I would love to have been born into a stable society – a calm, healthy, wise society – rather than one rattling chaotically downhill at an ever-accelerating rate towards a doom that is increasingly impossible to ignore.
Agreed! It is the best time to begin. The people who read your essay are the right people to get started.
Your philosophy of community and independence and healthy connexions to nature and one another is excellent. It is wise to build the best future we can for the people who show up to build.
I do think it would be wise to also include in the future an archive of the experiences we have been having for the last few centuries and especially the last few years so people in the future will know something about how fortunate they are and something of how real the things we have been through were (and currently still are) and so they can recognise the threats and nip them, as it were, in the bud.
It is possible to build a world without slavery and without war. It is possible to turn the hearts of the adults to the children and the hearts of the children to the adults and to have peace, love, and understanding. And a very good time to begin is now.
The existence of the Archive (true history - not rewritten propaganda) is in fact quite possibly the most important of all things. If the people of the far future are not aware of all this and more importantly do not understand how or why it happened then they will have no immunity to monsters returning and inflicting dystopia on them again. And again. And again.
Switching to simple lives alone does not achieve this immunity. We had simple lives 2000 years ago in Britannia, then the Romans arrived. Boudicca's victory was, at least, to be remembered and to hopefully inspire the spirit of resistance, and the survival of the cultural identity.
Unfortunately, I think the monsters understand all this now, and so they will be making damn sure that people in the future have zero historical memory of the truth. Instead, they will manufacture a false history (they are already doing it, actually), and no one will know not to believe it, as there will be zero access to true information for contradicting the official narrative. Human beings see the world through stories/narratives/mythology and so on - they will control that narrative.
So, print everything out multiple times in hard copy and bury those copies for the people of the future to discover. At some point soon enough, all this digital information will be wiped.
Don't become more involved in their system. Instead, exit their system, withdraw, do not obey, do not comply. #MakeEmMakeYa
And get busy building new systems based on Natural Law -- use real money instead of slave money, work for yourself instead of for the big corporate cartels, homeschooling, privacy, encryption, decentralization, intentional communities, etc... Exit & Build.
Here is a song I recorded in the 80's. The lyrics are poem written in the mid 20th century for which I composed the tune. I think the poem's message echoes this essay. Have a listen.
I knew little about oaks and pines, having been raised in the tropical climes of Miami, Florida, before moving at 27 years old to urban/suburban San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is only during the last six that I now live in a well-forested rural area where I am surrounded by a variety of pines and oaks, cedars and manzanita.
There are a number of writers, thinkers, observers, and philosophers with whom I am aligned on many or most points they make in their contributions. But, at this time, none of them am I more aligned with than Paul Cudenec.
‘ For me, real progress would not be the replacement of human beings by machines, but the nurturing of human beings so as to release their full potential, the patient fine-tuning of our outlooks and habits so that we can live better together’.
On the contrary, it's our own history, psychopathic 'leaders' aside. And as Paul Cudenec points out, the imperfections of humanity are part of nature's perfection... In my opinion, what's coming will be what makes mankind as a whole finally grow up.
What are you on about? Firstly I’ve never followed any kind of Marxist, I have in fact long identified as socially and culturally conservative. Nor have I ever said or suggested that humans do not have a right to exist. And you have completely misconstrued my comment on nature, whether deliberately or because you can’t read properly. And yes it’s a bit discombobulating for some to read comments they don’t share but why you should presume in my case us, well, boggling. Presumption is usually a sign of poor thinking. Tiresome and time wasting.
Agreed! It is the best time to begin. The people who read your essay are the right people to get started.
Your philosophy of community and independence and healthy connexions to nature and one another is excellent. It is wise to build the best future we can for the people who show up to build.
I do think it would be wise to also include in the future an archive of the experiences we have been having for the last few centuries and especially the last few years so people in the future will know something about how fortunate they are and something of how real the things we have been through were (and currently still are) and so they can recognise the threats and nip them, as it were, in the bud.
It is possible to build a world without slavery and without war. It is possible to turn the hearts of the adults to the children and the hearts of the children to the adults and to have peace, love, and understanding. And a very good time to begin is now.
The existence of the Archive (true history - not rewritten propaganda) is in fact quite possibly the most important of all things. If the people of the far future are not aware of all this and more importantly do not understand how or why it happened then they will have no immunity to monsters returning and inflicting dystopia on them again. And again. And again.
Switching to simple lives alone does not achieve this immunity. We had simple lives 2000 years ago in Britannia, then the Romans arrived. Boudicca's victory was, at least, to be remembered and to hopefully inspire the spirit of resistance, and the survival of the cultural identity.
Unfortunately, I think the monsters understand all this now, and so they will be making damn sure that people in the future have zero historical memory of the truth. Instead, they will manufacture a false history (they are already doing it, actually), and no one will know not to believe it, as there will be zero access to true information for contradicting the official narrative. Human beings see the world through stories/narratives/mythology and so on - they will control that narrative.
So, print everything out multiple times in hard copy and bury those copies for the people of the future to discover. At some point soon enough, all this digital information will be wiped.
I encourage everyone to draw a line in the sand. Say no more. Just refuse. Find another way.
Agreed.
Don't become more involved in their system. Instead, exit their system, withdraw, do not obey, do not comply. #MakeEmMakeYa
And get busy building new systems based on Natural Law -- use real money instead of slave money, work for yourself instead of for the big corporate cartels, homeschooling, privacy, encryption, decentralization, intentional communities, etc... Exit & Build.
good very heartwarming . I am old, and I say we fight their madness with fury and action
Yes! I am old also and I remember a kinder more open time.
A Canadian Grandma
Amen!
I've felt that way for a long time.
Here is a song I recorded in the 80's. The lyrics are poem written in the mid 20th century for which I composed the tune. I think the poem's message echoes this essay. Have a listen.
https://soundcloud.com/rongreenstein/02-enduring?in=rongreenstein/sets/songs-of-a-modern-disciple
Yes, definitely the same spirit behind it!
Here a link to a video I made for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qyuyw8vKC0
Thanks. Oak leaves and trees have a particular resonance for me, as you may have noticed! In whatever season.
I knew little about oaks and pines, having been raised in the tropical climes of Miami, Florida, before moving at 27 years old to urban/suburban San Francisco Bay Area of California. It is only during the last six that I now live in a well-forested rural area where I am surrounded by a variety of pines and oaks, cedars and manzanita.
There are a number of writers, thinkers, observers, and philosophers with whom I am aligned on many or most points they make in their contributions. But, at this time, none of them am I more aligned with than Paul Cudenec.
Thanks Ron. That is really good to hear.
We never lose our lives lest we surrender them to the charlatans who presume to rule us.
‘ For me, real progress would not be the replacement of human beings by machines, but the nurturing of human beings so as to release their full potential, the patient fine-tuning of our outlooks and habits so that we can live better together’.
Yep…in a nutshell.
No such luck!
Here is the world we find ourselves in at the moment:
https://substack.com/@stevenberger/note/c-50965189?r=1nm0v2
Thank you Deborah.
It is always a gift to read your words, whether here or on Twitter.
Time passes so easily when online though. I'll do it tomorrow
On the contrary, it's our own history, psychopathic 'leaders' aside. And as Paul Cudenec points out, the imperfections of humanity are part of nature's perfection... In my opinion, what's coming will be what makes mankind as a whole finally grow up.
I haven’t the foggiest what you’re on about.
What are you on about? Firstly I’ve never followed any kind of Marxist, I have in fact long identified as socially and culturally conservative. Nor have I ever said or suggested that humans do not have a right to exist. And you have completely misconstrued my comment on nature, whether deliberately or because you can’t read properly. And yes it’s a bit discombobulating for some to read comments they don’t share but why you should presume in my case us, well, boggling. Presumption is usually a sign of poor thinking. Tiresome and time wasting.