We are living in a very tumultuous time, so much has changed, so fast. Technologies existing today were unheard of, just a short time ago, in the historical context. Our constant progress in our apparent goal to get as far as we can away from nature, and our wilder, savage roots, has propelled human civilization to this point where technologies are being developed at breakneck speed, every day, in every industry, are people making stuff. Making new stuff, making old stuff work better. Making money, making a mess of things. Between corporate greed, and political love of power, long ago there spawned a covenant that will someday jump its track. We are the unspoken currency they trade in, our lives spent working to pay con artists to spend our money, and borrow against our future taxes.
we the people are prodded by marketing to be the mice on the treadmill, busily providing the world with goods or services, so we can then purchase some goods and services in our "spare time" not seeming to notice how little of that we are allowed. I hopped off the treadmill, and found my happy place, found my people and the thing I could do best. Then I got hit by a couple cars. Haha.
The learning curve is steep all over the place. We live in a time when most of American society believes food comes wrapped in plastic, from a well lit, clean building, preferrably. Most of our society believes where food really comes from is dirty and gross. I will give them that, the farms mass producing meat and dairy are also mass producing feces and other unpleasant things attendant to the processes.
I think with so many of us dependant upon an overburdened, top heavy economic system, full of so many fatal errors patched up with glossy hustle, our entire country could fall apart from the weight of it all. too many liars, stealing too much imaginary money, too many real needs are not being met, while huge budgets get filtered through more hands, rich administrators, live like kings, right in our faces. Inside this machine, something is ticking slow as a glacier moving through a mountain. It feels like a good time to get closer to where food really comes from, and live closer to nature. I have noticed, when it comes to sustainable practices, nature is beating civilization by many miles.
Maybe it is actually barbaric to think the cycles which support life, that filter the air, and water are disgusting. Maybe we are not so intelligent. Making war on predators, who are also learning, and developing all the time....seems kind of stupid. At the rate of our current progress, in about 70 years, we will be all they have left to eat, and humans, fat docile placid Americans, we will not be hard to catch. We keep pushing into their turf, and destroying their livelihood. There are lots of ways what we have donr wrong will eventually come back to us. It is an exciting time to be alive, not on the cusp of big changes, in the vortex.
The easily led are easily misled, I broke from that pack about ten years ago, to stand aside and observe as somethkng I can not quite put my finger on takes shape.
