I think part of taking responsibility for the environment and our fellow sentient beings starts with defeating the globalist's agenda. People are slowly waking up, but without freedom to make their own choices, we'll never have the world our hearts know is possible. Change is slow, that's just the way it is. It would be nice if we could stop drilling for fossil fuels, but until someone actually comes up with a suitable replacement (next gen nuclear), we can't just stop. Millions of people would starve to death.
So I'll continue to eat plants and support environmentally sound entities, but, at the same time, fight the globalist agenda so that when other people are ready to make better choices, they have the freedom and support to make those choices.
Thank you for writing this. It's something that we all have to contend with at some point. And when push comes to shove (as it inevitably will) people will not agree on what actions are best on an individual level or collectively. The collectivists will want to impose whatever solutions they come up with on everyone (such as vaxxes in the name of public health) and individualists will hold out for as long as they can doing what they believe to be right for them.
I've found that even among close family, extended relations and local community it's almost impossible to see eye to eye on any single topic or course of action. The last three years was an education in itself. We are "extremists", "radicals", "crazy people" because we don't adhere to the mainstream view. It is what it is. And if things get nasty (or nastier) then we'll be the first to rounded up or at minimum ostracized (again). Such is life.
On what to do... some obviously think they have the right to cull the population using various methods. It's not difficult to understand why they might act in this way. Most humans think it's perfectly ok to treat animals as food, a resource. The elites see us as a resource, nothing more.
Others believe we can use technology to escape the incoming collapse or at least to soften the transition to a new state of being. Possibly, but right now it looks like a pipe dream.
I personally don't think we have to return to caveman standards of living (hunter gatherer) to achieve some kind of sustainable conditions for life on Earth. We can evolve beyond our current adolescent stage to a new plateau where meat eating will be viewed as barbaric and completely unnecessary and unsustainable.
Yes, I'm thinking more along those lines too. We are very much individual nodes in a giant network, but every node has the ability to "vibrate" the nodes around them (and even through the Internet aether) even though the other nodes might perceive that vibration as "noise" at first. A seed is planted and some can eventually see what we see. The same happened to many of us long ago and we're still struggling with new vibrations that come our way.
We either break away, at least for a while... or we build sufficient collective "vibration" to push back on the current system thereby infusing it with the values that we'd rather express. I don't see why that is impossible. The elites only maintain their position through vast amounts of trickery, mind control and manipulation. That spell is breaking. They really don't have much else. The American constitution is as good as it gets. It should be "encouraged" everywhere otherwise you don't get to play in the sandbox.
My career was in software - technology. Tech is good for accounting, but shitty for human decision making. Looking to tech to solve problems is misguided. We must understand the problem and all its dimensions before we can begin to devise solutions, and even those should be tested before being adopted. But that is not the way that we are currently encouraged to think about tech solutions. We have Silicon Valley to thank for co-opting the word "solution." We now see that their products create new problems. We have been used as guinea pigs. Let the buyer beware!
The thing is... all of this "tech" (mostly military-grade weapons systems at this point) is being developed by someone somewhere all the time. If not America ( DARPA, Silicon Valley, Big Tech corporations) then China, Russia, Israel etc with funding and highly qualified researchers harvested from anywhere in the world.
There is no way to stop that from happening. It's always worked that way with technology. Competitors don't hang around for the rules to be established by some global committee that sit around conference tables many years after the tech is already operational out in the field (even though they like to pretend that that is the case).
So yes, Silicon Valley and Big Tech and the Chinese equivalents are all working towards a global top down system of control. Everyone should be aware of that by now. The alternative emergent "narrative" is that some of us will migrate to the open source, massively distributed, dark web model where some semblance of "freedom" will continue to exist. But that could all be a trap too, so, even though I like the idea, I can't allow myself to believe that it will actually work as advertised because the very same Big Tech corporations and national governments are very much in control of the Internet infrastructure and all other infrastructure for that matter!
We are all guinea pigs spinning wheels in some kind of farm. That much is true. The majority are still blissfully unaware even though Covid rocked the boat somewhat. It's difficult to see how any of this progresses in our favor when the elites appear to have their grubby hands all over every angle including much of the so-called alternative media and other controlled opposition aspects of "the resistance."
And again, none of this matters if the underlying energy issues are not resolved. Bill Gates (that trustworthy champion for humanity) is now flogging SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) in the UK. Maybe something along these lines can help. Who really knows. But for now... the world runs on diesel.
Thank you Georgie&Donny. I agree with taking full responsibility for our own lives and the affect that can have on others. When one takes responsibility the fear goes away. One is not always looking for an outside cause or an outside relief.
Hiya, you are very welcome. I think it is very liberating to take responsibility.
I'm reading Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi at the mo, basically the media develop target audiences who they want to make angry about something and then lead them to blame someone else for it.
"It’s not helpful to resist control, it only makes the control stronger."
.
You are confused - find out WHERE you're stuck in the past - RESISTANCE makes you STRONGER.
That is how BODY-BUILDING works!
Building MENTAL strength works the same way.
.
Here the CORRECT definition of RESPONSIBILITY:
"Admit causing - able to withhold"
.
WITHHOLDING from CRIME needs a lot of RESISTANCE - when everybody seems to participate as with German NAZI's - when that same ORGANIZED CRIME is NOW repeating in the USA.
I completely disagree with a vegan diet. I eat what human bodies evolved eating. That includes animal products. Harvesting food animals is sacred work - the horrors of how commercial chickens and pigs are raised is inhumane. It exists only because our laws allow it and it is the cheapest method, after all most commercial food production is undertaken by corporations with their God-given right to profit at our expense. Industrial food completely denies the existence of spirit in our foods. Even our beliefs in "nutrients" ignore spirit. Time to change our relationship with food. The sacred cannot coexist with corporate capitalism.
I don't see anything sacred about chopping up a deer and eating it unless you happen to be starving which is not the case for most people.
When I was a kid my sis was a vegetarian (a word and general meaning that's been replaced by the more aggressive militant vegan in recent times). Back then, it mostly meant that you avoided red meat and poultry but permitted other animal products such as eggs and dairy, even some seafood.
How things have changed where now I see extremist views everywhere I look - carnivore diet! vs extreme Vegan diet and nothing in between!
Let people eat what they want. But lets get rid of the abuse. And, of course, if we manage to do that... then meat prices will skyrocket and people with low incomes will naturally eat less gravitating towards cheaper options which are usually not as healthy.
I think part of taking responsibility for the environment and our fellow sentient beings starts with defeating the globalist's agenda. People are slowly waking up, but without freedom to make their own choices, we'll never have the world our hearts know is possible. Change is slow, that's just the way it is. It would be nice if we could stop drilling for fossil fuels, but until someone actually comes up with a suitable replacement (next gen nuclear), we can't just stop. Millions of people would starve to death.
So I'll continue to eat plants and support environmentally sound entities, but, at the same time, fight the globalist agenda so that when other people are ready to make better choices, they have the freedom and support to make those choices.
Thank you for writing this. It's something that we all have to contend with at some point. And when push comes to shove (as it inevitably will) people will not agree on what actions are best on an individual level or collectively. The collectivists will want to impose whatever solutions they come up with on everyone (such as vaxxes in the name of public health) and individualists will hold out for as long as they can doing what they believe to be right for them.
I've found that even among close family, extended relations and local community it's almost impossible to see eye to eye on any single topic or course of action. The last three years was an education in itself. We are "extremists", "radicals", "crazy people" because we don't adhere to the mainstream view. It is what it is. And if things get nasty (or nastier) then we'll be the first to rounded up or at minimum ostracized (again). Such is life.
On what to do... some obviously think they have the right to cull the population using various methods. It's not difficult to understand why they might act in this way. Most humans think it's perfectly ok to treat animals as food, a resource. The elites see us as a resource, nothing more.
Others believe we can use technology to escape the incoming collapse or at least to soften the transition to a new state of being. Possibly, but right now it looks like a pipe dream.
I personally don't think we have to return to caveman standards of living (hunter gatherer) to achieve some kind of sustainable conditions for life on Earth. We can evolve beyond our current adolescent stage to a new plateau where meat eating will be viewed as barbaric and completely unnecessary and unsustainable.
Thank you Tsubion.
Revolutions tend to become even more intolerant and if we overthrow the government and elites, like you say, we will not agree on anything.
I think the revolution must be in our individual consciousness and go from there.
Yes, I'm thinking more along those lines too. We are very much individual nodes in a giant network, but every node has the ability to "vibrate" the nodes around them (and even through the Internet aether) even though the other nodes might perceive that vibration as "noise" at first. A seed is planted and some can eventually see what we see. The same happened to many of us long ago and we're still struggling with new vibrations that come our way.
We either break away, at least for a while... or we build sufficient collective "vibration" to push back on the current system thereby infusing it with the values that we'd rather express. I don't see why that is impossible. The elites only maintain their position through vast amounts of trickery, mind control and manipulation. That spell is breaking. They really don't have much else. The American constitution is as good as it gets. It should be "encouraged" everywhere otherwise you don't get to play in the sandbox.
My career was in software - technology. Tech is good for accounting, but shitty for human decision making. Looking to tech to solve problems is misguided. We must understand the problem and all its dimensions before we can begin to devise solutions, and even those should be tested before being adopted. But that is not the way that we are currently encouraged to think about tech solutions. We have Silicon Valley to thank for co-opting the word "solution." We now see that their products create new problems. We have been used as guinea pigs. Let the buyer beware!
The thing is... all of this "tech" (mostly military-grade weapons systems at this point) is being developed by someone somewhere all the time. If not America ( DARPA, Silicon Valley, Big Tech corporations) then China, Russia, Israel etc with funding and highly qualified researchers harvested from anywhere in the world.
There is no way to stop that from happening. It's always worked that way with technology. Competitors don't hang around for the rules to be established by some global committee that sit around conference tables many years after the tech is already operational out in the field (even though they like to pretend that that is the case).
So yes, Silicon Valley and Big Tech and the Chinese equivalents are all working towards a global top down system of control. Everyone should be aware of that by now. The alternative emergent "narrative" is that some of us will migrate to the open source, massively distributed, dark web model where some semblance of "freedom" will continue to exist. But that could all be a trap too, so, even though I like the idea, I can't allow myself to believe that it will actually work as advertised because the very same Big Tech corporations and national governments are very much in control of the Internet infrastructure and all other infrastructure for that matter!
We are all guinea pigs spinning wheels in some kind of farm. That much is true. The majority are still blissfully unaware even though Covid rocked the boat somewhat. It's difficult to see how any of this progresses in our favor when the elites appear to have their grubby hands all over every angle including much of the so-called alternative media and other controlled opposition aspects of "the resistance."
And again, none of this matters if the underlying energy issues are not resolved. Bill Gates (that trustworthy champion for humanity) is now flogging SMRs (Small Modular Reactors) in the UK. Maybe something along these lines can help. Who really knows. But for now... the world runs on diesel.
Thank you Georgie&Donny. I agree with taking full responsibility for our own lives and the affect that can have on others. When one takes responsibility the fear goes away. One is not always looking for an outside cause or an outside relief.
Hiya, you are very welcome. I think it is very liberating to take responsibility.
I'm reading Hate Inc by Matt Taibbi at the mo, basically the media develop target audiences who they want to make angry about something and then lead them to blame someone else for it.
🙏🏽
"It’s not helpful to resist control, it only makes the control stronger."
.
You are confused - find out WHERE you're stuck in the past - RESISTANCE makes you STRONGER.
That is how BODY-BUILDING works!
Building MENTAL strength works the same way.
.
Here the CORRECT definition of RESPONSIBILITY:
"Admit causing - able to withhold"
.
WITHHOLDING from CRIME needs a lot of RESISTANCE - when everybody seems to participate as with German NAZI's - when that same ORGANIZED CRIME is NOW repeating in the USA.
I am noticing that some in Substack. Once you have your fearful audience you can't change your mind about your basic premise even if you are wrong.
I completely disagree with a vegan diet. I eat what human bodies evolved eating. That includes animal products. Harvesting food animals is sacred work - the horrors of how commercial chickens and pigs are raised is inhumane. It exists only because our laws allow it and it is the cheapest method, after all most commercial food production is undertaken by corporations with their God-given right to profit at our expense. Industrial food completely denies the existence of spirit in our foods. Even our beliefs in "nutrients" ignore spirit. Time to change our relationship with food. The sacred cannot coexist with corporate capitalism.
I don't see anything sacred about chopping up a deer and eating it unless you happen to be starving which is not the case for most people.
When I was a kid my sis was a vegetarian (a word and general meaning that's been replaced by the more aggressive militant vegan in recent times). Back then, it mostly meant that you avoided red meat and poultry but permitted other animal products such as eggs and dairy, even some seafood.
How things have changed where now I see extremist views everywhere I look - carnivore diet! vs extreme Vegan diet and nothing in between!
Let people eat what they want. But lets get rid of the abuse. And, of course, if we manage to do that... then meat prices will skyrocket and people with low incomes will naturally eat less gravitating towards cheaper options which are usually not as healthy.
Don't forget that those that eat "junk food" are eating horrifically treated factory farmed plants.