The Hero's Journey

Rudolph Steiner wrote about reality as composed fundamentally of sound - that is, vibration.  He spoke of a range of vibration that travelled through the spectrum of vowel sounds, from A-E-I-O-U.  These sounds composed reality, he reasoned.

There may be anecdotal evidence.  God is Jah, Allah, Wakan Tanka, Yahweh.   Steiner spoke of this end of the vowel spectrum as being the masculine God, which, as it loses connection with its own center (the Tao), inherently decays into own perverse antithesis  - excessive yang, with the characteristics of automatons.  Ahriman is the name of the anti-deity residing within the syllable, according to Steiner.  Likewise, the Goddess side of the vowel spectrum, represented by "Uu," represents yin, and as it loses its relationship to the middle-center-way of the Tao it inherently decays into yin's perverse antithesis.  Lucifer is the name of the anti-deity residing within the syllable of the other end of the vowel spectrum - Uu.  Ah to Uu.  Ahriman to Lucifer.  The aspiration for unity decays into the prison of conformity - order.  This is the realm of Ahriman.  The aspiration for diversity decays into the prison of endless variety without center or focus - chaos.  This is the realm of Lucifer.  Either extreme is excessive, and balance between the two must be maintained.  This is the Tao, or the Way - the Way of the Middle Path.  
 
 
The uninitiated masculine is the thinking mind.  Men and women both contain this uninitiated masculine; it is ungrounded, and thus excessive, yang energy.  It is the energy of our thoughts, our language-using center, our ego, our monkey-mind.  The uninitiated feminine is the feeling body, which both men and women have.  The body is unconscious, feeling, instinctive, and thoughtless.  It is ungrounded, and thus excessive, yin energy.  Both aspects of the self require initiation in order to be whole.

  The uninitiated masculine enters the path that leads to the Dark Tower - the endless labyrinthine prison of the ego.  The destruction of the ego is the destruction of the dark tower, and the annihilating chaos which follows is the wasteland.  The journey through the wasteland is the dark night of the soul, which leads to the garden, where the water is.  At long last, water is found!  And so the feminine enters the picture, and the terrible empty masculine logic of the wasteland is forgotten.  

Yet water is wily in its ways.  You can't pin it down, it's always one thing turning into another.  It has no real shape, just capacity to manifest any shape.  Consciousness itself is actually responsible for choosing the shape of water.  Water itself is shapeless and formless.  

To follow the metaphor, Looking-for-her is Lucifer.  If you are chasing after the allures of the feminine, He's - I mean she's - gotcha.  Not because there is anything wrong with the feminine, but because water is mutable and changes as soon as you think you can count on it.  Water is not solid and is not stable as a foundation.  Water is change.

What this means, if Steiner is to be believed, is that the pendulum swing away from the atrocities of Trump - I mean Ahriman -  towards the feminine may not be the end of the story.  The reawakening of the divine feminine may need to contain within it a reference to the divine masculine - the initiated masculine, the consciousness that has seen beyond the inherent change of the world, the world of infinite desire, represented by water, the feminine, and Lucifer.  This initiated masculine has let go of thinking in order to find freedom and has also let go of the allure of feeling and its inherent unsatiablilty.  This consciousness is completely undesirous of the absolute, seeing the relentless pursuit of the eternal as ultimately an odious descent into judgment and condemnation, the conformist and intolerant fundamentalism of Ahriman.  The pursuit of something eternally perfect in an ever-changing world reveals a discontent with the perfection of a changing creation.  This initiated masculine sees both the pursuit of the absolute and the pursuit of the relative - the pursuit of God and the pursuit of the Goddess - as ultimately unsatisfactory.  We've all heard the stories of the saintly gurus from Asia who come to America and can't help having bad, immature sex with their students - they have realized God within themselves, but are still pursuing the Goddess outside of themselves.  The initiated masculine is a tantric, and has become whole.  He pursues nothing, and is merely present with what is, accepting the reality of paradox being perceived by perceiver.

  By turning to perceive the perceiver, the mind sees itself, like pouring water into water.  This is the end of philosophy, the final conclusion of thought, the disappearance of language, like a mirror being held in front of another mirror - mere awareness without content, described by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche as "emptiness and light."  This is the nondual state,  which the Tibetans call Rigpa, the pinnacle of Dzogchen.  This is Mahamudra, the nondual state that remains in the world.  Neither favoring samsara nor nirvana, but finding the paradoxical seed of its own opposite deep within all phenomena,  the initiated, self-aware consciousness chooses neither yin nor yang, neither Lucifer nor Ahriman, but the Tao, the center between opposites.

One of my meditation teachers (a woman, of course) stayed in the nondual state Rigpa for six weeks, while working as a consultant for Kaiser Permanente.  Truly, the interweaving of opposites!  Emptiness is form, and form is emptiness.  They are interpenetrating and interwoven.  Nirvana is found within the context of samsara, and samsara is found within the context of nirvana. The path of profound initiation is Tantra.

Thus the journey to the dark tower and beyond, through the wasteland, to the garden and the waters, does not end with the revival of the divine feminine.  The goddess is desire herself, life existing as desire itself, desire itself manifesting as life.  Women sound so sexy when they screw that some angels actually chose to fall out of heaven into the physical realm just to hanky panky with the very creation they helped create.  And by procreating, these very angels close the door to the road home!  Awkward truth, that.  Physical life takes place within the realm of desire - the desire to have sex and procreate.  Life is desire, and desire leads to sex and death.

Beyond desire is the realm beyond life and death, the realm of the Tao, the realm found in non-meditation, the realm of nonduality.  Thus the end of the hero's journey is the return to the self, having discovered the true life available beyond both ego and instinct, and the true nature beyond the empty impermanence of true life.

The endless pursuit of desire may indeed be the work of Lucifer, may it not?  I'm being told by my tinfoil hat-wearing sources that Lucifereans have been secretly running things for a long time - this would explain a lot about modern capitalism and the endless pursuit of desire, right?  And according to Steiner, Lucifer represents the extreme yin element - the feminine.  We have escaped a wrathful, judgmental and adolescent Patriarchal God only to be seduced by an unquenchably slutty Goddess!  The Lucifereans who have been selfishly building a world of insatiable desire and suffering are doing the work of the Dark Goddess - the Black Madonna, Isis!

So fascist Trump Ahriman is not the answer, and sexy Isis Lucifer is not the answer either.  Between the extremes of Aa and Uu is...

...A-E-I-O-U...

Any guesses?  Anyone?  Beuller?

Between the extremes of Ahriman and Lucifer is the I of Christ.  This is the Way, the Tao.  The initiated consciousness is at long last revealed as the consciousness of Christ, a state of unconditional love for all beings.  Only when we learn to practice infinite compassion for both Ahriman Trump and Isis Lucifer are we whole.  Not easy, that.  Of course, as any decent parent knows, real love contains within it both forgiveness and accountability, yin and yang, the divine feminine and the divine masculine...

So.  After the dark tower of the ego, and the wasteland of language, and the goddess of the body, we at long last encounter the irrational wisdom of the heart.  Faith overcomes logic, kindness overcomes reason, and love overcomes hatred.  Love is illogical, and the universe is built out of it.  Come to terms with that, if you can.  And if you can't, just surrender to it anyway because it's paradoxically true.

And so from the blind obedience of patriarchy we evolve through the chaotic allure of the goddess and ultimately arrive at a place of peace where desires are set aside, even the desire for wholeness and completeness, and only love remains.  This is the Hero's Journey - the return home to wholeness, the path leading to the self.  The mind cannot find peace.  Peace returns to letting-go mind.

I like to think that the Aa of Ahriman is in my head, and the Uu of Lucifer is in my you-know-what, and the I of Christ dwells halfway between the two, in my heart.  Of course, you could go the other way around, from the Uu to the Aa, and end up mushing them together, like an Uu-aa, like a
Buu-ddhaa.  Buddha and Christ - same same only different. Both balance the extremes of yin and yang, dwelling in the center of the heart, promoting the Middle Way, the Way of the Tao.
 
The hero's journey - the journey to the self - goes like this:
"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of our exploring will be to return to where we started, and know the place for the first time."

I love you so much, if you only knew...
(It's what compels me to write- )

Art as Prophecy

Relatives, we create what we believe.  This is the function of art - creating belief.

Creativity is the opposite of conformity.  Samsara in contrast with Nirvana may be likened to diversity in contrast with unity - yin relating with yang, Shakti relating with Siva.  The relative really likes to relate through relationship, while the absolute really likes to be absolutely free and all alone.

Conformity limits possibility, whereas creativity creates possibilities.  Art opens up possibilities in society.  Divinely inspired creative expression is our highest purpose.  Good art envisions what is possible and manifests it where no one saw its possibility before.  Art is thus manifesting creative vision, for no other purpose than to manifest creative vision.  Lila - the play of life.

Art envisions possibilities where none were seen before - this is the manifestation of creative vision.  Is not what we mistakenly call prophecy - seeing the future - really a function of creative genius - envisioning and manifesting the future?  Or rather, if time really is cyclical and the Golden Age is really beginning again, are not both prophecy and creative genius functions of remembering the future?  Culture follows art, and history follows culture, forever attempting to consume her - history is the attempt to cover up her story, right?  The literal conquering of other languages and the propagation of our own is the eradication of the goddess to make room for the Kingdom of God, is it not?

Or is it not possible for artistic genius to foresee the needs of the future, and design them into civilization through art?

Noticing unmet market demand and providing a supply is a form of entrepreneurial creative genius - seeing what others don't, creating opportunity -

Isn't it possible for artistic genius to notice unmet market demand and provide a supply of meaning - via storytelling?

The creative force moving through the artist which compels her or him to manifest a vision of reality - is this not the same Holy Spirit that moves through the prophet, compelling him or her to foresee a vision of reality?

I posit that art is in the business of creating possible realities and selling them on the open marketplace.  The greatest masterpiece is the greatest possible consensus reality.  Think of it as a collaboration, involving absolutely all of us...

The Story of the Aina

  Aina is a Hawaiian word that means, "Land."  The story of the Aina is the story of the land.

The story of the land is the story of the body.  Do you see?  Mother Nature is the body of the world, which has been systematically exploited and silenced to make room for man's theories, religions, histories, philosophies, and justifications.  Likewise, our own bodies, which are irrefutably critical to any theory, have been neglected in order to glorify our thinking, neurotic, self-reflexive egos.  Which are terribly embarrassed about being a body, actually.

The story of the land is the story of the body.  If our thinking minds are our conscious aspect, our intuiting bodies are our subconscious aspect.  The story of the land is the story of the subconscious, the story of our intuitive, instinctive knowing, the story of the feminine, the story of Yin.  The story of the land is her story, as opposed to history.  History is the story of how the language we are using came to be, the story of how logic slowly overtook mystery as the alphabet replaced the Goddess.  Her story is the story of the land, the story of the body, the story of water, the story of art.

History is the story of language, and so history may be directly written down.  Her story is the story of the body and the world of the senses, and may not be accurately written down but must be directly perceived.  History is rational and linear and her story is creative play - history is language, and her story is art.  History is the past, and her story is in the present.  The entirety of history is Siva, while the entirety of her story is Shakti.  History is to be taken literally, while her story is seen to be metaphor.  The story of the Aina is her story:  the story of art, and culture, the story of the waters, the story of life.

The land and the body and the feminine and the waters and the arts and music and yin have been marginalized, to our collective disadvantage.  Our uninitiated, imbalanced civilization has worshipped the blazing dominance of yang and feared the shadow of yin.  The story of the Aina is the story of making peace with our shadow, the story of making peace with nature, the story of making peace with our fears, the story of making peace with our bodies, the story of creating healthy relationship with the "other".  The story of the Aina is the story of our ego's surrender at long last to experiential truth.

The story of the ego is all about what makes us unique, but the story of the Aina is about what we all have in common.  To hear the body we must quiet the mind, and to hear the Aina we must quiet our philosophies, our religions, and our politics.  Listening to the body teaches us to listen to the land, and vice versa.

The story of the land has been suppressed in order to propagate the story of the language which conquered her.  The map which reveals the territory has attempted to usurp the territory.  Explanations for why-things-are have attempted to replace authentic, preconceptual being.

Reality is paradoxically illogical.

We have been raised on one story:  the story of the two-leggeds.  There is far more to this story, that we are only now discovering.  The story of the two leggeds has been passed down to us as our story, but the story of the land which nurtured the two-leggeds, the story of the context that nurtured the content, was buried. The two-leggeds have long forgotten the story of the land, because we have forgotten how to be quiet and listen. We are remembering how to be silent, and we are remembering how to listen, and we are hearing the story of the Aina, and we are remembering the time when we all knew this story - the story of how to live.

 The story of the Aina goes like this:  A healthy ecology is the foundation of a healthy economy.  Economics is nothing more complicated than the distribution of ecological resources.  Silicon Valley is fundamentally ecological, is it not?
Eco-logos = design of a household
Eco-Nomos = management of a household

Resource distribution depends upon well-designed, sustainable resource creation and maintenance.
A healthy ecology is the goose that lays golden eggs, feeding and sheltering and nurturing and healing everyone.  Destroying the ecology is equivalent to killing the goose that lays golden eggs.  The story of the two-leggeds is the story of Yang fearing the incredible potency of Yin, and aspiring to conquer or destroy her rather than surrender to her grace, and dance with her.  The story of the Aina is the story of compassion, forgiveness, and healing, in spite of ourselves.  To heal the economy we must heal the ecology, and in the process, we discover that we are actually healing ourselves.

The Aina is telling us that gardening needs to be the centerpiece of public education.   Ecological investment reaps economic dividends, so to heal our global economy the coming generations must be radically competent stewards.  We must teach children to garden.  It's time.

Vipassana tantra

Uphekkshanam means equanimity.  It was a word used by the Buddha to describe a mental quality perhaps best described as 'accepting'.  A mind full of equanimity has no desire for things to be other than they are - there is no craving, and no aversion.  Pure contentment, pure acceptance.  Mere perception, without judgment.  There is no judgment, no reaction, mere perception, mere compassion.

Uphekkshanam is a state of mind that meditators aspire to, and often fail to achieve.  Meditators are good at concentrating, but many have not cultivated a nervous system that can handle the true neurological implications of deep physiological equanimity.  Overcoming the desire to move when your back hurts is nothing compared to overcoming the desire to argue when you're triggered, let alone the desire to orgasm when your lover wiggles their hips a certain way... in the greatest of ironies, the sexiest, most sensitive people are the ones most easily pulled away from sacred sexuality into conventional orgasmic sex.

You see, real equanimity is a neurological state of physiological relaxation and peace that is cultivated by experiencing physical, somatic pleasure (or pain) without reacting to it with craving, or aversion.  Tattoos and piercing can be said to be both addictive and possibly therapeutic(!) because they also tap into deep states of consciousness and peace by experiencing tremendous pain without reacting to it with aversion.  According to the Buddha, these tantric practices would qualify as equanimity training.  Indian ascetics have been doing such exercises for thousands of years.

This tantric cultivation of nonreactivity touches us deep in our subconscious, where our sexual and survival urges reside.  Vipassana meditation leads to non reactivity, but non reactivity developed in a meditation hall depends upon a pristine context, or environment, to stay nonreactive.  In other words, equanimity may be practiced in the monastery but it is demanded on the battlefield.

Both pleasure and pain lead us into reactivity, and cultivating a path of nonreactivity that avoids both pleasure and pain can be said to be an aversion to the world of the senses, craving nibbana and rejecting samsara.  In the fractal cosmos, where out-there recapitulates in-here,   we crave the emptying completion of orgasm just as we crave the emptying completion of death and nibbana, and we do everything to avoid the ravenous hunger of unsatiated desire just as we avoid the ravenous hunger of insatiable samsara and the ravenous uncertainty of an unknowable future.  Monastics who hide from sex and pain and life and uncertainty are hiding from samsara, are they not?  Bodhisattvas must be brave, indeed.

Real equanimity requires a balanced attitude towards the world of the senses, adoring it, tolerating it, disdaining it, not attaching to it.   It involves controlling our instinctive reactions during pleasure and pain, and one of many ways to train for it is by making love while mastering the urge to orgasm.  (It can also be trained for by getting lots of tattoos without wincing, which is weird but true.)  In fact, our survival as a finite global ecology requires that we learn about sexuality in this way - the sexual urge overwhelms us on so many different occasions our mastery of it is required for sustainable civilization.  Our collective failure to master the sexual urge has led to an overpopulated planet full of insecurity, violence, and pain.  Cultivating neurological equanimity through sexual mastery is the fast path to enlightenment - far superior to conventional sex, which cannot sustain people or planet.  Of course, the potential exists to fall into the hell of the neurotic and compulsive passions - but hey, we're already there, and we've been there our whole lives, right?  So there's nothing to fear.  Because sexual promiscuity is already the new normal, it makes sense to promote sexual equanimity through tantra as a path to peace and the means to balance the energies of the sexes, the energies of yin and yang.  This is the path of the Way, the Tao.

There are three kinds of sex:

Procreational sex (creation of babies)
recreational sex (creation of pleasure)
transformational sex (creation of power)

My understanding is that forces of black tantra are blanketing the globe with satanic sex rituals in an attempt to cultivate more power.  As this power is fear-based, it really has no strength against love.  When transformational sex is used without compassion, fear runs things.  When transformational sex is practiced with compassion, love runs things.  We have to learn about tantra, and we have to practice proper tantra, because the dark forces are using it as much as possible, taking maximum advantage of our ignorance.  We must overcome the powerful creations of fear with the far more powerful creations of love.

The sex drive is actually an orgasm drive, which can be overridden by bringing the sexual energy into the heart through the will - the practice of compassion.  Think of our chakra system -  moving our energy from our sex organs to our heart requires passing it through our belly manipura chakra, which is the center of willpower.  Moving our sexual energy into our hearts requires an act of will.  If we don't have the willpower, we orgasm, and allow the energy to dissipate.

Thus the sex drive may evolve into a love drive, with discipline.  The sexual urge is actually an orgasm urge, and yet this urge yearns to climb the nervous system's ladder to higher levels of intelligence, yearning to love and be loved, by bringing the sexual energy into the heart through the practice of compassion.  Practicing compassion is an act of will.

In meditation, we learn to observe somatic sensations without reacting to them - this is equanimity, and it actually rewires our nervous system.  In tantric lovemaking, we learn to observe sensations without reacting to them - this is tantric  equanimity,  and it totally rewires the human nervous system at its most primitive level.  What does sex look like when the orgasm drive is removed?  It actually looks a bit goalless, like mere relationship for relationship's sake.  This is the healing dance between the primordial opposites of yin and yang, this is the Tao, the Way - the interpenetration of opposites.  Tantra.  Contemporary talking heads call it karezza - tantric sex, sex without desire, sex without animalistic compulsion.  Angel sex, not donkey sex, but never quote me.

Once we recognize that we want out of the 'feed and breed' domesticated slave life of our lower nature, we tend to yearn for spiritual life, and so we attempt to renounce craving and aversion at the somatic level.  But if we choose celibacy, we may actually be cultivating aversion as much as equanimity.  As westerners we still have sex, which feeds the ultimate craving.  We cannot overcome desire without overcoming the desire to orgasm - and so we repress our sexuality.  This is one very common way to begin spiritual life.

Repressing our sexuality is really just a form of aversion.  We are averse to sexuality, because it ruins our equanimity.  But this is the key - sexuality doesn't ruin our equanimity, orgasm does!  Orgasm destroys our equanimity, but sex can actually be good for it, if we pull the energy into our manipura chakra, which harnesses the energy as willpower and gives us the strength to not orgasm and love instead.  We can actually move away from orgasm by moving deeper into sexuality, but this requires real partnership, real willpower, and real compassion.  We don't need less sex, or more sex, we need sexual maturity, to cultivate mastery, by which we usher in a world of harmony between yin and yang.

Tantric sex?   The key to world peace?  Gimme a break!  Who makes this shit up, honestly?

Fascia Tantra

Women's rules different and men's rules are vastly different. Men's rules make religions, governments, and wars. Women's rules make babies, families, and communities. The time has come to play by some of the women's rules - we've spent a few thousand years doing it men's way, and we have a little too much war, inequality, oppression, religion, and government.  We need more peace and less war, we need more women's rules and less men's rules.

The trouble is women dont mean what they say. Women trust their bodies, their feelings, and their intuition much more than their thoughts, which is where words come from. Men, who are much more stuck in their heads, believe their thoughts, and thus their words, much more than their bodies and their instincts.

Consequently, men believe what women say, even though what women say is often and regularly not what women mean. For women, the somatic truth changes from moment to moment, so what they said in the past has no relevance to the present. Men are less instinctive and more logical, so the theoretical "truth" is memorized and frozen in memory, long after it stops being true. So men "stick to their word" while a "women's prerogative is to change her mind".

Men need to stop believing what they think and say, and start listening to what they feel. This requires a lot less caffeine! It matters, cause we need to make peace between the sexes if we are to have peace in the world.

In medieval times, when Da Vinci and others were dissecting bodies for the first time in the modern era, they would dissect anatomically following the line of least resistance.   By following the line of least resistance, the anatomists were cutting through fascia - the web of connective tissue, today called the "organ of posture", that holds all the parts together.  The anatomists disregarded fascia, didn't even realize it was there - they just cut through it on their way to the more exciting stuff.  Fascia is the interconnectivity of the body - it is the conduit through which separate parts relate.  Fascia is the perfect metaphor for tantra - tantra is not this or that, but the technique by which this and that relate.  Tantra is the technique by which opposites relate.  Tantra is the healthy relationship between self and other.  

Without it, we end up living in a world of poor, nonexistent, or armored boundaries - we are condemned to fear the other, and/or get exploited by the other.  In the modern West we are required to close our hearts to have safe (invulnerable) sex,  or we are required to close off our sexuality to have safely open hearts.

Relatives, making babies is only worthwhile if we have a sustainable civilization to pass on to them.  We are responsible for healing ourselves and our invisible wounds, that we might heal the world, to make it a safe place for babies to be born into.  We are responsible for healing ourselves sexually and somatically in order to be whole.  We are ready for a new paradigm - the public is clamoring for a viable alternative to our present unsustainable culture.  Relatives, we are ready for a new Way - there is huge market demand for a compelling vision of sustainable civilization.  And it all must be based on our relationship with ourselves, healed through meditation, and our relationship with other, healed through tantra - 

Of gentiles and genitalia

Hypothesis:  Any culture that subjects its males to genital mutilation will be ruled by sexually neurotic, insecure, dominant, exploitive, repressive, and militaristic men as a means of controlling the "other".  I humbly suggest that cultures of genital mutilation are cultures of violence, and consequently cultures that propagate war and poverty.

Circumcision is a fear-based control cult, is it not?

Genital mutilation is sexual trauma, and a culture of genital mutilation is a culture of sex trauma, which will manifest in society in clearly obvious ways.  Sex trauma culture will treat women and the earth like slaves, out of fear.  Sex trauma culture will fear sex, and try to make a business out of it, and exploit it as much as possible.  Sex trauma culture will honor the masculine, war, profit, anger, etc.  and despise the feminine - it will be a culture that tolerates violence and loathes tolerance.  It will be a culture that adores war and fears love.  It will be the fourth Reich, determined to keep its boot on the neck of life forever.

I'm talking about circumcision, of course.  The world is being run by genitally mutilated tyrants - is it any wonder that the ruling class is traumatically perverse and violent?  Isn't it obvious that the balance between yin and yang is out of whack?  We must find the balance, by healing the collective trauma of circumcision.

What we don't acknowledge becomes our shadow.  Circumcision is genital trauma, and we live in a world that displays all the characteristics of sexual trauma and happens to be run by a circumcised ruling class.  This is not a coincidence, relatives.  Love and trust between genders has been replaced with hate and fear, as sexuality itself has been somatically associated with violence, and thus fear.

If you really look into the scriptures, we're not even supposed to orgasm.  Sex without orgasm (tantra) is fundamentally sustainable, leading to peace and health, whereas sex with orgasm (conventional sex) is fundamentally unsustainable, leading to passion and death.  That is, conventional sex leads to conventional life and death, whereas tantric sex leads to...

What - peace?  Eternity?  Emptiness?  Is it possible that circumcision was invented by someone as a cruel means of controlling humanity, and preventing us from inheriting our birthright of immortality, or - at the very least - sexual freedom, personal sovereignty, and a healthy and peaceful world?

The Tao - The Way.  The path between opposites - the way between renunciation and indulgence, the path between the repression of celibacy and the insatiable craving of orgasmic sex - this is the journey whereby the nervous system is rewired, and judgment is abandoned at the cellular level.

How shall we deal with this perverse and wicked ruling class?  How shall we tread between forgiveness and righteous fury?  How do we forgive and hold accountable at the same time?  This is the same journey - the tantric interweaving of opposites.   Rehabilitation makes more sense than retribution.  Compassion tells us to never give up on anyone, or anything...

Prajnaparamita

 Sustainability is forgiveness.  This is the karma behind Christ's message, and resurrection.  We are told Christ died for our sins, but it might be more accurate to say that Christ died for our karma, and was resurrected to reveal that our karma was utterly consumed.  Because we are forgiven, we are sustained.  Sustainability is forgiveness.  As in the microcosm so in the macrocosm.  If we judge, we condemn, and persecute, and hierarchy arises, and oppression ensues.  Conflict.  

Sustainability is forgiveness.  We transform conflict into loving relationship through forgiveness.  We must not judge.  We must tolerate.  We must tolerate ourselves - our bad knees, our bad backs, our bad faith, our bad attitudes.  And as we learn to tolerate ourselves we learn the art of imperfection - being at peace and content through tolerance.  This leads to a general tolerance, which is self-evidently more sustainable than intolerance.  Intolerance leads to conflict.  Tolerance leads to peace.  

In these final days of degenerate Empire, it is healthy to remember that the Imperial Rebellion has been going on for a long long time.  During the period of the 60's there were communist and socialist revolutions all over the planet, as former colonies threw their efforts into defeating Empire.  These movements were unsuccessful, in large part because they failed in their attempt to create a global Republic.  The socialist revolutions in South America grew in tandem with Liberation Theology, the well-founded claim that Jesus was essentially communist, and his teaching was fundamentally communist in its economic prescription for happiness.  You see, private property always leads to competitive advantage, which leads to natural selection favoring the wealthy.  This may or may not be sustainable, depending upon whether or not the wealthy then hoard their wealth, or spend it on others.  This is the realm of ethics, or spirituality.  Indigenous tribes practiced the tradition of the 'giveaway' wherein the wealthy members of the tribe would regularly give away all their valuables to less affluent members.  Indeed, it still happens on the Lakota reservation - the guy who owned the gas station in Pine Ridge had to sell it, because the culture required him to give away the gas for free... private property without the spiritual ethic of voluntary redistribution (serving others) leads to class segregation, which leads to conflict.  

For which we must be tolerant.  We must have faith in having faith, and be tolerant of the potential for class struggle inherent in private property ownership.  Again - private property is not the problem - an absence of spiritual values, or ethics, is the problem.  We've been taught not to share, and it's making us very unhappy.  By reintroducing ethics, or spiritual values, we remember that we are actually here to help one another out, not compete against one another.  We don't need some radical pogrom, we just need to be gently reminded that trying to be happy while being selfish is like trying to get a suntan on a submarine.  Instead, lets practice sharing what we have, knowing we have enough.  And while keeping the faith, and tolerating ignorance with compassion, we must also overcome the pedagogy of the oppressed, which always exists wherever there is hierarchy, dig?  Like parents bossing their children, or teachers bossing their students, or men exploiting women, or two-leggeds exploiting nature, or the ego exploiting the body, the power hierarchy of empowered/disempowered must be composted, and put to rest.  And step one has to be forgiveness.  Step two is taking responsibility for the creation of something new.

We compost the power hierarchy by cultivating healthy and loving relationship between opposites.  This is tantra.  Yin and Yang, masculine and feminine, light and dark, left and right, samsara and nirvana, emptiness and form... these dualities may be in oppressive conflict,  which is unsustainable, but they would rather be in love,  allowing the interaction to be one of healing, rather than destructive, relationship.  Tantra is the art of creating healthy and sustainable relationship between diametrically opposed opposites.  How do we create a both/and scenario out of an either/or scenario?  We must abandon the logic of rational judgment and practice the irrational wisdom of the heart, through forgiveness.  

Forgiveness is basically the difference between a zero-sum and a non-zero sum game.  In a zero-sum game, for me to win you must lose.  For every winner there must be a loser, so the sum adds up to zero.  In a non-zero sum game, for me to win you must also win.  If you lose, then I lose too.  This is known as a win-win strategy, something that Asian cultures are beginning to be recognized as having a talent for.  The West has been dominating a zero sum geopolitical arena for a while now, and we are evolving into the collective recognition of a non-zero sum reality.  Buckminster Fuller said it best:  "It's all of us or none of us."  We must love one another, or die.

 How can we create a healthy and safe society without judgment?  We all know that hippies aren't judgmental, but they can't run a meeting either, let alone a business.  We must have some discernment, even if we aren't judgmental about it. We must practice prajna.  

 Prajna is a word that is best translated as 'discriminating awareness'. By practicing discriminating awareness, we are not judging, we are not condemning, we are loving, and tolerant, but we have a razor-sharp sword of discernment which is keenly aware of precisely how our actions and the actions of others affect the harmony and balance of the whole.  We are keenly aware of the dharma, and whether or not our thoughts and actions are in alignment with the dharma, knowing that our karma will be favorable or unfavorable as a consequence.  Prajna - the razor-sharp sword of discriminating awareness that does not judge but rather arises out of compassion and a desire to help others - is the tool by which we create a merciful, nonjudgmental, resilient and tolerant enlightened society.  

You see, masculinity tends to judge.  This is why men have invented religions and governments, and forms of control.  Femininity is less judgmental, more tolerant, which is why women create life.  It's easy to see why the life-creating feminine might be feared by the control-creating masculine - this is tantra too, by the way - but the dance is in loving what we fear, and approaching it fearlessly out of a heartfelt desire to deepen the relationship and ultimately, express love.  Consequently, men's religions and governments are required to teach forgiveness, and practice mercy, if there is to be any balance between opposites and peace in the world.  The two most ancient tantric techniques in the world are the sincere apology and the expression of appreciation...

Permaculture is yoga

Relatives, we live in a fractal universe.  The Big patterns of the universe - the macrocosm - are recapitulated in the microcosm.  This is the doctrine of signatures - as above, so below, as within, so without, as in the macrocosm, so in the microcosm.

We will have a short visual tour of our cosmos:

Relatives, as above, so below.  As within, so without.  As in the macrocosm, so in the microcosm.  The part is a fractal of the whole, and vice versa.

Relatives - as in the ecology, so in the psychology, and vice versa.  An integrated holism of holons 'out there' is recapitulated by an integrated holism of holons 'in here.'    The subjective experience is a fractal of the objective universe.  Form is a fractal of emptiness, and emptiness is a fractal of form.

Relatives - permaculture is yoga.  Do you see?  

Sustainable civilization is a holistic, integrated ecology of parts working together for optimal sustainability.  Yoga asana may be described precisely the same way.  Physiology is somatic psychology.  The body - the physical universe - is just the unconscious, the universe being mind-made and all.

According to Albert Einstein (and Karl Marx, and just about everyone else) capitalism is the predatory phase of human evolution, destined to be replaced by a global socialism wherein everyone and all life is regarded as sacred and priceless.  Literally unprice-able - that is, cannot be bought or sold, regarded as existing beyond any materialistic, mammon-centered value system.  The trouble, according to Eistein, is that socialism always ends up being centrally planned, which ruins everything.  As we can see here in contemporary America, capitalism ends up being centrally planned as well, which means that the whole communism/capitalism dichotomy is a false one.  The real challenge is creating a sustainably decentralized planning committee.  In his tremendously powerful article Einstein humbly acknowledges that he does not know how to resolve the challenges of central planning, and puts his faith in future generations to figure it out.

And so we have, relatives, and so we have.  You are using the decentralized planning committee to read this article - the internet is our decentralized planning committee.  It is through the internet that we will voluntarily distribute economic resources to where they are needed most.  

Dwight Eisenhower once said, "I think the people of the world want peace so bad, one of these days the government's going to have to get out of the way and let 'em have it."  I love this man, and I love that he said this wonderful sentence, and now we are well into the challenging process of leaving government behind in order to create a world of true peace and prosperity.  We are entering the post-government age, can you smell the fear?  We are doing so with decentralized online planning committees and decentralized cryptocurrencies.  My point, which cannot be overlooked in these powerful, transformative times, is that this process also requires decentralizing our ecologies and decentralizing our psychologies.  

Ecological resource management is the foundation of economics.  America wages total war to steal other nations natural resources - this is America's vaunted and terrible economic strength.  Totally nuts, and totally unsustainable.  If your inputs are other people's resources and your outputs are war, then you run out of everything.  Bombing other countries to steal their resources is not good economic policy - it is a lot like killing the goose who lays golden eggs.  We can do better, and we already are.    We must manage our economies at an ecological scale, investing in ecological sustainability and reaping economic dividends.

And relatives, we must transcend our own egos, the central planner of our holistic-integrated-ecology-of-parts-working-together.  We must decentralize our consciousness by listening more to our gut instincts, feeling our emotions, listening to what our bodies are telling us, slowing down by following the breath into a place of empty listening, and allowing the experience of deeply feeling the body to arise.

Relatives, permaculture is yoga.  A holistic, integrated, near effortless, optimally nourished ecology of parts is permaculture, and this is also yoga.  As within, so without.  Yoga is the personal, subjective return to unity and oneness, whereas permaculture - the Great Remembering of the Eternal Culture - is our collective, objective return to unity and oneness.

We subdue the deep state by subduing the deep ego.  We decentralize our planning even as we decentralize the planner.  the whole cosmos is inside my body, and I am creating a far more improved reality as I learn to dissolve myself into emptiness(shunyata)...

Guns and Gardens

Bill Mollision, who coined the term permaculture, says this:

"We live in a world with a hierarchical power structure.  Growing our own food makes us self-sufficient, which takes us out of the power hierarchy.  Gardening is thus a subversive act.  The reason revolutionaries of the past failed is because they used words and bullets instead of gardens."

Wow.  Relatives, do you see why the Deep State doesn't want us to garden?  They don't want us to be self-sufficient.  Self-sufficiency is anathema for central authority.

Give a man a fish, feed him for a day.  Teach a kid to garden, feed her for a lifetime.  But then she won't need a job so badly, and might not be so desperate a wage slave, so the government has conveniently avoided teaching us how to garden.  How malicious.  Abraham Lincoln believed that one out of every seven men needed to farm for America to maintain its national security - relatives, we have been betrayed.

Because gardening is a subversive act, it must be defended.  The nonviolent revolutionaries who are taking down the Deep State by taking on self-sufficiency must be defended.  I propose a strategic alliance between the NRA and the FFA.

Haven't heard of the FFA?  It's the Future Farmers of America, silly.  The gun owners defend the right to grow food and the farmers defend the right to own guns.  You see, the 2nd amendment exists solely to defend against government tyranny - the violation of our rights by an unelected, totalitarian Empire.  Notice any rights being violated lately?  Seems to be everywhere - but the point at which they try to violate the 2nd amendment is the point at which tyranny is attacked, ruthlessly and eternally until it is destroyed.  These mass shootings are tragic, but they will never persuade the Repubic to lay down their arms in the face of overt Imperial aggression.  That's like expecting Kim Jong Un to lay down his arms in the face of overt Imperial aggression, or expecting Putin to lay down his arms in the face of overt Imperial aggression.  Relatives, it just ain't gonna happen.  The founders of our government didn't merely encourage us to stay armed and vigilant against government overreach - they demanded it of us. And as the line between our obese military and our violent police gets blurred, and domestic citizens are treated as enemies even as rights go out the window, the Republic is rightfully required to take careful aim at the Deep State and demand that it give us our rights back.  Or else.

We must defend our unalienable right to overthrow unrepresentative tyranny with arms, just as we must defend our unalienable right to cultivate sustainable economic prosperity through ecological rehabilitation.  Can you dig it?  Economies are all based on geographic ecologies, whether it's Saudi Arabia's oil fields, Silicon Valley's workforce, or the U.S. Military's bases around the world.  Healthy ecologies lead to healthy economies, and the opposite is also true.  Ecological investment reaps economic dividends.  Ecological self-sufficiency is the key to maintaining local economic health and preventing central authority from assuming too much power.  The guns defend our gardens, and the gardens defend our guns.

Imagine what a Green Party would look like if it had the endorsement of the FFA and the NRA.  It would probably have a pretty solid platform...  Think the CIA is reading this?

Yoga Sutras

Forgiveness is required for the Tao to be maintained, because neither yin nor yang is perfect on its own.  This is what is meant when it is said that "Love is the Way."  By love is not meant passionate lust but rather compassionate forgiveness.

Forgiveness is the way forward into sustainable culture, the eternal culture, which has come and gone again a countless eternity of times:  The cycle of yugas.  Forgiveness is the prerequisite for tolerance, which is the prerequisite for sustainability.

In our current economy, "goods" go in and "bads" come out.  That is, natural resources are economic inputs and toxic garbage, contamination, and destruction are economic outputs in our current economic model.  Don't laugh, its true, but don't cry either, because the Way lies before us into sustainable culture, a culture of forgiveness and tolerance.

In sustainable culture "goods" go in and "recycled goods" come out.  In a sustainable system the outputs are resource inputs in the next iteration.

As in the microcosm so in the macrocosm, remember?  The fractal nature of our shared cosmic perspective means that our human bodies are analogous to the body of the planet.  So natural resources go in, and recycled natural resources come out.  See what I mean?  The human body is showing us how to create healthy garbage.

Our garbage must be compostable.  Just as our sewage must be compostable, just as our ego must be compostable.  Remember, the mind cannot find peace - peace returns to letting-go mind.  This letting go mind is mind letting go of the train of thought and returning to the breath.  All trains of thought are egoic inventions, and letting them go to return to the breath is ego death.  It is the composting of the ego into a fresh new ego, which is then composted into fresh new ego, and so on ad infinitum.

Yoga citta vritti nirodhaha.  Now we're here.  Now we've gotten to this point.  We've finally arrived at Yoga citta vritti nirodhaha.  At long last, finally, we've arrived.
Atha yoga-anusasanam.  Now the practice of yoga is being explained.  The practice of yoga goes like this:  Yoga citta vritti nirodhaha.  Yoga is the suspension of mental chatter.

Mental chatter is the ego.  Yoga is the suspension of the ego.   Now the practice of yoga is being explained.

Atha yoga-anusasanam.  Yoga citta vritti nirodhaha.

Now the practice of yoga is being explained.  Yoga is the suspension of mental chatter.

Yoga is the composting of the ego.  The mind cannot find peace - peace returns to letting-go mind.  Peace returns to composted mind.  Yoga is the return to peace.  Yoga is the return to the empty, contentless awareness of breath, posture, sensation and sense phenomena.

Yoga is the return to emptiness.  Yoga is decentralized awareness, perception with no perceiver.

Meditation is the composting of the ego, with every breath, noticing how often we go all the way under and then come right back up again.

And according to the fractal nature of the universe, so in the microcosm so in the macrocosm.  The world out there must be composted if it is to be sustainable.  Oh, its forgiveness that gives us a healthy, humorous, and humble ego, by the way.  First and foremost we forgive ourselves and then we forgive everyone else, on a daily or hourly basis if need be.  But I'm getting confused - am I talking about the microcosm or the macrocosm?

The human body reveals to us how to deal with our minds and our cultures - we deal with them precisely the same way, by making sure that their outputs can sustain their inputs.  We must compost our waste, relatives, we must compost our waste and compost our thoughts.  This is referred to in the tantric world as root yoga - root chakra yoga.

I honestly wonder if anyone else knows this shit besides me

the Wesleyan Gospel

The  Methodist Church was founded by a Christian by the name of John Wesley, a man so cognizant of the true implications of Christ's vision for us that he once said, "If I'm not run out of town, then I didn't preach the Gospel."  You see, John Wesley deeply overstood that Christ's vision for us was a vision of spiritual reliance, wherein our materialistic needs are expected to be taken care of through faith.  in other words, spiritual communism.  You laugh, or grab your gun maybe, but its true.  Capitalism is antithetical to the Gospel of Christ.

Chew on this, patriotic American - Acts, Chapter 4:


32 All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. 33 With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all 34 that there were no needy persons among them.

That's communism, folks.  Otherwise known as the Spiritual Life.  Read it and weep.
Now this - Acts, Chapter 5:

5 Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. 2 With his wife’s full knowledge he kept back part of the money for himself, but brought the rest and put it at the apostles’ feet.

3 Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? 4 Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died. And great fear seized all who heard what had happened. 6 Then some young men came forward, wrapped up his body, and carried him out and buried him.

7 About three hours later his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.8 Peter asked her, “Tell me, is this the price you and Ananias got for the land?”

“Yes,” she said, “that is the price.”

9 Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. Then the young men came in and, finding her dead, carried her out and buried her beside her husband. 11 Great fear seized the whole church and all who heard about these events.

Be faithfully communist or perish under God's wrath, motherfuckers.  Hahaha! All the capitalist pigs have been keeping this shit secret for 2000 years, can you believe it?  No wonder early Christians were persecuted - they weren't persecuted for their religious beliefs, but for their economic beliefs.  Early Christians were persecuted for the same reasons socialist and communist governments are persecuted today - they disavow the preeminence of private property, noting how "ownership" cultivates greed, ego, and materialism.  Remember the name Jesus called the Pharisees and the Sadducees - the Bankers and the Lawyers?  Mmm that's right, he called them "hypocrites."  he called them that over and over again, as in, "Organized religion was invented by banker and lawyer hypocrites who know the value of Spiritual Life and co-opt it for their own satanic purposes."

Here's one I'm fond of, from 1 Timothy 6:10:  

"For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

And there you have it.  Capitalist pig motherfuckers fed early Christians to lions, bombed Yugoslavia, overthrew Salvador Allende, financed Hitler, created an opioid epidemic from Afghanistan's poppy fields, want  to overthrow socialist Venezuela and are scared shitless of post-communist Russia and China leading BRICS - ya'll think the colonies of Brazil, India, and South Africa might have any resentment towards the ruling class?  The Global Rebel is the exploited, unrepresented working class, and the dawning of the New Republic is here.

This doesn't mean we all need to become communist.  Relax, take your finger off the trigger.  

What it means is that we all have to become spiritual.  We already are, actually - we just need to end being pressured to be materialistic.  We can stop the rat race, relatives, there's plenty to go around if nobody gets too greedy.  Being spiritual is all it takes for capitalism to stop being ruthless and start being caring.  

And caring is sharing, which is voluntary communism.  See how easy that was?  Heart-centered capitalism may well out-compete a voluntary communism, but they're basically the same thing - sharing our abundance with those in greatest need.  This is actually the recipe for happiness, but see how it doesn't hoard capital but rather gives it away freely, like a tree offers fruit?  In nature, capital depreciates.  An apple is worth less day after day, so share it now!  Apple pies decay the same way.  Nature decays, so nature's capital decays.  This stimulates spending rather than hoarding- i mean, saving.  Hoarding goes against the Laws of Nature, the Laws of Dharma.  It also goes against the Gospel - Jesus says, (Matthew 6):


19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20 But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
...

25 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?

28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Relatives, this doesn't sound like investment advice from Goldman fucking Sachs now does it?  This is why capitalist countries all have so much cool shit and so much depression.  We're hypocrites.

Capitalism is the economic technique of hoarding capital.  Don't take my word for it - just look around.  Something about the 99% wanting a say in things... Did you know that before we bombed Gaddafi, every Libyan had free healthcare and free education, including college?  If they got accepted they could go to any university in the world for free - paid for by the sovereign socialist nation of Libya.  The largest irrigation project IN THE WORLD was in Libya, in the Sahara, turning the desert into a garden.  America bombed the shit out of everything in Libya especially the irrigation, because a government that pays for social services is failing to hoard maximum capital and self-sufficiency is anathema to Empire.

Please allow this to sink in:  Capitalists despise socialism because socialism doesn't hoard capital, but spends it on the unworthy. The key element of capitalism is that it has replaced spiritual values with materialistic ones, and in so doing, promoted a dark, secretive, and enslaving agenda rather than the agenda of Christ.

Yugoslavia was targeted not for ‘humanitarian’ reasons as many still believe, but simply because it was socialist.  Slobodan Milosovich was exonerated posthumously by the UN, did you know that?  Of course you didn't, it was kept secret.

"In post Cold War Europe, no place remained for a large, independent minded socialist state that resisted globalisation."
     - George Kenney, deputy chief of Yugoslav office of the US State Department.

Socialism is good for people and the planet.  Because socialism is committed to the public welfare, it is perpetually reinvesting its resources into the commons, which is antithetical to the capitalist motivation of hoarding wealth.  Dragons with their mountains of gold that they can't ever eat are the archetypical capitalists - hoarding is a very reptilian agenda, not the agenda of Christ.

Hoarding is a root chakra-centered, survival based, competitive instinct - economists call it 'rational self-interest.'  Christ aspires to lead us into the irrational, forgiving and cooperating wisdom of the heart.  Peace is a good thing and we are creating more of it by the day, but the more peace we have the less threats we feel, and when we don't feel threatened we don't hoard.  Peace, too, is bad for capitalism - genuine peace promotes sharing, and genuine sharing promotes peace, and nothing gets sold when people share, and nobody makes money, so nobody pays any taxes, and the oligarchs don't get their beaks wet, and they are strangled of the funds they need to keep their boots on our necks.  As we can see, a world that is best for business is big brother with his boot on our neck and his propaganda on our mind.  Food forests are 'bad for business', staying healthy is bad for business, clean, free, water is bad for business, inner peace is bad for business...  In fact, cancer prevention is 'bad for business', which is why they have races for cures rather than races for prevention.  Prevention would mean banning all food that wasn't organic, you stupid motherf-  I mean, hypocrites.

Under John Wesley's direction, Methodists became leaders of many social issues of the day, including prison reform and the abolition of slavery.  Do you see how the spiritual principles we are compelled to live by affect our politics?  Spirituality affects our politics.  Jesus was whacked because he was politically dangerous, do you see?  He preached a vision of people sharing in abundance with one another, which spelled doom for the hoarding reptilian bloodline oligarchs.  And the rest is (a secret) history...

It is self-evident that only a hypocritical Christianity could tolerate the present political climate.  We are ripe for another Methodist revolution, one that calls out secular capitalism and its corollary, class struggle, as the primary creators of poverty, which goes against God's will.  Someone needs to tell the Americans that all Europe is filled with this thing called Christian Socialism, its actually quite real people vote for it all the time...

Communism is the technique of distributing, rather than hoarding, capital.

Socialism is free market capitalism, with a safety net that provides for the people's welfare and a ceiling that prevents hoarding, reinvesting any surplus into the safety net.

Capitalism = winner take all.  Loser forced to rebel.
Communism = loser take all.  Winner forced to rebel.
Socialism = winner take most.  Loser left with abundance.  Competition continues indefinitely without rebellion.

Of course, its entirely possible for a ruthlessly capitalist economy to encounter a culturally sophisticated market that demands, and ultimately invests in, some sort of cost-effective safety net, purely for security reasons.  Prevention being worth more than a cure, it makes sense to cost effectively prevent wars, violence, and insecurity from breaking out by cheaply providing all the planet's various ecologies with an abundance of food, water, and plant medicine - I mean, just having online classes that teach kids to garden, basically.  I mean, how hard could it be for some smart social network to create some kind of educational program that makes sure everyone everywhere always has enough to eat, some clean drinking water, some raw materials for building and clothing, and security, right, just by entertainingly getting everybody out there gardening, and promoting it politically?  Because the kids we teach gardening to are going to need jobs - oh, wait, not really, because the robots will have all the jobs by then - what I mean is that there will be an enormous amount of work to do- clean rivers and oceans and air and forests, etc.  Ecological rehabilitation.  These kids will graduate into a world that needs their earth-healing skills, and we need our vegetables to come without high fructose corn syrup, for fuck's sake.  This capitalist, culturally sophisticated economy could even willingly submit to a voluntary ceiling, unenforced by government but heavily enforced by the social networks who would shamelessly shame the multi-billionaires.  Or better yet, encourage the multi-billionaires to invest in free market socialnetworkism!  And particularly that one anarchist nonprofit competing for attention online...

Just so you are aware, Bill Mollison, who invented the word permaculture, says,
"We live in a world with a power hierarchy, and gardening makes us self-sufficient, which removes us from the power hierarchy.  Gardening is thus a subversive act.  The reason revolutionaries of the past failed is because they used words and bullets rather than gardens."  I would say that the reason revolutionaries of the past failed is because they used words, bullets, and - if you count Jesus - miracles, rather than gardens. 

Me, I say healthy competition is healthy, and ruthless competition isn't.  Ruthless competition creates Too-Big-To-Fail-Banks, like big fish eating small fish.  Healthy competition respects limits, or rules, like a five yard penalty for an offensive false start in football.  That's what makes it healthy - competition is healthy when it exists within a greater context of cooperation.  Players agree to play by the rules, which exist for the greater good of the game.  When that greater context of cooperation is abandoned, or maliciously hidden, healthy competition becomes unhealthy, dangerous, and ruthless.  Healthy competition, embedded in cooperation, is socialism, which, when it becomes unhealthy and ruthless, becomes capitalist.

Socialists, then, could be said to view greed as detrimental to the greater good of the game.

I'd like to be a millionaire maybe, and I wouldn't be against being a multi-millionaire, and I could even stand being a mega-millionaire, but I think its wise to draw the line right there and discourage people from becoming billionaires.  Billionaires have enough wealth to game the system, overthrow sovereign nations, and manipulate everything.  Let's voluntarily give ourselves limits, and acknowledge that our Republic needs that from us if it is to remain secure.  The fact that our neo-Roman oligarchs are publicly hoarding so much, gaming the system, overthrowing sovereign nations, and lying about everything at a time when so much is needed reveals, in my opinion, what incredibly bad taste they have.  Maybe they don't see a way out - maybe they are just waiting for me to pitch a strategy worth investing in on this website!  Go fund this, assholes...

You wanna know something else?  I'd say a fascist is just a proletariat without an education.

There i did it.  Go ahead and shoot now I'm done.

No wait - Jesus said, "Blessed is he who does not take offense at me" (Matthew 11:6)

(sound of Gospel Preacher running out of town)