LOVE AMERICAN STYLE

Take a good look at this.

This is what America’s ignorance looks like.

As I write this, our slimy, toxic, and reeking ignorance ….is drifing toward the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts in the form of a massive oil slick.

It’s as if we are about to be force-fed our own bile.

Yet, at this moment, most of us still remain head-over-heels in love with all of our technology. It can do no wrong.  It will always save us.

Our ability to drill deep holes into the Earth’s ocean floor, and then extract the hydrocarbons, so we can make plastic and power our fancy machines with it…..impresses us so.  

Our starry eyes don’t blink.

But the blindness of that love, has lead to this ignorance.

And our ability to communicate through “texts” and “tweets” over oceans about this very catastrophe, blows away our love sick minds, even though whales have been communicating across oceans…….for eons.

The eons upon eons before primal man even emerged.

Yet we’ll continue to clamor and fuss over the next great electronic communication gizmo…and get so excited… and distracted.

We are deepy and madly in love, indeed.

As of late, I have a primal feeling that the Earth is not impressed with our latest technologies, and that we are going to get only so many “tough-love” warnings from her.

Today, Going Primal advocate Bill McKibben was on NPR.  He was giving out some warnings of his own. Try listening to Bill out of love for the Earth, not the fear of her.

Because it’s the Earth we need to fall in love with.

 

“Bill McKibben’s Eaarth Warning” – NPR Radio

http://www.onpointradio.org/2010/04/bill-mckibbens-eaarth-warning

THE NATION THAT “CRIED WOLF”

On the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day, the sinking of  the “Deepwater Horizon”  in the Gulf of Mexico today oozes irony. 

From the killer bee invasion that never was……… to Y2K…….to the H1N1 virus……….people in the USA have a right to be cynical about believing our mainstream media’s coverage of  “man-made global warming”.

But don’t forget – the boy was eventually eaten by the wolf.

And….what if man-made global warming is not about “believing” or “not believing”?

HOW IT ALL ENDS :     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_anaVcCXg

HOW FREE ARE YOU?

“NONE ARE MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED AS THOSE WHO FALSELY BELIEVE THEY ARE FREE” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Like most people raised and still living in the United States in 2010, I have always considered myself to be “free”.  Afterall, I enjoy so many cherished freedoms, like the right to vote, worship as I wish, live where I want…….and even leave the country if I desire.

However, as I have gotten older, I  have come to rethink what being “free” really  means.

Are we really as “free” as we believe we are…. in the first place?

If so, is this as good as “freedom” gets?

Or is there an even a higher level of freedom out there –  if  we open our minds to it?

What’s triggered me to question what being “free” actually means …….is the sad fact that despite all the freedoms and choices our country has to offer, millions of Americans have become enslaved by their own lives.

They don’t own their lives – their lives own them.

Specifically, the stuff they own, and the pace they run to obtain that stuff….owns them. And most of this stuff….. is stuff they want, not stuff they need.

I know this, because I used to be one of those people. And still am to a certain degree.

How and why do most of us fall prey to this deceptive form of enslavement?

Jim Merkel knows. And he is enlightening people:

 

“Radically Simple”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA9PjVdqYMs

Who is Jim Merkel? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuT5SGUUNrg