The Future of Food

Ringing in the Post Apocalyptic Era...

And...

I hope everyone has a joyous and blessed End of the World <3 <3 <3

How much of this list could you do?

Did that really happen?

Still in shock over the events of yesterday.  A friend of mine and I had been talking about our blogs, and she had shared the Douglas Mallette video link.  I was in the middle of watching that when I jumped back to facebook to see if she had said anything else and instead I saw a post from another facebook friend about how she was going off line to light a candle for Sandy Hook.  I was like, "Who is Sandy Hook?"...
Sandy Hook is 20 children, between the ages of 5 and 10, murdered, slaughtered.  This fucked with my head and my heart so much I sought the comforts of mother nature and headed to a local park to just breath.

What does this mean for us, our culture, that has always omitted children from violence like this?  By dinner time yesterday, I had sort of pulled it together, but I know we, as a nation, will never "get over" this wound.

Douglas Mallette

He comes at things from the view point of make old things obsolete by creating new ways using the technologies available to us.  He promotes forward thinking without the spin of conspiracy theories.

Thinking out loud....

How long could a human live without seeing a tree, like the face of mars kind of thing, and not let it change them in some way?

Our waste management system...to me looks like, say you got stabbed, and then I filled that hole with human shit.

It's sad, and he's probably right, if we are put in a high stress situation, this one being 20 people put on an island with one coconut tree, there would be fighting, but put us on an island with 500 trees and our environment immediately becomes less stressed.  Why would our first reaction be to fight and bicker?  Why is cooperation, not the first?  And this leads into one of my paranoid scenarios where food becomes scarce, my first thought was, "We are going to need a way to defend our food sources?", not "We will grow more to share." Is this the human condition? SELF?

Friggin Facebook

A necessary evil? Possibly. When I see posts relating a news story and I see the comments and folks bickering and arguing, I only wish they could understand that, firstly violence should NOT be in any part of the situation, and second, bickering amongst ourselves only fuels the fire that enables them to keep us under their thumb. They are news stories. Who owns the newspapers, newsrooms? MONEY

After thought:
When did it become ok to hurt each other?  It's accepted, almost expected in some cases.

A friends blog

This is The Zeitgeist Movement out of Columbia. And the following is their mission statement:

"Mission Statement

Founded in 2008, The Zeitgeist Movement is a Sustainability Advocacy Organization which conducts community based activism and awareness actions through a network of Global/Regional Chapters, Project Teams, Annual Events, Media and Charity Work. 

The Movement's principle focus includes the recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality.

Rather, The Movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure. While intermediate Reform steps and temporal Community Support are of interest to The Movement, the defining goal here is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions. 

This "Natural Law/Resource-Based Economy" is about taking a direct technical approach to social management as opposed to a Monetary or even Political one. It is about updating the workings of society to the most advanced and proven methods Science has to offer, leaving behind the damaging consequences and limiting inhibitions which are generated by our current system of monetary exchange, profits, corporations and other structural and motivational components. 

The Movement is loyal to a train of thought, not figures or institutions. In other words, the view held is that through the use of socially targeted research and tested understandings in Science and Technology, we are now able to logically arrive at societal applications which could be profoundly more effective in meeting the needs of the human population. In fact, so much so, that there is little reason to assume war, poverty, most crimes and many other money-based scarcity effects common in our current model cannot be resolved over time. 

The range of The Movement's Activism & Awareness Campaigns extend from short to long term, with the model based explicitly on Non-Violent methods of communication. The long term view, which is the transition into a new social system, is a constant pursuit and expression, as stated before. However, in the path to get there, The Movement also recognizes the need for transitional Reform techniques, along with direct Community Support.

For instance, while "Monetary Reform" itself is not an end solution proposed by The Movement, the merit of such legislative approaches are still considered valid in the context of transition and temporal integrity. Likewise, while food and clothes drives and other supportive projects to help those in need today are also not considered a long term solution, it is still considered valid in the context of helping others in a time of need, while also drawing awareness to the principle goal. 

The Zeitgeist Movement also has no allegiance to a country or traditional political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and promoted are in the interest to help everyone on the planet Earth, not a select group."

Thrive

Maybe a bit theatrical for me, but still makes some valid points and makes ones mind THINK!

Zeitgeist