This is one of those topics that pisses people off, but I ask that you read into a ways before you dump a load of shit on me.
That topic is: the Bible.
What I think the Bible is, really, actually, is the oral history of the agricultural revolution written down by memory later.
That topic is: the Bible.
What I think the Bible is, really, actually, is the oral history of the agricultural revolution written down by memory later.
2. I think it's useful, but not in any way The Word Of God.
We know, pretty much for sure, that about six to eight thousand years ago, right there where the events are staged, people invented annual grain agriculture and civilization.
Can we agree on that?
We know, pretty much for sure, that about six to eight thousand years ago, right there where the events are staged, people invented annual grain agriculture and civilization.
Can we agree on that?
3. The Garden of Eden was the previous quarter million years in that same region.
The Forbidden Fruit is annual grain. Wheat or barley or whichever one came first.
Since then we have gained our livelihood by the sweat of our brow.
The Forbidden Fruit is annual grain. Wheat or barley or whichever one came first.
Since then we have gained our livelihood by the sweat of our brow.
4. Hunter gatherers are now believed to have worked about 3 hours a day, and spent the rest of their lives singing, dancing, telling stories, and making new hunter gatherers.
This is no shit.
This is current scholarship.
This is no shit.
This is current scholarship.
5. Before that there was no king in Israel. Every man did what was right in his own eyes.
Assholes preaching on that always make that last sentence mean, everybody stole and cheated.
That's because *they* are stealing and cheating, and they think everyone else would too.
Assholes preaching on that always make that last sentence mean, everybody stole and cheated.
That's because *they* are stealing and cheating, and they think everyone else would too.
6. I do what is right in my own eyes.
You who read me know what I do. I fuck up a lot but I'm not ashamed. I do what is right in my own eyes.
Mitch McConnell knows what he does is wrong. He just doesn't give a fuck. He does what's wrong and lies about it. This is no improvement.
You who read me know what I do. I fuck up a lot but I'm not ashamed. I do what is right in my own eyes.
Mitch McConnell knows what he does is wrong. He just doesn't give a fuck. He does what's wrong and lies about it. This is no improvement.
7. The footprints of those civilizations are deserts today. We know where they are. We know they were once rich, lands flowing with milk and honey.
We are making deserts faster than they did.
We need to reverse engineer the Bible.
We need to go back to gardening Earth to feed us.
We are making deserts faster than they did.
We need to reverse engineer the Bible.
We need to go back to gardening Earth to feed us.
8. It is commonly said that only our current system made it possible for there to be 8 billion of us, and no other system could feed 8 billion of us, so we've got to just put the pedal to the metal and extract resources from our bleeding Earth ever faster to make the fossil 👹
9. make the fossil fuel monster go away and all live happily ever after in domes on Mars and towers in the desert that reach to the sky and...
Did y'all ever read Brave New World?
We're building it *as*fast*as*we*can*
I think it's a bad idea.
Did y'all ever read Brave New World?
We're building it *as*fast*as*we*can*
I think it's a bad idea.
10. Observe Lyla's reply. Revolutions in economies.
I believe that the structure wherein a few people control access to all the resources is hard-wired into a life where a few million people using huge machines produce all the food and sell it to the highest bidder.
I believe that the structure wherein a few people control access to all the resources is hard-wired into a life where a few million people using huge machines produce all the food and sell it to the highest bidder.
11. We call America a free country, and have all these hysterical pissing contests about Freedom of This or That and masks and vaccinations and...
Brave New World will be *better* than this now.
The people of America are absolutely controlled by the energy supply.
Brave New World will be *better* than this now.
The people of America are absolutely controlled by the energy supply.
12. We can't leave the house without paying money to the kings of energy.
And we can't stay home, either.
$30,000 will barely buy you a reliable new car, and we're squabbling over whether to pay people half that much a year ($7.50) or exactly that much a year ($15.00) before tax.
And we can't stay home, either.
$30,000 will barely buy you a reliable new car, and we're squabbling over whether to pay people half that much a year ($7.50) or exactly that much a year ($15.00) before tax.
13. And you cannot participate in the American economy without one of these things.
There is a reason poor people live in their cars.
You can live without a house, but you by God cannot participate in the economy without a car.
Except as a panhandler.
Gasoline. Insurance. Repairs
There is a reason poor people live in their cars.
You can live without a house, but you by God cannot participate in the economy without a car.
Except as a panhandler.
Gasoline. Insurance. Repairs
14. And the people living in their cars are not living in $30,000 minimal SUVs. They're living in $1,000 heaps.
With license plates.
But they can't vote.
No address.
With license plates.
But they can't vote.
No address.
15. The reason there are 8 billion people is vaccines, not industrial agriculture.
We just about reorganized the numbers last year and that event ain't over and we still could.
Yes, food is maldistributed. For God's sake, look at Yemen. The whole world ought to be horsewhipped.
We just about reorganized the numbers last year and that event ain't over and we still could.
Yes, food is maldistributed. For God's sake, look at Yemen. The whole world ought to be horsewhipped.
16. The Bible is the story of our fall from grace, but it doesn't offer the right solution.
The right solution is to once again become indigenous to Earth upon which we live.
To reassemble the parts we have left, and set the great global ecosystem loose to create within itself
The right solution is to once again become indigenous to Earth upon which we live.
To reassemble the parts we have left, and set the great global ecosystem loose to create within itself
17. everything it needs to absorb the carbon and feed the natives.
Which includes us. We came from here. We belong here. We need to make peace with Earth who is our larger self.
We do not exist without her.
All I got.
Which includes us. We came from here. We belong here. We need to make peace with Earth who is our larger self.
We do not exist without her.
All I got.
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