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Apr. 1st, 2021 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bartstationbardI'm not comfortable posting online any more. I would delete my facebook account if I was sure I wouldn't regret it later. I miss what I used to have on Livejournal, but then remember the two stalkers that found me IRL and were not dangerous, but gave me the creeps.
I am trying to find a posting style I'm comfortable with, because I think we really need to be connected peer to peer as much as possible in these strange and pivotal times. It's going to take all of us, collectively, to clean up this mess we are in.
Did it start 10,000 years ago, when we began practicing agriculture/pastoralism and bending other beings to our will?
Or was it 5,000 years ago when we began clearcutting the Middle East and kept moving on to do the same to Europe?
500 years ago, when "civilization" made it to Turtle Island and began scraping North America bald?
250 years ago when we began mining the stored sunlight in the form of coal and oil?
A century ago, when we began our love affair with the automobile?
Or, as the kids say, when the Boomers didn't stop climate change in the 1970s?
Does it really matter?
Seriously, we are responsible for turning things around because it's our watch. We're the only ones who can act now. That doesn't mean that we're expected to clean up the whole mess. It didn't happen in a generation, and it is unlikely to be fixed in one--and it will be solved, one way or another.
It can be fun--and I think that that's the vibe we need to aim for. People join a party, they don't run to join you to shiver in the dark. There's a high to mastery, after all. The trick is all in the way we choose to do it. Mastering other people and filling our huge houses with stuff is a failure of imagination, sweeter than antifreeze and twice as deadly to the planet and humanity. Mastering ourselves, learning skills, dreaming a future that all beings can live well in, now that's the real high.
I am trying to find a posting style I'm comfortable with, because I think we really need to be connected peer to peer as much as possible in these strange and pivotal times. It's going to take all of us, collectively, to clean up this mess we are in.
Did it start 10,000 years ago, when we began practicing agriculture/pastoralism and bending other beings to our will?
Or was it 5,000 years ago when we began clearcutting the Middle East and kept moving on to do the same to Europe?
500 years ago, when "civilization" made it to Turtle Island and began scraping North America bald?
250 years ago when we began mining the stored sunlight in the form of coal and oil?
A century ago, when we began our love affair with the automobile?
Or, as the kids say, when the Boomers didn't stop climate change in the 1970s?
Does it really matter?
Seriously, we are responsible for turning things around because it's our watch. We're the only ones who can act now. That doesn't mean that we're expected to clean up the whole mess. It didn't happen in a generation, and it is unlikely to be fixed in one--and it will be solved, one way or another.
It can be fun--and I think that that's the vibe we need to aim for. People join a party, they don't run to join you to shiver in the dark. There's a high to mastery, after all. The trick is all in the way we choose to do it. Mastering other people and filling our huge houses with stuff is a failure of imagination, sweeter than antifreeze and twice as deadly to the planet and humanity. Mastering ourselves, learning skills, dreaming a future that all beings can live well in, now that's the real high.
