Thoughts of a New World
Choice and Change

Trellising for tomatoes, from thin bamboo shoots… And cardboard protection from cutworms for new seedlings… No Pesticides, insecticides, or chemical fertilizer

Society is a veil we’ve thrown over our own heads to escape the responsibility of being the caretakers of our planet.

three months after arriving in my new town, i’m almost ready for the first big harvest and i’ve been supplementing my food from the garden for the last month already. This is the beauty of companion planting… by creating a multi-dimensional ecosystem, I have been able to grow all of this without a single pesticide, herbicide, fungicide or fertilizer, this is how nature grows… you just have to let it…

sometimes we feel so separate, that lonely is all we can be, even when we are not alone
we are all mostly nothing, with a small percentage of something made up of trillions of individual parts that are all essential to giving meaning to nothing
finally figured out how to draw spheres, which makes the greenbrick slightly easier to understand

finally figured out how to draw spheres, which makes the greenbrick slightly easier to understand

A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.
Dresden James
We assume that because we have refined our laws over centuries of use, they cover every contingency we can conceive of. By our reckoning, our prison systems are supposed to discourage the crimes that can result in full prisons, but law does not prevent crime, it defines crime. Law does not discourage crime, but encourages criminals to be ever more creative so as not to get caught.
The current system of law does not address the problem of crime. It addresses the problem of public control, which in turn creates the oppressive environments that result in crime, and a false need for law.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
…To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil.
William Shakespeare

We Destroy Their Habitat,

So That We Must Protect Them,

By Taking Away Their Freedom.

Summary of what is wrong in no particular order:

  • 50% of all the food produced globally goes to waste, while children die en masse of starvation.
  • Treatable diseases kill millions each year globally, while 70% of all health insurance goes unused.
  • Third World Education shows no sign of genuine improvement, while US and Britsh education is and has been declining for years along with social values being eroded through their internal fear-mongering.
  • Acedemic institutions produce purely academic thinkers, relegating the creative individuals to lives as burger flippers and waiters suffering for their art.
  • The media has become a two-pronged attack on the senses, one spreads the chaos and fear of war and crime, the other offers escapism through consumerism.
  • The global political system has become a complete sham, with politicians openly being supported by corporate interest, and negating human rights and wantonly destroying the planet through destructive policy.
  • Climate Change is causing ecological disaster of epic proportions while scientists are either ignored or bought by the oil companies.
  • Fossil fuels and dangerous nuclear plants are perpetuated despite the availability of ample alternative energy sources.
  • The global economy is owned and manipulated by an extremely small and well-connected group of ‘elite’, who keep the rich rich and the poor poor, promoting ignorance and eschewing positive change in the name of profit.

All I can say is: enough is enough. I’m standing up and beginning my change. If you care at all, please stand up and make yours. Every little bit will help, there is no effort too small.

thescienceofreality:

This Week in Science:
Black holes here.
Fecal transplants here.
AIDS potential prevention here.
Flying frog here.
Eye & hair colour here.
Alzheimer’s disease here.

thescienceofreality:

This Week in Science:

  • Black holes here.
  • Fecal transplants here.
  • AIDS potential prevention here.
  • Flying frog here.
  • Eye & hair colour here.
  • Alzheimer’s disease here.

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Learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make all of them yourself.