Read what J. Krishnamurti (no relation to hare krishnas) has to say about Contradiction and The Awakening of Intelligence.

New linx at-right.

Read them, grow wise, and pass this 'blog on to at least 5 others.

Enjoy inJoy.

Howl!

-ZMD

"I had a mild epiphany the other day: it’s not President Bush who’s living in a fantasy world, it’s most of his critics who are. I’m no apologist for Bush – I neither like nor dislike him. He’s no more significant to me than a fly buzzing around outside my window. So permit me to explain my reasoning."

The above begins an interesting essay-- blunt, direct title:

"The End of Civilization"

Link at-right entitled "The End".

Enjoy inJoy.

Howl!

-ZMD

"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious, of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society highly values its normal man. It educates children to lose themselves and to become absurd, and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years...
"What we call 'normal' is a product of repression, denial, splitting, projection, introjection and other forms of destructive action on experience. It is radically estranged from the structure of being. The more one sees this, the more senseless it is to continue with generalized descriptions of supposedly specifically schizoid, schizophrenic, hysterical 'mechanisms.' There are forms of alienation that are relatively strange to statistically 'normal' forms of alienation. The 'normally' alienated person, by reason of the fact that he acts more or less like everyone else, is taken to be sane. Other forms of alienation that are out of step with the prevailing state of alienation are those that are labeled by the 'formal' majority as bad or mad."

--R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience

See new "R.D. Laing" link on the list... or prepare to be far too square for planetary survival.

Howl!

-ZMD

"I teach self-reliance, the world's most subversive practice. I teach people how to grow their own food, which is shockingly subversive. So, yes, it’s seditious. But it’s peaceful sedition."

-Bill Mollison, "Father of Permaculture"

Please see new "Permaculture Mollison" link at-right for the stimulating interview from-which the above quote came.

Required Reading for Planetary Survival.

Howl.

-ZMD

How simple could you MAKE your lifestyle?

How much ambition would you be willing to SACRIFICE?

How self-sufficient are you WILLING to be?

Are YOU willing to DENY the corporatocracy your PARTICIPATION? To discontinue buying products made cheaply overseas by our slaves? To discontinue, as much as POSSIBLE (over time, ENTIRELY), using fossil fuels, and products made using fossil fuels (such as plastics, nonrenewable polluting electricity and other energy, crops grown by gargantuan agribusiness using fossil fuels as a key ingredient in fertilizers AND pesticides, even asphalt-- that is, roads-- are made from fossil-fuel bases)...?

YOUR every action is political. Inaction of those who deny their culture's GENOCIDAL tendencies is a central component of the possibility of GENOCIDE. But there is a worse, more total threat than GENOCIDE.

ECOCIDE.

OUR combined actions are killing the planet-- starting with species, ecosystems, forests/ other "resources"-- likely ending with our own species; at the very least, our vaunted CIVILIZATION will certainly collapse. It ought to, it's what's doing all the harm!

OUR most potent ACTIONS involve becoming LOCAL, becoming INDEPENDENT of government, money, corporations in every arena of life possible.

It's POSSIBLE. EVERY other life form does it.

Our Species did it for hundreds of thousands, even millions of years (depending on the line you draw delineating "our species"). Many homo sapiens still do.

We did it, LIFE ON EARTH did it, for millions of years without threatening the existence of life on the planet.

CIVILIZATION is only a handful of thousands of years old-- and is on the verge of destroying planetary ecosystems.

It must, and will, collapse.

We-- EACH OF US-- YOU!-- must work to save as many species, ecosystems, life-support-systems (provided by the planet, free of charge-- though LOADED with built-in karma if we imbalance or destroy them) as possible...

AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, as many of us as possible MUST return to local self-sufficiency, must DENY governments and corporations our support-- by no longer supporting them with our money, our ambitions, our priorities, our CONSUMPTION.

We MUST NOT CONSUME WHAT THEY "PRODUCE".

IT IS PRODUCED AT THE EXPENSE OF PLANETARY LIFE.

Love and Ahimsa,

-ZMoonDog

(howl.)

Heya-

The 1st nine links on the list at-right are new-- from "Ecological Collapse" to "Erich Fromm"-- except the John Zerzan/ Derrick Jensen interview, which should be read as well if you haven't already.

All are must-reads.

Never mind the news-- READ THESE 'BLOG LINKS!!

And PASSITON!

This stuff is more important than anything else you could use to consume your time-- besides true QT w/ your closest loved-ones, and maybe growing your own veggies.

It's long-past time for Denial and "Self-Interest" (at the expense of the planet's ecosystems-- ie our ability to survive) to dissolve, and for Each of Us to take Revolutionary Action with our own choices, priorities, lifestyle, consumption-- and What We Do about the earth-destroying problems which Our Culture Is Causing. Let go of denial. Let's get to work.

We are The Ones.

HOWL!!!

-ZMD