:Backward to go forward, but this time we're bringing the Future with us!
It is often a struggle to keep daily life managed in "Modern Times". What,.. with all of the items of concern upon our personal plates,..not to mention(and maybe we'd all be a bit smilier if I didn't)..the Community plate,..Planet-plate and any and every other thing that you put yourself into, or maybe onto. ;)
Some days it sure does SEEM like my plate is full,..but my LIFE is empty. There is so much going on that I am unable to keep up with, that inevitably,..things, and even people, begin to represent "just another thing" that I've got to "manage" on my plates!(Picture here: roller-skating Tom Robbins-esque Genius-Waitress with the delicate and overwhelmed/abundant pantheon of to-do, to-be, and to-have-plates,.. holding onto what is dear in her Shiva-like arms of many,..in umpteen places at once,..serving the every..though less than aptly, by circumstantial force.)
I don't even WANT all of these plates!Can't I just roller-skate?;p
Wasn't LIFE once simpler?.. and mightn't it have been more fulfilling in ways that we have forgotten or imagine to have risen above? Can't it be again?
(Yeah,...that's rhetorical. We all know it CAN be.)
I believe it is time to NOW help it be consistently that way!
It's not quite as simple as going back to hunter/gatherer wandering tribes,and beating drums around a fire(though a good Bonfire is well known to enliven and nurture the Souls of any group.)..but, it's also not as complicated as de-coding a genome with nothing but crayons and Lincoln-logs! (Rudimentary,..but also do-able I'm betting.) Re-Envisioning a well-functioning, co-operative daily life, where our intents are expressed honestly, in transparency is needed. To gain that Vision, like crossing life's busy freeway,..we look both ways before attempting. To the past,..and also simultaneously to Future.
With the preserved history we have of Humanity, I am lead to believe that well intentioned peoples of the past survived, nay, THRIVED in well designed small societies for enormous, un-recorded swaths of time. Makes me think of the idea, "no news is good news"..
Maybe we don't hear a heck of a lot about the tiny Villages throughout time that sustained and extended the race, propelling Humanity forward, peacefully into the Future that is Now... I know for a fact though, that we all wouldn't BE here without them.
And I am left wondering at times, if some of the greatest Civilizations of recorded History,..didn't ultimately FAIL due to their unsustainable sizes and intents.No, Rome wasn't built in a day,..but for all it was,..where and what is it NOW? The Planet is frankly littered with empty, unscrupulously abandoned feats of design; but are they no more than representations of over-active appreciation of Ego and Largess? Will our Cities of today be no more than Stonehenges of tomorrow?
No,..Stonehenge was made of stuff that lasts.;)
But TRULY ,..need we judge ourselves as a race by the Grande size of our constructions?..OR, RATHER by the Grande designs of our ability to accomplish mutually beneficial Dreams, TOGETHER as a PEOPLE?
I see Villages as both, more easily attainable and sustainable Dream-Factories for their inhabitants. ..Dreams of engaging with Life at It's OWN pace,..leaving your plates and maybe skates behind,..and running barefoot into NOW'S possibilities...into who and what we we ACTUALLY are.( Amazing insightful creatures with the ability to create a better Reality!)
Yes!!..We CAN and WILL redesign the items and ideas that surround us and affect us to serve our goals in a lasting and peaceful image of our unified Dream of Happiness. But,..NOW, we also have at our disposal the technologies of TODAY to more easily support the ideas and theories of YESTERDAY that worked. And creatively we can work into and approach a perfect fusion of Time to reach a better Now WITH. Woven of the understandings we presently possess in regards to what is healthiest for our Planet AND selves, (i.e.. Agricultural and Resource-gathering practices and distribution,), it should be quite evident that to properly feed and KEEP feeding and caring for a people,..the FOODS and Products need to be grown and/or sourced locally, and cleanly. The bigger the Society,..the bigger the divot it leaves behind.
In a World where communities feed and sustain themselves locally,..PEACE is inevitable.
(more soon..:) )...comments as always appreciated.
:)'s..Kat Sol.
It is often a struggle to keep daily life managed in "Modern Times". What,.. with all of the items of concern upon our personal plates,..not to mention(and maybe we'd all be a bit smilier if I didn't)..the Community plate,..Planet-plate and any and every other thing that you put yourself into, or maybe onto. ;)
Some days it sure does SEEM like my plate is full,..but my LIFE is empty. There is so much going on that I am unable to keep up with, that inevitably,..things, and even people, begin to represent "just another thing" that I've got to "manage" on my plates!(Picture here: roller-skating Tom Robbins-esque Genius-Waitress with the delicate and overwhelmed/abundant pantheon of to-do, to-be, and to-have-plates,.. holding onto what is dear in her Shiva-like arms of many,..in umpteen places at once,..serving the every..though less than aptly, by circumstantial force.)
I don't even WANT all of these plates!Can't I just roller-skate?;p
Wasn't LIFE once simpler?.. and mightn't it have been more fulfilling in ways that we have forgotten or imagine to have risen above? Can't it be again?
(Yeah,...that's rhetorical. We all know it CAN be.)
I believe it is time to NOW help it be consistently that way!
It's not quite as simple as going back to hunter/gatherer wandering tribes,and beating drums around a fire(though a good Bonfire is well known to enliven and nurture the Souls of any group.)..but, it's also not as complicated as de-coding a genome with nothing but crayons and Lincoln-logs! (Rudimentary,..but also do-able I'm betting.) Re-Envisioning a well-functioning, co-operative daily life, where our intents are expressed honestly, in transparency is needed. To gain that Vision, like crossing life's busy freeway,..we look both ways before attempting. To the past,..and also simultaneously to Future.
With the preserved history we have of Humanity, I am lead to believe that well intentioned peoples of the past survived, nay, THRIVED in well designed small societies for enormous, un-recorded swaths of time. Makes me think of the idea, "no news is good news"..
Maybe we don't hear a heck of a lot about the tiny Villages throughout time that sustained and extended the race, propelling Humanity forward, peacefully into the Future that is Now... I know for a fact though, that we all wouldn't BE here without them.
And I am left wondering at times, if some of the greatest Civilizations of recorded History,..didn't ultimately FAIL due to their unsustainable sizes and intents.No, Rome wasn't built in a day,..but for all it was,..where and what is it NOW? The Planet is frankly littered with empty, unscrupulously abandoned feats of design; but are they no more than representations of over-active appreciation of Ego and Largess? Will our Cities of today be no more than Stonehenges of tomorrow?
No,..Stonehenge was made of stuff that lasts.;)
But TRULY ,..need we judge ourselves as a race by the Grande size of our constructions?..OR, RATHER by the Grande designs of our ability to accomplish mutually beneficial Dreams, TOGETHER as a PEOPLE?
I see Villages as both, more easily attainable and sustainable Dream-Factories for their inhabitants. ..Dreams of engaging with Life at It's OWN pace,..leaving your plates and maybe skates behind,..and running barefoot into NOW'S possibilities...into who and what we we ACTUALLY are.( Amazing insightful creatures with the ability to create a better Reality!)
Yes!!..We CAN and WILL redesign the items and ideas that surround us and affect us to serve our goals in a lasting and peaceful image of our unified Dream of Happiness. But,..NOW, we also have at our disposal the technologies of TODAY to more easily support the ideas and theories of YESTERDAY that worked. And creatively we can work into and approach a perfect fusion of Time to reach a better Now WITH. Woven of the understandings we presently possess in regards to what is healthiest for our Planet AND selves, (i.e.. Agricultural and Resource-gathering practices and distribution,), it should be quite evident that to properly feed and KEEP feeding and caring for a people,..the FOODS and Products need to be grown and/or sourced locally, and cleanly. The bigger the Society,..the bigger the divot it leaves behind.
In a World where communities feed and sustain themselves locally,..PEACE is inevitable.
(more soon..:) )...comments as always appreciated.
:)'s..Kat Sol.
2 comments:
Interesting ... there are many things we are working at to manage GROWTH. That's the main difference between yesterday and today. The Earth is just shy of 7 Billion people. It took millenia to reach the first billion and now we've gained more than a billion within my lifetime.
while reading this part of your blog, i remembered I video i saw, that might be interesting for you too.
btw, very nice to read ;)
tim
"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VHt5QchfdQ
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