true.  I would have used the word cancer, though.  We consume resources at expense of the whole to suit our own selfish needs.  We are a cancer on this planet.  We should just gracefully either become healthy “cells” again or we will be eradicated with the Earth’s immune system once we stop “mutating” to evade all the diseases that are meant to control our population.  We bypass all of those diseases by becoming more and more resistant to everything the Earth and even our own kind throw our way.  There are very few people who are doing their part to put the Earth back into balance and their actions are virtually meaningless because of the immense pull in the other direction.  The corporations are like the tumors of our human cancer race.  They pollute on a scale so large without any regard for any of the life around them that everything we eat or drink is now poisonous to some degree.  Look what we have done to this wonderful world.  Before civilized humans, this place was a paradise.  Now it’s closer to a hell.

I can’t imagine what the world will look like in the year 2100.  It will probably be a flaming ball of shit.  Civilization is in its twilight phase after a very short existence of a mere 10,000 years.  We lived mostly in balance before that for almost 3 million years.  To say we can’t go back is to say that once you go to work you can’t go back to your home afterward.  “You know you can’t go back.”  I believe we can go back to living in balance with the Earth, but it will be no easy transition, especially with all the fucking people we have hanging around this planet.  We need to cut the population by 93% or more to even be able to live in balance and we need to go back to a time without agriculture, which leads to expanding populations, conquest, war, and disease.  We need to go back to a primitive way of living that actually enhances the Earth, not destroys it.  We need to increase diversity instead of wiping it all out.  When I say diversity, I’m talking about diversity of species, not the narrow-minded diversity used to describe a particular subset of the human population.

We also need to abandon technology.  Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, but all it has done is complicate things beyond belief.  It is one of the drugs of civilization that keeps it going, and because of it we are larger in numbers, but more stressed out and closer together, which tends to bring out aggressive behaviors and drug abuse.  Our mental health is collapsing all around us because our whole society is insane and in order to adapt, we must also become that way.  One psychiatrist said, “Psychopathy is a perfectly natural response to a pathogenic environment.”  We are victims of circumstance here and if we had a choice on how to live, I’m sure there would be more people living in a more primitive culture, but in this robber-baron consciousness world, they would be overtaken yet again and be forced to comply or be killed.  We have wiped out every indigenous culture, barring a very small few exceptions.  And the primitive peoples, who are seduced by the fancy new toys of civilization, have no immunity to these overtakings.

What I suggest is that we take the knowledge of civilization and what it has done to our planet and what it has done to our species as a whole and retain it once we go to a more primitive way of life.  Sure, we won’t be able to defend against these gargantuan industrial civilizations that come and try and conquer us, but at least we may be able to convince them of the error of their ways before they obliterate us into oblivion.  Even here in America, we destroyed the cultures of the Native Americans and the Africans we brought here to be our slaves.  Where does this come from?  Destruction at all costs to serve our narrow-minded agenda.  It’s hard to reason with these monsters when there’s a gun shoved in your face or you are being hunted like animals to work on a plantation across the ocean.  Christopher Columbus hacked up Native American children and fed them to his dogs.  He claimed to be a man of God.  What would Jesus do?  Violence is never the answer unless you are under direct attack and are only trying to preserve your own life or the lives of those you care about.

All this violence and conquest stem from the agricultural complex.  Since we had more people, we needed to keep conquering more and more space to house and feed our growing population.  Whatever spawned the development of agriculture has destroyed us as a species to the horrible cancer we have become today and will continue to be at an escalating pace until we crash into a post-civilization world that could be anything, good or bad, depending on the mass consciousness of our species at that point.  A lot of people will die during the crash, billions.  It will be horrible, but at the same time a good thing.  We will have a chance, for the first time in 10,000 years, to live our own ways and to make decisions that could bring about major change in the world.  Now is not the time for major change because most people are too comfortable in their little self-created bubbles.  But things are starting to get worse from civilization’s standpoint and better eventually for the rest of the world as the corporations are starting to fall and putting forth in motion the beginning of a collapse that will breed abundance, diversity, and freedom for the first time in a very long time.  Most of us will not see the culmination of this crash, but we will be here for at least the beginning of it.  Let us use our power to nudge civilization into the history books before it destroys every living thing left on this planet.  Let us become a species without shoes.

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When Nature Calls

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Nature, the place where we never go. The place we only go to tear down and build suburbs and strip malls. This used to be a land of plenty. Now it is a land of scarcity. There is only one way to live and that is to participate in the man-made society and economy. Otherwise, you’ll starve to death on the streets. Or you’ll become a bum who others shy away from because their tax dollars feed you. There is no such thing as living in the woods or being a survivalist anymore because now even the woods are owned and are being cut down for development. There is nowhere to go anymore in most of the world where you can just relax and be at peace. Most forests and wilderness areas are plastered with NO TRESPASSING signs and other marks of civilization. What ever happened to the freedom to roam the countryside? The countryside disappeared and became highways and overpasses. All for this one invention we call the automobile.

The automobile, which made it possible for everything to be so far apart.  We really don’t need transportation, but because of the invention of the automobile, there is no choice but to drive a car to get where we need to go.  Doing otherwise is called jaywalking.  You can’t step one foot out of your place of residence without hearing one of these giant beasts roaming the former countryside.  It is not the root of the problem, but simply a symptom of it.

Anyone with a sense of the world around them can tell you what a terrible place it is.  All the evils of the world stem from humans.  It is us that cause all the destruction.  It is us that even kill our own species for personal gain.  We are destructive while at the same time self-destructive.  As we destroy our environment and create a false on in the wreckage, we further and further sever our ties with nature, our one true home.  When will it stop?  Will it ever?  How do we put an end to it?  I would say the best way to do it is by starting to wake people up about their lives and how we have deviated from nature’s plan for us.

Us humans destroy what we fear.  We do it because we want a tightly controlled, predictable space for us to live in.  Our own little habitat that we can manage on a daily basis to fit our needs and forget about the needs of every other living creature, except maybe a pet, who has been reduced to depending helplessly on us, giving us yet another feeling of power over another living thing.  We used to live with these creatures symbiotically, and now we have taken it all for ourselves, leaving everyone else in the dust, even what we consider to be lesser humans.  We love to invade those lesser humans, those who still live with the Earth, and kill them off while simultaneously stealing their land for crops or cheap beef.  It’s all about us and never about anyone or anything else.

I don’t know how others do not see how wrong this is, and why those who do don’t do anything about it.  If we all got together, we could start a revolution, but what would we do for food?  There are hardly any wild edibles left in America and we are so accustomed to this way of life that it is such a hard transition that it could take many, many generations.  We need to go back to nature, but how can we successfully accomplish that?  How can we go there and stay there, never being swayed by the shallow pleasures of civilization?  How can we become one with the Earth without being conquered by yet another dominant civilization demanding submission or death?

I don’t have the answers for these questions because I haven’t been successful in doing any of these things as of yet.  But there is always hope.  When civilization crashes hard, and it will, we can replace it with the Gaia hypothesis, that nature and the Earth’s diversity and health mean more than building sterile monuments and exploding populations.  We will have people on our side after the crash because they will now have seen the errors of their ways.  A crash is inevitable, but who knows when it will happen and how severe it will be?

If it is simply a mild crash, with only a mild drop in population and job security, then little will be done, except to find ways to preserve the dominant system.  But if we have  a major crash, where more than half the world’s population is gone and there is no longer any structure that can sustain itself, we still have a chance to bring nature back into the picture.  But it will take a major crash to get this to sink in for the majority of people because they are too entrenched in the current system because that is all they know.  If they were raised close to nature or even in nature itself, they have a better understanding than those who spent most of their lives in sterile buildings where they are not allowed to touch anything.  Once that security blanket is taken away, perhaps those who have nothing will see the abundance in nature and strive to build it better.  That, and that reason alone, is the only reason that justifies us being here.

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