America: Back to the Basics of Life II
WORK.
By this I do not mean going and getting a job filing endless papers.
I mean get out of the towns and cities, and back to the land. If you love the Earth, get back to her, and start farming, start working the land, make it bloom with even more life. Farm, ranch, raise ducks, I don't care. It needs to be done, and farmers are a rare breed. Nobody really wants to do the hard work that keeps us all alive. No, they'd rather program a computer, get a job in a beauty salon, or listen to a demanding jerk of a boss and write boring report after boring report.
Ever wondered why you never really feel fulfilled in your job? Ever wondered why others never seem to be 'fulfilled' in their job? Because they aren't really working. They sit around all day, usually in front of a computer, and do basically nothing. At the end of their lives all they have to show is a bunch of papers and basically theoretical influence anywhere in the real world.
Have you ever paused to consider what it might be like to wake up early in the morning and look out over your fields in the glorious light of dawn? Have you ever paused to think what it would be like to pass on a legacy of the best sort: the legacy of the human race?
When you turn around and you're fifty something, will you be able to sigh, and think:
I've done something! I've accomplished something amazing. I fed how many hundreds of thousands of people with my crops, I given hope to people with their own livestock from my herds, I've grown organic, true-to-the-earth, food, whether plant or meat, and people have been blessed because of it. My children have something tangible I can give them, something truly theirs, that will continue to bless people near me, and elsewhere. My influence, my decision to be a farmer, a rancher, have perhaps caused others to follow in my footsteps, and we'll grow to be large again, a world of people who are true to the earth...and my children will be among them, amongst what I began, what I started, what I helped along. I helped tip the scales, and, though it was hard, I succeeded in life.
You can't pass on the position you had at work. If your children even go to the same workplace you were at, they still have to work their way up, and may, just possibly, never get there. If you worked the land, that land is yours, is theirs. All your progress, all your knowledge is passed along, and they pick up where you left off before you even drop the reins. They have something, because you started something.
Farming is hard work. It takes patience, money, time, and your whole lifestyle changes. But if you want to live, if you want others to live, it's the best thing to do. Your produce will go to the people in the community, and they'll spread the word. More people will want that same type of food, that same type of giving. And they'll start something on their own, simply because they demand it. More will work the land and help the world.
Whether you love the Earth or nay, you still need to eat to live. Others after you will need the same. That food must come from somewhere.
Right now, the world is in trouble. Too many countries left off growing food, and went to growing cash crops, like beets and corn, to make money for their countries for other things.
Now, world stores are emptying, the world's wheat store in Australia is now completely empty, and people don't create new types of seeds, so bugs and diseases hang around and get worse.
Countries can't support themselves if something happens to tip the scales for worse. Just think, right now, if America could exist without the imports from China and other countries. We have no textiles. We have no farms and ranches big enough and plenty enough to support our country. We have land going to waste, land being developed into neighborhoods that will be empty, and stay empty.
Countries around the world are below replacement level. That means that over half the people in their countries are aging and dying, and the young folk aren't having children. Abortion programs are specifically aimed at the poor and minorities, even in America, and people "wealthy enough" don't have more than one or two children, if they have any. Across Europe, whole villages are now ghost towns, because the last of the elderly folk there finally died, and there were no younger people to take over.
What few young people the world depends on to populate the world go to the cities and work in the offices there. Russia and China, most notably, can't pay people enough to go to the farms, work the land, and have children. Russia and China both have given couples days off at work and paid them thousands of their currencies to go home and have children. But even still, people won't do it. They want to have one child, and live the good life with lots of money and connections, and don't want to be "burdened" by children. As if children could ever be a burden!
Companies pay to get workers out into India and other notoriously poor and populated places to educate young women, and keep them from having children, telling them they have 'options' and that life would be better for us all if we just quit having more children.
What happens when we're all old, and there's no one to take care of us? Already, this is the case in America. The Baby Boom has now gone to the opposite end of the age scale, and there aren't enough people in the systems to pay for their retirement and take care of them in their old age. There just aren't enough people.
If every single person, man, woman, and child, down to the newest infant, was given one acre (even the baby, mind!), all of the world's population could fit inside Texas comfortably. What does that tell you about how low we are on people, world-wide?? Every man, woman, and child from all of China, Russia, India, Europe, America, everywhere could fit in the Lone Star State without a problem. The entire world could live in Texas. That is, quite frankly, scary.
Even scientists are getting jumpy about how low we're getting. But they don't do anything about it. They try to cover up the information, actually, so they can go on with global warming.
Global warming isn't so very plausible if every person in the world can fit inside Texas, now is it? It's based on what we humans give off, both by breathing out, and our waste. But if everyone can fit inside Texas, just how much waste must we have to give off to even barely affect the world, if it affects the world after all?
It's the same with our economy. We just ignore the information telling us imminent doom of our economy is barreling toward us, and go on like nothing's going to happen. We just ignore the information telling us that the global population of humans is too low to continue without drastic measures, and go on like nothing's going to change.
But we can change it, if we know the facts. These are the facts, pure and simple. If we broadcast them, and make the necessary changes to ensure we live on, that we can feed ourselves, and make ourselves better, we can make the difference nobody wants to say we desperately need to make.
We are the generation that can, quite literally, save the world. All we have to do is start.... working.
Thoughts?
By this I do not mean going and getting a job filing endless papers.
I mean get out of the towns and cities, and back to the land. If you love the Earth, get back to her, and start farming, start working the land, make it bloom with even more life. Farm, ranch, raise ducks, I don't care. It needs to be done, and farmers are a rare breed. Nobody really wants to do the hard work that keeps us all alive. No, they'd rather program a computer, get a job in a beauty salon, or listen to a demanding jerk of a boss and write boring report after boring report.
Ever wondered why you never really feel fulfilled in your job? Ever wondered why others never seem to be 'fulfilled' in their job? Because they aren't really working. They sit around all day, usually in front of a computer, and do basically nothing. At the end of their lives all they have to show is a bunch of papers and basically theoretical influence anywhere in the real world.
Have you ever paused to consider what it might be like to wake up early in the morning and look out over your fields in the glorious light of dawn? Have you ever paused to think what it would be like to pass on a legacy of the best sort: the legacy of the human race?
When you turn around and you're fifty something, will you be able to sigh, and think:
I've done something! I've accomplished something amazing. I fed how many hundreds of thousands of people with my crops, I given hope to people with their own livestock from my herds, I've grown organic, true-to-the-earth, food, whether plant or meat, and people have been blessed because of it. My children have something tangible I can give them, something truly theirs, that will continue to bless people near me, and elsewhere. My influence, my decision to be a farmer, a rancher, have perhaps caused others to follow in my footsteps, and we'll grow to be large again, a world of people who are true to the earth...and my children will be among them, amongst what I began, what I started, what I helped along. I helped tip the scales, and, though it was hard, I succeeded in life.
You can't pass on the position you had at work. If your children even go to the same workplace you were at, they still have to work their way up, and may, just possibly, never get there. If you worked the land, that land is yours, is theirs. All your progress, all your knowledge is passed along, and they pick up where you left off before you even drop the reins. They have something, because you started something.
Farming is hard work. It takes patience, money, time, and your whole lifestyle changes. But if you want to live, if you want others to live, it's the best thing to do. Your produce will go to the people in the community, and they'll spread the word. More people will want that same type of food, that same type of giving. And they'll start something on their own, simply because they demand it. More will work the land and help the world.
Whether you love the Earth or nay, you still need to eat to live. Others after you will need the same. That food must come from somewhere.
Right now, the world is in trouble. Too many countries left off growing food, and went to growing cash crops, like beets and corn, to make money for their countries for other things.
Now, world stores are emptying, the world's wheat store in Australia is now completely empty, and people don't create new types of seeds, so bugs and diseases hang around and get worse.
Countries can't support themselves if something happens to tip the scales for worse. Just think, right now, if America could exist without the imports from China and other countries. We have no textiles. We have no farms and ranches big enough and plenty enough to support our country. We have land going to waste, land being developed into neighborhoods that will be empty, and stay empty.
Countries around the world are below replacement level. That means that over half the people in their countries are aging and dying, and the young folk aren't having children. Abortion programs are specifically aimed at the poor and minorities, even in America, and people "wealthy enough" don't have more than one or two children, if they have any. Across Europe, whole villages are now ghost towns, because the last of the elderly folk there finally died, and there were no younger people to take over.
What few young people the world depends on to populate the world go to the cities and work in the offices there. Russia and China, most notably, can't pay people enough to go to the farms, work the land, and have children. Russia and China both have given couples days off at work and paid them thousands of their currencies to go home and have children. But even still, people won't do it. They want to have one child, and live the good life with lots of money and connections, and don't want to be "burdened" by children. As if children could ever be a burden!
Companies pay to get workers out into India and other notoriously poor and populated places to educate young women, and keep them from having children, telling them they have 'options' and that life would be better for us all if we just quit having more children.
What happens when we're all old, and there's no one to take care of us? Already, this is the case in America. The Baby Boom has now gone to the opposite end of the age scale, and there aren't enough people in the systems to pay for their retirement and take care of them in their old age. There just aren't enough people.
If every single person, man, woman, and child, down to the newest infant, was given one acre (even the baby, mind!), all of the world's population could fit inside Texas comfortably. What does that tell you about how low we are on people, world-wide?? Every man, woman, and child from all of China, Russia, India, Europe, America, everywhere could fit in the Lone Star State without a problem. The entire world could live in Texas. That is, quite frankly, scary.
Even scientists are getting jumpy about how low we're getting. But they don't do anything about it. They try to cover up the information, actually, so they can go on with global warming.
Global warming isn't so very plausible if every person in the world can fit inside Texas, now is it? It's based on what we humans give off, both by breathing out, and our waste. But if everyone can fit inside Texas, just how much waste must we have to give off to even barely affect the world, if it affects the world after all?
It's the same with our economy. We just ignore the information telling us imminent doom of our economy is barreling toward us, and go on like nothing's going to happen. We just ignore the information telling us that the global population of humans is too low to continue without drastic measures, and go on like nothing's going to change.
But we can change it, if we know the facts. These are the facts, pure and simple. If we broadcast them, and make the necessary changes to ensure we live on, that we can feed ourselves, and make ourselves better, we can make the difference nobody wants to say we desperately need to make.
We are the generation that can, quite literally, save the world. All we have to do is start.... working.
Thoughts?
1 Comment
It's really sad that no one wants to listen to the truth. They just want to complain and 'be depressed.' And when others (like us) tell them the truth, we're just mean, and should shut up. Really, people?? If you figured it out enough, you'd realize we're trying to help! Maybe we should let you all fall down the drain when the government collapses. Then perhaps you'll wake up and remember what we said in the beginning.
Great work, Gwiazdy!!