Friday.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
And yet, you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
This is something, culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people’s convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well treated by culture.
Yet we glorify the creative potential of the individual, the rights of the individual. We understand the felt-presence of experience is what is most important. But the culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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“This morning people across Washington, DC got a dose of reality about Bank of America. In the dark of night activists went to all known Bank of America branches and over 50 ATMs to transform them into “Automated Truth Machines. Activists used special non-adhesive stickers designed to look exactly like BoA’s ATM interface, so when people went to use ATMs in the morning they would learn the truth about Bank of America. Instead of checking and saving accounts, these new menus offered a list of everything BoA customers’ money is used for, including investment in coal-fired power plants, foreclosure on Americans’ homes, bankrolling climate change, and paying for fat executive bonuses.” - We are Power Shift
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Free Online Permaculture Course -
Permaculture means “permanent culture,” (or “permanent agriculture”) and …”is the conscious design and maintenance of cultivated ecosystems that have the diversity, stability, and resilience of a natural ecosystem.” (Bill Mollison) This course will explore, through lectures, discussions, field trips, and required projects, a design/thinking methodology that seeks to provide for our physical needs, food, water, shelter, energy, etc., while doing so in an environmentally friendly, sustainable manner.
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The majority of things you buy at the grocery store come from just one of ten different companies.
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“Who’s doing more harm? The guy who’s smoking pot or the person who locks him in a fucking cage and destroys his life? THAT guy is a destructive force. THE LAW becomes a destructive force in society, not the DRUG. Don’t put people in cages because they don’t agree with you. Because they like something. They like it so much they’re willing to risk FREEDOM. Because they found themselves in some sort of a situation where they’re in an environment that they have no control over whatsoever. They didn’t ask to be dropped into this preposterous, illogical, nonsensical, ridiculously lop-sided and corrupt society, and you just expect them to comply with these stupid fucking things written on paper that everyone knows makes no sense. THAT’S the problem. THE LAWS are destructive. THE LAWS are anti-evolutionary. THE LAWS are anti-enlightenment. It’s not pot, it’s not mushrooms, it’s the laws AGAINST pot and mushrooms. THOSE are a devastating aspect to our society.” — Joe Rogan
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Saturday.