The way my brain works

I sure am not real impressed with it, since I started reading Bucky Fuller. I'm no genius.

But anyway, I am a natural skeptic. At the same time, there is a part of me that wants to believe and wants to embrace ideas and movements. I had this feeling like-
"Wow, I want to get involved in this "Green" stuff." Its a feeling of kind of not having to think so hard, but kind of just participating and joining up with people.

But then a my natural skepticism kicks on and now I start unraveling stuff. I start pulling at little strings and then a strart to rip holes in things.

So anyway, a lot of these Green stuff is a con. There are different elements of it that are bad in different ways. First are the natural ascetics. People that would live on a few thousand dollars a year and eat vegan and hardly own anything and ride a bike everywhere anyway. Regardless of thinking they are helping the Earth. Basically people like this exist. India has lots of this type. The Siddhu or whatever.

So anyway, these types are being held up as the standard. Living like this is kind of what is held up as what it means to be Green. Ride a bike, be austere, recycle, live in a tiny space etc. Be gaunt looking.

Then there are basically Aristocrats Like Al Gore, Zac Goldsmith, there in the UK that is the editor of "The Ecologist" freinds of the Earth etc. The Progenitors of this sub-group is the Club of Rome.

They are against growth and development in general. Because basically that is their deal. Being from Old money tends toward that. Why encourage commoners to become rich and uppity? Next thing you know they will supplant you.

Then there are Big Corporations, seeing which way the wind is blowing and realizing they can start charging more for less in the name of conservation. Produce less, charge more. Sounds like a winner to me, since they are all about creating and exploiting bottle necks anyway.

The rest are basically people who care about the environment. Just regular people who like animals and trees and frsh air.

Here is the kicker:

Its reasonable for people to think that there has to be big trade offs and sacrifice. Especially as they imbibe all this guilt producing propoganda put out by the Old Money elites like Al Gore.

So thoughtful sensitive people are going to get screwed over. They will agree to pay more for less. Do with less and help the Earth. Plus they will be led to believe that wealth spreading to places like China is a bad thing.



So what am I about? Its easy to be negative. What's my solution?

For everyone to be rich and to enjoy an abundant life. For the Third world to develop a standard of living commesurate or exceeding that in the west. For alll of us to have our fair share of wealth from the sun through solar and wind power. For the whole world to be online. For the whole world to be Scientifically literate. For everyone to have the maximum opportunity to be a self actualizing individual.

Pro-Growth

Pro-development

Pro Globalization

Pro-Ecology

Its possible, its the goal! Its the goal of Human evolution. We aim so fricken low! The technolgy already exists! Its just not profitable to the currently dominant power structures.


But anyway, let me talk some more about myself. :) Its the way my brain works. I have a bullshit detector. Stuck on high. I try to ignore it for a while, I really do. Its like I know when people are lying. I don't always want to know. Everybody lies! Who gives a shit! Right? But then I start pulling little strings and unraveling stuff and making big holes. Its weird being me. It really is. On the one hand I am nobody. But on the other hand I have a dangeous mind! Who can predict what I will say next? You might have the wool pulled over my eyes and then any second I will be onto you. You may think you know where I am cominhg from ideologically and then any second I will pull a 180.

The fact is, though, I mostly like people. And I am not really that smart. I am just as gullible as a lot of people. But meanwhile this little voice in my head starts pulling at little strings, unravelling things......

James Heartfield: Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism

The more I read this Guy the more I love what he has to say!

Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism

Seriously he's right! There is an elitist element in the recent incarnation of the environmental movement. They want austerity! That' what I here people asking me to do over and over agian. "Pay more. Do with less. Do the right thing. Be green."

Its like "Pay us more for less because part of what we are selling you is the feel goody self righteousness of knowing you are helping the Earth."

Its a fucking Con!

I just got this thing from MG and E the local power company. They have a new program for people to pay them more for them to produce less power. Plus they encourage you to ride your bike and plant trees. Thank you power company! You guys are so smart! Preach it! shame on me for thinking I could slack off on my tree planting and car driving without you guys setting me straight. Sure Where can I sign up top pay your monopoly more of my money? Thank you sir! can I have another?!

God is bankrupting the United States.

People think its a conspiracy, but really its God working through evolution. The paradigm of National Sovereignty needs to pass to make room for the global Community.

The United States, being the most powerful nation, must fall first. Its not so so sad really, because its making way for something better, namely a democratic world community of all the people in the World.

What drives the conspiracy theories is anthropomorphization.

Monopolistic Artificial Scarcity vs. need for Conservation

Exploiting the ways in which people(generally the brightest and most well meaning people) conflate these two things will be how many businesses of the Future will become Green and stay Profitable and dominant.

Wikipedia: Artificial Scarcity

Green capitalism: Manufacturing scarcity in an age of abundance

Synopsis
A polemic against 'Green Capitalism'. James Heartfield accuses the 'Green Capitalists' of profiteering over climate change and other environmental scares. Green capitalists like Zac Goldsmith and Al Gore are manufacturing scarcity to boost prices. The technological revolution has removed scarcity from most of our lives, but the green capitalists are trying to re-invent it. Chapters on 1. The age of plenty, 2. The retreat from production, 3. The green capitalists, 4. Manufactured scarcity, 5. Green consumerism, 6. The economy of wasting time, 7. Green imperialism, 8. Environmental economics, 9. Green socialism?, 10. The unnatural limits to growth, plus an appendix, The revolution in technique. Bibliography and index. 136 pp. Author James Heartfield wrote Let's Build! Why we need five million new homes in the next 10 years (2006) The Creativity Gap (2005) The Death of the Subject Explained (2002). www.heartfield.org

This is a hard thing to get ones head around. Catchprases like "Go Green" are easy.

Because basically. We aren't that smart. Do most people wrack their brains trying to figure out complex global issues? No.

So there is a con being perpetrated here, on the part of at least some "green" industries. I am a bit ambivalent. Because maybe the con will still make things better in the long run. Or maybe not. Probably not. So that means I will have to work toward exposing this and risk being percieved as being "anti-green"

I'd like to think the truth is better than deception. But getting this out there will be hard work because people like binary systems of good and evil. People like to join a camp and think of their camp as being right and opposing camps as being wrong.

I will say right now. Sloganeering about "Being Green" is really not all that useful. Its no excuse for actual thinking.

Primitivists aren't stupid.

That's not really my position. As far as learning outdoor survival skills, that's cool. I just don't think its a good way to politically organize, or not even going that far, it's just not a good way to come up with ideas about solving global problems.

Not everyone wants to live out in the woods. I actually do for periods of time. But after a while I miss civilization. So really this stuff is propably never going to catch on. So what does that leave you with?
A. Forcing everyone to become primitive by destroying the infra-structure(Jensen)
B. Waiting around for a crash and a big die off, while working on primitive skills and doing small things to basically be a drain on the system without contributing positively to it.

Horrible prospects any way you look at it. This is why I think primitivists struggle with depression. Just look around the blogosphere. Its a common occurence. And its not "civilization" per se that causes it. Its the mindset.

The most fun thing about primitivism is connecting with nature in a sensual way. Awakening your senses and realizing you are in many respects an animal, just like other animals and that you can connect with other living things in the ecosystem.

Modern life has a way of cutting us off from our physical and emotional well being as well as our ability to connect with others.

Modern life is hard, but its still better than tribal life. Maybe not for everybody, but for the vast majority. The vast majority prefer it.

It actually offers more freedom. This will sound counter-intuitive to primitivists, but its true. Primitive people don't really have individuality. There lives are controlled by taboos covering every area of life and they fill prescribed roles decided by the tribe.

I am convinced that if you don't like the idea of living in a small town, say for example, living in a small rural farming community in the South with a fundamantalist Christian church, then you would not enjoy living as a member of a primitive tribe.

Living in a small town and being a member of a little white fundy church is a lot like living in a primitive tribe. And what do children in such settings do? If they have an independant streak or don't feel they fit the mold everyone seems to be placing them in? They run away to the city.

Probably the main reason life in extremely isolated tribes might be happier than in small towns in America, is that if they are really isolated, they don't know about the city. As soon as they do, the same thing happens.

People get confronted with personal decisions. It breaks the spell. The spell of the tribe is not having to be confronted with personal decisions. The spell draws people into joining cults as well as following the path of political totalitarianism.

But my point is, I am hoping there are better ways to do things than seeking to go back to tribal life. Because I reallly feel the genie is out of the bottle and we can't go back.

We need to constructively work toward creating a new world. A world that connects us to the natural world and to each other but also provides freedom for self actualization.

There is enough for everybody

Buckminster Fuller was a smart guy. Buckminster Fuller's Grand Strategy

That link is a good synopsis. I have been reading Synergetics, which is a bit hard to decipher. But I plan to eventually decipher it.

But anyway there are real problems in the World, but what I think is behind the doom and gloom is ignorance on the part of most people and basically the desire to cling to power on the part of the elites.

If everyone knew there was enough for everybody- and I am not talking about Ghandi's statetment "There is enough for everyone's need but not everyones greed" I am talking about abundance for everyone-there would no need for the security state.

The reason we have a State is because most people have the ingrained idea that there is not enough to go around so we need this huge military to protect us, from all the people who want what we have.

So anyway, a lot of these "crash bloggers" and websites about Peak oil and the paranoia like "the Crash" "die off" etc. Don't know what a lot of elites know. And so elites encourage them to spread the doom and gloom.

Like for example Ted Turner giving a half a million dollars to Daniel Quinn.

This might sound strange to you. But seriously read this:

Synergetics

.1 % Smart.

I know about one tenth of one percent of what I would like to know.