The smell of dog shit on hot pavements in Florida.
That damned heat that could cook an egg on the road. The endless construction projects that are supposed to make travel, and life easier. And instead just give us never ending traffic. Protests over the newest corrupt city officials embezzling funds that are supposed to be helping us. People telling you to not get vaccinated or wear a mask because the pandemic is “over”.
Then saying the biggest threat right now isn’t COVID. It’s kids being allowed to become trans. Or being “groomed” into it. Welcome to a Florida city. Where ignorance is not bliss.
And where Satan comes to sunbathe.
Maybe I’m biased, but to me, modern cities breed anger and resentment. I was just thinking the other day about this. Apartments were originally supposed to be about Community making life easier. Instead it has brought together the most hostile elements of society. Not the community planning they were originally supposed to be about.
Even people with good intentions tend to become hostile busy bodies. Who don’t know how to mind their own damn business.
Futuristic Dreams
I keep praying for a track of land somewhere and a home for my family and myself. To be out there amongst nature. And far the hell away from most people. Or even to make a sanctuary for animals and people I choose. Specifically homeless people.
Or other kinds of people down on their luck. So we can work together. And what I really want to do, is create a submersible bunker.
Dreams of the Future
A sort of land based submarine ark. One that can contain animals and plants and thousands of people. So that if Florida truly is destined to be sunk beneath the waves, we could survive. Ideally, if we had that kind of technology already, it would be a machine that could interface with the Earth itself. As a sort of life sized nanotechnology for the Earth.
A living machine that could be a symbiont for the Earth itself. That way we could heal the Earth while saving ourselves. And let’s go further. Make it so that the Earth Ark could grow. Merge with more and more land.
Creating more land for the animals and people.
Safeguarding more trees and nature in general. Until all of Florida is one with the Ark. So when the massive wave comes, Florida will not sink. But will be shielded.
And if it does sink, it can survive under water. And from there? Who knows, perhaps the whole continent. And the same could be replicated to other lands and continents. Perhaps to the whole entire world. Turn the planet itself into a perfect, life saving ark.
And have a society similar to Star Trek. A society where money and acquisition of personal wealth, is not our guiding force. But rather a society based on community planning. Of sharing of all resources. That’s what I want.
That’s my dream.
These are the things I envision for our future. Organic nanotechnology. True wisdom and knowledge. Inventions that actually help humanity and all of nature. Not just the latest iPhone. The more I live in “modern” or “civilized” world, the more I feel like screaming into the void.
Take capitalist exploitation of the masses which is worse everyday. Is it any wonder we have such a large suicide rate in this country? It’s insane. We need a new society. At some point we have to do something to not collectively lose our shit as a people. And to that end, I think we all need to look at our indigenous ancestors.
Indigenous here means our original societies. Not specifically Native American. But African, Celtic, Sumerian (Iraqi), and so forth. But since we live on Turtle Island, the land that belongs to Indigenous peoples here. I used one of the First Nations as an example.
Back to nature
The Aztecs it was discovered, went back to nature at the height of their civilization. Supposedly, civilizations only do that in their decline. Like the fall of the Roman Empire. When people left the cities in Rome to go to the country. As a way of escaping the carnage.
Because of that, they lost most of their technology and skill. Lost their knowledge and wisdom. And de-evolved under the boot of the barbarian tribes. Tribes once oppressed by the Ceasers. Who now sought to break the yoke of their former masters.
But for the Nahua or Aztecs, this wasn’t the case. At some point they figured out that to truly evolve, you need nature. So they built large eco cities deep within nature. And this served many purposes. For one, it had inherent strategic value.
They could hide in the Wild from enemies using natural land barriers. Instead of being driven into exile in the wild later. Then starting from scratch as the Romans and many Europeans were forced to do. For another, this would have been a survivalist’s and conservationist’s dream come true. They were masters of Agriculture.
And created roads and canals that rivaled the Roman Empire. Their ways were also sustainable and not at odds with nature. It magnified nature. It built upon it. And evolved from it.
They did too. Building tools and weapons using rich resources like obsidian to do it. The first organic based technology.
Using some of the very first eco technology the world had ever seen. Even today these canals and roadways rival much of what we use. We could expand upon that if only our corporate overlords and rulers would allow us to. We could return to nature via agriculture for a better society. The Romans had to create urban areas to do this.
The Nahua did it by embracing the Earth itself. Racial symbiosis of humanity with Earth, our progenitor. We could learn a lot by learning from indigenous people.
Evolve Organically
We have separated from nature so much. Too much, that now technology is replacing things that shouldn’t be replaced. Some people don’t even bother camping anymore. They do this weird thing where they camp inside their beds in hotel rooms. Then listen to nature sounds on a recording.
I think it’s called Glamping.
Don’t get it twisted. I think that as a meditation strategy, or a way to fight insomnia it’s very useful. And ingenious even. But it shouldn’t be used to replace the act of becoming one with nature. We need to be released from the stress and machinery of this world.
It’s necessary to go back to the drawing board. And see what really works. And what doesn’t work. Something’s gotta give. Now we don’t have to give up everything.
I think we can all agree that insulin, computers and phones, vehicles, and air conditioning are definitely a necessity. And not everything has to be a necessity. There’s nothing wrong with tech that’s used for pleasure like a smart TVs or an iPhone. My problem is when it becomes an obsession. When it becomes an unhealthy addiction.
And even more than that, when nothing else is being done. When all our society cares about are meaningless pleasures like social media. Yet no one is doing anything to stop global warming. Now more than ever with global warming. Our pleasures should not override our serious search for knowledge.
And they need to be in-line with nature. And not contribute to our problems.
One Final Thought
Did you know that Tenochtitlan was built at the center of a lake? That’s right. A lake. It was called the city where one “becomes a God”. They used a combination of rotting vegetation and lake water to build massive crops to feed thousands. By doing this, they created an empire from nature.
Can you imagine what they could have become? If only the Colonizers hadn’t arrived. Don’t get me wrong, the Nahua had many problems. But pollution and scarcity weren’t among them. And they kept their population at sustainable levels. Without being underpopulated.
Or succumbing to lack of genetic diversity. If they had been allowed to evolve on their own. They could have created a civilization that rivaled, or even dwarfed the ones we have now. Civilizations built on organic technology. And maybe by now we would have computer-trees.
Or maybe natural power sources that would never run out. Even tapped into the earth’s geomagnetic power. It pains me to think what could have been. All I know is, this world breeds anger and resentment. And disappointment.
We must return to the Earth. For all our sakes.
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