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Are Human Beings Capable of Sharing?
Suspecting that collecting
More than you need
To succeed
With what life gives you
Kept me eating honey
'Cause I can't eat paper money
Or take it with me
Either:
All my life I've had a problem with collecting anything except necessities (including trading stock) for the simple reason that anything you can't eat or swap or take with you when you die isn't worth haggling over.
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A HOARD CANNOT BE SHARED BY DEFINITION
If that's true, and it seems unassailable, then all this money stuff and 'possessions' and gambling and hoarding and killing over renewable resources in a closed ecosystem is a little short sighted and stupid when you realise that you can't 'own' or 'sell' or 'hoard' your ancestor's laughter over there in the brook, the sough of wind through the trees, the sight of a seedling pushing out of the ground… but you can share the love of all that.
Of course 'the system' is falling apart under its own imaginary and insane premises.
And so I see with great delight
The incredible sight
Of a world waking up
To the Right of Return.
(Egypt opened the doors again)
And to what? It looks very much like the kind of top-end gardening based on a living, self-maintaining and self-sustaining 'biosphere' of which we are an intrinsic part (the brain maybe? So far, not the soul!)
There is a kind of gardening philosophy as old as time that doesn't need much human help after it's set up, except to help ourselves from it.
The first.natural permaculture ecosystem was of course the Garden of Eden, our original Home.
I don't believe that crap about being 'thrown out' of there either, it just doesn't compute.
I think the story was more of a way to tell us that the reason for “giving us dominion” over all the planet's resources was so we could use them to maybe build that Garden out of it so we could be comfortable and well-fed while we did some serious thinking.
This BTW is from the book that Muslims read along with the Koran:
"Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth… Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food."
Sound familiar?
DIVIDE AND RULE MAY BE OVER
That realisation is what's been happening all over the world in response to the so-called economic collapse scaring the shit out of everyone who hoards stuff you can't eat or trade.
'Preppies' are thinking more about cultivating worms and using holy shit – manure – the only stuff ancient Chinese farmers kept locked up in safes, than any thinking about useless 'stuff' to lock up.
The 'core tenet' of permaculture is “Care of the Earth”
We've known that from the beginning, but somehow haven't seem to be able to share it.
We know that simply caring for the earth will result in provision for all life at which point we can get on with the job of working out if there is any reason for us to be (or not to be) in the first place.
And as we throw aside the slings and arrows of a brutally outrageous fortune finally at end, we can welcome back our Home
Exhausted, but back. And hungry.
Now let's get started:
There's a Universe out there to explore!
