Two New Links
on vegan/ protein myths regarding health...
Enjoy!
http://sugarrocket.com/vegan/vegan-myths.php#health
http://www.dsiegel.com/wiwd/diet/protein.html
or see "Vegan Health Myths" and "Protein Myths" at right.
Howl!
-Z.M.D.
Monday, December 19, 2005
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Quote from essay "The Abolition of Work". Link at right, or cut'n paste the following address:
http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm
"Work makes a mockery of freedom. The official line is that we all have rights and live in a democracy. Other unfortunates who aren't free like we are have to live in police states. These victims obey orders or-else, no matter how arbitrary. The authorities keep them under regular surveillance. State bureaucrats control even the smaller details of everyday life. The officials who push them around are answerable only to higher-ups, public or private. Either way, dissent and disobedience are punished. Informers report regularly to the authorities. All this is supposed to be a very bad thing.
And so it is, although it is nothing but a description of the modern workplace. The liberals and conservatives and libertarians who lament totalitarianism are phonies and hypocrites. ... You find the same sort of hierarchy and discipline in an office or factory as you do in a prison or monastery. In fact, as Foucault and others have shown, prisons and factories came in at about the same time, and their operators consciously borrowed from each other's control techniques. A worker is a part-time slave. The boss says when to show up, when to leave, and what to do in the meantime. He tells you how much work to do and how fast. He is free to carry his control to humiliating extremes, regulating, if he feels like it, the clothes you wear or how often you go to the bathroom. With a few exceptions he can fire you for any reason, or no reason. He has you spied on by snitches and supervisors, he amasses a dossier on every employee. Talking back is called "insubordination," just as if a worker is a naughty child, and it not only gets you fired, it disqualifies you for unemployment compensation. Without necessarily endorsing it for them either, it is noteworthy that children at home and in school receive much the same treatment, justified in their case by their supposed immaturity. What does this say about their parents and teachers who work?
The demeaning system of domination I've described rules over half the waking hours of a majority of women and the vast majority of men for decades, for most of their lifespans. For certain purposes it's not too misleading to call our system democracy or capitalism or -- better still -- industrialism, but its real names are factory fascism and office oligarchy. Anybody who says these people are "free" is lying or stupid. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. People who are regimented all their lives, handed off to work from school and bracketed by the family in the beginning and the nursing home at the end, are habituated to heirarchy and psychologically enslaved. Their aptitude for autonomy is so atrophied that their fear of freedom is among their few rationally grounded phobias. Their obedience training at work carries over into the families *they* start, thus reproducing the system in more ways than one, and into politics, culture and everything else. Once you drain the vitality from people at work, they'll likely submit to heirarchy and expertise in everything. They're used to it.
We are so close to the world of work that we can't see what it does to us. We have to rely on outside observers from other times or other cultures to appreciate the extremity and the pathology of our present position. There was a time in our own past when the "work ethic" would have been incomprehensible, and perhaps Weber was on to something when he tied its appearance to a religion, Calvinism, which if it emerged today instead of four centuries ago would immediately and appropriately be labeled a cult. Be that as it may, we have only to draw upon the wisdom of antiquity to put work in perspective. The ancients saw work for what it is, and their view prevailed, the Calvinist cranks notwithstanding, until overthrown by industrialism -- but not before receiving the endorsement of its prophets.
Let's pretend for a moment that work doesn't turn people into stultified submissives. Let's pretend, in defiance of any plausible psychology and the ideology of its boosters, that it has no effect on the formation of character. And let's pretend that work isn't as boring and tiring and humiliating as we all know it really is. Even then, work would *still* make a mockery of all humanistic and democratic aspirations, just because it usurps so much of our time. Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfill the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship. He was right. Because of work, no matter what we do we keep looking at out watches. The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair. Coal and steel don't do that. Lathes and typewriters don't do that. But workers do. No wonder Edward G. Robinson in one of his gangster movies exclaimed, "Work is for saps!"
.....
"To grasp the full enormity of our deterioration, however, consider the earliest condition of humanity, without government or property, when we wandered as hunter-gatherers. Hobbes surmised that life was then nasty, brutish and short. Others assume that life was a desperate unremitting struggle for subsistence, a war waged against a harsh Nature with death and disaster awaiting the unlucky or anyone who was unequal to the challenge of the struggle for existence. Actually, that was all a projection of fears for the collapse of government authority over communities unaccustomed to doing without it, like the England of Hobbes during the Civil War. Hobbes' compatriots had already encountered alternative forms of society which illustrated other ways of life -- in North America, particularly -- but already these were too remote from their experience to be understandable. (The lower orders, closer to the condition of the Indians, understood it better and often found it attractive. Throughout the seventeenth century, English settlers defected to Indian tribes or, captured in war, refused to return. But the Indians no more defected to white settlements than Germans climb the Berlin Wall from the west.) The "survival of the fittest" version -- the Thomas Huxley version -- of Darwinism was a better account of economic conditions in Victorian England than it was of natural selection, as the anarchist Kropotkin showed in his book *Mutual* *Aid,* *A* *Factor* *of* *Evolution*. (Kropotkin was a scientist -- a geographer -- who'd had ample involuntary opportunity for fieldwork whilst exiled in Siberia: he knew what he was talking about.) Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography."
-from "The Abolition of Work"-- link at right.
Z. MoonDog
http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm
"Work makes a mockery of freedom. The official line is that we all have rights and live in a democracy. Other unfortunates who aren't free like we are have to live in police states. These victims obey orders or-else, no matter how arbitrary. The authorities keep them under regular surveillance. State bureaucrats control even the smaller details of everyday life. The officials who push them around are answerable only to higher-ups, public or private. Either way, dissent and disobedience are punished. Informers report regularly to the authorities. All this is supposed to be a very bad thing.
And so it is, although it is nothing but a description of the modern workplace. The liberals and conservatives and libertarians who lament totalitarianism are phonies and hypocrites. ... You find the same sort of hierarchy and discipline in an office or factory as you do in a prison or monastery. In fact, as Foucault and others have shown, prisons and factories came in at about the same time, and their operators consciously borrowed from each other's control techniques. A worker is a part-time slave. The boss says when to show up, when to leave, and what to do in the meantime. He tells you how much work to do and how fast. He is free to carry his control to humiliating extremes, regulating, if he feels like it, the clothes you wear or how often you go to the bathroom. With a few exceptions he can fire you for any reason, or no reason. He has you spied on by snitches and supervisors, he amasses a dossier on every employee. Talking back is called "insubordination," just as if a worker is a naughty child, and it not only gets you fired, it disqualifies you for unemployment compensation. Without necessarily endorsing it for them either, it is noteworthy that children at home and in school receive much the same treatment, justified in their case by their supposed immaturity. What does this say about their parents and teachers who work?
The demeaning system of domination I've described rules over half the waking hours of a majority of women and the vast majority of men for decades, for most of their lifespans. For certain purposes it's not too misleading to call our system democracy or capitalism or -- better still -- industrialism, but its real names are factory fascism and office oligarchy. Anybody who says these people are "free" is lying or stupid. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education. People who are regimented all their lives, handed off to work from school and bracketed by the family in the beginning and the nursing home at the end, are habituated to heirarchy and psychologically enslaved. Their aptitude for autonomy is so atrophied that their fear of freedom is among their few rationally grounded phobias. Their obedience training at work carries over into the families *they* start, thus reproducing the system in more ways than one, and into politics, culture and everything else. Once you drain the vitality from people at work, they'll likely submit to heirarchy and expertise in everything. They're used to it.
We are so close to the world of work that we can't see what it does to us. We have to rely on outside observers from other times or other cultures to appreciate the extremity and the pathology of our present position. There was a time in our own past when the "work ethic" would have been incomprehensible, and perhaps Weber was on to something when he tied its appearance to a religion, Calvinism, which if it emerged today instead of four centuries ago would immediately and appropriately be labeled a cult. Be that as it may, we have only to draw upon the wisdom of antiquity to put work in perspective. The ancients saw work for what it is, and their view prevailed, the Calvinist cranks notwithstanding, until overthrown by industrialism -- but not before receiving the endorsement of its prophets.
Let's pretend for a moment that work doesn't turn people into stultified submissives. Let's pretend, in defiance of any plausible psychology and the ideology of its boosters, that it has no effect on the formation of character. And let's pretend that work isn't as boring and tiring and humiliating as we all know it really is. Even then, work would *still* make a mockery of all humanistic and democratic aspirations, just because it usurps so much of our time. Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfill the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship. He was right. Because of work, no matter what we do we keep looking at out watches. The only thing "free" about so-called free time is that it doesn't cost the boss anything. Free time is mostly devoted to getting ready for work, going to work, returning from work, and recovering from work. Free time is a euphemism for the peculiar way labor as a factor of production not only transports itself at its own expense to and from the workplace but assumes primary responsibility for its own maintenance and repair. Coal and steel don't do that. Lathes and typewriters don't do that. But workers do. No wonder Edward G. Robinson in one of his gangster movies exclaimed, "Work is for saps!"
.....
"To grasp the full enormity of our deterioration, however, consider the earliest condition of humanity, without government or property, when we wandered as hunter-gatherers. Hobbes surmised that life was then nasty, brutish and short. Others assume that life was a desperate unremitting struggle for subsistence, a war waged against a harsh Nature with death and disaster awaiting the unlucky or anyone who was unequal to the challenge of the struggle for existence. Actually, that was all a projection of fears for the collapse of government authority over communities unaccustomed to doing without it, like the England of Hobbes during the Civil War. Hobbes' compatriots had already encountered alternative forms of society which illustrated other ways of life -- in North America, particularly -- but already these were too remote from their experience to be understandable. (The lower orders, closer to the condition of the Indians, understood it better and often found it attractive. Throughout the seventeenth century, English settlers defected to Indian tribes or, captured in war, refused to return. But the Indians no more defected to white settlements than Germans climb the Berlin Wall from the west.) The "survival of the fittest" version -- the Thomas Huxley version -- of Darwinism was a better account of economic conditions in Victorian England than it was of natural selection, as the anarchist Kropotkin showed in his book *Mutual* *Aid,* *A* *Factor* *of* *Evolution*. (Kropotkin was a scientist -- a geographer -- who'd had ample involuntary opportunity for fieldwork whilst exiled in Siberia: he knew what he was talking about.) Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography."
-from "The Abolition of Work"-- link at right.
Z. MoonDog
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Link of the DAY!
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0114_050114_solarplastic.html
Or click on "New Solar Nanotechnology" link at right...
VERY Interesting... good progressive investment in my opinion, once this technology goes commercial (if it hasn't already)...
Love and SaxoPhones,
Z. MoonDog (HOWLLL!!!!!)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0114_050114_solarplastic.html
Or click on "New Solar Nanotechnology" link at right...
VERY Interesting... good progressive investment in my opinion, once this technology goes commercial (if it hasn't already)...
Love and SaxoPhones,
Z. MoonDog (HOWLLL!!!!!)
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
NEW LINK OF THE DAY!!
"The Abolition of Work"
A Fun One!!
Tho' not so frivolous as the title, or funnish opening-paragraphs make out...
Read and learn... or remain square and oh-so-behind-times...
http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm
or "The Abolition of Work" amidst the links at the right!
Love and Abalone,
Z. MoonDog (howl.)
"The Abolition of Work"
A Fun One!!
Tho' not so frivolous as the title, or funnish opening-paragraphs make out...
Read and learn... or remain square and oh-so-behind-times...
http://www.primitivism.com/abolition.htm
or "The Abolition of Work" amidst the links at the right!
Love and Abalone,
Z. MoonDog (howl.)
"There will be sustainable human cultures on this planet a century from now. In fact, that’s the only kind of cultures there will be. And I think we can reasonably hope that at least some of those cultures will be able to trace their lineage to the seemingly marginalized hippies, activists, energy geeks, permaculturists, communitarians, organic farmers, eco-city planners, and plain citizens who started educating their neighbors about peak oil early in the century."
-Can't remember where I found the above quote. But I like it. If you do too, Please Pass This 'blog On to any like-minded...
Thanx!
Z. MoonDog
-Can't remember where I found the above quote. But I like it. If you do too, Please Pass This 'blog On to any like-minded...
Thanx!
Z. MoonDog
Sunday, December 11, 2005
A quoted section from the LINK OF THE DAY, "BioRegionalism":
"This is the key point: full democracy means the end of the social mode we have called
"civilization." It means the end of big-money rule. It means the end of aristocracy and the end
of powerless peasants. It means dignity and power for each and every human being. In this
sense, full democracy is a return to tribal life. But since there cannot be a return to tribal life in
any complete sense, a viable democracy must be a fresh invention. Our entire vision of a next
mode of human society must be a fresh invention. Any vision which sees no further than a
moderated civilization is in collusion with our current hierarchical tyranny over nature and over
most of humanity.
This collusion with the tyranny of industrial civilization does not characterize only the
political right. The political left can be described as favoring the moderation of the tyranny of
civilization. Labor unions, for example, moderate corporate power and thereby moderate
injustice toward working people. The vision of a typical labor union is not the end of civilization
nor even the end of corporations. Labor unions are part of corporate practice and they are
dependent upon corporate practice as well as a moderation of it. When corporations pass from
the stage of history, labor unions pass away as well. Life beyond the corporation will mean the
creation of economic institutions in which owners, managers, and workers are all the same
group of people.
The entire round of liberal politics is for the time being an important moderation of the evils
of civilization, but for the long haul liberal politics cannot provide a solution to the ecological and
human-justice crises that are increasing every year because of the expanding powers of
civilization. The question is not, "How can civilization be saved?" The question is, "How will
civilization end?" The overriding alternatives are: (1) will humanity end civilization by creating a
viable replacement? or (2) will the Earth end civilization through its inability to support this
obsolete mode of human living? The political left, right, and center are all forms of collusion
with saving civilization, a hopeless and self-destructive objective."
-The essay goes on to describe what it terms "Bioregionalism"-- a "Middle Way"-- as the solution betwixt the Tribalism/Civilization extremes...
Highly Recommended. Worth reading closely, I think.
-Z. MoonDog (HOWL! -and pass on the 'blog!)
"This is the key point: full democracy means the end of the social mode we have called
"civilization." It means the end of big-money rule. It means the end of aristocracy and the end
of powerless peasants. It means dignity and power for each and every human being. In this
sense, full democracy is a return to tribal life. But since there cannot be a return to tribal life in
any complete sense, a viable democracy must be a fresh invention. Our entire vision of a next
mode of human society must be a fresh invention. Any vision which sees no further than a
moderated civilization is in collusion with our current hierarchical tyranny over nature and over
most of humanity.
This collusion with the tyranny of industrial civilization does not characterize only the
political right. The political left can be described as favoring the moderation of the tyranny of
civilization. Labor unions, for example, moderate corporate power and thereby moderate
injustice toward working people. The vision of a typical labor union is not the end of civilization
nor even the end of corporations. Labor unions are part of corporate practice and they are
dependent upon corporate practice as well as a moderation of it. When corporations pass from
the stage of history, labor unions pass away as well. Life beyond the corporation will mean the
creation of economic institutions in which owners, managers, and workers are all the same
group of people.
The entire round of liberal politics is for the time being an important moderation of the evils
of civilization, but for the long haul liberal politics cannot provide a solution to the ecological and
human-justice crises that are increasing every year because of the expanding powers of
civilization. The question is not, "How can civilization be saved?" The question is, "How will
civilization end?" The overriding alternatives are: (1) will humanity end civilization by creating a
viable replacement? or (2) will the Earth end civilization through its inability to support this
obsolete mode of human living? The political left, right, and center are all forms of collusion
with saving civilization, a hopeless and self-destructive objective."
-The essay goes on to describe what it terms "Bioregionalism"-- a "Middle Way"-- as the solution betwixt the Tribalism/Civilization extremes...
Highly Recommended. Worth reading closely, I think.
-Z. MoonDog (HOWL! -and pass on the 'blog!)
New FEATURED LINK of the Day!!!
Check out "BioRegionalism" link...
Provides description of a well-thought-out "Middle Way" between current civilization/ destructive trends, and the potentially-impossible goal of a "return" to "tribalism" in rejection of civilization...
Enjoy!
Pass the 'blog on, so more can have access to this type of informantion/ resource.
Thanks!
-Z. MoonDog
Check out "BioRegionalism" link...
Provides description of a well-thought-out "Middle Way" between current civilization/ destructive trends, and the potentially-impossible goal of a "return" to "tribalism" in rejection of civilization...
Enjoy!
Pass the 'blog on, so more can have access to this type of informantion/ resource.
Thanks!
-Z. MoonDog
The following quote came from
http://www.synearth.net/healing/FuturePositive.pdf
a link y'all can find on "The Gaia Model" site among this site's links...
"Taking the Moral High Ground Requires that We Face the Truth
If we humans are going to solve our evolutionary crisis, it will require
that we take action. We can expect no help from big government
nor big business. Big government's only goal is to be re-elected so
they can retain political power, and the only goal of big business is
to make money. These two forces have combined to create the
present law of society one dollar = one vote.
If we humans with no political or economic power want to solve our
problems, then we will have to take charge of our society. What is
our authority for taking such action? We must begin by seizing the
moral high ground. And, taking the moral high ground requires that
we face the truth.
Truth # 1
The possession of an object does not mean that the possessor has a
moral or rational claim to ownership of the object. The political,
economic, and social structures of our present world are all based on
our concept of ‘property’ and property rights. Recall from the Basics
section, my discussion of the shifting of human values as humanity
evolves from adversary processing to neutral processing to synergic
processing. Adversary wealth is physical force. Neutral wealth is
money. And, synergic wealth is mutual life support. Therefore
adversary ‘property’ is property obtained by force or fraud, and then
held with physical force. Neutral ‘property’ is property purchased in
the fair market, and held by right of law enforced by neutral
government.
Possession is 9/10 of the Law
Remember Neutrality was an evolutionary advance from Adversity,
at the time of Neutrality’s inception most possessions were
adversary. They had been obtained through force or fraud and
held with physical force. The new institutions of Neutrality never
made any attempt to correct what by the new values of Neutrality
would be past injustices. Neutral values would prevail in future,
but the past was left alone.
This resulted in the legal precedent wherein possession is 9/10 of the
law. In other words, at the time Neutrality was institutionalized,
all existing ‘property’ whether adversary or neutral was made
legal ‘property’. However, all new ‘property’ was required to be
neutral ‘property’– that is ‘property’ acquired by paying a fair
price in a free market to the rightful owner, or that ‘property’
which is created directly by the mind and labor of the owner.
Finders Keepers Losers Weepers
Most of the founding fathers of Neutrality were beneficiaries of
‘adversary’ property and in no hurry to give it up. They also
believed that in the long run these injustices would slowly be
corrected, and all property would eventually come to be ‘neutral’
property. We will see later that this was not the case.
While synergic ‘property’ is not yet defined, it would have to be
property that was obtained without hurting or ignoring anyone, and
even more importantly, it would have to be property that was
mutually life supporting – that is it would have to be property that
had a beneficial effect for self and others. If humanity is to advance
to Synergy, our concept of ‘property’ and property rights must
change radically in the future. "
Cheers and Jolly Ranchers,
Z. MoonDog
http://www.synearth.net/healing/FuturePositive.pdf
a link y'all can find on "The Gaia Model" site among this site's links...
"Taking the Moral High Ground Requires that We Face the Truth
If we humans are going to solve our evolutionary crisis, it will require
that we take action. We can expect no help from big government
nor big business. Big government's only goal is to be re-elected so
they can retain political power, and the only goal of big business is
to make money. These two forces have combined to create the
present law of society one dollar = one vote.
If we humans with no political or economic power want to solve our
problems, then we will have to take charge of our society. What is
our authority for taking such action? We must begin by seizing the
moral high ground. And, taking the moral high ground requires that
we face the truth.
Truth # 1
The possession of an object does not mean that the possessor has a
moral or rational claim to ownership of the object. The political,
economic, and social structures of our present world are all based on
our concept of ‘property’ and property rights. Recall from the Basics
section, my discussion of the shifting of human values as humanity
evolves from adversary processing to neutral processing to synergic
processing. Adversary wealth is physical force. Neutral wealth is
money. And, synergic wealth is mutual life support. Therefore
adversary ‘property’ is property obtained by force or fraud, and then
held with physical force. Neutral ‘property’ is property purchased in
the fair market, and held by right of law enforced by neutral
government.
Possession is 9/10 of the Law
Remember Neutrality was an evolutionary advance from Adversity,
at the time of Neutrality’s inception most possessions were
adversary. They had been obtained through force or fraud and
held with physical force. The new institutions of Neutrality never
made any attempt to correct what by the new values of Neutrality
would be past injustices. Neutral values would prevail in future,
but the past was left alone.
This resulted in the legal precedent wherein possession is 9/10 of the
law. In other words, at the time Neutrality was institutionalized,
all existing ‘property’ whether adversary or neutral was made
legal ‘property’. However, all new ‘property’ was required to be
neutral ‘property’– that is ‘property’ acquired by paying a fair
price in a free market to the rightful owner, or that ‘property’
which is created directly by the mind and labor of the owner.
Finders Keepers Losers Weepers
Most of the founding fathers of Neutrality were beneficiaries of
‘adversary’ property and in no hurry to give it up. They also
believed that in the long run these injustices would slowly be
corrected, and all property would eventually come to be ‘neutral’
property. We will see later that this was not the case.
While synergic ‘property’ is not yet defined, it would have to be
property that was obtained without hurting or ignoring anyone, and
even more importantly, it would have to be property that was
mutually life supporting – that is it would have to be property that
had a beneficial effect for self and others. If humanity is to advance
to Synergy, our concept of ‘property’ and property rights must
change radically in the future. "
Cheers and Jolly Ranchers,
Z. MoonDog
It's the ECOLOGY, silly!
Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).
ReFocus... DEMAND ATTENTION (with me) to this imperative!
Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).
Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).
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Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life)!!!!!!!
Pass this 'blog on... That's why it's here.
And I thank you for your vote.
Z. MoonDog
Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).
ReFocus... DEMAND ATTENTION (with me) to this imperative!
Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).
Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).
Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life).
Ecology-- NOT economy-- for the future of the earth (human and other life)!!!!!!!
Pass this 'blog on... That's why it's here.
And I thank you for your vote.
Z. MoonDog
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Conclusion of the essay "The Final Empire":
Dwell on the Hope and the Actions We Must Take Together-- not the "sky's falling" doom 'n gloom... That's why our whole culture's on anti-depressants of every sort in the first place... denial and more-addiction... ACTION and staring it straight in the face will dis-alienate us...!!
Z.M.D
Here's the quote:
"Looking back at the simple principle which says that humans cannot live on this planet unless they can maintain the topsoil, demonstrates the delusion. The civilized denial of the imperative of maintaining topsoil, demonstrates the delusion. The delusion of military power does not lead to security, it leads to death. The civilized denial of the imperative of maintaining topsoil, and the addictive grasping to the delusion that security can be provided by weapons of death, is akin to the hallucination of an alcoholic suffering delirium tremens!
The first step in the recovery of any addict is the recognition that what they have believed is a delusion. The alcoholic must come to see that "just one more drink" is not the answer, the workaholic must come to see that "just a little more effort" will not provide feelings of self-worth and a rounded life. The bulimic must come to see that "just one more plate of food" will not provide emotional wholeness. Civilization must come to see that its picture of reality is leading it to suicide.
Here we have the whole of it. The problem is imbalance and the solution is to regain balance. Here we have the simple principle: if human actions help to regain balance as judged by the condition of the soil, then we are on the path of healing the earth. If the theory, plan, project, or whatever, cannot be justified by this standard, then we are back in the delusional system.
All of us are addicts. We of civilization have lost our way. We are now functioning in a world of confusion and chaos. We must recognize that the delusional system of civilization, the mass institutions and our personal lives, function on a self-destructive basis. We live in a culture that is bleeding the earth to death, and we have been making long-range personal plans and developing careers within it. We strive toward something that is not to be.
We must try to wake up and regain a vision of reality. We must begin taking responsibility for our lives and for the soil. This is a tall order. This will require study and forethought. Humans have never dealt with anything like this before. This generation is presented with a challenge that in its dimensions is cosmic. A cosmic question: will tens of millions of years of the proliferation of life on earth die back to the microbes? This challenge presents us with the possibility of supreme tragedy or the supreme success.
Creating a utopian paradise, a new Garden of Eden is our only hope. Nothing less will extricate us. We must create the positive, cooperative culture dedicated to life restoration and then accomplish that in perpetuity, or we as a species cannot be on earth. "
Dwell on the Hope and the Actions We Must Take Together-- not the "sky's falling" doom 'n gloom... That's why our whole culture's on anti-depressants of every sort in the first place... denial and more-addiction... ACTION and staring it straight in the face will dis-alienate us...!!
Z.M.D
Here's the quote:
"Looking back at the simple principle which says that humans cannot live on this planet unless they can maintain the topsoil, demonstrates the delusion. The civilized denial of the imperative of maintaining topsoil, demonstrates the delusion. The delusion of military power does not lead to security, it leads to death. The civilized denial of the imperative of maintaining topsoil, and the addictive grasping to the delusion that security can be provided by weapons of death, is akin to the hallucination of an alcoholic suffering delirium tremens!
The first step in the recovery of any addict is the recognition that what they have believed is a delusion. The alcoholic must come to see that "just one more drink" is not the answer, the workaholic must come to see that "just a little more effort" will not provide feelings of self-worth and a rounded life. The bulimic must come to see that "just one more plate of food" will not provide emotional wholeness. Civilization must come to see that its picture of reality is leading it to suicide.
Here we have the whole of it. The problem is imbalance and the solution is to regain balance. Here we have the simple principle: if human actions help to regain balance as judged by the condition of the soil, then we are on the path of healing the earth. If the theory, plan, project, or whatever, cannot be justified by this standard, then we are back in the delusional system.
All of us are addicts. We of civilization have lost our way. We are now functioning in a world of confusion and chaos. We must recognize that the delusional system of civilization, the mass institutions and our personal lives, function on a self-destructive basis. We live in a culture that is bleeding the earth to death, and we have been making long-range personal plans and developing careers within it. We strive toward something that is not to be.
We must try to wake up and regain a vision of reality. We must begin taking responsibility for our lives and for the soil. This is a tall order. This will require study and forethought. Humans have never dealt with anything like this before. This generation is presented with a challenge that in its dimensions is cosmic. A cosmic question: will tens of millions of years of the proliferation of life on earth die back to the microbes? This challenge presents us with the possibility of supreme tragedy or the supreme success.
Creating a utopian paradise, a new Garden of Eden is our only hope. Nothing less will extricate us. We must create the positive, cooperative culture dedicated to life restoration and then accomplish that in perpetuity, or we as a species cannot be on earth. "
"The simple fact is that civilization cannot maintain the soil. Eight thousand years of its history demonstrate this. Civilization is murdering the earth. The topsoil is the energy bank that has been laboriously accumulated over millennia. Much of it is gone and the remainder is going rapidly." -from "The Final Empire". Please read link at right.
Agricultural failure-- ironically caused by agricultural practice (and our technological modern world is the furthest from an exception)-- CAUSED the collapse of every previous Civilization. And make no mistake-- they ALL Collapsed; completely.
Doesn't mean "everyone died"-- but the Civilization Itself collapses.
And many do die.
Now we're doing it on a Global Scale.
It's time to re-think.
Before we destroy all the planet's life-support-systems.
C'mon, PEOPLE!!!
It'll be FUN!!!
It doesn't have to be apocalyptic. But if we continue to ignore it, as our culture currently clearly is-- we'll suffer the consequences of any other addict deepi in denial. Self-Destruction.
We don't have to "do" it. But we MUST AWAKEN!!
PASS THIS BLOG ON!
Love and Pomegranates,
Z. MoonDog
Agricultural failure-- ironically caused by agricultural practice (and our technological modern world is the furthest from an exception)-- CAUSED the collapse of every previous Civilization. And make no mistake-- they ALL Collapsed; completely.
Doesn't mean "everyone died"-- but the Civilization Itself collapses.
And many do die.
Now we're doing it on a Global Scale.
It's time to re-think.
Before we destroy all the planet's life-support-systems.
C'mon, PEOPLE!!!
It'll be FUN!!!
It doesn't have to be apocalyptic. But if we continue to ignore it, as our culture currently clearly is-- we'll suffer the consequences of any other addict deepi in denial. Self-Destruction.
We don't have to "do" it. But we MUST AWAKEN!!
PASS THIS BLOG ON!
Love and Pomegranates,
Z. MoonDog
Day Two (late-night day-one ack-choo-lee), new 'blog.
Blog Frog.
Not always been MoonDog.
The Tree Frog Ecologist
lives within
also.
Green is my motto
the eyes
are the thing
and the heart always singing
but fragile
the bellwether
(see http://www.frogs.org/news/article.asp?CategoryID=7&InfoResourceID=1739
or 2nd to bottom link @ right... )
Blog Frog.
Not always been MoonDog.
The Tree Frog Ecologist
lives within
also.
Green is my motto
the eyes
are the thing
and the heart always singing
but fragile
the bellwether
(see http://www.frogs.org/news/article.asp?CategoryID=7&InfoResourceID=1739
or 2nd to bottom link @ right... )
Friday, December 09, 2005
Hola.
Holla!
On the subject of Primitivists... ANARCHO-Primitivists...?!
What the...
Whacked out, no doubt.
Wait... that's like... the UnaBomber...? Ted Kascynski, some-such...?
Cabin in the wilderness...?
Gone feral, some kind of kooky pseudo-terrorist, environmentalist, whatever... they're all the same ain't they...?
Bombing buildings, trying to "blow up" industrial civilization...?
Maybe he thought he was...
It's a very different path, though...
Not like that.
Like saying that if the mass-murderer were a church-going Christian, it's indicative that all Christians obviously must be mass-murderers...
So don't be frightened of those links...
(Look at the links to the right if ya dunno what this writing is referring ta.)
It's (Primitivism) actually a very interesting, well-thought-out anthropological paradigm, way of viewing humanity's "progress"...
3 million years of the garden of eden... maybe we weren't wrong then.
Maybe we are now.
We don't need a revolution.
Just people who stop buying the line.
One atta time.
Quietly.
Silently.
Off the radar.
Off the grid.
Let "them" blow themselves up. (There's no "them" anyway. It's us)
We don't need to be involved.
Universal Boycott, I say!
Let's get involved in LIFE-- in healing and repairing our locality.
In stripping our own individual addictions and consumption excess, participation in pollution, destruction. Who cares if you profit if it all falls down? Humpty Dumpty? Huh? We can (each of us) stop doing what we're (each of us) doing to contribute to the Steep Decline... we can stop, think, readjust course. We could...
Each of us.
Maybe even me.
Maybe even you.
Reading this
Word.
Hope's where you make it.
We are who we're waiting for.
Peace.
End to war.
Swords to plowshares.
Amen.
Don't forget to
grow your own.
Love and Vegetables,
Z. MoonDog
Pass the 'blog on... enjoy.
Holla!
On the subject of Primitivists... ANARCHO-Primitivists...?!
What the...
Whacked out, no doubt.
Wait... that's like... the UnaBomber...? Ted Kascynski, some-such...?
Cabin in the wilderness...?
Gone feral, some kind of kooky pseudo-terrorist, environmentalist, whatever... they're all the same ain't they...?
Bombing buildings, trying to "blow up" industrial civilization...?
Maybe he thought he was...
It's a very different path, though...
Not like that.
Like saying that if the mass-murderer were a church-going Christian, it's indicative that all Christians obviously must be mass-murderers...
So don't be frightened of those links...
(Look at the links to the right if ya dunno what this writing is referring ta.)
It's (Primitivism) actually a very interesting, well-thought-out anthropological paradigm, way of viewing humanity's "progress"...
3 million years of the garden of eden... maybe we weren't wrong then.
Maybe we are now.
We don't need a revolution.
Just people who stop buying the line.
One atta time.
Quietly.
Silently.
Off the radar.
Off the grid.
Let "them" blow themselves up. (There's no "them" anyway. It's us)
We don't need to be involved.
Universal Boycott, I say!
Let's get involved in LIFE-- in healing and repairing our locality.
In stripping our own individual addictions and consumption excess, participation in pollution, destruction. Who cares if you profit if it all falls down? Humpty Dumpty? Huh? We can (each of us) stop doing what we're (each of us) doing to contribute to the Steep Decline... we can stop, think, readjust course. We could...
Each of us.
Maybe even me.
Maybe even you.
Reading this
Word.
Hope's where you make it.
We are who we're waiting for.
Peace.
End to war.
Swords to plowshares.
Amen.
Don't forget to
grow your own.
Love and Vegetables,
Z. MoonDog
Pass the 'blog on... enjoy.
We are the One we're looking for.
Each of us.
We're here to be a mirror.
This Blog exists to provoke, to inspire.
Encouraging all to give up what many religiously believe to be "progress" in the "best interest" of "all" as we in fact destroy ecosystems, species, and the capacity of the planet to sustain (our) lives.
Advocating the Reality that Quality of Life, Enjoyment of Life, and Freedom from Alienation are in fact the rewards of abandoning toxic structures, institutions and beliefs many cling to so desperately, despite clear and overwhelming evidence that such clinging is exactly what's Destroying our Survival, Freedom, Enjoyment of the Miracle and Priviledge of Life-- even our Infinite, Expansive Spiritual Capacity and Depth.
Giving up the Superficial things we cling to frees us to experience the Miracle Directly, in Each Moment, with All Our Being.
It's Nice.
I guess that's why they call it EnLIGHTenment.
It's not hard. It's not painful. It's not scary. It's not disempowering.
Quite the Contrary.
It's recognition of Infinite Capacity-- Power, but divorced from current culture's superficial, oppressive notions of Power. Not Caesar's power. Not Bush's "power". Not America's "power". No church, government, corporation, military's power is in any sense whatsoever related to the Infinite Power described.
Jesus' Power. Buddha's Power. Gandhi's Power. Abdul Ghaffar Khan's Power (an Islamic contemporary of Gandhi, little-known but working at the same time-period using the same types of techniques...). King Jr.'s Power. Late-life Leo Tolstoy's Power.
Your Power. Right there, speaking from within you, as you absorb this Word.
Trust.
Have No Faith In ManUnKind.
Have Complete Faith in the Infinite Capacity of Life As-It-Is, Miraculous, NOW-- nothing added. No "civilization" added.
It doesn't "work" that way.
We're rapidly destroying The Whole Thing that way.
How could anyone call that "Quality of Life"?
Only someone deeply in Denial.
Let's Look in the Mirror.
This blog is only one of many.
You don't have to read this blog.
You could just look Within, closely, simply.
Howl.
Z. MoonDog
Each of us.
We're here to be a mirror.
This Blog exists to provoke, to inspire.
Encouraging all to give up what many religiously believe to be "progress" in the "best interest" of "all" as we in fact destroy ecosystems, species, and the capacity of the planet to sustain (our) lives.
Advocating the Reality that Quality of Life, Enjoyment of Life, and Freedom from Alienation are in fact the rewards of abandoning toxic structures, institutions and beliefs many cling to so desperately, despite clear and overwhelming evidence that such clinging is exactly what's Destroying our Survival, Freedom, Enjoyment of the Miracle and Priviledge of Life-- even our Infinite, Expansive Spiritual Capacity and Depth.
Giving up the Superficial things we cling to frees us to experience the Miracle Directly, in Each Moment, with All Our Being.
It's Nice.
I guess that's why they call it EnLIGHTenment.
It's not hard. It's not painful. It's not scary. It's not disempowering.
Quite the Contrary.
It's recognition of Infinite Capacity-- Power, but divorced from current culture's superficial, oppressive notions of Power. Not Caesar's power. Not Bush's "power". Not America's "power". No church, government, corporation, military's power is in any sense whatsoever related to the Infinite Power described.
Jesus' Power. Buddha's Power. Gandhi's Power. Abdul Ghaffar Khan's Power (an Islamic contemporary of Gandhi, little-known but working at the same time-period using the same types of techniques...). King Jr.'s Power. Late-life Leo Tolstoy's Power.
Your Power. Right there, speaking from within you, as you absorb this Word.
Trust.
Have No Faith In ManUnKind.
Have Complete Faith in the Infinite Capacity of Life As-It-Is, Miraculous, NOW-- nothing added. No "civilization" added.
It doesn't "work" that way.
We're rapidly destroying The Whole Thing that way.
How could anyone call that "Quality of Life"?
Only someone deeply in Denial.
Let's Look in the Mirror.
This blog is only one of many.
You don't have to read this blog.
You could just look Within, closely, simply.
Howl.
Z. MoonDog
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