It’s interesting to see what giving up personal agency, over to the hands of Ai and algorithms, will eventually lead to. I get the argument for- that by the control of all our resources, via our behavior, we will be able to live sustainably off our planet. Notice the word off, because in this future we are truly not part of the earth and we are not from or with her and she is not our mother. We are in control of the earth, it’s resources, it’s inhabitants that we harvest for ourselves and we have rights over every being and every thing.
Unfortunately this is not something that can exist and has never existed and is in its fullest expression the wound of separation.
So yes it is up to anyone of us, who value our place In the dance of life to resist this movement, done in the name of our own good, ( sound familiar?) and to create culture and community where personal agency and responsibility to our physical place feels good. Where personal power is not gained by being over another but because of relationship with each other. Where we can feel. Feel human and feel what is mystery and what is greater than us.
I also had to stop listening to bbc radio four a couple years ago and am lucky enough to be able to have personal relationship with gamers and eat local. Commercial food i the USA, even the organic labels are rapidly becoming less and less tolerable to us as we deal with ongoing auto immune issues and chronic mystery Illnesses. And I’m grateful to my substack that allow me to stay informed but not bombarded. Thanks for this piece!
Beautifully put. On the food in the US point, for a while I followed an American couple who'd moved to Mexico on YouTube (Tangerine Travels). The young woman had long been allergic to many foods and could only eat very selectively. After she's moved to Mexico, she gradually discovered she could eat everything without reaction.
it's such a vicious cycle, people forget that the cows are fed on gmo corn in feedlots pumped full of antibiotics and then that fertiliser is used to grow more gmo corn and soy etc on lifecycles that gradually get more and more toxic. And honestly I don't know the most of it. but I do know how real food feels in my body, how nourishing it is and how much less of it I need to eat. i have land off grid with no cell phone reception and there i hardly ever have the urge for sweet food. maybe its just how quiet it is and how my nervous system responds. but yes, its not healthy! I have heard over and over also of gluten intolerant people enjoying pastries in Europe as well.
IDK, but my first thought was soil depletion in industrial agriculture. Penny Kelly good on this kind of stuff. And now I remember TT woman mentioning a report of crops at the US/Mexican border being sprayed by guys in hazmat suits! Can't verify that though.
Soil desertification is real and to the point of famines world-wide if we don’t start putting organic matter in the arable soil. Eating crops grown on depleted soil we end up with depleted bodies and minds.
It’s interesting to see what giving up personal agency, over to the hands of Ai and algorithms, will eventually lead to. I get the argument for- that by the control of all our resources, via our behavior, we will be able to live sustainably off our planet. Notice the word off, because in this future we are truly not part of the earth and we are not from or with her and she is not our mother. We are in control of the earth, it’s resources, it’s inhabitants that we harvest for ourselves and we have rights over every being and every thing.
Unfortunately this is not something that can exist and has never existed and is in its fullest expression the wound of separation.
So yes it is up to anyone of us, who value our place In the dance of life to resist this movement, done in the name of our own good, ( sound familiar?) and to create culture and community where personal agency and responsibility to our physical place feels good. Where personal power is not gained by being over another but because of relationship with each other. Where we can feel. Feel human and feel what is mystery and what is greater than us.
I also had to stop listening to bbc radio four a couple years ago and am lucky enough to be able to have personal relationship with gamers and eat local. Commercial food i the USA, even the organic labels are rapidly becoming less and less tolerable to us as we deal with ongoing auto immune issues and chronic mystery Illnesses. And I’m grateful to my substack that allow me to stay informed but not bombarded. Thanks for this piece!
Beautifully put. On the food in the US point, for a while I followed an American couple who'd moved to Mexico on YouTube (Tangerine Travels). The young woman had long been allergic to many foods and could only eat very selectively. After she's moved to Mexico, she gradually discovered she could eat everything without reaction.
it's such a vicious cycle, people forget that the cows are fed on gmo corn in feedlots pumped full of antibiotics and then that fertiliser is used to grow more gmo corn and soy etc on lifecycles that gradually get more and more toxic. And honestly I don't know the most of it. but I do know how real food feels in my body, how nourishing it is and how much less of it I need to eat. i have land off grid with no cell phone reception and there i hardly ever have the urge for sweet food. maybe its just how quiet it is and how my nervous system responds. but yes, its not healthy! I have heard over and over also of gluten intolerant people enjoying pastries in Europe as well.
maybe because of less 5G towers in Mexico? also ‘chronic mystery illness’ maybe be relate to ionized radiation? (cell phone, 5G)
IDK, but my first thought was soil depletion in industrial agriculture. Penny Kelly good on this kind of stuff. And now I remember TT woman mentioning a report of crops at the US/Mexican border being sprayed by guys in hazmat suits! Can't verify that though.
Soil desertification is real and to the point of famines world-wide if we don’t start putting organic matter in the arable soil. Eating crops grown on depleted soil we end up with depleted bodies and minds.
Vaios, have you been following Allen Savory and his Holistic Management?
https://youtu.be/q7pI7IYaJLI
Hi Helen, I will watch it. Here is someone who traveled 30,000 Km on a motorcycle and reached 3.5 billion people with the message: Save soil.
Here is his 6 min message on the small video on the right under the banner.
https://consciousplanet.org/
That was meant to read farmers not gamers :)
On point thank you for these deep insights for a better way forward.