When we are lied to by the major media outlets, we are frequently given the idea of a silver bullet, a single bullet theory about how we are to meet every challenge. for instance, "If we make everyone take off their shoes, we will put a stop to those dangerous shoe bombers", or "If we test children more, we will be able to better determine what schools are failing." My readers understand that I hate using destructive analogies to describe things, because I'm pro peace, not anti war; Perhaps the very idea of a silver bullet is so contrary that the danger it holds for the planet and our species cannot be ameliorated. Of course, the oligarchs want us to think about bullets, so that is the name of the theory. My attempt here will be to deconstruct the lie and build a solid foundation for a more truthful approach to future decision-making. Rest assured, there are no silver bullets, at least being used, the whole idea of weaponry, every single new development that has been added to the equipment of war is to make weapons kill more people faster at a lower per unit cost. Making any bullet out of silver guarantees that it will never be used.
The construction of this lie rests on another lie that has been told down through the ages. The actual wording of the lie can be expressed in several ways, but the meaning of it is pretty much the same every time. "The majority of people are simpletons", thus the need for simple solutions. Heck, if we are all just barely smart enough to tie our shoes, how the heck can we learn a bunch of different things? A perfect example of this is recycling. Since the left capitulated with the right, finding ways to centralize and destabilize the recycling market to serve the biggest players, choice and awareness by the general public have actually been reduced. Here comes the deep truth now, source separation is more than 1,000 times more efficient than co-mingled recycling. This leads to several extra handling requirements, each with an unavoidable energy requirement (read: subsidies to fossil energy generating interests) Transit to a separate separation facility, and the most offensive cost, from that facility to where it can be useful, because the first trip could have been there all along.
The co-mingled waste stream in my town is now telling people "Everything except film and foam", this assures that some film and foam will make it into the waste stream because some illiterate people can't read the word except, some won't care and oddly enough there are those out there who will purposely throw that material in because they are hoping to make recycling at all go away. None of these folks are simple, they each have executive functioning capability and sentience. Even those doing the wrong things consistently cannot be educated because their trash is by definition co-mingled. If we used source separation, the opportunity to exert corrective action on those undermining or misusing the system could be facilitated. Imagine how quickly things would change if there were opportunities for communication, not just top down directives. In my household, we have source separation for Aluminum, cast/extrusions, sheet and cans. We have steel/iron, copper and battery bins. The few smaller scale recycling facilities that I have used were always happy to see me, even if I did have smaller weights to recycle, now that regulations have crushed all but the largest players, I can see that they care less about providing a service and are much more interested in the profits.
Here is a big black hole right in the middle of the overarching scheme, big money has no interest in saving the planet, they are the industrialists of a different age, willing to sacrifice all in pursuit of dollars. The word recycling is used as a balm of the consciousness of the exploited and in no way represents an attempt to do things a better way. I use the bins, but in our household, we only put out recycling every other time or a bit less so, perhaps 8-12 times each year, however, the giant lumbering truck with the robot arm for unloading my bin rumbles by every two weeks, another subsidy to the fossil fuel and packaging industries. When following the money, it is not surprising that all the tentacles seem to be attached to the same wretched body, the greedy oligarchs.
Within the culture and society of the revolution that is not being televised, are sub cultures based on a variety of approaches to meeting the collective needs of the participant/members. I help the neighbor with his gardening technique, he shares veggies that I have elected not to grow. If my car needs brakes and I can help someone move across town, we work a non-cash deal. By serving, we always have enough. If what the oligarchs claimed were true, we could not balance a deal made up of apples and oranges, or we would viciously fight over the splitting of hairs as their lawyers are instructed to do in their dealings btw (by the way). Doing the right thing has never been about expedience or profit margins as the rich and powerful understand them. Perhaps it is they who are ignorant.
When a mature forest is blown down, or when it burns it is perhaps the ultimate adversity for the landscape. Instead of having a continuous bulwark against storms, perhaps a hundred feet off the ground, and a proliferation of rootlets to absorb moisture and slow the flow of water, preventing it from having erosive force, everything is laid bare, for sun to sterilize and rain to pelt and wash away Soil particles take centuries to create, but only a moment of absorbing the force of rain, an they can go away, forever. Native forests in my area typically have around three hundred trees per acre. When a fire sweeps through or a tornado rips the trees away, millions of plants, whose seeds had laid dormant in the soils burst forth in a profusion of life. Trees that clone and spread appear relatively quickly and then, perhaps tens of thousands of taller pioneer species, only some of whom will survive, take their place in the mix. all of this will eventually die, creating new soil upon the formerly barren wasteland. Our approaches need to mimic nature if we are to survive.
When we try a million things to solve a problem, perhaps some will not be successful, but those that are not will at least contribute to the success of all the others.
Many have pointed to the Myth of Increased Leisure, the anthropological truth that science continues to prove, that no "advanced" culture has more free time than "primitive" people. Every technology that members of "advanced" peoples rely on to make lives easier have secondary and tertiary impacts on the biosphere, need for repair, technologists, support services or far off expenditures of energy that negate the energy savings, no outstrip them. whereas "primitives" were able to provide themselves with food shelter and clothing working less than three hours per day. That allows all members of the culture to spend more time relaxing, thinking, playing music and enjoying life. We all know that relationships trump wealth every time, so why not make every tool and implement that we do own beautiful?
This is a huge part of why I make char. creating soil is about diversity, nothing more. Billions of stabilizing and nurturing organisms can be cultured and released into soils, transforming them forever into healthier places for life to thrive! In ancient times, craft guilds existed so that artisans could make a living providing things people used, fixing those that went awry and taking care of things other neighbors either did not know how to do, or did not have the equipment to make happen. When someone else is good at something we feel we cannot accomplish, it feels good to help make their lives better for helping us, right? I know that when I go to a cobbler, his loving care will grace my every step, reliably and I never begrudge them their price. On the other hand, there seem to be a proliferation of disposable shoe companies and I refuse to buy them for anything near retail price. I think my average throw away (brief lifespan) shoe costs six dollars. The diverse array of approaches that I choose to take, on the road to meeting adversity have left me time for writing, putting thopughts into physical form.
It is a skill that I have developed by bringing my whole kit and caboodle of experience and language to bear on, hopefully, important concerns and issues, salient to humanity across the span of time. It seems that, at times, a writer's job is to jump through various and sundry hoops in time, zig-zagging back and forth like a madman on a dodge-ball field, picking up a few nuggets from different ages to stitch together meaning and a garment that reflects a new truth. A suit of clothes if you will that suits a new understanding, a new way of life. Actions rest on ideas, but the ideas, if used properly lead to action. There are so many ways to flourish, to thrive, that it defies description. Each of us is left to go to that internal fire, our inspirations, to utilize that energy to get to what my DJ friends and Jazz or painting enthusiasts call flow, we need to take that energy to the forge of life, creating our own tools and expression of each of our hard works, We need to anneal or quench the aspects of ourselves not only to be hopefully functional, but to provide for others that which they cannot hope to attain by themselves, this is the key to living in harmony with one another and the planet. The art of the give-away has not been taught in any significant way for at least a generation or two.
We the people, deserve more, it is our lives that are responsible for most of the living and working and dying on the planet, why do some justify keeping us as slaves to serve their dehumanizing machines? I am more than grease for the wheels of commerce. Banking/Finance, Energy and Transportation, Insurance/Pharma and the War Machine are adversarial to humanity, to all life, to the planet and to sustainability, with every dollar you spend, consider whom is served. Reward diversity, seek out community that honors your inherent worth and value, take back your time, we each only have a limited amount of it left.
The construction of this lie rests on another lie that has been told down through the ages. The actual wording of the lie can be expressed in several ways, but the meaning of it is pretty much the same every time. "The majority of people are simpletons", thus the need for simple solutions. Heck, if we are all just barely smart enough to tie our shoes, how the heck can we learn a bunch of different things? A perfect example of this is recycling. Since the left capitulated with the right, finding ways to centralize and destabilize the recycling market to serve the biggest players, choice and awareness by the general public have actually been reduced. Here comes the deep truth now, source separation is more than 1,000 times more efficient than co-mingled recycling. This leads to several extra handling requirements, each with an unavoidable energy requirement (read: subsidies to fossil energy generating interests) Transit to a separate separation facility, and the most offensive cost, from that facility to where it can be useful, because the first trip could have been there all along.
The co-mingled waste stream in my town is now telling people "Everything except film and foam", this assures that some film and foam will make it into the waste stream because some illiterate people can't read the word except, some won't care and oddly enough there are those out there who will purposely throw that material in because they are hoping to make recycling at all go away. None of these folks are simple, they each have executive functioning capability and sentience. Even those doing the wrong things consistently cannot be educated because their trash is by definition co-mingled. If we used source separation, the opportunity to exert corrective action on those undermining or misusing the system could be facilitated. Imagine how quickly things would change if there were opportunities for communication, not just top down directives. In my household, we have source separation for Aluminum, cast/extrusions, sheet and cans. We have steel/iron, copper and battery bins. The few smaller scale recycling facilities that I have used were always happy to see me, even if I did have smaller weights to recycle, now that regulations have crushed all but the largest players, I can see that they care less about providing a service and are much more interested in the profits.
Here is a big black hole right in the middle of the overarching scheme, big money has no interest in saving the planet, they are the industrialists of a different age, willing to sacrifice all in pursuit of dollars. The word recycling is used as a balm of the consciousness of the exploited and in no way represents an attempt to do things a better way. I use the bins, but in our household, we only put out recycling every other time or a bit less so, perhaps 8-12 times each year, however, the giant lumbering truck with the robot arm for unloading my bin rumbles by every two weeks, another subsidy to the fossil fuel and packaging industries. When following the money, it is not surprising that all the tentacles seem to be attached to the same wretched body, the greedy oligarchs.
Within the culture and society of the revolution that is not being televised, are sub cultures based on a variety of approaches to meeting the collective needs of the participant/members. I help the neighbor with his gardening technique, he shares veggies that I have elected not to grow. If my car needs brakes and I can help someone move across town, we work a non-cash deal. By serving, we always have enough. If what the oligarchs claimed were true, we could not balance a deal made up of apples and oranges, or we would viciously fight over the splitting of hairs as their lawyers are instructed to do in their dealings btw (by the way). Doing the right thing has never been about expedience or profit margins as the rich and powerful understand them. Perhaps it is they who are ignorant.
When a mature forest is blown down, or when it burns it is perhaps the ultimate adversity for the landscape. Instead of having a continuous bulwark against storms, perhaps a hundred feet off the ground, and a proliferation of rootlets to absorb moisture and slow the flow of water, preventing it from having erosive force, everything is laid bare, for sun to sterilize and rain to pelt and wash away Soil particles take centuries to create, but only a moment of absorbing the force of rain, an they can go away, forever. Native forests in my area typically have around three hundred trees per acre. When a fire sweeps through or a tornado rips the trees away, millions of plants, whose seeds had laid dormant in the soils burst forth in a profusion of life. Trees that clone and spread appear relatively quickly and then, perhaps tens of thousands of taller pioneer species, only some of whom will survive, take their place in the mix. all of this will eventually die, creating new soil upon the formerly barren wasteland. Our approaches need to mimic nature if we are to survive.
When we try a million things to solve a problem, perhaps some will not be successful, but those that are not will at least contribute to the success of all the others.
Many have pointed to the Myth of Increased Leisure, the anthropological truth that science continues to prove, that no "advanced" culture has more free time than "primitive" people. Every technology that members of "advanced" peoples rely on to make lives easier have secondary and tertiary impacts on the biosphere, need for repair, technologists, support services or far off expenditures of energy that negate the energy savings, no outstrip them. whereas "primitives" were able to provide themselves with food shelter and clothing working less than three hours per day. That allows all members of the culture to spend more time relaxing, thinking, playing music and enjoying life. We all know that relationships trump wealth every time, so why not make every tool and implement that we do own beautiful?
This is a huge part of why I make char. creating soil is about diversity, nothing more. Billions of stabilizing and nurturing organisms can be cultured and released into soils, transforming them forever into healthier places for life to thrive! In ancient times, craft guilds existed so that artisans could make a living providing things people used, fixing those that went awry and taking care of things other neighbors either did not know how to do, or did not have the equipment to make happen. When someone else is good at something we feel we cannot accomplish, it feels good to help make their lives better for helping us, right? I know that when I go to a cobbler, his loving care will grace my every step, reliably and I never begrudge them their price. On the other hand, there seem to be a proliferation of disposable shoe companies and I refuse to buy them for anything near retail price. I think my average throw away (brief lifespan) shoe costs six dollars. The diverse array of approaches that I choose to take, on the road to meeting adversity have left me time for writing, putting thopughts into physical form.
It is a skill that I have developed by bringing my whole kit and caboodle of experience and language to bear on, hopefully, important concerns and issues, salient to humanity across the span of time. It seems that, at times, a writer's job is to jump through various and sundry hoops in time, zig-zagging back and forth like a madman on a dodge-ball field, picking up a few nuggets from different ages to stitch together meaning and a garment that reflects a new truth. A suit of clothes if you will that suits a new understanding, a new way of life. Actions rest on ideas, but the ideas, if used properly lead to action. There are so many ways to flourish, to thrive, that it defies description. Each of us is left to go to that internal fire, our inspirations, to utilize that energy to get to what my DJ friends and Jazz or painting enthusiasts call flow, we need to take that energy to the forge of life, creating our own tools and expression of each of our hard works, We need to anneal or quench the aspects of ourselves not only to be hopefully functional, but to provide for others that which they cannot hope to attain by themselves, this is the key to living in harmony with one another and the planet. The art of the give-away has not been taught in any significant way for at least a generation or two.
We the people, deserve more, it is our lives that are responsible for most of the living and working and dying on the planet, why do some justify keeping us as slaves to serve their dehumanizing machines? I am more than grease for the wheels of commerce. Banking/Finance, Energy and Transportation, Insurance/Pharma and the War Machine are adversarial to humanity, to all life, to the planet and to sustainability, with every dollar you spend, consider whom is served. Reward diversity, seek out community that honors your inherent worth and value, take back your time, we each only have a limited amount of it left.
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