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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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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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Eating Animals

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Lately, as we all know, there has been light shed on the horrific factory farming industry.  But it doesn’t surprise me one bit.  Why should it?  It just goes with the typical endless growth culture that will inevitably destroy us.  Factory farming contributes to all sorts of environmental, health, and ethical problems that they could fill a thousand books (maybe more).  But it is in our nature to eat animals.  We simply cannot survive very long without eating the flesh of another creature or we will suffer ill health effects.  We cannot all buy locally grown, grass-fed, free range, certified organic meat either because there just isn’t enough of that to go around.  And the more food we produce, the more people there are, so the more meat is produced in this concentration-camp like slaughterhouse known as factory farming.

This civilization is a runaway train headed straight for destruction.  A system that takes without giving back is doomed to failure on the very principle that it is unsustainable.  And when a system that keeps getting bigger keeps stealing from the Earth and not replenishing it, it will inevitably come to a screeching halt.  This is  no dilemma on whether or not to eat animals.  This is a question of whether these factory-farmed animals are even contributing to our health, being that the factory farms that this pathological civilization have created turn animals into such sick creatures that 90% of their nutrition is wiped out due to all of the horrible living conditions and substandard food.  Let’s not forget to mention the antibiotics and growth hormones.  An animal living an unnatural life confined indoors is not going to produce the same quality meat as an animal that is allowed to live in its natural environment.

But most people just don’t want to know.  They want their burgers and fried chicken and just don’t want to think about what horrors these factory-farmed animals have been through.  And they don’t want to think about all the toxins and genetically modified foodstuffs they are absorbing as they eat what they perceive to be just another meal.  It would be nice if each animal we ate was actually hunted, had lived in the wild for its whole existence, and died quickly, painlessly.  It’s just too bad that things have gotten so bad in the meat industry.  And we are powerless to stop it.  Not enough people care to invoke real change in this field.  Sure, the permaculture movement has seen some success, but agribusiness will always be on top.  It’s not like the ordinary American can afford to eat a Certified Humane piece of steak or chicken every night.  They’ve got too many loans and bills to pay off for seemingly unnecessary things and comforts to spend more than 10% of their salary on food.

Another problem is we have too many people and way too much food.  And since we have too much food, there will be more people, and thus we will produce more food.  And this will inevitably lead to more people.  This is practically a law of nature.  And the more food we produce, the worse the conditions for the animals who are unfortunate enough to be stuck in the gears of our agricultural-industrial complex.  They spend their whole lives living in hell so we can eat one meal.  And it becomes such a meal that it doesn’t even nourish us that much, so we are compelled to eat more to fill the discrepancy in nutrition.  And thus obesity is created, even though most obese people are nutritionally deficient due to extreme degradation in nutrients in ALL the food we eat, including vegetables, fruits, nuts, and anything edible.  This toxic world has ruined our food supply and will continue to do so until it inevitably collapses and hopefully we can move towards a more natural way of life.

There used to be less than 2 million humans on this planet.  Our population wasn’t getting out of balance at that time because if it did, some of us would starve due to lack of food.  If we overhunted, we starved.  Our population had negative feedback, always pulling us back to the center.  Think of it as a bowl.  The further away you go from balance, the more pull there is back to the center.  When agriculture started, we created a positive feedback loop.  We became the creators of our food and domesticated wild plants and animals, making us the deciders of how much food would be available.  Thus, we created more food, and thus more people, and thus more land to house those people was needed.  And all of this enabled hierarchy and plagues and cities and central authority.  When you have billions of people roaming around, there has to be someone to keep order.  Back when there were small tribes spread out all across the Earth, there was no need.  People did as they pleased and did what they needed to survive and spent the rest of their time playing and slacking off.  Now we live in an artificial hell world where every second of the day is structured and commanded.  We care more about efficiency than the health of the people as a whole.  And we care far less about the animals we eat, because to us they are nothing more than mindless robots that have no feelings and are expendable with no rights to the lives they were intended for.

I have no objection to someone going out and hunting for food and eating it.  But there are no wild animals that are as tasty as the ones we’ve domesticated.  We domesticated them because they were our favorites and we wanted more of them.  We didn’t know what it would lead to at the time because there is no way that people back then had the foresight to predict the cruelty we see today in the factory farming system.  But most people are not ready to listen.  Most people do not want to know the truth about that piece of meat in their plate.  Better not think about it.  And this is why it is allowed to  continue.  But people will only listen when they are ready and not before.  I’m just hoping that some people are ready to hear this and are willing to buy meat that was raised in humane conditions, preferably without any chemicals or genetically-modified feed.  And that will be a start.  But it’s going to take a major change in the way we view the food animals we eat before any real change takes place.  I just hope for things to get better in my lifetime and move in a positive direction until we are no longer being so cruel to animals that we should be worshiping because they sustain our lives.

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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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Overpopulation Revisited

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

We are moving faster and faster towards overpopulation. Some may argue we are already there.  When will it stop and finally even out?  As long as we are in civilization, I don’t see an end to the rising numbers of human beings and the diminishing numbers of all other life.  Too many people.  Us, making our mark everywhere on the world, expanding until we have nothing left to expand upon.  The fall of man, his excessive pride in thinking he can rule the universe by continued expansion. It’s a shame to think that humans are going to go down in a final blaze of incompetence when populations get so large that the whole world goes into famines and disease due to different collapses in technological necessities we take for granted today.

It’s quite a shame to think about how we’ve done so much to hurt our own home and other species that live here as well.  What we’ve done here is nothing to be proud of.  Sure, we have dominion over all living things, but when will the lust for power stop?  Will it ever?  When will we just say, “That’s enough!”  My guess is not  until we go extinct, or witness a major crash in the current system.  And if we go extinct, the world will finally get its chance to heal itself.  That is, if we leave anything that’s not man-made as we exit this planet.  Humans only deal with human-made materials on a daily basis.  For the most part, other than the hands sticking out in front of you, everything you come into contact with was made by man, much like inbreeding.  This is contrary to all other life, who work symbiotically and cohesively to keep diversity at an all-time high.  This is another reason for our rampant expansion.  We are only interested in the self, at the expense of everything else.

I’m writing here because I find that anyone who decides they want a big family is being entirely selfish and is exacerbating the problem instead of working to solve it.  Unless you can raise everyone in your big family to be compassionate, conscious, and aware, those children will irresponsibly reproduce as well many times and cause more and more people to come into this world for no reason other than self-interest.  There are way too many people already, so why make the problem worse?  Why bring children into a world where for many reasons there is not enough to go around and there will most likely never be enough as long as we keep having children?  Not procreating is one of the most responsible acts you can do towards getting the human race back into balance, and yet you hardly ever see it, except among the people who are either socially awkward or unappealing.  Even in those circumstances, children are sometimes created.

I’m not trying to tell others how to live their lives, but it makes sense that if our major problem in the coming century is overpopulation, then we shouldn’t have so many children.  Of course, there is always the argument that the more food we produce, the more people there will be.  While this is also true, if we limit the food production in the world and have it steadily go down for years and years, then the population will steadily decline as well.  It will cause many to die in this current world, but it will be for a good reason.  We would try to get to the point that we don’t need to farm anymore and we just live off of the food that nature provides, much like we did for hundreds of thousands of years before this world we live in today.  But yet I see no one putting this plan in motion because it’s not really politically viable as an argument and whoever proposes this will be called a monster and mass murderer when what they are doing is just trying to find balance.

Is this situation hopeless?  Perhaps.  It’s possible that our population will expand to numbers never thought of before followed by an intense drop in population due to all the factors associated with overpopulation.  Wouldn’t it be easier to gradually reduce the population than to have half of Earth’s humans disappear in a matter of years due to famine, disease or other overpopulation problems?  It’s hard to think about what this world will look like in 100 years, with a potential 1 billion Americans and 12-15 billion people.  It would be worse than India today all over the world.  Is that the kind of world that all of us want to create?  I hope not.  Let us all try to reduce the population by following one simple rule to start:  Do not have children.

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