“The proper way to fix the world isn’t to fix the world. There’s no reason to assume that you are even up to such a task. But you can fix yourself. You’ll do no one any harm by doing so, and in that manner at least, you will make the Read more…
Today’s post is from a set of ideas and musings I have stored up. Still pertinent to the Espe stories I have been posting this last six months. A couple of friends who read my blog comment that I don’t say enough about the sustainable technologies. Yes, there are a Read more…
“If you really want a Star Trek future, it’s not just going to space in cool machines. It’s building a society with respect for all life, sentient and otherwise, applying science wisely, and pursuing principles of justice, fairness and reason. Let’s build that and ride it to the stars” David Read more…
“The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become” Goethe. A continuation of a fictional reflection by a hundred-year-old Espe from 2112 about the start and on-going movement of transformation to Sustainable Living. I add clarification links and Read more…
“There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with Read more…
If anything, 2020, as bad as it was with the lockdowns and disease fear mongering by gullible true believers and public health authorities, was a great year because it began the awakening of so many people to the harsh system that has been controlling us for millennia. And why might Read more…
Economists do not like anything that cannot be put into some form of equation, which is strange if you think about it because economics is a social science (based on human psychological reactions). The goal back in the 1800s was to find a way to measure well-being derived from economic Read more…
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” ― David Graeber. I saw a cartoon this morning that showed lemmings as a flowing crowd leaping off a cliff. One was trying to push back against the flow Read more…
“Most people do not have the willingness to break bad habits. They have lots of excuses and they talk like victims” Carlos Santana. We have this story that is shared by all our modern cultures, but not the indigenous ones, which we just ignore because we can call then primitive Read more…
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, that you can walk with Love and Reverence” Henry David Thoreau. Sovereignty is about having the right to choose what you do, and I might add, the willingness to do so. You may not like the choices but when you are sovereign being Read more…
“The Problem isn’t a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is that you’re given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind” Bill Hicks: The Mind Unleashed. I was reading one of the many Read more…
Your beliefs are just thoughts that you keep thinking. Yet, they are so entrenched in most of our psyches, that we take them to be literal descriptors of who we come to think we are. This is how we are conditioned to be the people we think we are. Wherever Read more…
“It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry. We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship Read more…
I have talked how our reality is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves. This is also about how we use specific words to describe our reality. “The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; Read more…
“One way to pick a future is to believe it is inevitable” Richard Bach. I find it amazing that most people I talk with really want a better world that is sustainable and harmonious with the natural world, and also where everyone lives in unity and harmony. Yet, in the Read more…
“The last person to trust with power is someone who is dying to have it. The best person to wield power is someone who is reluctant to do so, but who will do it for a while as a civic duty. That is why term limits should make it impossible Read more…
So, what is personal sovereignty? Plain and simple, just being you, or more the you would want to be if you were not busy running in the proverbial rat race. Being you is being part of something beyond yourself without losing your individualism and being mindful of all life. The Read more…
“Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose.” Janis Joplin – You got nothing left to lose…you can leave it all behind for its the anchor that holds you down…from being free. For many decades the consumer dream, driven by a deeply flawed economic system, has been captivating. But Read more…
If this past year of 2020 (and continuing in 2021) has taught us anything, it should be that we need to become more self-sufficient as individuals and as communities that live in the same area. What does seem to have happened though is that we have fallen into using big Read more…
“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control people” Henry Kisinger. I fully intended to just do a localized food growing post, but I watched a short news interview with noted Indian sustainability scholar-activist Vandana Shiva, and ended up exploring yet another rabbit hole – that of Read more…
“The Great Reset is an attempt to create a plausible impression that the huge winners in this system are on the verge of voluntarily setting greed aside to get serious about solving the raging crises that are radically destabilizing our world.” Naomi Kline The above quote comes from an article Read more…
I have been reading a lot these past few months, on all kinds of media (Left, Right, Mass, and Alternate), about something called the ‘Great Reset.’ This ‘Great Reset’ agenda sounds OK on the surface until one looks more closely at what is being said and who is saying it. Read more…
As most of you will realize in reading my blog, I spend more time talking about our collective cognition as the problem and not just the technological problems we create through our lifestyle choices. Environmental Educator David Orr talks about how we try to tweak ourselves out of our problems Read more…
Only through illumination of the past does a new future become visible. Here is where I take an incredibly complex idea and distill it down to an essential 100 words. I have been sat at my computer this past first week of January 2021 observing all the incredible goings-on. Obviously, Read more…
When people are afraid of losing something they need either physically or psychologically, they can be controlled. People with nothing left to lose can be dangerous to those in charge. The controllers placate them with enough things in their lives so they fear what little they do have may be Read more…
There is no shortage of great thinkers and researchers who have illuminated the risks being imposed up on us with consumerist worldview. Michael Pollan has clearly expressed the problems with our industrial food systems (see earlier post Relocalization and Community {Jan 2018}). Avoiding processed food and non-organic produce is a Read more…
In May 2020 I talked a bit about vaccines (posts Vaccines: part 1-5). With the push to release the Covid-19 (C-19) vaccine, in keeping with my current risk theme, here is a long update summary from what I have studying within and outside the mainstream. I am posting early this Read more…
“Our world is divided is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world, is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender or religion.” Nelson Mandela I saw a neat quote on the Sustainablehuman.com website. “The goal of life is not to Read more…
“The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.” Osho Have you ever wondered why peer pressure is Read more…
What I am observing at this time, as are so many of us, is a lot of protesting and activism on behalf of something or other. There are a lot of reasons that everything all over the world seems so chaotic at this time, but change is in the air Read more…