December 28, 2006
If we are to create changes in our thinking in order to change our relationship with mother earth, we can best do that by taking a good look at what we flush down to - who cares where it goes, I just don't want it here - the sewage treatment plant who dumps the result into our rivers. We cannot afford to take us out of the loop. We ate it, we shit it and it should pretty much go back where it came from, not dumped into the ocean. But let this only be an introduction to: Humanure by Joe Jenkins.

This is a comment I have heard more than once when I have talked about a future after Peak Oil, CO2, melting ice caps, reversing poles, giant volcano's, asteroid hits, inflation and collapse of currency, complete loss of fresh water, loss of soil, loss of ability to create food and water. The comment is always a variation of "if any or all or some of these awful things are occurring or will occur, then why is self change anything but a joke? Nothing we will do will change the outcome of Peak Oil for instance. This plane is on a vertical landing approach, so party on, it makes no difference."
Oddly, sadly true. You, I and the two of us together will not sway capitalism, EMPIRE, from it's path. It is the nature of Empire to eat right up to the edge of the petri dish. And, though it looks oddly fine out the window right now, that is where we are. Hard up against the edge of the planet. BUT what you do will make a difference in YOUR future. It will mattere to YOU, and YOU matter to me which is why you're on my free chicken list reading this. First, there will be a future for this planet. It may look like Mars when we're done, maybe not. However there will be a future. Will you and I be in it?
In the near future, which is what this website is all about, you will probably be part of it. Perhaps you'll be standing on the sidewalk in front of your house or apartment, scratching your head and saying what they hell happened to (insert everything). Who do I call, but of course the phone doesn't work. You will have lots of company. Or perhaps you will try to change your expectations and your skills, thus making these future changes less impact on you. You'll produce much of your food, power, and have alternate communication, such as CB and walkie talkies. You have the seeds, the tools, the knowledge and you are in reasonable shape to take the impact, the stress of change. Maybe the changes will be less impactful enough so that you have quality of life even after peak oil, or insert anyone of the "end of life as we know it" scenarios. That is what this website is about.
The only thing you have control over is what you pay attention to and what you choose to learn and most of all, what you focus on and what you create. What you expect you'll get. We create change by expectation. If many of us expect a sane world without corporate control after peak oil and economic collapse, we will get it. What you learn might help you stay warm, have a full belly and feel something different for the first time in your life - maybe you will feel like you are part of something bigger, something satisfying. NO NO NO, I do not mean part of a group of "right" thinking people. I mean part of the earth instead of perched on her like a vampire sucking the life out or it through a 5000 foot deep well in the Gulf of Mexico.
The future is the thing our ego wants us to know so we won't be hurt or changed. We want to prepare for it. Hell, we'll pay to see it. Aren't I saying everywhere in this website prepare? No, I'm saying learn to live differently, have fun living differently. Don't be society's bitch. Be your own wacky self. Separate yourself from corporations, from everything where you don't count as a person, and only count because you consume. Do you really think they love you at Walmart, or at the Gap for that matter? They don't give a flying fuck about who you are and how you feel and what you want for the earth and your mother and your children. To all corporations you are a coveted and loved "consumer." And some guy in a rice paddy in China is your provider and loan agent for your debt. He's tired, the water buffalos tired and they are getting ready to refuse your visa.

We make the world everyday by what we expect and what we accept. Someone once said to me, "you are overweight (I was fat then) but you are exactly the weight you want to be. You have worked hard to be this weight, and you work hard to maintain it." I was incensed. Not true, it was because, because of my stress, my job, my girlfriend, my lack of food choices, blah blah blah. The world is exactly how all of us together have made it. It is as we expect it to be. It is dying from what we have consumed of it and it cannot be our mother like this any more. Instead envision how you would like it to be and then just don't agree with anything less. Simply expect better, more love, more concern, more enthusiasm for non corporate slave work. Breathe, it's your air, you are part of it by birth. You don't owe for that! You have to expect that you will learn exciting new ways to live, and they will make more sense and feel better to you. You have important things to do. Everybody loves that you are happy, enjoying your body, the movement of the air across it, the pleasure of real sleep. The planet will heal, the fish will return to healthy ocean, and of course, 6 billion people will become less than one billion

Be the first on your block to put in garden of open pollinated vegies this year. Think about a well, solar, a nice wind generator that will pump your water. Think about composting everything that carbon based, including human manure. Learn how to be home in your body again, not home in your cubicle.

The future is on the way folks and I would like you to be light on your mental and physical feet when it arrives. What you see if the sham, the false front of oil, greed, and monopoly money treated as real. Welcome to a real future where what you do, think, say, and learn make a difference. Welcome to the revolution.

So this section will start with links to the type of future that others see. Often these futures will be fear based, for writers don't want to be seen to be too optimistic. Well, I'll put many of those links up, because the thinking is clear or valuable to us. However we create what we pay attention to. We get what we expect in a way. I want us all together to expect an amazing fun change over from consumerism, cannibalism of our selves and our planet, to people who put how they feel inside, in their hearts first. I hope that in this future we can harness the youthful creativity that now goes in to hacking porn sites and apply it to fitting in with our world, instead of the current idea of consuming it and shitting in our own drinking water. We are barbarians at our own gates. Good, we are going to need barbarians of the heart for what comes. Lets get some links! In no particular order yet, but all share thoughts and techniques of creating a future that fits.