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A new dawn on a new day and I managed to get myself up and out of bed for a run. It took some coaxing, and a carafe of coffee, <\/span>but I managed<\/span><\/a>. I didn\u2019t run too far, I just am not feeling it. Overall, I\u2019m enjoying my day. Even if there are troubles, and certainly there are.
\n<\/span>9 days until the federally mandated deadline for the votes in the United States to be certified. I hope they can count everything properly before then and let everyone know this past month has just been a test. Apparently, last night, the presumptive cheeto-elect was made fun of on a comedy show and decided he needed to answer to how terrible it was. The guy is such an amazing loser. I\u2019m so ashamed. But I have decided on complete non-cooperation and complete resistance to all of it. Less than 80,000 people (if the results hold) would decide the fate of the world for at least 10 years, if not more. Considering, the disingenuous dominionist assholes in Congress blocked a legitimate Supreme Court nominee. <\/span>
\n<\/span>But whatever may come my way because of all this I will take it and smile. With the knowledge that the outcome is completely unimportant, assuming January 20th happens as it is currently planned, all one can do is smile, assured that the world of humanity is already dead. At that point it\u2019s about going out on my terms, in a way fitting a fighter. It amazes me how little progress has been made over the centuries. No matter what we learn, or what discoveries are made, there are always those who will demand to be ignorant, and they always find a way to gain power. This time I don\u2019t see any way out until it is too late. At which point, may as well go down swinging. <\/span>
\n<\/span>I will always help any and all who ask for my aid, and I will always look on all creatures as my family, but those who reject science, sense, knowledge, compassion, I no longer will care for without their express asking. If you cannot see past your own lifespan, to the greater extent of the impact of humanity on our planet, and indeed our own survival, you don\u2019t deserve a moment of my time. That\u2019s the problem, the fool looks on his own life as all that there is. They do not see, nor have any interest in, the larger story of the Earth, the Solar System, Galaxy, or Universe. Even if they are aware of these things, even if they enjoy hearing about them, they don\u2019t truly care. For if they did they would be able to see how small and insignificant their life is. Which is exactly why they do not wish to see, they wish to think of themselves as important and powerful men and women. The reality of the insignificance of one life is too much for their feeble minds to bear. <\/span>
\n<\/span>From there, why bother with any of it? Simple, while one life may be completely insignificant, all the lives together make a difference to the health and well-being of the Earth. Together, we all have an impact and make a lasting mark. Our mark at this point would be rightly called a skidmark. What has the modern human done to be proud of? We have surely destroyed the fragile ecosystem of the only planet we know of which can sustain us, and in return for what? Division of resources? Insanity! Anybody who looks at modern society with any pride, should be ashamed of themselves. Our greatest accomplishment is reaching our own natural satellite, and we did that over 40 years ago, and have not managed to do much more than that since. <\/span>
\n<\/span>Thousands of years from now, when the scars of our \u201ccivilization\u201d has been cleared from the land by the Earth, as it finally heals itself from the wounds we inflicted in our quest for nothing, and the Voyager probes are finally happened upon by some alien civilization exploring the Universe as they should, what will they think when they search through our location for signs of life? I imagine them letting out a pitiful laugh, a desperate chuckle as they realize we lacked the vision to survive. <\/span>
\n<\/span>So let\u2019s do more, let\u2019s move past this, let\u2019s accept that we are all going to die, and something new will come in our place. Let\u2019s work toward being the best we can be. Not having the most. Let\u2019s burn our money, burn our flags, tear down our Nations, tear down our walls. Let\u2019s be done with the old ways, and let\u2019s build something new in it\u2019s place. That is where we need to be.<\/span>
\n<\/span>We need a new way, and we need to base it off the simple idea that we are all born equal. No matter where on the planet you are born you are equal. You have a right to be here, you have a right to water, food, shelter, clothing, comfort. You have a right to be the person you are, and we do have to accept that we also have to respect other people and creatures as being equal, and we cannot take from them, nor force our views upon them without their consent. Since only humans seem able to consent in a way other humans may understand, then we cannot take from animals. We also cannot take from humans who do not yet understand consent. Nor can we force our ideas or morality on these creatures. This is a simple basis of all things which I have come to believe in this world. Yet, most fail to meet these standards, I even fail to meet these standards at times, as I eat eggs and drink, and eat milk and milk products. I will live by these ideas though, and I will not consent to be governed by people who lost a vote, yet still won via a method to keep slavery as an institution. I also refuse my consent to be governed by an institution which relies on Gerrymandering to keep its majority, as it could not win a fairly drawn district. They do not fit my philosophy, as they force their views on people, with no mandate, with no majority, with no consent from those they suppose to govern. <\/span>
\n<\/span>That\u2019s where I am today, it\u2019s time to get rid of all of this, and we have to start talking about ideas which will replace it, or we have to face our certain doom, and I mean all of humanity. The Earth will survive, yet we will be evicted, violently. Nature does not suffer fools, that is an absolute certainty. Individually, or as a species, if we don\u2019t listen to what the planet is telling us, it will remove us. We have a fossil record to prove that, it does not matter if you want to believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old, the fact is, it\u2019s much older and has seen much more than you can imagine, and it will ensure it\u2019s own survival, at the cost of yours. So you have a choice. You can move to make something sustainable now, which is the only way you can ensure yourself of having some lasting impact on the Universe, or we can continue on our way as we have been, which ensures our destruction and makes your life completely insignificant no matter what else may happen. Your life, as mine, will never be touted in a history book, but if we make real changes and make them now, and change our civilization, our consciousness, into something that lasts, those people who are across the Universe, Millenia from now, will be able to appreciate what we did. If not, there will be no one here to care about how much money you had, or how much property you owned, because those things are not real, and mean nothing. All the things we currently value and love, mean nothing.<\/span>
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