REAL Green Adaptation

In REAL Green I am very clear about what ought to be and what is.  It is my opinion “what ought to be” is a function of scale.  What I mean by this is the smaller the human scale the more likely “what ought to be” is realized.  “What is” then is more likley at greater scales where self-organization and path dependencies drive human behavior.  At global levels we are locked-in.  At local levels there is abundant opportunities to adapt.  This is a key point about the determinism and free-will of being saved.

Theoretically we could save the world.  The reason this won’t happen is human nature is out of scale.  Globalism does not scale for decline.  Globalist are pushing more of it not less.  The policies of the great reset are examples of the self-organization of corruption as power concentrates.  The mechanization of transhumanism and unsustainability of delocalization will increase the tension on a world in decline.

People don’t want to leave their homes and family.  Yet, cities must depopulate and that is where a majority of people live today.  Roughly 80% of Americans live in urban zones and 29% in rural.  This actually should be reversed.  This is a Catch-22 situation that can’t be sugar coated.  Urbanization equals affluence but when affluence hits diminishing returns then it destroys real affluence.  We are now at that tipping point.

Leadership today is mostly corrupt with moral hazard and priveldge.  There are actions that could be taken if we had proper leadership willing to sacrifice.   These actions would be more acceptable by the majority of people who will need to make a transition that is unfathomable.  The degree to which all people must change is beyond our mental preparation.  Leadership is needed to prep the masses.  This won’t happen because leadership is deceptively claiming it has policies offering more affluence.

This is on both sides of the political spectrum although the left is the most delusional with green new deals and social justice utopias.  I want to be clear, the brown fossil fuel world we grew up with has no future either.  Yet, it is the green utopias that represent the most dangerous policies.  I feel renewables are vital and I also believe conservation is a must.  What I do not agree with is an affluence that is now considered an entitlement can be expanded with these fake green polices. 

What is ahead is a decline process that can be adapted to better or worse.  There is no way to avoid pain and suffering with any policy.  It is my opinion that the coming drop in affluence is going to be so abrupt and dramatic that any and all energy systems need to be maintained.  Decay and abandonment will be systematic wide.  This is about survival not saving the world.  There are tipping points beyond which dangerous cascading failures are likely.  It will take everything we got to steer the ship away from these dangers.

I am a degrowther but not a typical one that you read about on green sites.  I do not speak of a steady state economy.  There is no steady state with a macro decline process.   At the very local level a steady state can be made more possible.  I do not put a happy face on degrowth like so many in green circles.  These “degrowth can save the world” notions are just more of the same dishonest science the greens have embraced.  Maybe since I was in business so many years, I have a skeptical and discriminatory view of things.  If it doesn’t add up, I don’t buy into it.  The something for nothing attitude and the get out of jail free card don’t work in a REAL Green world view.

There will be lots of collateral damage with needed lifestyle changes.  Net energy decline and resource depletion will strike equally across classes and ethnicities.  This will be the great equalizer.  The metaphysical aspects of dysfunction and the irrational will take its toll systematically with logistics and services.  Aspects of life you have come to expect and rely on will fail.  The grid is going to destabilize.  Electricity defines modernity so keep an eye on you grid condition to gauge your locals decline phase.

Who will be forced to make these sacrifices first is unclear?  If we are to save the world, some forced actions would have to be taken.  We would see whole regions forced to evacuate to more sustainable locations and lifestyles.  How this could be done in today’s political, social, and economic environment makes it near impossible to do proactively.  The top with its corrupt leadership and out of control administrative apparatus is incapable.  These forces are now parasitic.

The top leadership is currently acting parasitically without needed oversight.  The administrative state in government, academia, and health care has no interest in change.  Their bloated bureaucracy will prevent change or push the wrong kind.  They are now politicized to the point of being religious in their devotions.  These forces are the biggest impediment to change and ensure the top will be the obstacle to better adaption.  It could be different but this is now the reality of a global world in decline.

Eventually proper actions will be forced to occur locally which is the only place left for needed adaptation.  This will happen because this is where the buck stops.  The pain and suffering will be where needed change originates because this is the front lines of change.  Decentralization and empowerment are the name of the game going into destructive change.  If your local promotes these valuable attributes you are much more likley to survive this destructive process.

The world could be saved and we need to understand the how it could be even if it is not possible.  It would have to start sooner rather than later.  A coordinated effort would be commenced with locals and top leadership coordinating joint efforts.  Locals would be given much of the decision making with the top getting out of the way.   This decentralizing effort would need the top to enforce principles of confederation.  The top would be the gate keeper to maintain fairness. 

The key point to understand in this theoretical exercise is this is a door opened and then shut.  Once these actions start there is no turning back.  These actions will wreck the existing economy.  There is no certain result either.  Decline is a sudden and unpredictable whereas growth is incremental and stable.  These actions will eliminate 60% of the economy that is discretionary and related to modern affluence.  It is hard to imagine what changes that await because they are so many normal and everyday activities at risk.

It is important to understand this decline phase is not an option in any scenario.  This last turning of civilization has now started.  This is now self-organizing on a planet in abrupt change from human forcing.  Most of us don’t realize this in our daily lives because we are being slow boiled.  If we feel the pain of change it is not yet strong enough to warrant panic.

Our brightest minds are the most delusional.  Many of the brightest minds are still in denial and bargaining.  They know and acknowledge the warning signs of a coming bottleneck but they have attitudes of techno fixes that get in the way.  They have group think biases that prevent needed change.  Tough choices are avoided by these groups because they have no ovesight.  They are following bad policy because to deviate you get cancelled.

Scientist tend to be naïve about business.  They are bred to think theoretically.  Rarely do they take part in the commercialization of their experimental projects.  They just think them up and leave the application to the markets.  They have never handled logistics and dealt with risk.  They are far too specialized to deal with what is needed to decentralize.  Decentralization in decline means getting rid of science as we know it.  This is a big reason tough choices will be avoided by this group.

Government bureaucracy has grown dominant with constant growth of spending.  Once a program or agency is created it is rarely eliminated.  Bureaucracies have no interest in adaptive change.  They are entrenched in their walled fortresses.  This condition is now the biggest hurdle to the local.  If locals could be left alone vital adaptation is possible.  Locals need fairness and a degree of security and they can make big changes.  Sadly the top will be in the way of great opportunities.

Our brightest minds influencing those who lead are deep in self-deception.  Their livelihood now depends on this self-deception.  They are in fact more lost on the subject of decline than many who have good common sense.  If you talk to many less formally educated but more educated with experience, they have a better grip on what is needed. 

Specialization is clouding common sense.  Needed changes are simple which makes them very difficult in a world of specialization.  Less specialization is needed and this points to the path dependency trap the global is in.  At the local this will be an impediment to change for you.  The administrative state is going to be a source of problems for you.  This ought not be but unfortunately is.  Accept this with humility and you can find ways to maneuver.

The general public has been lied to and improperly educated for years now.  We have bred people to be consumers and seek affluence instead of sustainability and resilience.  Today it is even worse with woke safe spaces and the cult of victimhood.  These attitudes are not lifeboat attitudes.  Decline is about lifeboats of insecurity.  There will be no safe spaces at any level embrace this and you will find wisdom and strength.

This safe space mentality results in a mentality of transhumanism and delocalization that has trapped us in a system requiring ever more affluence.  The transhumanism of machines is generally looked to for solutions to problems.   Intead there needs to be less machines and technology.  There needs to be less delocalization of mobility.  Globalism is based upon transhumanism and delocalization.  These are the basis of affluence.  Affluence is in decline so adaptation means less globalism.

Mobility and digital capabilities now dominate our daily lives.  Few grow food and practice home economics.  Few know the basic skills of survival with hand tools.  Fewer still know how to utilize animal power.  Most are in unsupportable urban settings in jobs with no future.  If 60% of the economy needs to be phased out that leaves lots of people with nothing to do.  Keep in mind this condition will be forced on the world regardless.  If we are going to save the world it is how we adapt to this that is the key ingredient.

We are now on the fence of change with one foot in what will be the old world of modernity and one in the new world of what was once considered old.  Many in green delusions see techno marvels of artificial intelligence and green energy on the horizon.  The car culture will be made electric and our food grown with greater science and industry just greener. 

The old ways that will be the future ways are looked down upon as inefficient and brutish.  They are less efficient and more painful and this is what is needed.  Efficiency has hit diminishing returns too.  It is now the problem.  Less efficiency but more resilience is the name of the game.  This means not upgrading but instead mothballing and salvaging.

Most techno marvels will end quickly with cascading decline because they rely on a dangerously unstable grid and supply chains.  The economies of scale needed to make modern marvels affordable is likewise unsustainable in net energy decline and resource depletion.  What can be saved is now vital.  There are a lot of very valuable tech that needs to be saved to buffer the ride down.

I know how to save the world theoretically.  This story should be told to know why it can’t be done.  We should know what is needed so we will not make the situation worse.  At this point the wrong actions will have disproportionately negative results.  If we can expose flawed policy then less pain and suffering is possible.  Yet, a certain amount of humility and acceptance is required because so much damage will be done by a train wreck of path dependencies.  This is why it is only theoretical the world can be saved.

The great reset is an example of the worst possible leadership.  Technocratic centralization with more transhumanism is the absolute wrong approach.  This is what global leadership is pushing.  The Chinese CCP is also on this track with its own version.  This is converging into a competitive race.  If this race goes kinetic, we can expect the worst possible outcomes.

Consider a world with altruistic leadership and a properly educated populous in a concerted effort. Actions could be initiated to make the descent to a lower level of stability more likely.  What needs to be done is a hybridization of maintaining a reduce level of existing global structures that support vital systems.  Economic resources are vital to constructive growth in a downsizing of civilization.  This is a must because demographics are going to be reversed and this needs adaption.  Adaptation takes resources physical and metaphysical. 

Depopulating cities into rural areas where localism and permaculture will be the new way of life requires investment.  New infrastructure and tools are needed.  Education is a vital element of this reorientation of daily life.  Education costs money.  Moving people involves machines so transhumanism and delocalization mut be maintained.  Yet these actions ae being done to leave that world.  The car culture can’t be ended without preparations like animals and localism.

Cities must be maintained to be depopulated.  Vital industry kept going to supply necessities to end them.  Industrial agriculture must be maintained until enough people can be moved back to the land.  There is no way permaculture localism can feed the world as-is with 7BIL people.  It can support 1-2BIL.  Populations must come down quickly but understanding families must grow in size. This is the complexity of the paradoxes of decline. 

This back to the land paradigm would ideally be done initially with volunteerism.  People would be educated on the merits of voluntary simplicity.  They would leave the cities into a life much more difficult and rigorous because this is what is required for survival.  This is not a safe space refuge but a move into a hard life this is more sustainable.  Meaning must be created for why this must be done to get people to embrace this needed change.

Leadership would lead the way in sacrifice.  They would do what is needed to see this transition through by being at the front lines.  They would not enjoy the perks of priveldge.  Their mansions and toys would be discarded.  They would live by a Spartan code of honor and duty.  They would lead by example by making big sacrifices that all would see.  Sacrifice is a vital aspect of this project of hope. 

Unless people see common sacrifice, this project of hope will not work.  This is why it won’t work.  Without leadership this process will be haphazard.  There will be locals that can transition better but the world will not be saved.  Many people are going to die and be disenfranchised into a difficult existence.  This reality does not need to be as bad.  Any scenario will be bad but the current trend is much worse.

These theoretical efforts would start with the low hanging fruit that is still everywhere.  People that would want to go rural in permaculture localism need to be supported.  They would be the train blazers.  This would be family units because it is family, tribe, and small community that is the key to success.  In this theoretical world, families will need to grow and genders assume their traditional roles.  Kids will have to work and be educated at the same time.  Education would be k-8.  There is no room for the universities system we know today.  Their knowledge factories are producing the wrong knowledge.

There will be little time for modern recreation in this world.  Recreation will return to what it once was.  Before the industrial era it centered around simple activities like food and drink.  People remained local and did not take vacations.  Their activities were social with community.  The individual thrills possible these days must end.  This recreation will be low energy and low tech.

These initial pioneers will go seasonal and embrace intermitency.  This means altered food choices and daily lifestyles.  Electricity will be rationed.  Lights will be out early.  Food will be eaten according to the seasons.  Preparations will be made to preserve the harvest for later use.  There will be daily chores that are mundane and repetitive.  Water and food will be the primary focus.  If this sounds third world that is because it is.  It is the degree to which we can apply knowledge and appropriate tech to being third world this is the key.

Leisure will be altered greatly.  People will gather in their churches and community for enjoyments.  Hand tools will entertain us.  Simple get togethers will replace the isolation of the modern era.  Leisure will be merged with work for example with food preservation.  One need only look to the past with how this was done as little as a century ago in the majority of the world.

Initially these people will be offered security and the basics of health care.  They will have to build on their own local safety nets to make up for the deterioration of state safety nets.  Through education this will be understood because centralized safety nets will not be supportable.  City dwellers will recognize the same because cities will shrink and with that shrinkage so will their safety nets.  The old and the young will again live together under the same roof.  Old folks’ homes will not be possible.

The most difficult aspect of this theoretical transition is the dismantling but also the maintenance of the negative consequence of modern life.  Nuclear industry will have to be properly mothballed but at the same time it is maintained.  In the beginning all energy sources will be needed.  Dangerous industrial systems will pose a threat to many rural areas so this effort will have a high priority but with less resources.  This effort will dovetail with the downsizing of urban areas and supply chains.  This is why this is an end game of modern civilization.  Once these systems are turned off there is no going back.

The vast amounts of weapons will need to be properly disposed of.  Armies will need to be repurposed for this effort.  Cooperation among nations agreed to with the understanding good fences mean good neighbors.  External migration will have to be halted to allow internal migrations.  Proper change can’t be managed unless borders are maintained.  The internal chaos will be bad enough.  Uncontrolled external migration will leave regions in worse shape.  Globalist of the great reset are promoting the opposite now which is a prescription for chaos.

The world will be returning to one made by hand.  Animals will become part of our lives.  Transport and heavy labor will return.  There can still be appropriate tech and vital knowledge from the modern era maintained.  A wisdom of the lifeboat will be applied to determine what to save.  Knowledge will be triaged out that will not serve the purpose of this new world.  Material things will likewise be triaged out of this world made by hand. 

Anything getting in the way of change will be eliminated.  This is a cancel culture but one based upon the reality of the decline in affluence not the desire to increased affluence and safety.  The key to this is the process of change does the cancelling not thinktanks and government.  This means leadership must have clear view that decline is ahead not more affluence.  This is the lifeboat and hospice mentality that would be needed at the top but is not likley to be found until it is too late.

Spiritualism will be promoted.  It is going to take meaning to power through these sacrifices.  The human narrative will be altered dramatically seeking many more metaphysical aspects.  Materialism will be altered to focus on respect and care for vital materials.  Modern profit motives reduced but not eliminated.  The concept of real value must be maintained.  Price discovery can’t be discarded because it is the best determiner of value.  Yet, a collectivism of wisdom will maintain the public trust over private profit.  Barter and the gift economy will be allowed to flourish because these work at the local level.

This story I told you is one of fantasy but one that should be reflected on.  If we the people in a world in decline can be steered more in this direction then less pain and suffering is likely.  This general blueprint can be used locally if this story is understood.  These basics of decline and voluntary simplicity will scale locally.  The global is lost but not the local.

It is vital that awakened groups start the transition immediately.  Denial and bargaining will only make the transition harder.  These pioneers will be the seeds and incubators of the future.  Others will follow the trails they blaze.  They will do the recon and the prepping of the battlefield for the war against entropic decay.  The difficult trial and error can be done by them first.

You the individual can do this in your life relatively and realistically.  You can go permaculture in localism as much as you can.  You can at least understand what has no future and where the future awaits.  Permaculture localism must be the focus of your higher power principles.  Adapt your spirituality accordingly.  This will be a spirtual war of what meaning is right.  Permaculture localism is that meaning.

It is possible the end of the modern world will come suddenly and violently.  It is more likely it will be a mosaic of events and processes.  It will be a local affair with regional expressions.  You can manage better or worse by positioning towards the local and away from the global.  Heroics will be called for.  Heroics is possible in properly positioned locals.

The awakened will live the wisdom of insecurity which is a pessimistic optimism of the hospice.  Difficult times will be embraced and a palliative care administered for the vulnerable and needy.  The awakened will be much more able to act heroically and selflessly in the local.  This will be what it takes to save your local.  The result will be a new spiritualism of constructive change within a world accepted to be in destructive decline.

This world is coming and it will be forced on all.  It will be the degree to which people properly adapt that will dictate how many survive.  The longer this transition is delayed the worse it will be to navigate.  The more people that embrace the false prophets of the great reset the worse the damage to an already monumental effort needed.

Understand that this is a local project and, in some cases, regional.  Reflect on what could be if the global project would embrace efforts at a common decline.  Since the global effort will fall into competitive conflict reflect on the degree to which your local is at risk.  Scale accordingly to yield to these forces.  In some cases, set up defenses to the efforts of centralized control.  These forces that will confront you will have so many challenges they will tend to avoid fortified locations.

This starts in your own backyard with you and your family.  Your tribe and community will come together in common necessity at some point.  It is those tribes and communities that see this tend first that will do better.  Seek out proper community.  Find a good local if you can before the rush.  The basics of survival are simple.  Simple as in easy to understand and also simple in application.  The hard part is believing in these simple actions when so much marketing is promoting the opposite.

This is a world made by hand and a world of family.  It is only through family these hard choices will be made properly.  Families that work together as tribes will leverage the strength of the family.  Confederations of tribes in small communities will be where the real success is.

My REAL Green is dedicated to the concept of lifeboats and hospices.  REAL Green is focused on rural and middle-class scenarios of my life but the key concepts scale to others unique locals.  Apply these key concepts to your local. 

I am not the one to judge your unique expressions.  There will be plenty of judgment from the decline process itself.  The process will not care about excuses.  It will reward humility and acceptance.  Spartan and ascetic lifestyles are a must.  Most of all an attitude that looks to the nature of life instead of the arrogance of humanism is required.

REAL Green focuses on the individual.  The message is not meant to be a movement.  This message is for a handful of readers who visit this obscure blog.  Those who understand REAL Green action will have an oversized impact on those places that have the right stuff to survive the coming bottleneck.  This will unfold over years and days.  This will be a mosaic of events and processes.

The complexity and complicated structures of the individual’s world in decline are now self-organizing and adapting negatively.  These forces are converging and reinforcing.  Forces of decline are abandonment, dysfunction, and irrational.  These forces occur suddenly in break-outs but also slow attrition.  This is in contrast to the slow incremental building of growth our grandfathers knew.  For you the individual in the dawning of a new age this means your previous experience and education must be altered.

The mental pattern of bargaining is entrenched at the public level.  Optimist both green and brown are stuck in bargaining because of the arrogance of humanism.  Leaders don’t become leaders without this collective trait of arrogance.  This condition is in fact now breeding psychopathic behavior among the elites who run the world.  The administrative state, global technocratic think tanks, and transnational corporations are increasing human arrogance when the opposite is needed.

Prosperity has been promised in so many forms for so long people default to those who promise the most.  Promises eventually become untenable entitlements.  Economically they become unfunded liabilities.  If people really understood he truth that prosperity is over and has been over they would live differently.  Living differently would crash the system of growth. 

This is not only a camouflaged catch-22 for humans but also an unfolding planetary tragedy.  Anti-life forces are in full force.  This is the time of maximum darkness for the planet yet humankind thinks we are at the greatest point in our history with knowledge and tech.  This is actually the dawning of the bottleneck period where stability and growth turn to vicious decline and reorientation.

This dangerous period of unkeepable promises that have become entitlements means you the individual need to view life differently for your survival.  Now that prosperity has tipped over into decline there will be dangerous resentment.  If you are elite, I would be very worried because you have a long way to fall with many people eying your priveldge.  If you insecurely living a wealthy life, I would be worried.  Most people are going to get a 40% haircut. 

This current inflation and deflation combination is stagflation.  This is not transitory and will only increase.  This is systematic and will converge and reinforce decline.  This decline will be a mosaic with a variety of outcomes.  Some places will collpase while others will see slower decline.  There are places where constructive growth and relative refuge are possible.  This is REAL Green.  Find the right people and place and you will find a refuge of sorts.

My life is a REAL Green experimentation.  I am walking the walk.   I am telling you the story.  I am talking to very few of you mainly because my message of doom does not sell.  For most it is like the occasional porn viewing.  What I am talking about will not be a movement.  It is not practical for urbanites and much of the world population is increasingly urban and centralized. 

REAL Green is a decentralized mentality but with a strategy of parasitically feeding off centralized wealth to decline in place in a local with a future.  A proper spirituality allows this because it is attitudes and mentality that drive constructive growth in a refuge microclime.  The world will be collapsing all around you.  Your refuge will be affected too but your attitudes and mentality will allow meaning and dignity.  This is the hospice of REAL Green.  The lifeboat is your homestead.  Your monestary is where meaning is cultivated.

REAL Green is highly mental with adaptive.  Adaptations concern attitudes and spirtual orientation.  Once your mental framework is in the adaption mode for a decline process then you can focus on the physical realities of decline which put simply is less physical affluence.  This is very hard to do.  I say that because I am trying to do it and I hit road blocks at every turn.

Doom is effectively a pariah concept that society avoids on all levels.  If you focus on doom you are going against the narrative but paradoxically you are flowing with the current of life.  Life is now in a period of destructive change in a succession of complexity.  Human growth caused this with a forcing of anti-life activities.  Monocultures, forever chemicals, and excessive waste streams have ended the stable Holocene.  This is now the destructive Anthropocene.

I constantly talk about a mentality of relative and realistic because the Anthropocene is an age of duplicity.  Humans are tracking in one direction and the planet and life in another.  REAL Green attempts to navigate both worlds realistically and relatively based upon your local of people and place.  It is here where meaning is because it is here humans scale.  When scaled properly there is more balance.

This adaptive mentality must be tied to your local of people and place.  How much you can change your people and place is your envelope of adaptation.  This is a keystone attitude because one of the most important criteria for the success of an individual is knowing local limitations.  Your limitations are a moving target because of outside forces.  You may be completely dedicated to change but your people and place are not.  This requires throttling to get it right.  Overdoing adaption is as bad as not doing anything.

I have succeeded over many years in moving from elite status to solidly middle class.  This is harder than you think because family and tribe have roles for you.  My definition of tribe is extended family, friends, and other relationships.  I am now to the point where I should move from middle class to lower middle class but I have not made that move.  I am mentally ready for it.  I think about this daily.  It is coming because all you need to do is be honest about science and economics to see that basics of prosperity will be over soon. 

My approach is I am going to enjoy good foods, clothing, and products while I can.  I know it will end but I will feed off this system intelligently while I can.  This is the terminal illness of the hospice.  A person’s last months in a hospice should focus on quality of life with acceptance of the end.  The key ingredient is lifestyle adaption.  I am still enjoying items of prosperity but recognizing it will end soon.  This mentality is like a daily prayer. 

Attitudes address this but also changed lifestyle.  Attitudes of simplicity and Spartan living are a must.  A permaculture lifestyle is the basics.  Much of what I have done is efficiency related and prepping.  I have embraced the spirituality of Green.  This spirituality is simply taking your existing spirituality and greening it up with permaculture localism. 

In my case it is local biomass and animals.  Goat and cattle graze polyculture pastures.  I harvest hay and firewood.  I also have a garden, orchard, and grapes.  I have done environmental restoration that means for a time at least there is lots of forage and game to harvest.  This is the simplicity of permaculture for my place.  I keep it local and low on fossil fuel inputs. 

I have stocked up on essentials but they will run out over time.  I have rationalized my equipment by eliminating machines and getting smaller.  Equipment wears out and is lost to accidents so this is my envelope.  Without resupply your prepped homestead will suffer entropic decay over time.  Less equipment and more human labor is a proper consideration.  One of my biggest deficiencies is no animal labor and not enough human labor.  These are my limitations.

I am a one-man operation but with help from my wife and two 14 year-olds.  Without fossil fuels my operations stops.  I know what animals and equipment I need but economics and time needed prevent change.  I have downsized as much as I can with equipment.  A mule team is needed but there is no way I can fit that into what I do.  I am hoping my young boys will embrace my farming system at least part time. 

The younger generation is the future.  The future is larger families despite current demographics.  The future of women is keeping house and providing for the family.  Men will be in the fields and doing manual labor.  Look to the 19^th century for a feel of what is ahead.

Health deteriorates too meaning downsizing into a more labor-intensive life is more wear and tear.  At 60 my back and joints are now problematic.  I power through this but for how long?  When I hit 70, I doubt I will be able to do what I do.  If I can’t get my kids on board then this farm stops.  This is the sad reality of decline for me.  But I reflect on this as a journey.  I live day by day.

For me the most important variable to this whole process of decline is attitudes.  You must embrace the idea of insecurity and depravations.  What this means is living them in your life even if there is no immediate crisis.  There is a building crisis that we are being slow boiled into.  You need to have the mentality of adapting to adapt.  I have a good life that is tough but rewarding.  My biggest effort is not the back breaking work and redundancy of low value tasks but the attitude that more painful adaption is ahead.  I think about sacrifices with everything I do.

This is why I spend so much time on the spirtual side of REAL Green which I call spirtual permaculture.  The key aspect of REAL Green is getting tough spiritually for decline.  You need to reach the edges of your envelope and try to stay there.  You need to dwell on the cliff and be ready to jump off into a world that despite the preparations you are not prepared for.  When you jump and or are pushed, the outcome is unclear.  It does not matter how prepared you are for this jump.  Fate will dictate a result beyond your input.

If you embrace a spirtual permaculture you will be cultivating acceptance strategies that are basically getting out of a holistic denial of decline.  I say holistic because decline is physical and metaphysical.  The physical is characterized by abandonment.  The abstract is where dysfunction and irrational come into play.  Finding ways to adapt to forces of decline means acceptance is a keystone effort.  This is 80% attitude once you get the basics of green prepping mastered.

The key to green prepping and spirtual permaculture is embracing nature because if you do nature will assist you.  Nature has already figured out the rat race.  Humans have arrogantly deluded themselves over the ages that we can do it better through knowledge and technology.  This has resulted in an evolution of a human system that is steadily less resilient with brittle sustainability.   The drift into increasing prosperity has been relentless and is likely now a dead end evolutionary strategy

Embracing nature means being more natural.  This means seasonal and symbiotic.  It means rural and local.  If you are urban then my message is only partially useful.  The degree to which you are urban and mobile is a good gauge for you risk level.  Most cities larger than 20,000 have little resilience to decline shocks.  Many of these cities are not position properly near food, water, and energy.   Longer term sustainability means less globalism. 

REAL Green finds the macro narrative a lost cause.  Don’t embrace messages of false hope.  This does not mean ignore your globalized world.  You can’t ignore the macro.  A key aspect of REAL Green is prepping with security for the effects of a declining globalized world.  Yielding strategies are foremost but positioning is important too.  Be less of a target but also position with groups for common defense.  You will have no choice but to reflect globally and support a political cause otherwise you will be at risk of being swept away individually.  The key to politics is localism.  The current system is broken but you still need to influence how it unwinds in relation to your local.

A key element of REAL Green is using this dying system to leave it.  You are relying on the ecological principal of niche growth within a system in decline.  Niches are freed up when a complex system breaks down.  You take your prepped local boosted by proper attitudes and a robust spirituality and become a force of adaptation.  This is swimming with the current of life mentality and physcally.  Life is in decline so you embrace decline.  You are swimming against the civilization current so right is wrong and wrong is right in this regard.  Civilization is in a linear urge to manifest destiny.  This is suicide.

This start with downsizing but more accurately downsizing with dignity of meaning.  Downsizing is a retreat action.  Downsizing with dignity is a retreat in force.  You accept the war is lost but you will lose slower.  Entropic decline of a system breaking down will win this war until humanity settles to a proper level of stasis.  The reason I say embrace nature is because nature has perfected how to battle entropic decay.  You can’t top nature’s nature for this.

Human civilization is declining on all levels.  This has forced planetary systems into flux from the stability that gave life so much complexity in the Holocene.  The web of life is declining with lower diversity thereby reducing common support.  The best you can do is postion properly but this first means acceptance of decline.  Once acceptance is embraced it is then a strategy for engineering of a different life system.

I am including two articles for your review.  I abbreviated them so you get the main points I want to stress.  I am increasingly finding my REAL Green positions proving out with the point of view of others.  These may be obscure and not mainstream but I find these obscure and alternative writers are the most honest. 

This dovetailing supports my view I am on the right track.  I have been doing this for years and going against the grain with talk of decline.  I started in earnest in 2000.  Even before 2000 I took interest in the diverse science of decline.  This has been academic but also a way of life.  I am a homesteader and naturalist but with a green prepping twist.

All those years of crying wolf and now here we are in this scary world I have been describing.  This is not vindication because that is not what acceptance is about.  This is about the journey not the destination.  I have explored, experimented, and created through this process.  This process is learning and coming to know the truth.  This is in my view is the higher value of being human.  I feel nearer the sacred with this mentality.

I call this life boats and hospices because the effort is physical and metaphysical.  I also speak of homestead and monestary.  I am talking about embracing nature and prepositioning for the trip down.  I speak of a monestary because once your life boat is outfitted you need morale to face the coming storm.  The monestary contains the art and meaning for the why.  The why is your higher power principal.  Combine these two and you will be a force of change.

https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2022/06/15/232-all-crises-great-and-small/

“But it’s equally important that we understand the inner nature of a rapidly-unfolding crisis situation.  Prosperity is heading downwards, hardship is being worsened by the rising costs of necessities, and these material trends are invalidating two assumptions on which decision-makers have hitherto relied.”

“One of these failing assumptions, of course, is that we can deliver ‘happy outcomes’ using fiscal, credit and monetary gimmickry.  The other is the assumption that an economic consensus, generally labelled ‘liberal’, can prevail, by some kind of triumph of hope over reality.”

“On the basis of this useful discipline, our first point needs to be that prior growth in material prosperity has gone into reverse.  Our second is that systems – including the financial and the political – have been built on the contrary assumption of ‘growth in perpetuity’.  Our third is that this inherent contradiction is not understood.”

“Together, these points explain why we face crises of adjustment.  We have to adjust our financial system to a post-growth reality, and adjust our political systems to a situation in which it’s no longer enough to offer the public “jam tomorrow”, telling people that they’ll all be better off in the future if they just ‘keep the faith’ in the present orthodoxy.”

“First, discretionary contraction isn’t pleasant, particularly for anyone who’s been told that discretionary prosperity is supposed to carry on increasing over time.  Trying, both individually and collectively, to buck this trend – to increase discretionary consumption, even though discretionary prosperity is decreasing – worsens indebtedness, simultaneously exacerbating insecurity, and breeding discontent wherever it appears that a favoured minority is enjoying increased discretionary prosperity.”

“Promises can turn pretty quickly into expectations, and expectations into feelings of entitlement. The failure of promises, the disappointment of expectations and the denial of supposed entitlements can lead directly to resentment.”

“Depending on how you define “essential” – which varies both geographically and over time – roughly 60% of economic activity in the modern Western economy is discretionary.  This means that about 60% (and probably more) of equity valuation, and of loans outstanding, is dependent on positive futurity as it affects discretionary prospects.  In other words, if the consensus expectation of discretionary expansion were to turn instead into a realization of discretionary contraction, the financial system would face pressures which have no precedent in the industrial era.”

“In government, the equivalent of futurity is expectation, which means that people expect – and have been led to expect – a continuous improvement in their material circumstances over time.  Economic ‘liberalism’ is particularly at risk because it is based on a claim, which might otherwise be called a promise, that the prosperity being enjoyed by the more fortunate in the present will, in the course of time, come to be enjoyed by everyone else as well.”

The Degrowth conundrum

“My reading indicates that there has been little or no thinking about transition strategy, apart from that of the Green New Dealers and the Socialists, (…both of whom get it wrong; see below.) There has been considerable discussion within the Degrowth literature of what might appear to be strategy, but this is only discussion about goals. For instance various Degrowth (and GND) advocates call for things like fairer taxes, limiting inequality and implementing cap and trade systems. These (admirable) demands are in fact policies, statements of goals, not strategies for achieving goals.”

“But my main point here is not the neglect of the strategy issue, it is the total failure to grasp the magnitude of the degrowth required. I have gone into this in numerical detail in my paper “Degrowth; How much is needed?”. It derives the conclusion that present rich world levels of production, consumption resource use and GDP per capita must be reduced by up to 90% before a sustainable and just world could become achievable.”

“Typical GND proposals are utterly incapable of doing anything like this. They assume that the reductions needed are far less than this and can be achieved by reforms to/within/by consumer-capitalist society, mainly achieved by technical advances, more recycling and efficiency improvements.  This “tech-fix faith has now been demolished by massive recent review studies such as by Hickel and Kallis, Parrique (… reviewing around 300 studies), and Haberl et al. ( … reviewing around 800.) These conclude that decoupling is not being achieved and is not at all likely to be. In some limited areas reductions can be made but in general if GDP increases so do resource and ecological impacts.”

“Significant Degrowth, beyond the relatively small amount that can be achieved by tech-fixes, means eliminating a great deal of productive capacity.  Degrowth of the magnitude argued for above means phasing out, writing off, scrapping, most of the present amount of factories, corporations, trade, investment, industry, financing, and profit-making. It is about ceasing, eliminating, most of the producing and consuming going on. How on earth could this be done? That’s the Degrowth conundrum.”

“In the article “Simpler Way transition theory” I explain how it can be done, and the only way it can be done. The task is to enable people who presently have to produce and consume a lot to live satisfactorily, to transition to lifestyles and systems in which they do not have to. The Simpler Way makes that possible and it is the only way it is possible.”

“The claim here is that there is only one general form of society that can enable a high quality of life on extremely low levels of resource throughput. The core elements in this Simpler Way must be mostly small, highly self-sufficient and self-governing predominantly collectivist communities in control of their local needs-driven economies and willingly committed to far simpler lifestyles and systems.  The Alternative provides the detail, including provision for socially-desirable high tech, the elimination of unemployment, and the securing of a high quality of life for all.”

“It can be the same with respect to many other goods and services, including almost all other food items, dwelling construction, clothing supply, welfare and education provision, and especially for abundant and resource-cheap leisure and  entertainment.”

“These Simpler Way communities cannot be established or run by governments. Their crucial ingredient is a mentality, a culture prioritising self-sufficiency, localism, global awareness, community autonomy and self-government, cooperation and above all desire to live in materially simpler lifestyles and systems. These communities must be highly autonomous (within national guidelines and laws). They can only function well if run by conscientious, socially responsible happy citizens who derive life satisfaction from non-material pursuits. The state cannot give or enforce the conditions. It cannot make the right decisions for vast numbers of local communities, decisions such as what fruit trees to plant where a parking lot is being dug up. Above all the state cannot create the required world view and dispositions.”

“This is a cultural revolution; only when the right ideas and values become predominant can structural change towards simpler lifestyles and systems take place. These conditions show the fundamental mistake built into the standard socialist assumption that the good society must have highly centralised state control. And it shows that the standard socialist strategy of taking control of the state is also fundamentally mistaken. We will eventually take it but at the present early stage of the revolution trying to do so is a waste of time, partly because the system is far too deeply entrenched, but mainly because there are much more important subversive things to do right now.”

“This is a classical anarchist vision of small scale cooperative communities run on thoroughly participatory lines free from domination by outside forces. It has been made essential now by the advent of the limits to growth. In previous revolutions it made sense to try to take power off the ruling class and to run the industrial system in the interests of all via a centralised state. But now the situation is totally different; central states cannot create or run the kinds of communities needed get per capita resource use rates right down while enabling good quality of life.”

“Consider the impossible logic embedded in socialist strategic thinking. If by some miracle a government with these ideas got state power tomorrow it could not implement Simpler Way practices unless there had been such massive support for them that people had elected a government with these policies. There is no possibility of that happening in the foreseeable future in a society obsessed with growth and affluence. It could only happen after there had been the greatest cultural transition in history, to willing acceptance of simpler ways. That transition would have been the revolution; the subsequent change in structures, including our control of the remnant state, would then be consequences of the revolution. It is therefore clearly a mistake to focus on taking state power at this point in time. What we need to focus on is working to bring about the crucial changes in ideas and values.”

“What then is to be done? Again the anarchists have the right answer. It is to “prefigure” the alternative. That is, build some of the required new ways here and now within the old system. The point of pre-figuring can easily be misunderstood. It does not assume that just setting up post-revolutionary arrangements one by one will lead to these eventually having replaced consumer-capitalist ways. The main point is educational/ideological. By becoming involved in the many emerging local initiatives activists are likely to be in the most effective position to acquaint participants and onlookers with the need to dump capitalism and build local needs-driven economies under local control.”

“The more people we help to understand all this in the short time remaining the better will be our chances of establishing the new systems before it’s too late.  So if you want to help us solve the degrowth conundrum, get down to the community garden.”

“The caterpillar begins by asking Alice the simple question “who are you?” When Alice finds that she cannot properly articulate who she is, no doubt a side effect of constant exposure to the chaos and nonsense of Wonderland, the caterpillar recognizes that Alice’s time in the “strange” land has taken a serious toll on her sense of self.”

I would like for you to read the latest from Energyshift.net “A-World-Out-Of-Balance”.  JJ is a Mayan scholar who translates the Mayan world view in an approachable form for the normal people like me.  JJ puts our current dramatic time in history in Mayan context.  This is needed because this is an age characterized by a spirtual drift of meaninglessness.  We know so much these days with so little meaning.  The result is we are now lost in a strange land like Alice in Wonderland. 

Humans lack meaning today because we have lost proper wisdom.  Wisdom is different than knowing.  Wisdom is about knowing what to know.  Proper management of knowledge is more important than quantity of knowledge.  Here quality takes precedent over quantity.  Today knowing is about knowing everything possible then accumulating this as a center of power and control.  You the individual should instead seek a wisdom that limits this insatiable quest to know the deepest secrets of life.

The difference between these two approaches to knowledge is the contrasting attitudes of arrogance and humility.  We lack control over ourselves and the result is bad behavior as a species.  We have lost an existential balance because arrogance is destabilizing.  Science and technology lead to arrogance when wisdom is not applied.  Without humility our knowledge is now destructive to ourselves and the planets life system.

Wisdom is about choices.   Making a choice is a sacrifice.  There is an opportunity cost with a choice.  These days choices are optional and relative in regards to what to know or not.  Everywhere instead of hard choices there is a can kicking exercise of avoiding choices.  The arrogance that knowledge and technology will solve our multitude of problems has now trapped us.  We are at the point now where choices will be forced on us as a species now.

More than ever wisdom is vital for you the individual, family, and tribe.  The tribe is your extended family and friends.  Local community is the confederation of several tribes.  It is only the local community that can properly navigate decline properly longer term. 

There are few properly functioning local communities these days because of transhumanism and delocalization.  This simple reality is not being faced.  The redevelopment of proper community must first start from the individual, family, and tribe.  It is here a retrenchment is vital.  If these relationship structures strengthen a proper community results.  Wisdom and community are central to the life boat and hospice mentality needed today for a robust adaptation to a world tipping into decline.

There is little restraint these days to stop our pursuit of affluence through science and technology.  The power of affluence to transcend local constraints means tough choices are bypassed.  Most restraints are cost related not wisdom related.  The impulse to and the corruption from affluence is preventing proper knowledge management.  The world is out of balance with competitive cooperation resulting in a subordination of wisdom to affluence.  This globally mobile affluence results in a power corruption.

The competitive is driving science and technology in an unstoppable march towards transhumanism.  Tyrannical control for power is resulting.  Scientism and state capitalism are replacing representative democracies with centralized technocracies.  When Scientism and state capitalism combine a mechanization of life results in a technocratic concentration of power.  Nature is relegated to a commodity.  People become cogs in the machine.  The elites micro manage life to their benefit.

We now have an exaggerated sense of our collective self.  This is straining our relationships with fellow humans and planetary life.  A proper humility is the only cure for this.  This is not likely because spirituality is subservient to science these days.  Science and technocracy rules with a manifest destiny to advance humanism into the transhumanism of the machine.  Scientism is a religion of affluence.  Wisdom is the step child in this unconstrained juggernaut of arrogance of knowledge and power.

One should reflect on Mayan cosmology for meaning in this time of meaninglessness.  The Mayan perspective is useful because the cyclic merges meaning and non-meaning.   The cyclic illustrates that meaning and non-meaning revolve around the other.  This is similar to chaos in Chaos Theory.  Chaos is systematic randomness.  Notice the incongruous juxtaposition?  There is a system to randomness.  This offer clues to finding meaning for us the individual in a time of meaninglessness. This is the rhythm of life.  Life’s ebb and flow is cyclic.

Absolute order is paralysis and complete randomness is disorder.  When they assume their place together then there is a rhythm.  This abstraction is where sacred dwells.  The universe is this expression and the system of life mirrors this refection in its nature.  This is a metaphysical fractal.  Entropy and negative entropy dance together.  Humans reflect this with our self-consciousness. 

The Maya reflects this dance in their elaborate worldview of ancient science and myth.  One must use physics and metaphysics to understand this.  This is a holistic effort of both myth and science properly positioned reflecting metaphyscal and physical fractals.  “Matthew 6:10 may your Kingdom come; may your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.” Both assume their pole with basic wisdom as the gate keeper.

Today myths are considered superstitious.  Myths are treated as unscientific so dismissed as a key source of meaning.   What is odd is Scientism is actually a myth system.  This reality is obscured with scientific subterfuge with multiple elaborate cognitive biases to protect the rot of a narrative of irrational absurdities.   Lies must support lies so the result is a creep of moral hazard which is at its root the avoidance of hard existential choices.  Humans have lied their way into a bottleneck.  For those not lying the bottleneck is unfolding before our eyes.

The Maya world view through calendars and their relationships is important to you now.  You can see meaning in meaninglessness.  This cyclical world view is far advanced to our science today in regards to the key aspect of life that is wisdom.  Scaling myth and science properly is wisdom.  Maya scaled myth and science properly. 

Science looks to breakdown into parts meaning in a linear meaning.  Meaning is created and built upon seeking a climax.  The Maya saw meaning unfolding.  Meaning can’t be properly known unless one uses physical and metaphysical tools properly scaled.  Self-consciousness has the ability to use both.  When proper wisdom is employed a modulation between the two is embraced.

This unfolding is in a process of meaning and not meaning.  This sacred system is deterministic so in this sense the outcome is already.   This is the isness of being of the Toa.  Self-consciousness gets lost in this process only to be found.   Connectivity is the pathway to meaning but also the cliff the ego must step off.  Free will is how this system behaves but within its nature of determinism.

I can talk like this because I am a green shaman.  Shamanism is oral and intimate so I do not need to reference and backup what I say.  I am speaking not as a scholar but as your spirtual advisor.  For a shaman his work is spirtual not scientific.  Yet, science must be respected too it is just a shaman job is to relate spirtual messages. 

I am not claiming authority with either.  I am only relating my experience through the ancient calling of shamanism.  I am not going to talk with you like a scholar but I will urge you to listen to people like JJ.  Scholars who are properly scaled in their pursuit are vital to spirtual meaning.  These worlds coexist as one so they require expertise with both to have proper wisdom.  Respect science because human survival requires it.

I am a generalist that seeks spirtual meaning from connecting to nature.  I enjoy science and history.   They are a passion of mine.  My qualifications for shamanism is my ability to have spirtual vision.  I can feel what others can’t and see because of this.  True shamans are not messianic.  They are not prophets like civilization has produced.  They hark back to a more primitive time.  They are tribal and speak for and to the family.  My message is not going to change the world it is meant for very few.

I see at this point in time permaculture localism is the cure for meaninglessness.  It is only through wisdom and its intimate approach to the land that man can navigate back to a proper balance.  Scientism is the antithesis to this balance that comes from humility.  Scientism is now the tipping point of arrogance.  This is tipping point is the subordination of wisdom to scientism.  It is this destabilizing force taking ourselves and planetary systems into a bifurcation of succession.

In the big world of the Mayan calendar this is accounted for.  I am speaking as tribal member.  Here is where the potential for action is in a natural response.  This naturalness I speak of is green shamanism.  Be yourself in permaculture localism and nature will cure you.  The big world of the Maya affects you but in the microclime of your local there is places for constructive growth that are like eddies in the current.  Respecting both worlds allows each their place.  If you find this place a harmony results.

You should seek meaning but be prepared to lose it.  You should get lost to find yourself.  This sounds so simplistic that it is beyond reach for most.  This age of meaninglessness is unfolding into meaning.  Following the Mayan cyclic view helps one position in this unfolding of meaning.  It is much like living seasonally on the farm.  The current season is of destructive change.   In your small microclime local you can find constructive growth.  We are entering a winter dearth.   Now is the time to adapt locally.  Ecological niches behave like this so reflect their fractal nature.  Become a fractal reflection.

The season ahead is a spirtual season emerging from a time of scientific arrogance.  Science and affluence caused us to get lost.  We are lost in ourselves and now life is jolting us back.  The Maya viewed this as the way of the unfolding.  Our age is at the equinox of meaning.  Night is becoming day.  This acceptance of the sacred nature of the cyclic offers salvation.  This is a grace that cures the ills of our wandering ego.

As a shaman I am concern about your local spirituality.  These bigger dramas are something I find enjoyment in.  I have reverence for these dramas because when I naturally seek the meaning, I inevitably find I am lost.  I can’t understand all this.  There is too much to comprehend.  When I get lost, I find myself.  We are lost but meaning will unfold because it is cyclic.  Calm yourself in this.  This is the basic of faith but a faith grounded in honesty and humility.  Scientism is an arrogance that prevents proper humility yet this is a natural process that is part of the myth.

Spirtual meaning is a metaphysical reality.  You can use science with metaphysics but you can’t find metaphysical meaning through science.  Metaphysical meaning is through connectivity.  To connect you must first get lost.  Humans are now collectively lost because science is in diminishing returns.  Science actually serves to disperse meaning because proper meaning needs the restraint of wisdom.  This age is tipping over because of this nonlinear convergence.

Scientism is a revolutionary system that has no boundaries.  Power and control are its unconscious goal.  This becomes a mechanization through transhumanism and delocalization because these human forces are raw power.  This leverage is destructive beyond a simple application.  Scale is lost and the result is existential imbalances.  This unconscious quest for power is ultimately the quest for immortality.  This kind of immortality seeking is blasphemous to the sacred.

The only way you can approach these sacred truths is in reverence.  Reverence is from connection and this is why I have no references and backup.  Respect is a feeling and as an emotion there are no equations.  It can’t be explained by breaking it down scientifically.   If I sound repetitive then listen to a Tibetan Monk chant or recite the holy Rosary with others.  This is a connection to the rhythm of life that is cathartic.

As a shaman in my local I am practicing permaculture localism.  This is a spirtual permaculture because it is about connectivity to the land and people.  It is about mother earth but also the body of Christ.  This is the dawning of a spirtual age because science has brought us to the cliff of meaninglessness.  The reason the Mayan should be consulted through their sacred texts is they give a story of why there is meaning in this state of being lost.  We will soon find ourselves because this is the way of the unfolding. 

Permaculture localism is your lifeboat and your hospice is spirtual permaculture.  Permaculture is a lifeboat navigating this sea of destructive change.  You will be navigating through a dying age with simple green prepping efforts that mirror the metaphysical fractals in nature.  Spirtual Permaculture is the palliative care of feeling naturalism that offer the meaning to assist you on your journey in this time of death. 

Nature is the only way to properly connect.  This is critical to understand because in this age of scientism urban growth is being called for.   For the awakened the message is this age of cities must disperse.  This is why cities and centers of knowledge are now the forces of darkness.  Our smartest people are the most deceived.  In artificial intelligence the deception is complete.  This message is now being doubled down upon in a technocratic belief system.  This hidden narrative has assumed blasphemous proportions and will be swept away in the coming bottleneck.

The faithful of scientism have deadly serious passions that are anti-life.  People are excessively passionate about self-worth, envy, and resentment these days.   This is an indication we are in the vicinity of the return to a proper orientation to the sacred.  Affluence is the illness that has brought us to this tipping point.

All religions are corrupted with this because this is the nature of this cyclic age.  It can be no other way.  All religions have their eddies of wisdom.  This means find a microclime for your higher power in permaculture localism and green prepping.  There is no hope for scientism because science should never have assumed a spirtual expression.  Scientism is the mechanization of life through the machine.  This results in anti-life attitudes.  Scientism will destroy itself because of this.

The ego is now so preoccupied with science and knowing it is now getting lost like Alice in her Wonderland.  She is dreaming really and she will wake up.  This is grace.  Grace is what occurs in connectivity.  The wonderfully protected ego is finally exhausted with itself and in the experience a natural reconnection results.  The ego tricks itself unconsciously because this is the nature of the cyclic and the linear. 

This is a birthing.  This is a tipping point.  This is an unfolding and in this time in our collective history decades are unfolding in months.  Time is speeding up like the final year of life of a terminal illness.  This is how you know we are in the vicinity of an emergence of a sacred expression.  You can better prepare for this locally and in permaculture.  Science is a hinderance now to proper connectivity.  Affluence and arrogance are the siren song of despair.

What I said above is a word salad because I am attempting to describe something sacred.  It does not come out in words properly.  It sounds childish to speak like this.  This is the point though because we all enjoy a child’s description of something.  We are children of the sacred.  True adults are children who in humility accept the sacred way.  When in proper balance there is a natural innocence of proper place.  Knowledge destroys innocence.  If innocence is not respected with proper wisdom, then all the knowledge in the world is worthless.

I don’t know why humans are destroying the earth.  Sure, I know scientifically why this is happening.  I can use philosophy, theology, and reason to judge this process.  I can say humans are depraved and nature good.  Yet, when I do this, I am only getting more lost.  The Mayan calendars offer meaning to this condition of being lost through a greater worldview that acknowledges it.  Use Mayan meaning for reflection but be careful about misusing it.  This world view is a physics and a metaphysics from an ancient time.  Imbalances occur if the Mayan approach is not scaled properly.

Today in this age tipping over right is wrong and wrong is right.  This is like a pole shift.   This unfolding means seek proper orientation by swimming out into the current.  If you swim against the current you will drown.  Meaning Is not something you can hold on to or fight.   You can only connect to it in its flowing nature.   Meaning will slip through your hands like water and if you accept this it supports you. 

The Scientism gospel of transhumanism and delocalization are destroying life.  Life primary impulse is to battle entropy.  Scientism is now a force of entropy.  You can see this clearly with how its applications are creating new and increasing problems.  Fixing problems create new ones.  This should be observed with reverence just as a Shakespearian comedy is a tragedy.  When the wonderfully guarded ego lightens up, we can laugh at ourselves.  This may include tears but also the calm of meaning. 

You are a microclime of life.  You will need to approach this with physical and metaphysical tools.  This is the age of science where metaphysical tools have been neglected and dismissed.  Science does not need spirituality to do its work.  Science is so serious now it has opened up a void.  It is natural for the spirtual to fill the void.  Spirtual tools are different tools.  If you use scientific tools spiritually then you get scientism.  You end up with nonsense and this is what is all around us today.

In energy shift’s “World-Out-Of-Balance” JJ shows you the Maya reflection on this story.  I did not do this post to breakdown and critique JJ’s work.  That is not my expertise.  I felt something in his words and this I am telling you as a green shaman.  Read his work.  It is vital for you in this age of decline.

The Mayan insights were far more advanced than our scientific studies today in regard to the sacred.  This is because they had a proper physical and metaphysical balance.  Science is used to study the Maya and this is where JJ excels but to really understand Mayan wisdom a metaphysical approach is required too.  JJ also proposes this but rightfully declines to explain its mystery.  JJ has gone to this world physically and metaphysically.  This makes him both a shaman and a scholar.  Trust his wisdom.

Spirtual wisdom will be applied to scientism at some point.  Mayan stories tell us so.  As a green shaman I am telling you to go local in permaculture because nature already has this figured out.  Be natural like the birds.  Sing your own local song just as a bird does in its range.  Simply put, this age will be the age of family and tribe in their properly scaled villages.  The current age of states, citizens, and globalism is fading away.  Go forth in the innocence of a child and live as your nature already knows.   The deep metaphysical fractals of spirtual meaning are now unfolding.

My REAL Green journey began with the odd encounter 20 years ago with a beaver in the confluence of two streams in the darkness of a wonderful night on a farm I once had.  This place had spiritual qualities.  When you stepped onto this land you stepped back in time.  It had the necessary elements of water and land.  Old growth trees were abundant along the steep valley.  It had animals and plant life untouched by development.  The most impressive element was the confluence of two beautiful streams.  This was very near the mighty Missouri River.

The Missouri River contains powerful spirtual qualities.  Native American once lived on this land.  Their many camps were absorbed into the soil with abundant artifacts.  There bodily remains were there with burial mounds.  These many qualities are important because the spirt world is enhanced by the qualitative presence of metaphysical talismans.  This spot had a spirtual aura.

In this vision, I was told the real web of life is the streams, rivers, and the ocean.  The nearby powerline with all its wonders of electricity was anti-life.  I call it a vision because calling it a delusion is a judgment. These kinds of judgments of the spirit world are metaphysical misapplication. 

It may have been delusional to mentally communicate with a beaver.   This was not actually talking to this unconcerned beaver, it was connecting to his world.  This connection was all the way to the ocean and it was flowing through me like a fire hose.

The beaver told me to tell my brothers and sisters that the whales and dolphins have proclaimed the awakening.  They are earth’s higher intelligence uncorrupted by science.  They are the true disciples of nature and life.  This message came up from the ocean, to the rivers, to the stream I was standing in.  I was never the same after that. 

The whales and dolphins understand as a species because they are different.  They do not possess science but they do have a powerful oral culture.  I heard them speak one time in Hawaii.  Their calls were amazing when I went underwater to listen.  This is what is needed to understand the sacred.

There is more to this spirtual experience.  I had a startling experience earlier in the evening that was an intervention of sorts.  I feel it was a visitation of the sacred through an electrical storm.  What transpired may have been delusional I don’t know and can never know.  I feel it was a metaphysical warp.  I was not struck by lightning but affected by this electrical storm.

This was a visitation for change that had been building up in me.  I saw a planet and civilization at the cross roads of a tipping point.  The society I was living with was oblivious to this.  I would talk to people about how out of balance life was but people had little interest.  I was stuck in a way of life I felt was a train wreck.  The came to a head around my 40^th birthday in 2003.

The Harmonic Concordance occurred 2 weeks prior to this visitation on my 40^th birthday:

“The Total Lunar Eclipse of November 8/9[i] 2003, was the distinguishing feature in an exceedingly rare astrological chart that was highlighted by a six-planet alignment known astrologically as a “Grand Sextile.”  This picture of harmonically resonating planetary energies is expressed in a pattern which has been esoterically known for millennia as the Seal of Solomon or Star of David.  In short, the symbolism embodied in this pattern speaks of ultimate Balance, Harmony, and Unity.  The spiritual/metaphysical import of this most unique arrangement of planets was the focal point of the worldwide celebrations of what has come to be known, globally, as The Harmonic Concordance.  The descent of Creator Consciousness upon each individual, the Ideal of Unity Consciousness, that we are all ONE, and the creation of a healing and protection for Mother Earth.”  https://harmonicconcordance.org/

OK, if you read the above and said “man this guy is nutter” then you don’t appreciate metaphysical visions.  Spirtual fractals will occasionally break through the facade of reality.  Physical alignments concentrating metaphysical energy in the right place and right time burst through space time barriers.  Normal time stops because actually, time is an illusion of linearity.  Circularity is the nature of metaphysical relationships.  Once connected to the circular you can go forward and backwards in connectivity.  This is not time travel it is connectivity.

This is not about miracles and special powers but instead humility and acceptance.  If special powers are what you are seeking then you will be empty handed.  This is about tapping into the power of life.  Life taps into the power of the cosmos.  By tapping into life, you tap into what drives the cosmos.  Personal power is a detour away from connectivity.  Life works in self-organizing competitive cooperation.  It is symbiosis seeking common orientation towards efforts at negating entropy.

I opened myself up through Native American mystic efforts.  These are shamanistic.  They are primitive and natural.  I did this at a time of an alignment in a spirtual place.  I became a conduit of this power.  This power is of what animates.  It is like a low-level hum.  I stepped through a door and was changed forever.  My vision was man has made a wrong turn.  Nature is tipping man back.  This tipping is the beginning of the awakening and transformation of a return.

I got here through a life of deep eclectic studies.   Some of this was quite fringe and esoteric others traditional.  At this time, I was deeply into the advanced studies of all the components of limits of growth and ecological decline.  This was a science-based journey but without prejudice for the spirtual.  I was also dabbling with shamanism.  I didn’t really know what I was doing because I had no teacher but I read lots of books on shamanism.  I also took some classes.  Importantly, I walked in this spirtual world as best I could oblivious to what was coming.

This is why I speak of balance and proper scale.  This type of spirituality is very local.  This kind of connectivity is by touching the earth through life as intimately as possible.  Transhumanism and delocalization may offer immense powers but these powers result in spirtual destruction.  If you want to tap into the  power I speak of successfully, go natural.  Cities are where science concentrates.  Science is at a different pole of human dualism.

In my case the modernity I was trapped in and struggling to leave burst.  The façade broke down.  I saw life in a different perspective without judgment.  This was my spirtual awakening although I had been through another in high school.  This last one in 2003 consolidated my transformation.  I became dedicated to the mystic way.  I went forth on its behalf. 

I descended and lived a somewhat normal but an altered life.  Over 20 years this alteration coalesced in REAL Green.   This is a vital adaptive mentality of being relative in efforts and realistic with respect to your local of people and place.  This has been a difficult journey mainly because I went against the narrative of human manifest destiny of techno optimism.  REAL Green is pessimistic optimism which sees a return to our proper nature but within consequences of a transformed planet.  This is why REAL Green speaks of realism and being realistic. 

A word of caution on how far to take your spirtual journey.  Shamanism opens you up to metaphysical fractals.   Physical alignments affect time and space orientation.  You will be given choices because self-consciousness is about choices.  These choices relate to the truth without prejudice or personal power.  There is no room for baggage at this portal if you go through the mystic door.  Your mystic choice is a nebulous world of connectivity.  Your ego world is naked and alone in the comforts of a wonderfully guarded ego.  If connectivity is chosen a purgatory of spirtual healing can be attained.  This is why shamans practice the art of spirtual healing.

Be careful what you wish for.  This can be unsafe if not done with proper orientation.  Real shamanism is local and natural.  It is also above rules and laws of human convention.  This is a place where you can lose control of your life.  The sacred is the metaphysical fire of the cosmos.  Proceed with caution if you have not been properly prepped you risk insanity.  Nature is the best means to prepping for this spirtual journey.

I have no scientific explanation for my experience because this is not the domain of science.  Psychologically it can be considered a mental breakdown.  Common sense would say I was under too much stress and broke mentally.  A spirtual experience does not fit the narrative so it is repressed with diagnoses.  An explanation is always needed with science or else there is a vacuum.  Once touched you will be mentally disorientated.  This means psychological maladaptive until your spirtual state settles.

I am not going to pass judgment on what happened to me.  Serendipity resulted but not without much suffering during the transition.  Maybe it was mental illness but I ask how sane is the narrative that is considered sane?   Who is really ill?  In today’s world of noise and meaninglessness a spirtual fever can offer insight into a spiritual cure.  This is why I speak of the importance right here right now of paradoxes and incongruous juxtapositions.  Right is wrong and wrong is right in fundamental ways.

If you want something you won’t find it.  The techniques and the discipline are mostly of reverence and respect.  You open yourself up as a conduit for the sacred.  This does not work if you expect results.  If called upon do not resist if you are ready.  Resistance kills the connection.  The best efforts are local in a naturalism based upon your unique local.  Tap into your people and place.  This is about others too.  A shaman is about family and tribe.  This is the true body of Christ.

The most basic aspect of shamanism is seeing.  A true shaman then tells his family and tribe his visions.  He also leads spiritually by example.  This is done locally.  A shaman is not messianic.  The leadership happens where proper human balance is.  If scale is improper there is no harmony.  Without balance the experience will tend to be dysfunctional.  Nature will support you in this journey.  This is why a natural location with spirtual significance is so critical. 

In earlier times there may have only been one shaman for a tribe.  It is not everyone’s calling but everyone should find their shaman and listen to his vision.  Yes, this is oral just like is always was.  I am not your shaman because I can’t speak to you from a distance.  This digital media is not a proper spirtual conduit.  It does not contain the necessary dimensions of earth, water, and the fire of the spirit.  Your spirtual home is out there somewhere.  Find it and your shaman will appear.

The warm glow of the sacred drew me in.  This was part of an honest search for the truth of things.  This journey was with science but aspects were without the need for science.  This is connectivity at its rawest form.  To do this you have to be willing and able to lose your mental balance because once you go through a spirtual worm hole your old self is no longer.  This getting lost is more the switching off of the ego for a period in a very simple way.  Once out of the worm hole your ego will be transformed.

I stepped through eagerly because this is what shamans do and I contained the disposition of a shaman.  This is part of a shaman’s medicine.  I of course had to come back.  The unfortunate result of my 40-day experience was I was roughly hauled back to their reality.  This was without respect.  For a time, I was angry and disorientated.  I had been spiritually raped by family and friends which is traumatic.  What is more traumatic is losing the connection.  I wandered wounded for a time because of this intervention.

I quit my high paying job and retreated to a different life.  The eventual result was REAL Green.  I am a shaman now but without the need for the fire.  I now concentrate on earth and water.  I am getting old.  My brain has changed.  I now seek to offer the young spirtual guidance.  I hope I can touch a few who will be shamans because this is my duty.  This is why I spoke of a deeply personal event in my life.  I am at your service if you have read this.

NOTE: My original draft was 11 pages which is too much.  I made an effort to cut that in half and what resulted was 11 pages.  I am not a writer so I recommend picking through this word salad for tasty morsels.  I am too busy running a farm to properly write.  It is my hope some of you will take my message as your own and deliver it properly.  My message is open source.  You are free to take it as your own.  I disclaim any ownership since all my knowledge came from elsewhere.  I am just a sponge being wringed. 

My focus is on green prepping for a world in decline.  Not many do this in combination.  We have greens and we have preppers but few I know combine these efforts.  If decline is embraced it is with a narrative decline can be fixed.  It is taboo at the leadership level of society to discuss the end of civilization as we know it.  Imagine a political candidate running on a collapse platform. 

Green prepping operates with a backwardation of the narrative.  Decline can’t be fixed and efforts to fix it make it worse.  This is especially true of technocratic solutions like NetZero.  In fact, this narrative turns out to be a lie used by the elites to grab power and transfer wealth to their constituents.  This is why the Davos crowd is the biggest drivers of this NetZero.  It is a powerful power grab just as the pandemic and woke have achieved so many gains to their power base. 

If you do not see this then you are blind.  These elites who fly private jets to environmental meetings don’t care about green or they would lead by example.  They want more globalism and more mega monopolistic corporations with a few powerful stakeholders to force change on to your backs not theirs.  There is a lot to what I just said and not enough room in this already long post to discuss.  Just keep in mind decline is being accelerated by the technocratic elite and mainstream greens are buying it hook line and sinker.

No major institution embraces a decline process.  Many acknowledge climate change and limits to growth issues but it is within the framing that technology and knowledge will power us through.  Groups that push political agendas claim they will save the world if and only if they can be in charge.  Preppers generally focus on a human conflict leading to collpase.  They don’t see this holistically as a systematic process but more a human leadership issue with conflict.  It is more about society’s fabric collapsing and the need for guns and bunkers to fight the rover bands of marauders.

Greens see a NetZero future that does not add up with physics, economics, and the required sacrifices of people.  Man has progressively grown for generations such that it is ingrained in our thought process.  It goes against ingrained attitudes to call into question techno optimism.  Talking about pessimism as the starting point is considered fringe.  Mainstream greens are techno optimist.  EVs, solar, and wind combined with smart grids and storage strategies is a massive development effort.  Calling this green is complete lie.

Greens reject my message because it does not fit the narrative of smart cities and clean energy.  The only energy that is clean is the simple living of permaculture localism.  This is biomass, human and animal labor, plus appropriate tech applied sparingly.  This is more poverty and less comforts.  Globalism was an extreme activity that is anti-life as a system.  It combines the worst of anti-life trends as well as the worst of humanism.  It has been and ecological and human disaster.  It has fostered human corruption in the extreme.  Davos is the pinnacle of this.

Preppers are further delusional because they think a fortified postion will save them.  They stockpile things and have bunkers.  They are obsessed with guns and the bunker mentality.  This will not save them.  Prepping is important but without the green aspects of permaculture and a community emersed in localism a prepper will make it a few months.  He will emerge into a new world without proper skills or community.  He will not have the proper spirituality unless he is green.  A world made by simple and no tech is green.

I am under no illusion green peppers will fail too but the key difference is if a place is spared destruction, it will be green preppers that survive.  The other wonderful aspect of green prepping is the lifestyle while the world still functions.  Once a green prepping mentality is embraced a world of spirtual growth occurs.  Honesty becomes front and center to the way of life.  Life’s fundamental nature is embraced instead of the arrogance of humanism. 

If you use fossil fuels and modern tech as a green prepper it is because you have no choice.  Your green prepping wisdom will seek to triage out what is not required.  Excess baggage of unneeded tech will be removed as best one can manage.  This frees up spirtual growth.  The spirtual growth makes the effort rewarding because there is no higher human value than meaning, the truth, and connection to that which is sacred.

This decline is a systematic decay of civilization.  There is nothing optimistic about this.  If you want optimism, then you can’t embrace systematic decline.  A reorientation of this underlying narrative of decline instead of growth is the most difficult aspect of REAL Green and the most important.  REAL Green is about optimistic pessimism.  Pessimism is required to get to optimism.  The optimism is not with physical affluence it is spirtual affluence.  This requires different thinking and living.

REAL Green is a backwardation.  This embrace of a backwardation is mindful of the trap of modern life.  Systematic decline will force a return to historic human ways of living and cooperating.  This is unavoidable because it is a systematic force.  This force is of the planet and life itself responding as big self-organizing systems do.  It is a systematic response to forcing.  You the individual if you want to be green and a prepper will have no choice but to transition to voluntary simplicity with modern tools and resources.  It is not cheap to build an effective lifeboat.  This makes it out of touch for many sadly. 

This is another backwardation because it takes brown to get to green.  REAL Green calls for permaculture localism.  This is a life of harvesting and gathering of energy primarily with biomass and human and animal labor.  Initially in the decline modern tech will be used because there is no other choice. 

The economics and the conventions of living require this brown reality to build something green.  Small-scale unsophisticated renewables are vital in this respect.  Efficient internal combustion equipment also used in a greener way is a must in this tipping point of decline.  Animal and human labor is just not an option for many.

The reality of renewables, contrary to what modern greens think, is they are a tool of transition to all biomass and human/animal labor.  This is likely generations away in a decline process but sudden collpase is real and can’t be ignored.  Most will have no choice but to participate in the car culture and consumerism to green prep.  You can’t build a homestead without modern tools. 

The old tools are gone.  The green prepping, I do is considered a hobby farm and my monestary a collection of things like books, art, and tools.  The reality that this is a life boat and hospice is not realized becuase most people do not embrace this kind of green or prepping.  Most do not embrace a decline process leading to the end of civilization as we know it.

The other backwardation is with what is green.  It is not green to embrace fossil fuels.  A modern green considers fossil fuels evil.  All kinds of movements are in place to fight them.  The Davos crowd want them gone too except for their use.  A green prepper understands that sadly all forms of energy should be embraced during the descent.  Remember this is a lifeboat, hospice mentality and way of life.

This does not sound very green until you realize degrowth takes growth unless you want to entertain a dirty and messy collapse.  Some form of collapse is coming regardless of how society adapts to a forced degrowth.  The degree and duration of the descent is critical on how far down it is to a stable floor. 

Currently green techno optimism is pushing the delusions of NetZero affluence.  This will not work and if pushed to its extreme will cause a cascading collpase.  Just look at Europe today how its economic fabric is unraveling.  Keep in mind renewables are vital but not NetZero.  Renewables applied in the framework of appropriate tech is an excellent green strategy.  Refer to my post on appropriate tech for details.

These green delusions will result in a rapid decline with populations unprepared especially because they are being told these changes will be more affluent not less.  This is especially true with the extremist woke greens and why they are such good pawns of the Davos Crowd.  What is further destabilizing is industrial systems are not ready for it.  This could result in supply chain breakdowns cascading through a complex system with unexpected and uncontrollable results.  If the grid goes down or significantly destabilizes, breakdown of vital systems is assured.  Green prepping says this will happen eventually but the degree and duration are the key driver of what kind of collpase unfolds.

Renewables can’t power a modern society.  Further the manufacture and operation of an EV car culture, wind turbines, and solar are dirty.  We should embrace some of this on the descent down.  Selling a world of clean energy and a bright future is a lie that will prevent proper adaptation.  The sad truth is the elites are either not educated on energy or lying about it to gain power.  They often look at it like an economist that preaches substitution.  Some new tech or material will be found to keep the lights on. 

Further the elites are corrupt and incompetent by human nature of power corrupts.  They will continue to use fossil fuels while limiting the people their fair share.  Unfortunately, a lied to populous can’t handle the truth because they have not been educated on the how and why.  The coming collpase of modern society is inevitable and systematic. 

We can make it worse or mitigate it better but there is no fixing this.  It is now self-organizing with tipping points already tipped.  Converging and reinforcing processes beyond human control are now at work.  No amount of tech or knowledge will stop this process.  In fact, tech and knowledge are in the way of proper changes.

The Davos club of elites are exceptionally corrupt, reckless and incompetent.  This is what happens when the scientific method becomes political and religious in scientism.  A Technocratic administrative club of stakeholders is merging in authoritarian control.  What makes this so dangerous is technocratic policy is delusional policy.  It is anti-life with more tech, transhumanism of the machine, and a doubling down on an anti-life economic globalism. 

This globalism is not free market it is a fascist stakeholder kind with a merger of government and business.  The people will be relegated to serfdom in their technocratic machine.  If the elites could embrace an honest life boat and hospice mentality and lead by example then a less destructive decline could take place.  Instead, the worst of all worlds will transpire with a populous lied to.  The people will be cheated out of their dignity.  When honesty does break through, as it always does, the anger will be intense.

What is worse is there will be a doubling down on globalism with more of the same that is destroying the world but now institutionalized in a religion of technocracy.  Technocracy is the scripture of scientism where the religion of science also becomes political.  This resulting political and economic system will be little different than the medieval church was with its extremes of injustice.  The potential for damage will be so much greater because science will be fully let go to do as much as it can in the merger of man and machine in an evil mechanization of life.

REAL Green seeks degrowth for the individual.  Society is on an unstoppable trajectory towards self-destruction in spirtual meaningless of transhumanism and delocalization.  You the individual can seek pessimistic optimism locally.  You will do this with modern tools and fossil energy with the understanding these initially are your tools to go permaculture and local.  This is where you will find a degree of security but most of all you will find meaning in the wisdom of insecurity.  You will fully accept decline and adapt accordingly. 

You will still have to have employment and pay bills.  The difference is the resulting meaning from the backwardation of mainstream meaning.  The status quo is efforts at growing affluence.  You on the other hand are embracing the decline of affluence.  This status quo effort is the red queen dilemma of every increasing effort at something unattainable.  Your effort will be like swimming with the current instead of against it resulting in increased spirtual gain.

The adaptation towards spirituality and away from affluence is a difficult undertaking because on the one hand you live the status quo of life as we know it and on the other you prepare to leave this world.  Timing makes this difficult.  We all know of how motivated zealots are about the end of the world until the end does not come. 

You don’t know when and how this world will decline with particulars, yet you see the surreal of decline everywhere.  Be like a student of Taoism who learns not to always be tensed up from his master smacking him on the back.  Eventually this collpase process becomes very natural without the anxiety of death.  This is a permaculture spirituality which is a naturalism of decline.

I call this adapted lifestyle the dualism of REAL Green.  It results in a routine surreal feeling that if not properly grounded in meaning can lead to anxiety.  This is because at times you feel you are on the wrong path.  In this age tipping over wrong is right.  Keep in mind this is not the universals of right and wrong this is about narrative. 

This requires a deep spirituality to maintain.  This is why the power of nature found in permaculture and the increased simplicity of localism is a requirement.  Nature will support you.  You will feel this support like a child feels its parents’ strength.  Only nature can overcome entropy not the arrogance of humanism that is anti-life.  Emulate nature and you will tapa into its power.

This requires a deep spiritual adaptation.  This adaptation is not a new spirituality but a changing of your existing one.  It is adapting your spirituality to a paradigm shift of decline.  It is a shift in spirituality that acknowledges this paradigm and accepts the consequences.  The consequences are stark and require alternative living.  The degree of adaptation is limited so this makes for further difficulties both spirtual and physical.

There is no going back to the way it was even 100 years ago at least in the short term.  100 years ago, people in many places could feed and warm themselves locally.  This is not true anymore in most cases.  In the longer term a stair step down of affluence will be forced on us regardless of ability.  A result will be a systematic shift to a new way of life where a stable floor is found.  This will be painful and messy.  If you do not have meaning for why it is happening then you will suffer more.  This is the hospice mentality of humility and acceptance that is central to green prepping.

The resilience and the sustainability of the resources base needed for this new living is the destination of your backwardation.  The paradigm shift of decline is hidden in the tipping point.  You are on a fence one foot in our normal world one in the coming world of decline.  Your backwardation sees this surreal situation and orientates away from battling an unavoidable entropic decay towards finding places of constructive growth.  Ecosystems that beak down open up a small amount of growth opportunities for adaptable species.  Backwardation allows you to find this innate ecological adaptability.

This is not the modern green’s world of a metaverse and solar pannels.  It is not the brown world of fossil fuels and economic growth.  Those are both systematically ending soon.  Technology has hit diminishing returns and the resulting problems are now multiplying.  The accumulation of knowledge in powerful concentrations is now noise destroying meaning.  Backwardation means using technology, modern energy, and concentrated knowledge in a different way.  Use it to leave it.

REAL Green is about the adjustment process in the beginning of the tipping process.  This tipping point is where systematic confluences of multiple types of decline reach a phase change.  This may or may not be a rapture of quick and violent change.  It may be a slow death of a terminal illness.  This process will likely be both and it will occur locally and globally in different forms.  It will be a mosaic of destructive change.  You can find a local with less pain and suffering if you have the right mentality.  You can fortify a local to be better prepared with this mentality.

This process will be unpredictable and chaotic with abandonment, dysfunction, and irrational.  These are the primary attributes of Chaos theory.  In chaos theory there is still a system to chaos.  This is what you must tap into.  Simplicity is the chief tool for adaptation.  Human simplicity can be leveraged with the modern to turbo charge it but governed by the wisdom of insecurity which seeks humility and acceptance of the higher power of the process. 

This wisdom is keystone.  It is almost always about using less but it is not about a complete end of modernism but instead a process of undoing the worst of modernism.  This wisdom seeks what works best in the descent process.  It will be guided more or less as circumstances allow.  This is a life boat with limits.  It is a hospice with time constraints. 

In the beginning the life boat might be full of things.  The hospice with time to make choices.  As time goes on this will adapt to the process of decline with less of both.  This mentality of less will be fortified with wisdom giving courage.  It will be more resilient and sustainable because it embraces nature.  Collapse is accepted just as once in the hospice death is the guiding principle of palliative care.

My dad recently died of cancer so I participated in hospice care for him at his home.  He died at home with family.  It was a very tough undertaking but surprisingly compassionate with dignity.  In the end of life process your dignity is lost but this can be understood and managed.  The hospice plan was well organized.  His disease progression was understood and it was amazing how the hospice nurses could predict generally the stages of death he would go through.  This is what needs to be applied to the death of life as we know it writ large.  Yet, with a narrative like we have today it is a death wrapped up in the codependency of lies and enabling that will result in an undignified death.

Localism and biomass harvesting are the primary aspects of this simplicity.  Yet, since in the beginning of this tipping point paradigm right here right now, you are trapped in modern life.   You will have no choice but to use high tech to get to appropriate tech based on decline.   An age tipped over into lower complexity and fewer concentrated resources can only mean a world closer to biomass and simpler.

This destination is with increased spirituality by reclaiming the part of human nature that must be spirtual.  Spirituality will be reclaimed from the mechanization of scientism with the help of nature.  Meaning and connection to the spark of life in nature invigorates you with strength.  Increased spirituality of meaning powers you instead of more capable tech. 

Less affluence is more affluence.  The only way to overcome a trap is to stop fighting it.  An awakening to the trap leads to a spirtual transformation.  This is the hospice mentality required of REAL Green.  It takes a backwardation to be awakened.  The result is the wisdom of insecurity that creates a lifeboat and the palliative care of a hospice.

Small disruptive conditions will have big results because of the nature of decline.  Growth is different with slow incremental changes.  The Pareto 80/20 adage is in operation with decline.  The Liebig’s law of the minimum is part of this in regard to where failures pop up.  It is not about total resources as much as the scarcest resource.  Scarcity will be the new force driving this tipping over process.  This includes economic failure because most resources are only reserves without economics.  Food and water are now industrial processes.

In an economic system of just in time and dispersed supply chains a small shortage can quickly break down a complex system.  Complexity is now a weakness because so many complicated processes contain multiple parts that are not sustainable without growing growth.  Complicated processes are now dispersed throughout a complex system.  Risks that we have tried so hard to reduce, now permeated all aspects of life.  Delocalization means you get your sustenance from afar from people you do not know.

Meaning requires the focusing on the simple of metaphysical connection not the complexity of science.  Science can no longer be trusted to guide us in this regard.  This does not mean science and tech are no longer required.  The Anthropocene is the age of science so there is no transcending science during the tipping point into the decline process.  There is only the transformation of science to its proper place.  A new wisdom of what science and tech to use and what to dispense with is required.  Most often this means less science in a time of too much science.

Scientism must be rejected.  This is the religion of the technocratic globalist who are driving civilization currently both in the west and in Asia with the Chinese CCP.  A proper balance of spirituality and science must be established.  Science is now anti-life, and it is institutionalized.   Politics and religion are merged in Scientism.  Church and state are now combined, and our modern life completely corrupted with anti-life policy of increasing transhumanism and delocalization.

I am not a normal green because although I am an environmentalist and find some modern tech like solar useful, I do not buy into techno optimism.  I do not buy into the hard-core degrowth greens either who call on ending all development.  While I long for planetary life to be free of anti-life human activity this is a dangerous undertaking in the short term.  You just don’t have a NUK plant and walk away from it.  They require multiple generations of care to decommission.  A new spirituality can’t ignore this.

A nature loving man still must deal with the consequences of the pandoras box of industrialization that was opened by the arrogance of humanism.  We have a responsibility to avoid criticality with dangerous materials and processes.  This is a planetary responsibility that some have only recently come to realize.  Those corrupted by tech and the noise of too much knowledge don’t understand this because they are sure tech and knowledge will continue progressive growth.

It may be too late to avoid destructive change but let’s not make it worse.  So, the only way forward is a retreat in force much like the Germans perfected on the eastern front in WW2.  They lost the war but won most of the battles when in a strategic withdrawal.  The Russians used people and resource in a war of attrition so even if a battle was lost tactically the strategic strategy was a winner.  Backwardation is a retreat in force.

Renewables are a fossil fuel enhancer and will die along with fossil fuels.  Fossil fuels will be over because of depletion and economic decline.  Economic decline will cause higher depletion by making reserves into uneconomic resources.   Tech and vast stores of knowledge will die along with fossil fuels because the grid will destabilize.  This is a message neither green or browns want to hear.  Nobody wants to contemplate what this means so we continue to invest in techno-optimism instead of simplicity.

The people I call on to be green preppers will have a powerful influence once the Mega cities of the world depopulate.  The physics of decline are clear on this process if you are honest about science instead of programed to progressive growth.  Forget outpost on Mars.  We are going to be lucky to have towns of 20,000 survive and they will be few and far between.  This might be a generation away but that is an instant in planetary time.  In fact, civilization is already dead just like a man on death row.

REAL Green spiritualism tries to be part of the metaphysical fractal that taps into the self-similar nature of life itself.  This is the opposite of Scientism that seeks a progressive journey of man towards a singularity of the merger of man with his technology and vast storing of knowledge.  This singularity is based upon the arrogance of humanism that treats life as clay to be molded instead of life’s common focus on battling entropy in cooperative self-organization. 

Life is not a production process.  It’s very basics of DNA and self-similar expressions can’t be tinkered with without being removed as a toxin by life.  This is a key element why I embrace green shamanism.  The mechanization of life through tech and concentrated knowledge is anti-life.  Green shamanism accepts this trap but seeks connection to the metaphysical fractal of life’s very nature.

The great learning of the past few hundred years, that came at such a great cost to man and the planet, are many and numerous.  Things like proper health care and understanding of what is good and bad with the environment.  We can’t take it all with us.  This will be a lifeboat, so space is limited.  We can distill out the best to become part of our new narrative of a new civilization post collapse.

This is a hospice too because many will not make it.  This is tragic in the modern point of view because we want to save everyone, and we want all to have a chance at old age.  So much effort is given to the old in their last year of life.  In earlier times people died younger.  Many young did not survive to begin with.  Those who did survive were much tougher.  The old that live to be old were great examples of what works.  We are going back to this time.  It does not matter if this seems harsh and cruel.  This is what life dictates.

The growth-based basics that man has pursued since industrialization began must be adapted and turned back.  We must also call into question all modern thinking of the last 13,000 years since man embraced civilization.  The reason for this is the stability of the Holocene allowed civilization in the first place.  Stability is ending so the Anthropocene will be a very short age.  The merging into a new age of the tipping point is dawning.  Agriculture is ending as we know it requiring smaller populations that will likley be, generations hence, more seminomadic with much more oral cultures.

This process might last a few generations meaning whole ways of life could transpire in this process of decline.  The trend will be to something simpler in narrower bands of habitability on an earth that was forced into less complexity by just one species.  This is not about becoming this or that on schedule.  It is about an adaption process some of which will work and some which won’t in a backwardation of progress.

Life will deal with humans as organisms do by ridding themselves of toxins.  Life does not operate on human times frames.  Modern humans are now toxic to life.  We are an anti-life pathogen.  This fever is on the time frame of nature.  Don’t be fooled by our Hollywood Mad Max versions.  A big part of decline will be the boring drift into poverty.  This will be pocketed with destructive phases changes.  Imagine trench warfare with a few terrifying major battles.  This will be a grind of will.  You can position better for this process both the boring and the terrifying.

My message is optimistic pessimism which is an incongruous juxtaposition.   Paradoxes are more than ever in operation during the phase change of the tipping point.  These paradoxes are of the human psyche because humans are now backwards to life.   The death of this will bring forth new life.  This is the universal message of optimistic pessimism.  One can’t exist without the other.  In this regard then if death is not embraced life is not possible.  Get out of the denial of death.

I feel the force of life has a self-similar character at all levels.  This is through the breadth of life from the single cell to Gaia.  The basic instinct of survival of life is a battle with entropy.  Life is a force that lives, develops and cooperates with other life forms in self-organizing efforts to counter entropy in common self-similar expression.  Life resists this entropic trend towards disorder and randomness together not alone.  Humans can’t go it alone as we are now doing.

There is a metaphysical aspect to this.  Just as fractals have a common expression in the physical world so does life express a metaphysical fractal of spirt.  Consciousness is fractal with networking from the cellular level to planetary level.  This is often called the force of life.  This means humans contain this force in our expression both physical and metaphysical. Why life is destroying itself through our humanity is a mystery.

REAL Green seeks the current of life.  The current at this point in time is a whole earth succession to less complexity.  This succession is through human forcing in a very short time.  The planet has rarely seen this kind of forcing occurring so rapidly.  In this very short amount of time of human history, humans are the primary force of destructive change with complete planetary coverage.  This all will end because the metaphysical fractal of life’s core impulse says so.

I feel a surreal feeling many times during the day.  I want to explain to you why I think this is important to you.  If you are not having this feeling then I am afraid you are caught up in the narrative of lies.  This is not the same thing as the political polarization feeling many have.  It is not the same thing as the economic dread either.  These are the outcomes of the surreal I am talking about.  Those who have these other feeling are actually often feeling cognitive dissonance and channeling it to politics and economic positions. 

Surreal is when you have been awakened.  When you have walked through the valley of death of a narrative that is false on so many planes.  A narrative that does not add up with physics nor metaphysics of spirituality.  This is about those who honestly embrace science and common sense.  These people become awakened and this leads to a transformation.  This transformation can only be two things.  One reaction is resignation.  The other is like I do which is green prepping.

The resignation is pessimism of collpase of the only world we know.  This is helplessness of screw it what can I do!  Green prepping that I do is still very pessimistic but the difference is the optimism of action.  This action is creating a constructive zone of growth in niches freed up by destructive growth.  This is ecology 101 and as a green prepper you take your cue from nature.  Your spirituality becomes a green spirituality.  This is not a rejection of your existing spirituality but a greening up of it.

I speak of spirituality so often here.  It makes many people uncomfortable.  This is mainly because of scientism.  Science has intruded into spirituality.  Life has secularized and now spiritualism is treated as superstitious and uneducated.  Worse than this, science has itself assumed religious dimensions.  We now have transhumanism of the techno optimist who see the merger of man and machine in incredible power of tech and concentrated knowledge.  There is also the secularization of life where normal religions are corrupted by the comforts of affluence.

I have written about this destruction of proper spirituality often in previous posts so I am not going to elaborate.  The main point is because of the dying narrative of techno optimism that is based upon ever increasing comforts and affluence people are experiencing the anxiety that comes with the cognitive dissonance of things not adding up.  They are reacting with improper behavior of the anger of the blame game.  They remain in denial that man through this narrative of exceptionalism has systematic driven human civilization to a breaking point.  Man has forced the natural world into an extinction process where ecosystem are in general decline and localized failure.

I am speaking to you as a green shaman not as someone peddling a religion.  Keep your religion.  If you are not religious keep your spirituality.  Your higher power is your private meaning and I am not here to destroy that.  I am here to say as someone who has retreated to nature in green shamanism green up your life.  This is not techno green.  This is not the modern delusional green of fake social justice and the covering the earth with dirty renewables.  This is a personal message of localism and permaculture.

If you are an atheist, I will give you warning.  Atheism is a luxury of techno optimism.  It is directly related to the creep of scientism where science and its idols of knowledge and tech has become the new spirtual of the affluent human.  Atheism and transhumanism of modern affluence is anti-life.  It is not green.  Greens that are atheist and techno optimists are not green.  The only true green is those who degrowth and dematerialize into humility and acceptance that man is not exceptional as our dominant narrative portrays.

If you are the traditional brown, I would give you a similar message of warning.  Many are conservatives and see a God as a giver of this affluence as a reward for a just life.  I say to these people too you are delusional and your narrative is going to come under increasing pressure.  If you claim God is angry with you and modern life then you have also have misplaced feelings.  This is about a way of life that is anti-life and that life system is reacting. 

So, you see both sides of this science and spiritual modernism are delusional.  Scientism says we need more tech, knowledge, and its combination in controls.  Modern religions say we need more religious morality to combat the ills of secularism.  Both are satisfied that affluence is the proper way forward when this is what is killing us.  This is because there is a disconnect between spirtual affluence and material affluence.  This is a product of a progressive world given meaning by a narrative this is human exceptionalism and humans have a manifest destiny in an image of the divine.

What is really needed is acceptance and humility from the understanding the current way of life is not sustainable.  It is the understanding we are trapped physically in a world in decline on all planes both physical and abstract.  I talk about this decline in many previous posts so I will not elaborate.  My point is you are trapped in a world of decline without options.  This is a physical trap with no possibility of avoiding.  Rich and poor will be impacted.  If a few escapes this is not the point.  In the macro sense all classes of people will be impacted.  This is about elites bringing down a civilization through hubris of false gods of affluence.

Where you are not trapped is metaphysically and this is why I preach green shamanism which is little more than asking you to realistically and relatively green up your life.  Go back to nature by declining into place with a permaculture localism.  This means less affluence and more hard work.  This also means continuing your status quo life of making a living.  It is just instead of banking your surpluses for more affluent living you embrace voluntary simplicity.  You use what surplus you have to build a localism that is grounded in simplicity.  You will find dignity in this humility because it is the way of life now.

This is the transformation that comes from an awakening.  You know you are awakened if you experience a surreal feeling with modern life.  When you go to the grocery store you feel it.  I feel dirty when I go to these places with so many products to choose from.  I know the damage these stores do.  We can’t leave them now without a collpase but we didn’t need them and instead opened the door to something that has left us insecure. 

I purchase good products like anyone else but I reflect on how unreal this is.  Products from as far away with so much energy intensive processes.  The refrigeration, lighting, and amount of labor to get all these products to our refrigerators.  These bogles my mind not because I don’t understand it but because I know it will end soon.  I know it will end and yet I continue to buy.  The difference is I am accepting it will end and trying in a small way to prepare for this.

The car culture is likewise something that boggles my mind.  I drive down the road and feel the surreal of being in a machine that is almost like a mini spacecraft.  People of 200 years ago would feel us to be UFOs if we could go back in time.  These machines are fantastic.  I love my truck because of all it can do but I still do not feel comfortable about it.  In fact, I feel dirty and unclean.  I know I am trapped so my green prepping spirituality knows this is just part of the surreal of a narrative trap.  I can’t live how I would like so I live the best I can even if this is fantastic in comfort and affluence.

This is the strange feelings I have of reacting to comforts from affluence.  There are so many more than grocery stores and cars.  I am right now punching out this post on a computer that allows me the fantastic ability to access vast stores of knowledge.  I can control my life so powerfully with efficiency and performance.  I have the ability right here right now of becoming a billionaire just by cranking out a few key punches.  I can also loose everything.  Just with this laptop I can go so many places or become so many different people.  Yet, this is not the true web of life.  Waterways are what is the web of life.

It is this power of affluence that is killing the world.  It has allowed an order of magnitude growth in population and consumption.  Yes, we should be at 700MIL people and living at the lifestyle level of someone in 1780s.  This is the truth I have experienced from honesty and commonsense and why I feel surreal.  I feel dirty because I do not feel worthy of all these comforts when it is these comforts that are killing life.  Yet, as a green shaman I am asking my tribe to embrace green prepping as the proper reaction.  This accepts this dirtiness as inevitable.  Instead of feeling bad about this convert it to good actions in your local.

I am not talking to the poor.  I am not worthy to talk to the poor.  I am talking to the middle class of the world that have the basics of affluence.  A car, house, and stuff that inhabits our lives.  I in fact am learning from the poor.  I like to spend time with the poor and prefer them to the rich.  This is not so much a judgment of either it is more about attitudes and dispositions that come with less affluence.  I like to see people happy with less things.  I like natural humility.  I also understand the trap the rich are in with affluence.  I despise arrogant rich people I guess because I once lived in that world and felt dirty because of it.

I am not talking to the rich either except to say I had the opportunity to be very rich and rejected this way of life because it did not offer me a proper spirituality.  I was honest enough to see through the lies of affluence to see that a different way of life appealed to me.  At that time which was 20 years ago I didn’t realize what green prepping was.  I did not realize the full meaning of an age tipping over but I had the surreal feeling then things didn’t add up.  I saw through the facade of this life that is not resilient and not sustainable.  I saw the wonton destruction of life and it made me sad.

You should green prep because life is tipping over into decline.  Collpase is here soon for many networks and systems that make your life what it is.  This is the systematics of a collapsing civilization resulting in so much irrational outcomes in our lives.  I am also speaking about the age of anxiety and how to embrace this. 

My green prepping spirituality says embrace the wisdom of insecurity to find the proper disposition to negotiate the pain and suffering ahead.  It is like agreeing to go to a hospice to die.  It is a kind of death because it is about humility and acceptance for loss.  It is about sacrifice and embracing hard living.  If you embrace these virtues one of the most important becomes possible.  This is courage.  Courage gives the strength to master the other virtues.  Courage comes from faith and faith is acceptance and humility to a higher power.

Courage is what will power you through the pain and suffering ahead.  You will embrace decline as the way of the world instead of denying and fighting it that things can be better if and only if we would do this or that.  Instead of drowning your spirituality in a failure that is not understood you will use this destructive change to grow.  You do this by flowing with the current and making proper choices in this new age of decline.  This is no longer an age of human manifest destiny so a different thinking is required. 

This is late-stage civilization tipping over into destructive decline along with a planet forced into abrupt change.  This is about growing into decline where you can.  This is locally with people and place where man properly scales.  It is about embracing nature and permaculture.  Most of all it is new spirituality to turbo charge your existing one.  It is a spirituality that rejects anti-life behavior and embraces the basics of life that has evolved over billions of years.

If you are not feeling surreal feeling then you are not there yet.  You are still in denial.  If you are on this blog then you are searching.  So many people are lost in our modern digital consumeristic world leaving them adrift.  They may be a pissed off political person looking to kick ass and take names.  You may be a happy person in a rich life with everything going your way. 

There is a wide variety of people who are not capable of understanding what I am talking about because they get in the way of themselves.  There are so many who are not even capable of knowing what I speak about.  They are maybe too young or too old.  There are many never given the opportunity because of lack of educational opportunities or bad luck.  There are so many in deep conflict for so many reasons. 

I am not to scold or judge these people.  In fact, I am their servant and want to help them.  Yes, I must be a man for others because of this.  This is why I reject mainstream prepping that seeks a lone wolf mentality of Mad Max wars.  I am preaching a return to nature in love.  It is here man finds meaning.  Keep in mind security is a proper part of prepping but it is only one aspect.  You must be ready to protect you family and tribe but this can’t be the delusional idea of security.  Real security is embracing the wisdom of insecurity.  Life will or will not save you so embrace that.

I am speaking to very few here who can make a difference for the coming age that will be the dawning of a new human type.  You will be like the monestary of old that retains the wisdom of a previous age that collapsed.  You will live a way of life that will be an example for many when the cities depopulate.  You will have answers on how to live.  You will be treated like a nutter now but one day you will have a following.  You are the prophets of the dawning of a new planetary age and human type.  It may not be you who see this world but I feel certain the young will.  Do this for them.  Make your effort for the innocent who are born into this mess we are leaving them.

You may not survive this decline that is a collapsing world.  That is not the point of pessimistic optimism.  The point is through the wisdom of insecurity you will embrace the way of things.  This force way will support you in the here and now.  You will find meaning in this.  Dignity will power you through voluntary simplicity and declining in places.  Many of you could be more but instead you will be less.  This is the simplicity of what I speak about.  You will triage out the deadwood.  You will salvage the best of modernity and combine it with the old ways that were biomass related.

Most of all you will go through a spirtual transformation that is an awakening to this new age.  This will give you the optimism of action because you will know why and what is needed.  You won’t have all the knowledge of the great minds we admire so much.  You instead influence people in your little local of people and place by making proper choices that are properly scaled.  Your simplicity in localism is where the real power is.  This power will give your courage to face the pain and suffering ahead. 

You will know you are near meaning when you experience paradoxes and incongruous juxtapositions.  This is what creates the surreal feelings and imageries I see daily.  If you see these throughout your day and know why, then you have found the way.  This is why I say trust your feelings of insecurity and apply its wisdom.  Be honest and relatively and realistically negotiate this surreal world of change.

It is the simple and the humble that will make you strong.  This is why the meek will inherit the earth.  What is really meant by this is you will inherit meaning.  Meaning is the approaching to the truth.  The truth is sacred and can never be known.  Yet it is the approach to the sacred that is what ultimately matter to a fully human being.  A real human is drawn to connecting with the sacred despite his disabilities of being an isolated ego.

I am the type that starts from pessimism to get to optimism.  This is unlike the leadership today that is lying and promising and will leave you with a disappointment.  Reality is your best friend so embrace it despite the pessimism.  It may be brutal at times but it is going to offer you the best path.  Lies, promises, and cheating is going to lead to poor choices.   Malinvestment of resources in short supply in this age of decline is the result.  I will tell you the ugly so you can get to the good.

The ugly is we have food shortages and limited food choices ahead.  There is no question that what has happened in the last 3 years is going to result in food chain issues with localized failures.  You have to understand food is an industrial process now.  Industry has been hit hard by supply chain issues.  Now it is being hit hard by supply chain issues that relates to inflation.  Remember the inverse of supply chains is payment chains.  Inflation ravages payment chains just like shortages destroy supply chains.

Resources are going up in price with less available.  Energy is particularly at risk from lower investment in reliable fossil fuels.  Green energy push is a lie with promises that are distorting the true extent of the difficulties ahead.  Net energy is in decline.  Fossil fuels are depleting.  Renewables are not reliable replacements and everything about their manufacture and assembly include fossil fuels.  Storage strategies for renewables don’t add up.  Green hydrogen is a myth.  The amount of fresh water needed for green hydrogen is huge.  Fresh water is in short supply and it requires large amount of energy to make available.

Primary energy is dominated by fossil fuels with hardly a budge from 10 years ago when the so called renewable revolution was declared.  The green revolution has not materialized although the green propaganda has.  Primary energy is dominated by fossil fuels and will continue to be.  There is no alternative.  This message is deeper than the green’s message of climate change.  This is about net energy decline with fossil fuels.  There may be ample left but not economic enough to continue to grow as we have in the past.  In fact, it is going to be impossible to maintain what we have now.  So prepare for decline and decay of everything.

Technology is in diminishing returns because of decline and decay.  It is also stalling out with breakthroughs.  The physics of technology have pushed limits in all fields.  The digital revolution has in reality just made us more vulnerable.  With each incremental effort to automate and apply algorithm connected by the digital web we are seeing less stability.  Efficiency is a deadly weapon once it tips over into diminishing returns.  This is true for systems but also physical aspects of energy and food. 

We are now more vulnerable than at any time in human history because of progress.  This is magnified by a doubling down by the globalist and technocrats of the World Economic forum that are slowing trying to consolidate their power at the expense of your personal security.  Their intensions are a technocratic urban world with authoritarianism to force failed polices upon you. 

These people are incompetent and reckless.  The last 3 years proves this without a doubt.  In this last 3 years the conspiracy aspect of who the globalist are has been revealed.  They have revealed this and now are using any crisis they can to obtain more power over you.  They are not hiding their intentions although they are claiming they will save civilization and the planet.  Their polices are failures if you dig into the past 2 decades.  They want more of these polices not less.

Depending on where you are at and the financial class you are in will determine just how bad this gets.  I am middleclass in a food rich area.  This does not mean I am going to avoid food choice issues but it is likely food availability will remain good.  I like quality food.  A lot of the food I buy I buy on Amazon mainly because it is not typical of a normal grocery store.  I buy fresh fruits and vegetables at the store.  I buy meats there too.  It is not cost effective for me to butcher my own stock. 

My garden, orchard, and forage are more of a seasonal enjoyment.  I get a short window of on the farm foods this way.  I don’t have time to do everything needed to lower my food dependence.  I have 400 acres to run.  I have firewood to cut.  I have 50 goats and 12 cattle.  I have buildings, roads, and systems to maintain.  I have a house to run.  I have animals and people to feed.  One person with a little help from my wife and kids is not enough to be able to do everything needed.  This is why large families are needed but few are around these days.

Feeding myself in this modern world is not an option.  Indirectly I raise more calories than I consume.  Financially this is not the case I spend more on food related things than the revenue from my farm.  Even my firewood is negative when I consider how low my overall costs would be going all electric.  This is changing as power prices surge but my KWH cost for all electric is cheaper than firewood.  Firewood is not cheap or easy but I do it because it is resilient and sustainable.  I am a green prepper and firewood is both green and prepped.

If you are in the wrong place living the wrong lifestyles you are going to have an ugly awakening.  The poor of the world are especially at risk.  The population of the world is far too great to adequately adapt to what is ahead.  This is actually with available food calories but also at the costs people can afford.  Psychologically this is going to hit hard too as food normality evaporates.  We all like our foods and giving up what we like in the amounts we are comfortable with is going to be disturbing. 

The ugly side of these shortages is a manufactured problem at least in the short term.  It is actually something the bad actors have manufactured through incompetence, recklessness, and the deceit of greed and power.  The environmental movement with their green ideas is contributing to this.  They want to save the planet with more of what is killing it.  It is amazing how uneducated these supposedly educated people are.  Even scientist who have PHDs are clueless of economics and above all common sense of what they are proposing.  This is the problem with specialization.  Combine propaganda of nefarious characters like the globalist and you have a prescriptions for a horrible outcome that did not need to happen.

What modern greens want is to live the good life and green it up.  They want their cake and eat it.  They are even more disturbed trying to insert woke nonsense into the equations as if that is going to make the planet greener.  I am a green so I know how delusional the modern green is.  Woke is worse than the injustice it claims to fix.  It is a lie and a power grab.  Green liberals many who are educated are just smart enough to be dangerous.  They are buying into the lies and promises by the bad actors who are greedy and seek power.

These bad actors are the stakeholder capitalist who are pushing environmental and social governance.  These are the same people pushing the global woke movement which is essentially based upon the CIA inspired color revolution tactics.  The basic methods of the CIA is to lie, cheat, and steal.  This may be fine when directed towards an enemy but now we are the enemy.  They are doing this to gain technocratic power.  Color revolution technics are the same as cultural Marxism.  These people do not care about social justice or the environment.  They care about power.  If they did care, they would lead by example.  They want you to do the leading by example.  They will continue to avoid sacrifices and in fact get richer as you get poorer.

Just as Covid response was a lie and the Ukraine war a globalist instigated war so will the coming food crisis be used as one of those “never let a crisis go to waste”.  These people are indoctrinated and also class sociopaths.  Their club are the very rich and the very powerful both in government and private business.  These elements are converging.  It is no longer evident where the lines between private and public are.  What is clear is this is modern fascism with an out-of-control administrative state coopted by stakeholder capitalism.  The rich run the government now.  Your government is now against you because it is for them.

These people are bad and any policy they put forth will be destructive.  This is why the green policy of the radical left is malign.  It is promising way too much with dishonest science.  Look at Net Zero Europe and the profoundly dangerous energy situation they are in.  Renewables can’t run modern economies.  They can’t with the physics, the economics, and the psychology.  I don’t have time to give you the facts.  The facts are out their if you are skeptical and call out bullshit.  Believe me when I tell you these lies and promises are reckless and dangerous.

I am doing permaculture farming which is supposed to save the planet and provide people a good life.  I have solar and it is supposed to give me clean power with a good green feeling to boot.  This is a lie.  Permaculture does not add up economically.  I do it for different reasons because I can and I love it.  I have solar power with a battery.  I have this because if the grid goes down, I want lights and to keep my food cold.  When you consider the cost it is way over priced but I am a prepper so a small system is vital.

I am a green prepper that hears the thunder of danger ahead.  I know what is coming from 2 decades of daily research.  What is ahead is ugly.  I have invested to be ready for something that is very difficult to prepare for.  My solar that I spent lots of money on is inadequate to even come close to powering what I do.  Even my firewood is inadequate considering I need fossil fuels to process the wood and make it ready to burn at the amount I need.  Still permaculture agriculture, solar, firewood, and good old fashion commons sense of prep has me in a better position than most.

We are barreling towards an ugly situation with energy, food, and water.  Social breakdown is already evident because the bad actors are pushing social change with cultural Marxism.  Cultural Marxism primary goal is to destroy society to build it back better.  They want a struggle sessions to break peoples will.  Most of all cultural Marxist want to destroy the family and create state dependence.  They want you to own nothing and be happy.  The happiness they offer will be forced upon you with fear tactics and lies.

The uni-party and its administrative state are hell bent on taking power so they can force through policy that benefit them.  They are using the promises of green and comforts of state give aways to entice the feeble minded and uneducated.  They are giving stuff away to those they can coopt.  Nothing is free.  This is a recipe for an ugly outcome and one that will lead to a brutal reality check. 

I know how nefarious these people are because I once embraced many of their ideas.  In the 80s I embraced globalism and sustainable development.  I know their lies because long ago I was one of the pioneers of their ideas.  Honest science and an understanding of history has shown me globalist polices are a failure.  We are stuck with these polices but we do not need to double down on them.  We need to move away from them.

We have a perfect storm of converging negative realities at work.  This is on multiple planes of reality.  This is social, economic, and systematic.  It is with physical and abstract.  It is with the planet and its ecosystems.  It is above all about meaning.  This is the reason I preach constantly about spirituality.  This is a time of spirtual poverty.  This is the end of meaning from an earlier social narrative.  An explosion of new meaning is at hand as the lies and promises evaporate with empty plates and cold houses.  Do not trust the government to take care of you.  They are sold out to the elite class who are hell bent on the fourth industrial revolution and its social great reset.

I have elaborated on all this in earlier posts.  There is so much to all this.  The facts needed could fill a book.  I encourage you to read as many books as you can that call into question these lies.  I don’t have time to explain this on this bog.  I have been completely honest with you.  I am not advertising or asking for money.  I am leading by example actually walking the walk.

You can criticize this lack of facts from me but I don’t care.  You should trust me because I am genuine.  I am doing permaculture and green energy because this is what a green prepper does.  I research current events daily.  I study the science of life.  I am most of all talking about the spirtual and attitudes that are the real power in your tool box of survival.  I am telling you to embrace stoic and spartan living now as conditioning for what is coming.

The other option is to enjoy the false sense of security and temporary enjoyments of modern life if you are lucky enough to have them.  Billions don’t have that but I am speaking to relatively affluent westerners.  I am not worthy to speak to the poor nor is that realistic for me.  To the relatively affluent westerners I am telling you there are two doors in front of you.  One is reality of a stoic change and the other is the door for the cavalier who is dancing by the cliff.

I am walking the walk so I am telling you about my experiment.  If you want to live in denial while the world still allows it, go ahead.  Denial and repression are not the substance of meaning but they are an option for some.  Most of the time this is with those incapable of understanding reality.  I am referring to children.  If you want to remain a child that is fine.  I can’t do this because I find meaning and personal honesty the highest of values.  This requires me to embrace reality as it is presented to me even if this means discomfort and anxiety.

I am not sure about the time frame for this ugly.  It has started though so the really bad can’t be far off.  The bad is evident if you call out bullshit that is human nature when it corrupts.  The leadership of the world is now against you because the good has been bred out of the system.  A group of inbred psychopaths are in charge.  Physics and economics are now a negative force to your lifestyles.  Reality is coming home to roost.

Now the good because I preach pessimistic optimism.  I love incongruous juxtapositions.  I love paradoxes.  I find so much meaning in them in this age that is tipping over.  This is what you need to know.  It is a keystone attitude.  In an age tipping over that which is wrong is right.  I am not talking about universals of right and wrong.  I am talking about reality and survival within a societal narrative.  The wrong that is right is about the story.  I am talking about common sense.  Common sense is different in a decline process than in a growth process.  Even though the two are intertwined it is the power of an age that is the defining characteristic.

This is now the age of decline and decline means different meaning.  Meaning is the path to truth.  The truth can only be approached.  Ultimately it takes a proper spirituality that results in wisdom of how close to the truth you should attempt to go.  What I mean by this is the human virtues of sobriety and humility are of the highest importance.  Knowing how much you need to know and how much you need to try to do is a critical disposition.  This is about knowing your limitations.  Knowing your limitations and being honest about finding true meaning is the best policy in this time of decline.

The good in the bad and ugly is the hope that this coming existential crisis is actually better to happen sooner than later.  I say the hope because the outcome is far from certain.  The doctor is ordering some strong medicine that is going to do a lot of harm but it may save you.  Many are not going to be saved and some will die.  Others are going to be disenfranchised.  Their good lives are going to become tough lives.  The club the elites are in will shrink too.  This actually will be the real battle space ahead because this is where the greatest overextension is.  Elites will turn on each other as their world collapses.

If you are reading this and an elite then you should be very worried.  I define an elite as one who is located on the right side of the bell-shaped curve of affluence.  It is far better to already be downsized in affluence on the left of the curve.  The uber elites will be facing the many more numerous lower-level elites.  This will be a classic Middle Ages fight of the nobles vying for power and riches.  The smart ones will be those who go willingly into the serfdom of modest living.  Do it now and beat the rush.

This medicine of a new reality will trickle up.  In the previous growth process era, reality trickled down but in this decline process era shit will actually run uphill because it will have accumulated down bellow already.  As in all previous civilizations that collapsed the elites will eventually get their judgment.  You can avoid this by embracing some basics of common sense.  In a time of decline this avoidance is based on humility and sobriety with all matters.

The good is for those of you who hear the thunder and start your green prepping journey.  I have been preaching this for years now.  Unfortunately, the era of bountiful products and cheap money is over but some of you still have a chance to invest wisely.  All of us can make psychological and spirtual changes to prepare.  This is by far the most important aspect of the good side of the bad and ugly.  It is harsh medicine of reality testing by those who smell the bullshit and act accordingly.  This is about downsizing now and beating the rush.  Downsize with dignity that comes with meaning.

If you read my stuff, you will see I am redundant but I am a moving redundancy adapting to changes.  What I mean by this is I am living this life of green prepping and staying tuned into where reality is going.  So, if I am redundant, it is adapting in response to developments.  I have actually been pretty good at forecasting these developments. 

On the downside for me personally I have been a head of the pack which means I embraced decline early.  I probably would have had much more money now if I would had just invested in easy money living for the last 20 years.  Instead, I invested in green prepping which is a negative return in easy money times but one with physical safety.  All paper investment are now at risk.  Eventually it will not even make good toilet paper.

The good I speak of is embrace change sooner as we enter this decline process.  The bad actors of globalist governance and their radical army of the left are actually rapidly initiating a period of forced adjustment.  These actors are nefarious.   Many I would consider evil.  This evil is as in anti-life not the religious evil of Staten.  Most big corporations are trying to destroy you by commodifying you.  They are blood sucking and parasitic at this point.

I forecast the populist nationalists coming to power who will push for less government and more decentralization.  The administrative state of unelected bureaucrats needs to be deconstructed.  These people are overhead in a time of downsizing.  They are parasitic and will need to be rationalized down to a mimimum.  This includes the administration part of health care and education.  Health care and education are a racket now which is one of the most dangerous aspects of the decline ahead.

We are going to see localism where people have no choice but to take survival into their own hands.  This will mean permaculture and green prepping by default.  All those things I have been preaching and living are answers to downsizing.  Spirtual and phycological adaptation with stoicism, spartan living and ascetic principles will dominate because these things work in an era of decline. 

Remember what I said about incongruous juxtapositions and paradoxes.  These surreal things will be operatable in a time of decline.  You will be initially looking at the world with surreal glasses but over time reality will bubble up and what was once surreal will be reality.  Those people calling you a nutter and laughing at you will eventually be following you.  Just be patient and ignore your detractors. 

The good thing about the spirtual permaculture I preach is you will have patience because that is what sobriety and humility give.  It gives you the strength to be patient and see through the coming brutal time with courage.  Courage is one of those most vital of character traits that allows optimism of meaning in a time of destructive change.     

With World Gripped By Fertilizer Crisis, Biden Admin Clings To “Climate-Inspired Utopian Food-Production Fantasies”

MONDAY, MAY 09, 2022 – 07:30 PM

Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times,

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/world-gripped-fertilizer-crisis-biden-admin-clings-climate-inspired-utopian-food

Samantha Power: ‘Never let a crisis go to waste.’ Do the World Economic Forum and China agree?

“Fertilizer shortages are real now.”

Uttered by USAID’s Samantha Power in a May 1 ABC interview with former Democratic advisor George Stephanopoulos, the words briefly drowned out the din of the news cycle.

They were not unexpected to some.

Power, who served as U.N. ambassador under Obama, mentioned fertilizer shortages after weeks of hints from the Biden administration.

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki repeatedly alluded to challenges obtaining fertilizer in recent press briefings. So did President Joe Biden himself in a joint statement with EU President Ursula von der Leyen.

“We are deeply concerned by how Putin’s war in Ukraine has caused major disruptions to international food and agriculture supply chains, and the threat it poses to global food security. We recognize that many countries around the world have relied on imported food staples and fertilizer inputs from Ukraine and Russia, with Putin’s aggression disrupting that trade,” the leaders stated.

In an April report titled, “The Ukraine Conflict and Other Factors Contributing to High Commodity Prices and Food Insecurity,” the USDA’s Foreign Agriculture Service acknowledged that “for agricultural producers around the world, high fertilizer and fuel prices are a major concern.”

While political rhetoric has often focused on Russia, the rise in fertilizer prices did not begin with its invasion of Ukraine.

An analysis from the Peterson Institute of International Economics shows that fertilizer prices have rapidly climbed since mid-2021, spiking first in late 2021 and again around the time of the invasion.

Industry observers have pointed out that commodity prices are not solely affected by Vladimir Putin.

Max Gagliardi, an Oklahoma City oil and gas industry commentator who cofounded the energy marketing firm Ancova Energy, told The Epoch Times that the war and sanctions have helped drive the upward climb of natural gas prices in Europe.

A worker walks at the Yara ammonia plant in Porsgrunn, Norway, on Aug. 9, 2017. (Lefteris Karagiannopoulos/Reuters)

Natural gas is used in the Haber-Bosch process, which generates the ammonia in nitrogen fertilizers. Those fertilizers feed half the planet.

Gagliardi thinks the picture is more complicated at home, where environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) has become a controversial tool of stakeholder capitalism, often used to force divestment from fossil fuels or other industries disfavored by the left.

“It’s a combination of record demand domestically and from LNG [liquid natural gas] exports combined with less than expected supply, in part due to the starving of capital for the O&G industry due to the ESG/green movement pressures on capital providers, plus pressure from Wall Street to spend less capital and return value to shareholders,” he said.

Language from Power Echoes Green Activists, EU, WEF

In the case of increasing costs for oil, natural gas, and coal, some politicians and green activists have argued that those fast-rising prices mark an opportunity to accelerate a move from hydrocarbons to wind, solar, and electrification.

“Big Oil is price gouging American drivers. These liars do nothing to make the United States energy independent or stabilize gas prices. It’s time we break up with Big Oil and ignite a clean energy revolution,” Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said on Twitter in March.

“I say we take this opportunity to double down on our renewable energy investments and wean ourselves off of planet-destroying fossil fuels[.] Never let a crisis go to waste,” said former Joe Biden delegate and political commentator Lindy Li in a Twitter post about ExxonMobil’s exit from Russia’s Far East.

Meanwhile, Mandy Gunasekara, an environmental lawyer who served as the Environmental Protection Agency’s chief of staff under President Trump, said in an interview with The Epoch Times, “It’s always been part of their plan to make the price of traditional energy sources go up, so then wind and solar could actually compete with them.”

Describing how fertilizer shortages could actually help advance a particular agenda, Power sounded much like Li.

She even used an identical phrase: “Never let a crisis go to waste.”

Intentionally or not, this echoed a line from another high-profile Obama alum, Rahm Emanuel: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste.” Emanuel was talking about the 2008-2009 financial meltdown.

“Less fertilizer is coming out of Russia. As a result, we’re working with countries to think about natural solutions, like manure and compost. And this may hasten transitions that would have been in the interest of farmers to make anyway. So, never let a crisis go to waste,” Power told Stephanopoulos.

Power’s language of setting crisis as opportunity parallels similar statements from environmental groups.

Writing to EU President von der Leyen and other EU bureaucrats, a group of European and international environmental organizations urged the union to stay the course on environmental policy.

“The crisis in Ukraine is yet another reminder of how essential it is to implement the Green Deal and its Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies,” the letter states.

The Farm to Fork Strategy confidently asserts that its actions to curb the overuse of chemical fertilizers “will reduce the use of [fertilizers] by at least 20 percent by 2030.”

“Ploughing more farmland, as is currently being put forward, to grow crops for biofuels and intensive animal farming by using even more synthetic pesticides and [fertilizers] would be absurd and dangerously increase ecosystem collapses, the most severe threat to social-ecological stability and food security,” the activists’ letter argues.

“The European Union must tackle the current challenges by accelerating the implementation of its strategies to reduce the use of synthetic pesticides and [fertilizers], to preserve its natural environment and the health of its citizens.”

Numerous publications from the World Economic Forum (WEF), known for its role in orchestrating the global response to COVID-19, have made similar arguments.

A 2020 white paper from WEF and the consulting firm McKinsey and Company warns of greenhouse gas emissions and potential runoff from fertilizers, advocating for an end to fertilizer subsidies in developing countries and praising China for its efforts to reduce fertilizer use.

A 2018 WEF white paper, co-authored with the consulting firm Accenture, claims that “a 21st century approach to organic farming” should strive to close the gap in yields between organic and conventional farming.

WEF’s vision of 21st century agriculture comes into greater focus in another 2018 report titled, “Bio-Innovation in the Food System.”

It advocates for the bioengineering of new microbes to fix nitrogen more efficiently in plants.

“This offers the prospect of lowering and more optimally applying nitrogen fertilizer,” WEF’s report states.

WEF has also pushed the use of “biosolids”—in other words sewage sludge—as fertilizer.

Urine, it notes, “makes an excellent agricultural fertilizer.”

Gunasekara, formerly of the EPA, said that fertilizer overuse and runoff presents serious risks, giving rise to toxic algal blooms in the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.

However, “generally speaking, the farmers are very, very efficient with their fertilizer use. They have a built-in incentive not to waste something that is a high input cost,” she told The Epoch Times, adding that in her experience, industry and communities could work out positive solutions with regulators.

Heavy-handed restrictions, she argued, are not the solution.

The UK Absolute Zero report, produced by academics at top British universities, goes even further than some other reports in its opposition to nitrogen-based fertilizers and conventional agriculture more generally.

This photo shows sheep feeding on lush grass on the property of Australian farmer Kevin Tongue near the rural city of Tamworth in New South Wales, Australia, on May 4, 2020. (Peter Parks/AFP via Getty Images)

It anticipates a phaseout of beef and lamb production, with “fertilizer use greatly reduced,” in order to meet net-zero emissions targets by 2050.

“There are substantial opportunities to reduce energy use by reducing demand for [fertilizers],” the report states.

It also envisions cuts to energy in the food sector of 60 percent before 2050.

That imagined energy austerity, with its many unforeseeable consequences for human life, apparently will not last forever.

The report claims that after 2050, energy for fertilizer and other aspects of food production will “[increase] with zero-emissions electricity.”

“A food crisis/famine advances the long-term goal of more centralized control of energy, food, transportation, etc., as advanced by the Davos crowd of the WEF. Governments must expand their powers to ‘handle’ crises, and that is what progressives love more than anything,” Marc Morano, proprietor of the website Climate Depot, told The Epoch Times.

Sri Lanka’s Organic Experiment a Stark Warning

Though Power’s remarks were consistent with talking points from Democrats, WEF, the EU, and similar factions, they came at a particularly inconvenient moment for advocates of organic fertilizer—Sri Lanka’s recent experiment with abandoning chemical fertilizer has plunged the island nation into chaos that shows no signs of letting up.

According to a 2021 report from the USDA Foreign Agriculture service,  Sri Lankan agricultural economists warned that a rapid shift from chemical to organic fertilizers “will result in significant drops in crop yields.”

The country has since had to compensate one million of its farmers to the tune of $200 million, as reported by Al Jazeera.

With food shortages now a reality, anti-government protests prompted Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to declare a state of emergency on May 6—the second in two months.

“[Sri Lanka is] now literally on the verge of famine, because they’ve had massive crop failures,” Gunasekara said.

A farmer prepares a paddy field for sowing in Biyagama on the outskirts of Colombo on October 21, 2020. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP via Getty Images)

“This administration wants to use this as an opportunity to push their Green New Deal-style farming tactics, which we’ve seen implemented elsewhere, that cause significant problems beyond what we’re currently facing from our farmers’ perspective and what consumers are going to be facing,” she added.

“Manure cannot compete with modern chemical agriculture for high yield farming that the world depends on,” Morano of Climate Depot said.

Rufus Chaney, a retired USDA scientist known for his research on sewage sludge-based fertilizers, echoed Morano’s skepticism about making up for missing chemical fertilizers with organic alternatives.

“There are not enough useful (and not already being used) organic fertilizers to change the balance of any chemical fertilizer shortages,” Rufus told The Epoch Times via email.

“Nearly all organic fertilizers are built on livestock manure and can only be shipped short distances before it becomes cost-prohibitive,” he added.

These realities underscore another apparent contradiction in green policy—even as climate activists push for cuts to chemical fertilizer use and greater reliance on organic alternatives, they are working assiduously to cull the livestock populations that provide manure for those fertilizers.

In Northern Ireland, for example, a newly passed climate Act will require the region to lose a million sheep and cattle.

The EU’s Farm to Fork Strategy even states that work on fertilizers will be focused “in hotspot areas of intensive livestock farming and of recycling of organic waste into renewable fertilizers.”

“For years we were warned that ‘climate change’ would cause food shortages, but now it appears that climate policy will be one of the biggest factors in causing food shortages,” Morano told The Epoch Times.

Bails of hay sit in a paddock containing a failed wheat crop on farmer Trevor Knapman’s property in Gunnedah, NSW, Australia, on Oct. 4, 2019. (David Gray/Getty Images)

He cited research suggesting that a move to organic farming in the United Kingdom could actually raise carbon dioxide emissions, as the decrease in domestic yields can be expected to boost carbon-intensive imports.

“What the Biden admin is doing is seizing on ‘crises’ to advance their agenda. Greta [Thunberg] famously said, ‘I want you to panic.’ Because when you panic, you don’t think rationally and calmly, and you make poor choices. The only way they can sell these climate-inspired utopian energy and food production fantasies is during times of COVID crisis or wartime crisis,” he added.

China’s Role Scrutinized

Still, others see the focus on Russia as a distraction from China’s maneuvering on the world stage.

In 2021, China limited exports of both phosphate and urea fertilizers. The country has also stepped up its fertilizer imports.

China’s export restrictions came after it rapidly emerged as “the most important and most influential country in the fertilizer business,” according to an outlook document from the Gulf Chemicals & Petrochemicals Association.

The Peterson Institute’s analysis shows that as global fertilizer prices shot upward in 2021 and 2022, China’s fertilizer prices mostly leveled off.

Although the USDA’s April report did note the impact of China’s fertilizer export restrictions and heavy fertilizer imports, its executive summary drew greater attention to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

That summary did not mention China by name among the “countries imposing export bans and restrictions.”

Stanford University’s Gordon Chang, a China expert, warned on Twitter on May 6 that China has been “buying chemical companies whose products are needed for fertilizer and, more generally, food production,” citing comments from onshoring advocate Jonathan Bass.

The Epoch Times has reached out to Chang and Bass for additional details.

China has also been buying up American farmland as well as ports around the world, including ports in the now-food insecure Sri Lanka.

Physicist Michael Sekora, a former project director in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), told The Epoch Times that worldwide fertilizer shortages could reflect China’s long-range technology strategy.

A key element of that strategy, he argued, is undercutting the United States whenever and wherever possible.

“Our ability to produce food is very much under attack right now. Some people say, ‘Oh, it’s just a coincidence.’ It’s China,” Sekora said.

“China has been very strategic in making sure they shore up what they have and restricting access throughout the rest of the world,” Gunasekara said.

“When you have people come in that are very anti-development and anti-growth, China can put its finger on the global market, making it that much harder, and then try to use that as an example to exert more authority and have access to greater power.”

Pain Felt Around the World

“It’s been hectic,” said South African tobacco farmer Herman J. Roos.

Roos told The Epoch Times that fertilizer prices near him have jumped since the invasion of Ukraine, on the heels of steep increases over the previous year.

He was able to buy all the fertilizer he needs for this year before the latest price shock. Yet, he expects shortages of urea, monoammonium phosphate (MAP), and other fertilizers to strain a population of farmers already under significant stress.

Copper theft, lack of government support, and the ever-present threat of physical violence are all pushing Roos and producers like him to the brink.

Yet, for all the challenges in South Africa, Roos anticipates the fallout will be worse elsewhere in the continent.

“The economy will be hit harder in countries like Mozambique, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—countries where your agricultural system is more focused on subsistence farming,” Roos added.

They and other sub-Saharan African countries are heavily dependent on South Africa for their food supply.

Roos prays food riots won’t come to South Africa. The country is still recovering from a wave of riots in summer 2021, prompted by the arrest of former South African President Jacob Zuma.

He does predict that some farmers in the country will go bankrupt.

Let the master gardeners foot the bill and do all the work, then show up to get in on the harvest. (StockMediaSeller/Shutterstock)

Back in the United States, Connecticut landscaper Adam Geriak does not yet face such stark choices.

He told The Epoch Times that fertilizer prices near him are up, in line with estimates a Connecticut garden store provided to The Epoch Times.

“I do primary garden work and use organic fertilizers, which primarily come from poultry manure,” Geriak said, adding that the price of poultry manure fertilizer may have risen too.

He does not think fertilizer price increases will have much of an effect on him. Yet, other facets of the current economic picture are worrisome to him as tries to manage his small business most effectively.

“I’m having a hard time planning for the future because of the uncertainty, and I think other owners are feeling this too. In the previous two years, clients seemed to have open coffers. They wanted more projects done and there seemed to be a lot of money going around. Clients seem to be a bit tighter now, asking how they can save money on certain projects and such,” Geriak said.

“Being on the verge of a recession, and retirement accounts down may be leading to these issues,” he added.

The USDA report on Sri Lanka’s organic experiment states that the country’s government made impossible promises to different parties.

It informed farmers it would handle the cost of moving away from chemical fertilizers while telling consumers that rice on their shelves would not become pricier, all while attempting to realize environmental and public health benefits through a breakneck transition to organic fertilizers.

“If you put too much emphasis on environmental issues, and you ignore the very real impact that can have to people’s daily lives, it can have dire consequences,” Gunasekara told The Epoch Times.

“Unfortunately, we’re seeing it in the most dire of circumstances, which is a suppressed food supply. I think that situation is only going to get worse because of the rise in prices for fertilizers and diesel and everything else that’s going to make it harder for farmers in the U.S. to produce, then also globally.”

Josh, a farmer in Texas who raises small livestock, also believes things will get worse before they get better. He did not want to share his last name.

“I personally think that we haven’t even begun to feel the effects of inflation in our grocery store bills, because last year, the costs to produce were 1/3 to 1/2 the cost farmers and ranchers are having to pay this year. That cost has to be absorbed by the buyer to make it feasible for them to even continue,” he said in a message to The Epoch Times.

“My family is preparing now and stocking up our freezers and pantry because we are really concerned how bad it can get this next year.”

He estimates that fertilizer prices near him have increased 200 or even 300 percent, “dependent on what program you are running.”

The rise in diesel prices has hurt him the most. “Farm equipment runs on diesel,” he pointed out.

According to AAA’s gas price website, diesel in Texas is running at an average of $5.231, up from $2.820 a year ago.

“I can’t imagine how anyone would profit or sustain raising crops or cattle with all these price increases that effect your overhead,” Josh said, saying he has heard about other ranchers and farmers culling their herds to avoid losses.

“Food shortages are a great way to collapse the current system and install a Great Reset,” Morano, of Climate Depot, told The Epoch Times.

I could introduce myself as a spirtual advisor.  I would rather call myself a shaman.  I say this because my message is of a return to an earlier time when our humanity was less delocalized and transhuman.  A time when the machine did not rule our lives.  We have become so mechanized our only response is more mechanization. 

Modern greens want to save the environment that technology is killing with more technology.  They fly to the hotspots and analyze the problem with technology.  They are missing the whole point.  This is about the spirtual not science.  Yes, science is vital and can’t be discarded but the issue is spirtual.  We are not going to fix anything by making more problems.  This is why I call myself a shaman.  Yet, my prescriptions is not a return because there is no return. 

It is rather about a spiritualism of an earlier time and a journey back to something that is really the here and now.  This should not be about then and now.  This should be about life as it is.  We need to get back to that proper balance.  I also want to talk to you as a shaman because shamans never had more than a tribal following meaning they were local and they dealt with family.  This is about a spiritualism that is based on nature and the local.

I understand we are delocalized and global.  We hardly have family anymore.  We communicate with mom and dad by text.  Our food comes from 1000 miles away.  Our power from vast grids.  Our goods by trucks and deliveries to our addresses.  The point is a shift is needed away from that towards the spirtual that can be found in the scale of a shaman

There is something about us that is drawn to the science and the technology that makes us more powerful and comfortable.  This must be something in life itself because we are no more and no less than an expression of life.  We try to reflect that we are exceptional and have a God that is our reflection.  Our reflection of God should be of life not a reflection of ourselves.  As a shaman I say embrace life more and exceptionalism less.

What we have done and what we are doing can only be an expression of life so at the higher levels of abstraction when we leave the judgement that our dualism inevitably leads us to, this place is just life being life.  As a shaman I am telling you be in awe and wonderment of this place where the sacred is.  Leave it be for anything else and look to that which is around you and under your feet.  Science does not stop and this is why we are where we are at now.

I am just saying be natural and for humans to be natural it is about family, tribe and a place to live.  That place to live needs to be local and dematerialized.  This is about a spirtual journey to health of you the individual and your family.  It is about your tribe that is your local community.  You are a citizen of a nation and a global person this is true.  You won’t be able to discard that.  What I am asking you to do is to work on your local persona as you yield to the requirements of being a citizen in a global world.

This greater reality is your environment just as earlier man navigated around brutal ice sheets and inhospitable deserts of earlier times.  We have created a world in decline and this is the world your spiritualism will deal with.  Science got us here so seek to limit your inevitable response with science and technology.  The healing of your soul is with the spirtual.  True comfort and power comes from meaning.

This coming time of decline and collpase will be a time of a spirtual journey.  Most people are not ready for this because life has become so delocalized and transhuman.  Your instinct will be jump in the car and drive someplace.  You may go on amazon and order a book.  Or you will read an odd blog like mine.  This is not it.   Go out and let a storm rain on you.  Feel the cold wind of winter.  This is how you start your journey.  These natural forces will give you humility and it is from here you will find it.

Many have spirituality but it has been corrupted by science.  Many have a spirituality from their religion or personal self-reflection that does not rise to the level necessary for what is ahead.  This view is a reflection on what the age of reason has done to our humanity.  Reason is suffering diminishing return.  Here diminishing returns means the more we come to know the more lost we have become.  Reason itself has been elevated to a sacred status thereby violating a fundamental separation of science from spirituality.

Many people do not even really understand spirituality.  It is not the same as religion although religion is meant to cultivate spirituality.  Many don’t even know why science and spirituality should be separate.  Today spirituality is not trusted and science is.  Yet, it is science that is leading mankind and the earths life system to the brink of collpase.  This destruction is being doubled down upon by believing more science and technology is needed to fix what has been done to ourselves and the planet.

We often hear about the separation of church and state.  We all understand this important fundamental state function.  When these are not separated there is gross interference in both church and state.  Yet, this fundamental separation has failed to address the new impingement of science on spirituality.  Science is now the religion of man’s arrogance.  Many are deeply religious this is true but these people do not realize how corrupted their religions have become because of science.  Science has delocalized religion.  It has destroyed spirtual narratives.  It has turned people transhuman with machines and thereby is distancing them from true spirituality.  The machine is anti-life hence anti-spirtual.

This takeover of civilization is now complete.  The takeover is with transhumanism of science and technology.  There are still strong religious beliefs but this is not enough.  Religion is now also coopted by transhumanism.  This is a stealth encroachment that can’t be resisted because this transhuman progress is unstoppable.  The fundamental nature of transhumanism is affluence.  We have limited ability to resist increased comforts and growth.  Transhumanism allows basic needs to be satisfied but then progresses to the deadly sins of pride, greed, gluttony, and sloth.

Religion is not prepared to deal with this transhumanism of science and knowledge made physical by technology and development.  Yet, religion is replete with examples of these dangers.  Many religions warn of the dangers of affluence.  Is it any wonder in this age of affluence there is so much spirtual poverty?  We have traded meaning for comforts and this has been done with a slow boil.  Now modern man lives in the age of anxiety naked and alone without the real comfort of meaning.

Atheism is not defined as a religion but the reality of most people’s atheism is it is a religion.  It is a religion of science and knowledge and it is a religion that is anti-religion.  It is the elevating of the secular to a spirtual status.   The common basis of atheism these days is a secularization of life with science and technology as the guide to proper living.  Reason and knowledge dictate proper wisdom to define what is right and wrong.  Many atheists see reason as the prime mover in the Universe.

Atheism is a luxury of affluence and affluence is a product of transhumanism of the machine and its accumulation of knowledge.  Atheism is something many in science and academia carry as a badge of scientific honesty.  Yet, it is actually dishonesty.  The dishonesty involves the very basics of the separation of the spirtual from science.  Accumulated knowledge is now baggage that prevents knowing.

The respect for the spirtual is increasingly being discussed by those who study system thought.  There are those who are finding life has a basic spirtual essence that is beyond science.  Many in this field are reviewing history and man’s earlier fundamental reflections on life.  They are calling into question science’s dominant narrative as a dangerous force.

Transhumanism and its religious expression in scientism is now a hidden force behind all aspects of the modern world.  Science is now polarizing as a political force.  Science has now been elevated to the guarantor of proper wisdom guarded by political mechanism of control.  This has made modern life actually anti-life.  Money and resources are now being poured into artificial intelligence and automation.  There is talk of techno-human as a new life form.  Progress is worshipped and considered unstoppable.  Singularity of man and the machine allowing an immortality of consciousness is the next frontier. 

This is blasphemous.  The definition of this being a religious crime is a poor definition that misses the point.  In its pure spirtual form blasphemy is an insult on life itself.  It is anti-life.  It is the mechanization of life for individual advancement at the expense of the whole.  This is what science has become by being elevated to a spirtual godhead.  Most of us understand how religion usurped science in earlier times with bad results.  Few today realize the pendulum has moved to the other extreme with science.

Defense and security apparatuses are driving this blasphemy as the next revolution in human dominance.  A major nation that falls behind on this is considered at risk.  This competition is weaponizing all aspects of life with a technical encroachment.  You can’t just do a little of it.  This is all or nothing because this is how technological dominance operates. 

We are now seeing a mechanization of life by machines.  Knowledge and technology are combining to automate life itself to preform human activity that is increasingly complex with complicated structures of networks and equipment.  The result is dehumanization.  Really it is worse.  It is anti-life activity destroying ecosystems that support life.

Those who are reviewing this transhumanism are now seeing that this is actually disrupting the complexity of life.  This realization has really only happened in the last few decades.   So much has been lost.  Life is so much more complex than machines.  There is an organizational aspect of life that is self-organizing and symbiotic honed by billions of years of evolution. 

If there is competition the competition occurs in the ecosystems common benefit instead of individual benefit.  With humans we are now seeing the evil of the individual usurping the commons for their own benefit thereby destroying the complexity that is the nutrient stream of life.

We are probing the very DNA of life and we are trying to geoengineer planetary systems.  Our waste streams are not nutrient streams so now we have dead zones and forever chemicals.  Eutrophication is destroying natural processes.  We are mining fossil carbon and virgin minerals to such an extent that this period of life on the planet is now being called the Anthropocene.  This is the age of transhumanism and the machine is our idol.

These problems are deeper than the physical manifestations in pollution and destructive development.  This is going to the very core of humanism which represents man’s meaning.  Meaning because of scientism is now increasingly relative.  This relativity has set man adrift and being adrift he is destructive.  We know too much so now we don’t know what to believe.  Many of us are anxious and alone in the confines of the separated ego this power has allowed. 

Spiritualism is looked down upon by science because it is not needed in the scientific process.  In fact, it is considered an irrational hinderance to scientific progress.  Superstition and traditional spirtual people are considered uneducated.  The beautiful oral culture and robust simple science of indigenous peoples is rejected as primitive and brutish.  Yet, dead zones and superfund sites are just considered problems.  Who is more superstitious I ask?

This scientific progress is unstoppable because man has grown to be a global civilization in competitive cooperative political arrangements.  The competitive is driving us to outcompete our neighbors by being more productive and more advanced.  Transhumanism is the driving force of competition.  Those who are actually more advanced with a wisdom that is a balance of science and spirtual are at a disadvantage because this resulting wisdom calls into question this transhuman development. 

Sobriety and humility are not intrinsic elements of raw competition.  I would argue they ultimately prove more powerful but in the process of development the unstoppable force of transhumanism outcompetes humility and sobriety in the short term.  Humility and sobriety are a fundamental element of spirituality.  These vital elements of wisdom are not necessary for the scientific method.  In scientism they are in fact spurned.  Politically scientism relegates these fundamentals to superstition.  This is why when I tell you I am a shaman you find it nutter and alien.

Is it any wonder that people today are so mean and cruel?  Science does not have empathy or compassion.  It is not meant to but when science is elevated to a religion in scientism the results are truly barbaric.  Yes, primitive peoples were also mean and cruel but not with their people.  They may have been vicious with other tribes but internally they were naturally compassionate and inclusive.

What you the individual needs to do is understand this process at proper scale.  So much about our human issues are a result of improper scale creating imbalances.  It is not for us to understand the why of this or pass judgment on this except at the level of the local of people and place.  Here is where man scales properly.   Proper reflection is only possible in the local.  When man finds proper scale, he finds a proper balance of science and spirituality. 

This is why this age more than any other is a spirtual journey.  The spirtual has been so diminished and corrupted that a burst of spiritualism is about to occur.  There is so much latent demand for it at the individual level because our lives have been delocalized by the machine. 

Our very survival is precarious if the machines stop.  If I lose the use of my cellphone and laptop my affairs are in disorder.  Yes, I who am preaching as a shaman about the need for spiritualism.  I am myself trapped in the transhumanism of the machine.  I am overly dependent on science and knowledge too. 

I am a green shaman.  My function is simple.  It is about the individual in the tribe.  I am speaking out about this spirtual problem of the individual.  I have no wisdom for civilization.  I have studied comparative religions, spirituality in its many forms, theology, and philosophy.  Yet, shamanism is different.  It starts with connectivity instead of knowledge. 

Knowledge is eventually an impediment to connectivity.  Science is a distraction to a proper disposition to connect.  In this age of science, a respect for spirituality is a requirement for salvation.  Salvation is nothing more than meaning.  The truth is where meaning leads and this is the place where the sacred is.  The sacred is something to connect to not to know.  If we want to know about it then use spirituality for the wisdom to know when to stop trying to know about it.

A true shaman lets the planet speak through him.  This low-level power that is the greatest power on this planet is to be used for the benefit of life and the planet.  It cannot be used for the individual.  This is why science and knowledge corrupt spirituality and they must be properly placed.  Science takes this power and converts it to its use.  We are by nature scientific and technical because of our brain and hands.  We are by nature spirtual because of our brains and self-reflection.  Salvation is the balance of the two.

I am speaking out because life is asking this of me.  Do you think I feel special because of this?  No, I feel stupid sometimes because I am not that smart and not a writer.  Yet, as a shaman I am instructed to speak so this is what I am doing. 

I am telling you this is the time to find spiritualism because science has taken over life.  I am pointing to a wisdom found at the local level of your significant other and your place.  These are immediate and visceral where core human values are found.  Find spirtual strength to find survival in this age of decline and collpase.  The decline is the vicious mechanization of life destroying our underlying resilience and sustainability.  The collpase is the localized effects of decline where ecosystems are failing but also human systems are failing.  Our families and communities are being destroyed.

This is an unstoppable force at the top.  This is the decline process beyond human intervention.  What I am recommending is you scale properly to find a spiritualism that properly balances your life to address the excessive transhumanism occurring in your life.  You are trapped in a transhuman world but this trap is not a spirtual trap.  Spiritualism is beyond this transhuman force. 

Spiritualism concerns the approach and respect to that which is sacred.  This sacred is an ascending ladder of abstraction which at a certain point can’t be embraced with the tools of science.  At a certain point it can only be approached in awe and reverence.  This is why you must go local in spiritualism for true meaning.  Otherwise, what occurs is the excesses of science.  Science is used to find meaning and the resulting force is civilization.  When you research spiritualism, you lose the sacred.  Once lost you find it.

What is needed by you the individual is a proper wisdom of placing science and the spirtual in balance.  This comes from proper scale.  This scale is local and I would argue is a permaculture function.  Man has to get closer to life itself and away for our expressions of transhumanism which is most realized in the urban.  Cities are where our balance is lost.  Cities are where humans do not have proper scale.  The unfortunate reality is cities now dominate life and it is here where the technocrats are actually doubling down on transhumanism and the worship of science with scientism.

If you can leave the city and go local in permaculture.  Get your hands dirty and grow things.  Try to embrace low carbon capture which is the basics of gathering and harvesting biomass energy.  This biomass energy is the nearest we can get to the sun itself which drives all life on earth.  The proper networks are the waterways not the digital web.  Try to make your waste streams nutrient streams where you can. 

Basically, reflect on and embrace how nature operates.  This is the seedbed of real spiritualism.  This is where modern religions fail.  They have distanced themselves from the basics of life in spirtual contemplation that is now corrupted by modern life.  This is true of all religions because modern life demands this of them.  Religions have no choice if they want to remain viable, they must be subjugated to science.

This may sound too simple becuase it is.  Simplicity is the key.  This is why it is so hard to find a true spiritualism.  It is harder for modern man to find simplicity than to subjugate himself in the destructive complexity of transhumanism.  Humility and sobriety are some of the most difficult of values.  This means distancing yourself from affluence to find proper wisdom.  A mentality of less is required to find humility and acceptance. 

A proper wisdom is the ultimate goal of this new spiritualism I am speaking of.  This wisdom is of what knowledge and technology to have and keep and what to reject.  This wisdom can only be found locally.  It is not a mass movement because at this point the macro of human life is beyond adaptation.  It is wired to self-destruct. 

The local is where this is found.  It is found in the body of Christ so to speak in small communities in natural places.  If it is found in the urban areas it is so degraded it is difficult to cultivate.  Nature is required because life invigorates spirituality with the power of the sacred.  A river has it.  The oceans tides reflect it.

You the individual with your tribe and its community can do this in a type of spirtual isolation where as best you can you call into question transhumanism and the worship of science in scientism.  Return to those aspects of life that are fundamentals.  Reject progress for progress’s sake.  Embrace a return to voluntary simplicity.  This is not the same as living in poverty.  Poverty is forced on people materially.   Poverty is not about lack of proper wisdom.  Spirtual poverty is a lack of wisdom and many if not most affluent people are in spiritual poverty.

Keep in mind I am speaking to a few and you know who you are.  I am not speaking to everyone.  I am not worthy to speak to everyone.  I am speaking to those like me who are affluent.  I am not worthy to speak to the many different ways of life in this big world.  There are 6BIL people struggling because of poverty and colonialization of transhuman affluence.  They need different shamans but the message is the same.

I am speaking to those who are like me in a western affluence.  I am trying to speak with scale and balance in my local of people and place.  Unfortunately, my tribe is the few of you that listen to me on this digital web.  I say unfortunately because this digital web is what is killing us. 

In my actual local of people and place I try to emulate what I am saying about in this blog by example.  In my local, people do not understand what I am talking about but they do find pleasing the results of my life.  They enjoy my homestead and find interesting my monestary but they don’t understand it. 

My REAL Green adaptation is the planet speaking through me as an imperfect vehicle of the proper balance of the spirtual and science.  It is my attempt to balance an unbalanced world.  I do not have answers that can be used like 12 steps.  My answers are rather asking you to understand the imbalances in your life that are inevitable and relatively and realistically adapt.  My experience is this can only be done with dirty hands and a humble heart.

I have high respect for science.  In fact, since I have become so spirtual I respect science even more.  I am in no way anti-science.  What I want to do is place science properly in my local of people and place.  I want to advocate permaculture localism as the best example of how to deal with the decline process of civilization in its final self-destructive phase.   This phase is taking the planet’s complexity down with it.  Science is now necessary and vital for your survival but it will not provide you with the meaning to deal with the brutality of the decline process this science is resulting in. 

This spiritualism that is ready to explode from mankind is really an old one.  It is the basics of life that guided our ancestors.  It is a connectivity that comes from the ground and felt when the cold wind blows.  It is the life force we struggle with and against.  Life has figured out how to deal with entropy so emulate life like man once did.  What mans has now done is become a force of entropy instead of properly adapting to entropy as life has done for billions of years.

The key point of your spirtual journey is a voluntary simplicity that embraces the resulting proper scale.   This results in balance and balance is harmony.  Go local with proper science and the spirtual.  Hone a wisdom that rejects what is not beneficial to your local and promote what is.  This is about above all rejection of unrestricted transhumanism.  It is about rejection of the fake spiritualism of scientism with its secular atheistic beliefs.  Yes, reject atheism which is a luxury of the affluence of transhumanism.

As your shaman I am telling you what the planet is telling me.  I am doing this as an imperfect vehicle of this message as one who is also trapped in transhumanism and struggles with the relativity of meaning from scientism’s secularization of life.  I am telling you to relatively and realistically embrace spiritualism and reject the excesses of science.  This means calling into question the digital and car culture.  When you do this, you will to the best of your abilities accept your trap and adapt accordingly. 

Drive less and get off your digital devices more.  Make an effort to eat properly and eat with respect for life.  Wasting food is a horrible affront to life especially when factory farming is considered.   Often, we feel bad about food waste because it is expensive.  This is the problem.  Life has a price on its head.  The inhumanity we subject life to is the embodiment of the mechanization of life.  This mechanization is the expression of scientism.  Reject this as best you can and the result is a simple but powerful meaning.

Most of all relearn how to treat your local of people and place properly.  Rebuild communities that are in effect nonexistent in many places.  I don’t have much of a local living here on the farm.  I have made multiple attempts to get people to embrace localism.  Everyone is concerned with more affluence and comforts.  Localism is too much work with little return. 

What I say is just a curiosity for most of you.  My intentions are to find a few of you who will build up what will be needed for localism for when that day comes that cities are forced to depopulate.  The local will be all that is available for people to rebuild their lives.  This time is nearing quicker than most realize.  It may not be in your life but I have a sense it will be your kid’s reality.

I am calling on a few of you to become a permaculture farmer in search of other permaculture farms orbiting a permaculture community.  The permaculture community contains the people who create the necessary things that a permaculture farm needs.  Specialization should not be more than this. Specialization should remain tribal and tribal no more than a few hundred.

I am calling on you to build up a monestary of spirtual things to guide this effort.  I am also calling on you to selectively choose the best science and knowledge to enhance this effort with quality things and best practices.  I am calling on you to have reverence for the sacred.  Approach the sacred with special reverence knowing when to stop.  The journey to the spirtual is an ascending level of abstractions humans can get lost in so seek spirtual scale.

There is a certain point where you can only reflect on the spirtual with awe and wonderment.  What you can do though is incorporate the spirtual into your local of people and place to practically and with good common sense live a life dedicated to sobriety and respect for life.  It is life that is our example so it is the natural world where you should get your spirtual strength. 

Once these steps are taken your higher power will be healed.  We all have a higher power from our nature and nurture.  Most of us do not have a healthy one.  It is those who are humble and meek who’s higher power is healthier.  Without permaculture you can’t have a well balance spirtual life.  Your religion will be corrupted by science.  As your shaman I am telling you to embrace nature in permaculture.  It is as simple as that.

war is the continuation of politics with other means.  Carl von Clausewitz

A bad peace is even worse than war.  Tacitus

“Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!”  ― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

I almost did not post this because I am uncomfortable talking politics and ideology.  It may come back to haunt me too if the authoritarians succeed in a credit scored world.  This is the type of writing they would censor if they could.  It is also a bit of a word salad.  I am not a good writer and this topic requires so much discussion of detail.  Yet, I feel in the past I spoke about the abstract of the decline process.  I am now seeing decline and potentially collpase in plain sight.  I recommend you hear the thunder of the coming storm.

This discussion is not meant to demonize a side.  In my opinion both sides have blood on their hands.  I also don’t want to choose sides with the globalist or the populist in respect that one side will save us.  No political persuasion today has the correct answers of life boats and hospices for the decline of civilization. 

This Ukraine war is a globalist war.   The globalist are perusing an agenda of a one world government at least in the west.  The covid lockdowns and now this Ukraine war are part of this tyrannical objective.  If you understand the economics of globalism then you see how messed up globalism is now because of the actions of the globalist.  This group is reckless and incompetent as is the case in a late-stage civilization when the elite become corrupted and delusional.

The globalist and the populist both will fail because both sides have growth-based solutions.  The globalist policy will lead to a faster and harder fall because they are seeking Marxist centralization with their great reset policies of more technocracy.  Their technocracy is grounded in scientism which is the worship of science and reason.  In a time of decline centralization, complexity, and more technology is the wrong approach.  What is needed is decentralization and more simplicity.  The populist are nationalist and nationalism is more decentralized and less complex.  Globalism is the most complexity man has ever achieved and it is what is destroying man and the planet. 

The populist tend to embrace religion which has a spirtual backing.  The coming age of man after the decline process proceeds to a new civilizational reality will be a more spirtual world.  The spirtual will have to assume a much greater role to give the meaning needed to power through the perpetual crisis we are entering. 

This crisis of civilization is many sided with ecological issues but also energy, food, and water.  Pollution and depletion will converge with these issues to drive an unstoppable force.  Most people see the various problems in isolation but what they don’t see is the convergence.  It is the convergence of all of the above that will magnify the crisis into a new reality for man.  Man has no choice but to seek to do thing differently to survive.  You the individual should start now.  The world in a decade will not be the same.

This process is critical to understand if you want to truly understand the globalist war in the Ukraine.  This is the final effort to complete the new world order of the great reset with the 4^th industrial revolution.  This is a delusional effort to save what can’t be saved.  Technocracy is based on control, power, and progress.  It seeks efficiency and conformity.  It does not care about the planet or the people.  It cares about the system and this system is evil.  I am not speaking in religious terms with evil.  I am speaking in terms of anti-life.  The machine is anti-life when taken to this extreme.  Technocracy is a mechanization of life.

The globalist’s goal is to subjugate Russia.  Russia is a impediment to the globalist because they have such a large resource base.  Their population and economy are small in comparison to the US and Europe but their influence and military power makes them an impediment to globalist goal of a one world order.  Russia is the last holdout to their conquest of the western world. 

This discussion is to express that this war is the prelude to the decline process that eventually will be the collpase of civilization as we know it.  Something different is ahead and likely soon.  When I say collapse, this is being applied very broadly.  It may mean a stair step down to something less complex but it could also be worse.  I am not putting a time frame on this either but within a generation I see a world that is unrecognizable.  This is non-negotiable because this force has the momentum of a planet and its life system n declining complexity from human forcing.  The human inertia of knowledge, technology, energy intensity acting against this decline will not overcome this force.

The pain and suffering of the Ukrainian people is a crime and a tragedy.  They are the cannon fodder of the elites on all sides.  Putin is a villain but I would say less than the globalist.  It is globalist that have pushed him into a corner for 2 decades now trying to advance NATO right up to his borders.  Russia knows their intent and they have rejuvenated the Russian military because of this existential threat.  The Russian Military is now highly capable and dangerous to mess with.  This is what the globalist are doing.  Nuclear war is possible of course and this would be total collapse. 

The Globalist have blood on their hands in this dirty war.  Ukraine is being used as a tool to weaken Russia.  They are not interested in diplomacy or else the Minsk agreement would have succeeded.  This has been their plan for years now although I don’t think they thought it would go hot this soon.  This is a hybrid war with information and economics.  This will also weaken globalism which they are now underestimating.  Globalism is what keeps them in power and paradoxically they are destroying globalism to advance it.

This globalist bloodletting will get thicker once the global economy declines with food shortages affecting millions.  This destructive change did not have to happen this soon and this dramatic.  The globalist agenda is fully evident now.  This agenda is no longer a conspiracy topic.  This great reset is proudly being proclaimed by the Davos club.  The great reset as a mainstream policy is a reality now.  This includes the US, Anglosphere and the EU.  Their foot soldiers are science, academia, and the environmental movement.  The US Democratic party and the Republican establishment are part of this.  The populist nationalist in all these countries are the opposition to this one world wester version of the Chinese communist state capitalism.

The hold outs in the US are the red states of American.  They may have saved the world from tyranny.   They have prevented a quick take over by the globalist.  There are some eastern European countries standing in the breach like Hungary.  The populist movement is strong in Europe but the consolidation of power in the EU has suppressed there efforts.  The more federalist structure in the US has allowed the red states to resist this Marxist power grab.  It appears likely because of the incompetence and the recklessness of these globalist elites they have failed.  Unfortunately, the damage done by them to civilization will bring on a harder decline than might have been the case.

This is an agenda they have pushed because build back better needs to destroy the old order.  The renewable energy part of this agenda is a scientific lie.  It is not physically possible to power a technocratic civilization with renewables.  Their science is now a lie because technocracy has elevated science and reason to God like status.  Ultimately, they want to fuse man and machine into a new world order of authoritarian control.  This will usher in the 4^th industrial revolution of algorithms, automation, and artificial intelligence.  This is pinnacle of the arrogance of humanism distancing humans from the source of life on this planet.

The 4tth industrial revolution is a lie too mainly because of the physics of energy and the diminishing returns to technology.  These two decline forces are combining to cause widespread economic decline.  Debt, unfunded liabilities, and wealth inequality are combining to create a stagflation environment of rising prices but also declining economic activity.  The globalist in their effort to gain total control are destroying the supply chains of globalism.  They are creating a terminal food and energy crisis because once these systems have been damaged, they will not recover.  They are destroying the rule of law and proper economic price discovery because this is what Marxism does.  The USSR failed for a reason and that was misapplication of resources and the destruction of the basics of human rights.

This war is dollar related with billions in military sales and policies related to the consolidating of western power.  The fake pandemic is another tool of consolidated control.  This made millions for big pharma and offered a powerful coercive tool for the elites and the unelected administrative state.  These two policy goals of the globalist are meant to cement authoritarian control measures.  This is the period where the elites take risks to achieve the ends of power consolidation in a new world order.   This reckless effort is without care and empathy for the people.  The people are statistics that allow cold blooded calculations.  Clean shaven people are practicing butchery.

Putin is like a neighbor with a pit bull, leave it alone.  Let the dog have its space and it won’t bite.  Putin stated on multiple occasions a red line to the existential security of Russia.  The globalist have now pushed their confrontation with Russia right up to its borders so what do you expect Russia to do?  The globalist want a protected war of attrition to bleed Russia.  The Russian economy is the size of Italy and their population under half the US.  The Ukrainian people will be the sacrificial lamb.  The rest of the world will suffer too from food and energy shortages.

The Russian people are a proud people.  They are highly educated and productive.  They have been mistreated for decades both from within with their oligarchs but also by the western attacks on their sovereignty.  Putin stands in the way of the new world order of the globalist.  He is in a sense an ally of the populist against the tyranny of the globalist.  He may be a mafia Don but at this point the globalist have met their match.  Putin gave the noose to the globalist to hang themselves.  Unfortunately, we the common man will suffer too.

The globalist have put Europe in a very bad situation with food and energy.  Europe was already inching towards a crisis with their incredibly incompetent NetZero embrace.  NetZero is a lie and will fail.  I am all for renewables but only as an extender for the coming decline brought on by the net energy decline of fossil fuels.  This war will disrupt the key global bread basket that is Ukraine.  It will upset trade in fossil fuels and fertilizer from Russia who is one of the largest supplies of these key commodities.  It will put the 3rd world in great difficulties because there will now be food shortages by 2023 and they will be unlike anything seen in the last 60 years.  Mass migration to Europe will be the result.

The US involvement in Ukraine for the last decade has been criminal starting with the color revolution instigated by the deep state.   The corruption of the Clintons, Bidens, and many other politicians on both sides of the aisle is fully evident.  The military industrial complex is now making billions from this Russian conflict.  The same politicians pounding the war drums and pushing military aid to prolong this war are raking in millions from the lobbyist.  This corruption is what happens in a late-stage civilization. 

The general public is slow boiled with this especially if you drink the Kool-Aid of the western main stream media who are a propaganda arm of the globalists.  This is a crime against humanity but the globalist could care less because this is a plan to remake the world.  The collateral damage of dead Ukrainians is good politics when spinned properly.  Nothing focuses ordinary citizens like videos of death and destruction.  The misinformation is thick these days because of this hidden agenda.  If you call into question this death and destruction you are labeled a Putin sympathizer.

There is a much deeper risk and that is nuclear war and the hybrid war of cyber-attacks.  People know how bad nuclear war would be but less about how things could grind to a halt with a cyber attack on critical infrastructure.  This is all possible but there is a new crisis building which has been building for years and this is the breakdown of globalism.  Globalism brings you food, energy, and goods.  When it breaks down our lives are going to become much more precarious.  This breakdown will be hastened by the disruptions of this war.  In fact, it is now baked into the cake.

The globalist have been hell bent on regime change in Russia since the USSR dissolved.  Most people don’t know or care about the history of this.  This has been a 2-decade long process of lies and hostile actions.  The truth is in the news of the last 20 years if you dig into it.  Most people don’t so they believe the lies of the globalist that this war is all Putin’s doing.  My words are no longer conspiracy just as my words on the globalist intentions in my previous post indicate they are seeking anti-life policies.  These actions are for an authoritarian system to protect their power and wealth.  They do not care about the planet or the people.  Affluence of the elites can only be maintained at this point with total control.

Their continuous reckless behavior has led the world to the brink of destruction.  This is economic and social.  The great financial crisis of 2009 was their doing.  They allowed rampant financialization to cause a bubble.  They reinflated that bubble once it popped in 2009.   The central banks efforts have enriched the wealthiest of the corporate world and the political establishment giving them a taste of total control.  Now we have a new bubble ready to pop.  This bubble is the last of this civilization.  The globalist sealed the fate of globalism and now a different new world is in the offing.  This is not the world the globalist sought.

Modern monetary policy of the globalist and the left is little more than a wealth transfer gimmick but one that will destroy everyone’s wealth.  Malinvestment of the radical left though their Covid policies and stimuluses have left us with out-of-control inflation.  This is at a time when net energy is in decline and technology is going nonlinear into a self-destructive doom phase where the more that is applied the more problems that result.  The momentum of decline was there regardless but we now have the situation of the rapid onset of this into a tipping point.  If you thought the last two years were bad with covid just wait until 2023.  This will be when the convergence creates a crisis that just a few years would have been unimaginable.

The law of unintended consequences of these purposeful actions of the globalist will have outcomes that create more problems than they solve.  The new world order will be one of less energy and resources than might have been available for life boats.  Financialization was a blow out of malinvestment that could have been used as lifeboats but now policies of war and control will hasten this process of abandonment, dysfunction, and irrational sociopolitical policy.  This will leave the individual angry and helpless.  When you are cold and hungry it is difficult to fight.

Financialization has been a malinvestment yielding a waste stream of misapplied resources going on 30 years now.  Ghost cities in China are a great example but something similar is happening in the west too.  Financialization was the main driving force of globalism.  This is the ill-gotten concentration of money and power without borders.  Financialization is a colonization strategy where peoples are homogenized and exploited for the benefit of global wealth class.  The result is humans everywhere dependent on an unsustainable system.  Humans dumbed-down to the basics of survival.  Humans relegated to serfs dependent on the state and unable to defend themselves.

I do not like to talk politics but this needs to be made clear to understand where the trajectory of civilization is going.  This is global.  No countries can escape this macro force.  This means you the individual too.  I mainly talk to you the individual and strategies for you to adapt and mitigate this.  I do not believe these self-organizing phenomena can be mitigated at the top.  The risk of this is so dispersed throughout the system of human civilization that collapse is a done deal.  Civilization is in its late stage and now in terminal decline.  This has been hastened by the globalist with Covid lockdowns and now the Ukraine war.

I am a degrowther but I am also a realist that sees the honest science of collapse.  The degree and duration of degrowth is the key.  Degree is obvious with the severity of the impact.  Severe pain and suffering is measured in degree.  Duration is important in how long the worst of the degree phase of collpase can be sustained.   Very high levels of degree with a longer duration could cause a breakdown that is cascading with unpredictable outcomes.  Decline was coming anyway but one that could have had less degree and duration.

Degrowth is now the paradigm of this new age.   An epoch is tipping over with the natural world from the stable to the unstable.  A human era of growth is tipping over to decline.  The duration of this process is a critical characteristic of this new human era.  How strong will this destructive change be with duration?  When will there be a floor of stability?  I am now more pessimistic than ever before in my life for what humans face.

This is a slow boil for the individual.  This age of optimism makes people think all that is needed is proper policy to maintain affluence.  Cognitive dissonance is creating a neurotic state we call the age of anxiety.  The globalist are seductively playing on this anxiety by offering their polices of unlimited clean energy and a saftynets of the state as a carrot.  The delusional radical left are drinking in green technocracy and the Marxism of fake social justice policy.  They are in the rapture of the ushering in of a new utopian techno green age.  The radical left is the most reckless and the biggest technocracy supporters.  Science and academia have been radicalized over the past 20 years.  They are now the villains.  Science is now political policy.

The globalist have harness the leftist as their foot soldier.  The result is radical policy at a time when sobriety is needed.  If you are dying of disease then a radical cure will often times just makes the situation worse.  This is now the case with the technocracy being employed by the globalist and their radical foot soldiers on the left.  Keep in mind the populist are little better in regards to saving the unsavable but being more conservative they will likely do less harm with the critical factors of degree and duration.

I am bringing up degrowth in regards to war in this post because the unintended consequences of a policy of confrontation by the globalist with Russia will be a destructive process that will hasten decline.  This hot war is a prelude to the building of the cold war with China.  This Chinese cold war could go hot at any time over Taiwan.  This actually represent a much worse situation and the domino that will quickly unravel globalism with catastrophic results.   A war with China will be hugely disruptive of supply chains where Russia and Ukraine are a disruptor of the vital resources of energy and food.  Combine the two and we are talking grave dangers.

In the 80’s I was a globalist and a supporter of sustainable development but now I am a localist and degrowther.  I am siding with the populist because they embrace the family unit and decentralization.  The change in me occurred because I have come to see the arrogance of humanism of the modern human as the most destructive life force in the history of the planet.  This destruction has come quicker than anything in earlier times.  Yet, a rapid unravelling of globalism could doom civilization.  A slower more sober decline of a terminally illness is called for.  This will allow lifeboats and the palliative care of a hospice.

We are all in a globalized world now locked in an economic embrace of delocalization through transhumanism.  This combination is the transhumanism of machine mobility and digital culture combined with the delocalization of what you need to feed and shelter you.  This delocalization is direct and indirect.  There is no hiding from the direct effects this delocalization has caused because if the trucks stop you will go cold and hungry. 

The indirect effect is the fact that risk has been disperse into every aspect of your life so you don’t really know where to defend against its dangers.    Even if your local is more sustainable your urban neighbors are not.  All cities over 20,000 are unsustainable in the coming decline.  Move out if you can.  The vast mega cities of the world are a ticking timebomb.

This current war with Russia and likely later with China is a civilizational civil war because man is global now.  Civil war is basically a war of ideologies.  The material gain of civil war is of lower concern than ideological victory.  This means civil war can result in near total destruction where invasions to gain resources only attempts to gain material results.  Destructive actions are avoided or else the prize is destroyed.  If the great powers war on themselves now the destruction will be beyond what is anticipated.  Our modern way of life will be damaged so much it is unclear if it can survive.

The globalist and their authoritarian cousin the Chinese Communist party have seen elite capture for years where the Chinese have infiltrated the globalist with wealth.  They gained power over them by the usual means of corruption.  This has also changed the Chinese system into a state capitalism that is a merger of communism with big corporate partners.  In the west we have globalist that are now in an elite merger with the Chinese system of state authoritarianism.  The leaders of the globalist movement admire the control China has over its people.  They may view each other as competitors even adversaries but their world view has been one of merger.

The populist are fighting this secularized subjugation of an authoritarian one party state.  In the west the globalist have not achieved their goals of complete power yet.  In China we see the result of one-party rule and it is dystopian.  Many Chinese may have been lifted out of poverty but a country that was relatively sustainable with rural subsistence farming is now destroying itself and the greater planet in wester style industrialization.  Much of China is so polluted that food and water need massive energy and resources to even be made safe for human consumption.  China is now exporting this destructive industrialization to the rest of the world with the Belt and Road initiative.

The globalist have shown their cards in this bluff with Russia that turned hot.  I would argue they showed their cards with the populist too and this is why there is a populist movement that is ready to blow the current establishment class out of power in several key areas.  This loss of power is if an election is even allowed in the US this November.  A majority of the US is dominated by red states who will not submit to this tyranny.  The globalist might employ a false flag to cancel the coming midterms. A midterm election loss will be devastating to their position of power.  Martial law might be in the cards for the October and November time frame.

The globalist played their cards too early in my opinion.  The danger of Donald Trump to their power was the reason.  The flexing of this Machiavellian power by the globalist in the US was a stolen election.  We now see the lawfare of the deep state battling its own people.  We see the coopting of the media and cultural entities in the common effort of tyranny.  We see corporate culture going woke.  This has emboldened them to push Russia into a war.  Everything about the globalist is warfare based both internally and externally.  This is why I call them war pigs.

The pandemic was an opportunity for bold policy overreach.  It was an excuse to bypass the rule of law written in the constitution and Bill of Rights.  It has been an opportunity to push politicized science of the pandemic where only ideologically approved science is allowed.  Power has been deceptively gained through social policies of cultural Marxism where they are attempting to homogenized the population under the social system of woke allowing standardized control.  Unrestricted immigration will disrupt social cohesion so they can break the family and gain voters.

The goal is a feudal system of the elites and serfs.  The serfs will be dependent on state handouts.  This is why guaranteed basic income is talked about so much.  They are offering free stuff but people do not realize nothing is free.  You will give up your freedom to get this free stuff.  Their moto already advertised by the Davos club is “you will own nothing and be happy” in the new socialism of woke.  Stake holder capitalism will rent you everything and the state will give you income based on social credit scoring.  If you resist your digitally controlled income is at risk.

Many on the university campuses are mesmerized by all this economic socialism and cultural Marxism.  They don’t even really teach anything on many campuses today except ideology.  The modern university is a nanny state with safetyism and fake inclusion.  Where once Marxism was a class war it is now about divisive ethnicity.   This is a cover for the elites to divide and conquer.  They do not care about racism they care about power.  They are coming after the young who are gullible and naïve.

The club of elites is very small.  Currently the intermediate elites are being warred upon.  This means small businesses and cultural groups especially conservative ones.  Straight white men are the target at this moment which is odd because most of the highest of the globalist elites are old white guys.  If these globalists really believed in what they preach they would lead by example but they don’t.  They don’t on the environment or social justice.  They lie because if you hear lies enough often you believe them. 

The family structure that is so important to survival in a post growth world is being destroyed.  Small family businesses are being destroyed with power consolidated within large woke monopolistic corporations.  This is stakeholder capitalism of big government and the unelected and unaccountable administrative state each in support of the other.  Big corporations are doing the deep states bidding in a revolving door of power and patronage.  This is modern day fascism and their claims of protecting democracy and freedom from fascism are just propaganda.  They are driving a fascist authoritarian administrative state along the lines of the Chinese communist party.

They are seeking this power and domination under the guise of policies to save the climate and social justice when the truth is technocracy is killing the planet through the results of technology.  Social justice of sustainable development is just seeking growth through authoritarianism.  Development is growth and the planet is dying from growth.  Cultures are being destroyed in stealth colonization of global industrialization. 

The censorship proposed by the elites should be an indicator of their true goals.  The participation of the elites in climate meetings with their private jets transporting them there should be an indication of their true intent.  They are not concern for the planet.  Their concern is you are made docile and controllable so they can protect their wealth and power.

They claim the end is social justice and climate action but it is really complete control in a technocracy of an authoritarian state.  The best means to gain unfair power is with a message that is a lie.  Lies require more lies to sustain the original lies.  This global situation is a catch 22 situation of no solutions only bad choices so they continue to lie offering utopian solutions.   The lies, cheating and stealing are legitimized by the globalist because of their technocratic goals of an authoritarianism that will ensure they have the power needed to face the troubles ahead but only in regards to their position.  The people will be sacrificed to attain their ends.

The problem now for all of us is this great reset effort is being done near a tipping point.   The great reset is a diminishing return effort that seeks to prolong power and affluence.  Power and affluence are in decline in a system reaching a phase change.  Net energy decline means the lower amounts of energy delivered to a system needing ever great energy inputs will destroy that system.  This includes food that is produced by industrial processes but also water that is made abundant by industrial processes.  The elites should be downsizing in the face of this macro decline but instead they will attempt to double down on the vary effort that got us to this point.

The global population is an order of magnitude too large without these industrialized needs.  These needs have been satisfied for a century now by fossil carbon and virgin resources.  Overpopulation, depletion and pollution are the result.  The honest science is clear on this.  This is now a period of global decline natural and with man’s civilization.  The elites do not want you to know this because they understand how hard it is to control an angry and scared population.

Civilization is approaching late stage and can’t be pushed into more growth anymore without negative consequences.  Politics is now warfare because without growth there is less cooperation and more competition.  Technology is at or near diminishing returns where self-destructive efforts are the result.  Net energy decline and depletion of economic resources are in the stage where it cost more to get these vital needs then they return to civilization in value.  Social structures are no longer cohesive and this is leading to the loss of confidence.  Civilization is now an unravelling Ponzi scheme.

Inflation and illiquidity are the result of this forcing function of the end of growth.  Financialization does not produce resources it instead consumes them in malinvestment.  People produce things and it is small groups and families that are the bedrock of human survival.  Both of these social structures are under attack because they can’t be easily controlled by authoritarians.  Financialization quickly becomes parasitic and destroys the productive capacity of the people.  It is private benefits at the expense of the general public.  This is why the elites are doubling down with centralized control and political financialization.

I want to touch on the idea of Tacitus that a bad peace is even worse than war.  This does not mean war will not destroy us but keep in mind endless growth on a finite planet is sure to do the same.  Even sober well thought out growth is destructive at this point.  If the globalist and the Chinese communist party manage to cement their centralized control and attempt the 4^th industrial revolution of artificial intelligence and the automation of machines the result are certain to destroy civilization quicker. 

This will harm the planet even more because technology is so destructive when it goes non-linear into diminishing returns.  A bottleneck much worse than anything else in human history is possible unless this destructive force is stopped.  Technology without checks and balances leads rapidly to self-destruction.  Technocracy is a religion of technology.  The great reset crowd’s prescriptions to save the people and the planet will do neither.  Technology without a wisdom of life is anti-life.

This is globalist overreach is what Tacitus spoke of as a bad peace.  This is the goal of the authoritarians of the world to incrementally destroy the old order and usher in the new.  Unrestrictive asymmetrical war is their political aim with all who stand in their way.  This warfare is by any means to secure authoritarian control of their technocratic world.  The unintended consequences will be a breakdown of globalism and an eventual end of civilization as we know it. 

The destruction of the globalist is what is needed at this time in human history.  So, if this overstep by the globalist does not destroy civilization and they are defeated then the result could be a step down from globalism to a more decentralized world.   This world will be forced into a necessary degrowth.  Many are going to die and suffer regardless but fewer will suffer if the globalist plans are destroyed.  So what I am mentioning this overreach by the globalist may turn out to be a benefit to less degree and duration of decline.  I spent a lot of time criticizing them but their failure may be a benefit.  This is still dangerous and may end in nuclear war or a cascading economic collpase.

It is unclear if our delocalized and overly dependent transhuman world of machines can survive this breakup of the old order of growth.  Yet, if the globalist are defeated and the systematic step down is less severe with shorter duration then civilization may find room to stabilize in decline.  We may see pockets of a new wisdom of decline emerge throughout the world.  Cooperation may result with people who understand a reality of decline means cooperation is needed.  Pain and suffering will focus people’s attention like no propaganda ever could.

This will be a two-fold break.  One will be the systematic breakdown of the system that underlies civilization which is the competitive cooperation of participants in a globalized economic systeme.  In this process of forced decentralization, a dysfunctional growth system and the irrational policy of cultural Marxism will be rationalized by a concrete reality of decline.  The other break is a more localized world of producing food and water.  Will we be able to maintain shelter and produce the products needed to do this?  This is why I preach green prepping with permaculture localism.  This is the individual’s only hope in the first step down to a more natural world.

Success of this is unclear and unknowable at this point but the knowledge and honest science clearly say degrowth is vital at this point of overshoot.  I would argue in this case war is better than a bad peace.  The Pax globalism of the last 20 years has just been building up of the energy of a phase change of overshoot.  This is now at a level that may not be survivable except by destroying it as soon as possible.  I know this is a mixed message of railing at the elites but also saying their failure could be beneficial to a softer landing.  This is a mixed message because no one can know how this will unfold.  This will be a process full of chaos so now is the time for you to prepare regardless.

I hope this medicine of a collpase of globalism will work.  This will mean an end to your affluence as you know it.  We are already at a 40% discount to real affluence because of the dispersal of risk from financialization.  Your wealth is actually discounted tremendously when reality tested.  Digital wealth is not real wealth in a system that is breaking down like ours is today.  Invest in physical assets if you can.

This bifurcation of the current order is going to be dispersed initially.  Areas will fail that are most exposed.  I constantly mention places and activities that should be avoided.  They will likely be the first to fail.  Common sense of a wisdom that understands living with less but more hard work is a good start.  So, if you are living with too many machines and with too much mobility than you are at risk.  If your region has food and water that comes from afar then you are not in a good place. 

Luck will play a part here too because risk has been dispersed through the entire system and across the planet so even places that have the right stuff are at risk.  Some places that are most exposed might be saved because this decline is so unpredictably.  Yet, keep in mind the best policy is a wisdom that seeks the common sense of less.  This process will be dominated by a paradigm of less modern civilization on a planet forced into the ecological change of succession.   This will be a process of retrogression to less complexity both within civilization and with the ecosystem of life.

This process appears to be self-organizing and natural because life is not linear.   As humans we feel exceptional and above natural selection but suffer the same results all species suffer in overshoot.  Political environmentalist today like to think we can save civilization and the planet but this is just hubris.  The arrogance of humanism is the greatest threat to the planet and our human civilization.  We are doubling down on the vary policies that got us to this point. 

War may be the best situation to beak this mechanization of destruction.  This thinking is like when a position is being overrun and the commander calls in an artillery strike on his postion because this is the last hope.  I am thinking that civilization is too far gone to achieve proper change itself so it must be disrupted by consequences sooner than later.  This warfare of the globalist might have the silver lining of delivering this needed change.  This is a big if and I am just trying to look on the brighter side of a destructive process.

This trajectory of decline is not going to be fixed by any human effort.   It is going to run its course.  Human interference will only make the disruption to our own irrational and dysfunctional policies worse.  The system is already broken.  This is why I preach a wisdom of insecurity that embraces the green prepping of permaculture localism.  This is your only hope to find a place of relative and realistic security.  There are no refuges from this epoch change and end of a civilization but there are places better or worse.

Go local with your people and place.  Leave cities if you can.  At least leave those areas that are too affluent for their local survival.  Downsize with dignity.   This is a pathway to meaning that this is where the truth is.  Beat the rush before it really gets bad which unfortunately is just around the corner.  I started this process 20 years ago but got aggressive with it 10 years ago.  It really takes a decade under most circumstances to do this.  Yet there are many locals that have the right stuff if only they would clear away the dead wood.  The primary ingredient is community.  The family unit is the basics of survival as it has always been.

If you have a strong community that is local and simpler then build upon it NOW!.  This is really about spirituality because the political ideological contamination of science expressed in technocracy is now fully at war with the people.  Spirituality is an acceptance of a higher power above our ego.  It is about a higher power above man’s civilization too.  Technocracy is a religion of anti-life so reject it if you want any hope of salvation.  Spirituality is what can break the machination of human arrogance.

These globalist can’t be stopped completely but they will destroy themselves.  They have taken control of the primary levers of power.  Those who will fight them in the civil war of globalism with be part of the destruction of the system because remember this is a clash of ideology.  The planet has been forced for hundreds of years and now is reacting so this is a combination of the forces of decline.  This is phase change.  It actually is worse than phase change it is a chemical reaction with a new result.

The alternative is to enjoy your affluence if you already have it and live in denial.  You can also live understanding the reality of what is coming but enjoying what you have now.  This is tough to do because humans live their lives in the future.  We have a hard time enjoying the moment.  I am not sure what is best for you. 

I am of the type that believes in following where the truth takes me.  The truth is telling me to get closer to nature by realistically and relatively embracing the natural way of things.  I am distancing myself as best I can from the arrogance of humanism in transhumanism of the machine and the delocalization of globalism.  The tyranny of the machine and the lies of centralized power to me are anti-life and should be distanced from.  Other than that duck down in your foxhole for the incoming of pain, suffering, and death.

“War Pigs”  Black Sabbath

Generals gathered in their masses

Just like witches at black masses

Evil minds that plot destruction

Sorcerer of death’s construction

In the fields, the bodies burning

As the war machine keeps turning

Death and hatred to mankind

Poisoning their brainwashed minds

Oh lord, yeah!

Politicians hide themselves away

They only started the war

Why should they go out to fight?

They leave that role to the poor, yeah

Time will tell on their power minds

Making war just for fun

Treating people just like pawns in chess

Wait till their judgement day comes, yeah!

Now in darkness, world stops turning

Ashes where their bodies burning

No more war pigs have the power

Hand of God has struck the hour

Day of judgement, God is calling

On their knees, the war pigs crawling

Begging mercy for their sins

Satan laughing, spreads his wings

Oh lord, yeah!

In this age of safetyism with the cancel culture of woke, I am here to shake you up with a wisdom of insecurity.  We are now in the last stages of a civilization in unreality where reality is forced by ideology.  This is a human reality not a reality reflected by nature.  While it is a bold step claiming to know reality, I can say what is not reality and this is the modern reality of human exceptionalism.  Technocracy is the peak of this unreality.  The wisdom of insecurity asks you instead to embrace insecurity as the basis of action.  This pessimistic existentialism allows humility and acceptance that are required for proper action in an age of decline. 

The luxury of affluence from fossil carbon allowed this ideological reality.  A religion of scientism has emerged.  This is the sister to cultural of woke.  Science is now used ideologically to force reality to a human reality of progress.  Energy is presented as clean and unlimited.  Knowledge is now being elevated to a hybrid of artificial and human intelligence that seeks a singularity of man and machine. 

The priests of scientism claim algorithms and automation will efficiently work through the biological problems of our infinite growth impulse on a finite planet by eliminating the problems of human nature.  Scientism seeks immortality in this singularity.  Our souls will be uploaded to a digital cloud to eliminate the mortality of the earthly body.  Artificial intelligence will perfect proper living.  Biological humans will be drones to maintain this utopia.  You will own nothing and be happy.  In this serfdom the elites will find enduring power and affluence.

Unless you know the group behind these doctrines of ideological destruction you will find it difficult to find an individual salvation of spirit.  This private elite club that is utilizing these forces of scientism and woke are the children of darkness.  They are imposing a world view that conforms to their idea of a utopian world of progressive human advancement through science and the machine. 

Science and secularism taken to the extreme is the result.  Human nature must be controlled in this world because any dissent represents an imperfection.   This fake ideological reality is actually an unreality being imposes upon the natural world.  If men are given the freedom to debate this ideology complete control is unattainable.  This ideological reality can’t be debated it must be implemented by a technocratic elite to maintain purity. 

The cultural Marxism of woke is a tool of control.  The basis of Woke is not a social justice for race but a rebranded tool of class warfare. Carl von Clausewitz defined war as the continuation of politics with other means.  This is why woke has been weaponized with extremist.  Lawfare against opponents and the cultural targeting of the family are now an open reality.  The rule of law is being disregarded.  Economics policy is attempting to centralize through Modern Monetary Theory of deficit spending.  This is how Marxist gain control they destroy a system from within.

Imperfection is innate in human nature because of the dualism of self-consciousness.  This imperfection is better called turbulence because this is an abstraction that needs a metaphysical explanation.  Human nature has always resisted scientific definition.  Man’s tendency to science and the spiritual within a planetary system cycles with periods of more of less of each.  When these dualistic poles assume the role of the other turbulence is the result.  This turbulence can be referred to as extremism.  Man is an animal but also capable of reflection of the divine because of self-consciousness. 

We are a technical animal because of our large brain and hands to manipulate.  This condition creates a destructive tendency when proper wisdom is not present.  This is both with science and its technology but also the spirtual with ideological sacraments.  Today we are in an age of science so the destructive results are from science where in previous ages it was spirtual ideologies destroyed civilization through the irrational of extremism.  Now a scientific ideology is claiming spirtual status in scientism with cancel culture enforcing this ideology.

This ideology of scientism is attempting to rid itself of human imperfection through technocracy.  Spiritualism must be relegated to the irrational because to give it equal footing would mean acknowledging the imperfection of science when standing alone.  Science without wisdom is self-destruction.  Wisdom requires the spirtual.  Pure science has no boundaries.  It seeks to know unhindered by reflections of morality.  This is a denial of death because death is the ultimate boundary.  Science unbounded seeks immortality.

A required balance is needed to both these aspects to our dualistic nature.  The wisdom of insecurity scaled properly balances the two.  This is done through acceptance of death and the humility to the sacred.  Here science is properly placed by a wisdom that knows when to stop scientific progress based upon a robust spirtual dimension.  This spirtual dimension is the basis of the wisdom of insecurity.  Acceptance of the limits of death is a humility that properly grounds science in boundaries.

The deviations from this scale and balance dictates man’s ebbing and flowing of civilization.  Before civilization this was in a steady state by natural living.  When we reached the stable Holocene, agriculture began the gradual stepping stone of growth of civilization.  Civilization is specialization and centralization instead of a traditional family, tribal, and confederation arrangement.  Decentralization with living culture allowed dramatic adaptation to environmental changes.  Stability allowed affluence that allowed the growth of specialization.  The growth of science and knowledge resulted.

Today we are in the age of technology.  This is the age of death because the machine knows no limits.  Technology seeks power and efficiency as the only good.  Is it any wonder in this age of extremism that the chief behavioral tendency of leadership is psychopathy of greed?  Humans embrace this because affluence is intoxicating.  The quest for power even overtakes affluence.  Power is the ultimate blasphemy of the spirt.  This is the existential cliff of hubris.  We are now here.

In the wisdom of insecurity, I speak of salvation.  This is not immortality but instead naturalness.  Naturalness is the embrace of the sacred guiding natural science.  Humans are scientific animals so natural science is the key to our salvation.  This natural science is found in our older pre-civilization culture.  This points to what in coming after the end of modern civilization.

The sacred is mirrored by truth which is our natural rationalization of the sacred.  Truth is the meaning humans find in their struggle with dualism.  Humility is a keystone requirement to approach the sacred.  It is this proper approach to the sacred that offers insight into the truth.  This is why the wisdom of insecurity is vital. 

Proper truth is only attained by humility.  There is no humility today as a basis of political action.  This is because this is the age of scientism.   Ideological extremism supplements humility.   This is the basis of woke and the cancel culture.  If you submit to woke culture then an elaborate religious code is embraced.  This mirrors cultural Marxism with class struggles and it has always been a tiny elite driving these political forces.  It only takes targeted application of this extremism of a minority to achieve results.

This is about elite control paraded as safetyism.  You will be safe if you trust them, is their offering.  This is why lies are the basis of their platform.  The ends justify the means and the ends is power plain and simple.  Lying, Cheating, stealing are the ultimate tools of power but these are self-destructive because eventually they are self-destructive.  This is why all revolutions destroy themselves from within.  This is nature’s way of balance and humans are no different.  These people may have other motives as individuals but their system of technocracy is a self-organizing impulse to complete power.

Biological life mirrors the sacred light.  Anti-life of the machine mirrors darkness.  The further from naturalness the more mechanized you become.  Complete mechanization is anti-life.  Humans are technological by nature of mental patterns and hands that form but humans are also spirtual by nature because of our reflection of the divine.   

Self-consciousness presents us with an existential dualism of science and spirit.  In today’s age, science is now spirtual.  When you see this clearly then you see that a destructive reaction is inevitable.  This is a rapid approach to the cliff of disregarding the laws of nature that science seeks to usurp when in complete turbulence from a balance of the two.  Wisdom that is the balance of the two is not present today.  It was once spiritualism that lacked wisdom now it is science.  The difference with this age of science is the destructive reach of the machine.  The planet is now covered by machines.

This is the age of machines and the worship of knowledge.  Artificial intelligence and automation are now icons of this age.  Science is engaged in self-worship.  Academia are the priests of this religion in walled campuses of elitism.  The covenant is knowledge.  Technology is the sacrament.  We sacrifice our humanity to this new religion by dehumanization of the machine and slavery.  Nature is sacrificed too as a commodity to exploit. 

They seek to save civilization and the planet by more of the same that is destroying the two.  If a proper spirtual tradition were present this collapsing world would be abandoned just as Chaco Canyon was deserted.  Except this world is locked into the embrace of the machine where survival is machine based.  The machine has now taken over but natural limits will destroy the machine.  Physical limits of science and energy limits of a finite planet will end this rapidly with cascading results.  We are near these bifurcations.

Science is now politicized.  It is an ideology of conforming reality to the human mind.  It is in complete corruption of life values found in biological life.  Humanism is at maximum arrogance where the fox is in charge of the hen house.  The fox is academia and the hen house is humanism balanced within a natural world. 

Academia claims it can save civilization and the planet through engineering.  They assure us this can be done and affluence will be maintained.  The wisdom of insecurity says it is only acceptance of consequences and the embrace of the humility of consequences that are the road to salvation.  Scientism rejects humility out right as weakness yet it is the meek who will inherit the earth.

The technocratic elite promise us a utopia if we submit to their world of technological control.  We will own nothing and be happy.  Energy will be clean and endless.  We will eat manufactured food that is lab grown.  Populations are not an issue we are told.  In fact, more people mean more economic activity according to their doctrine.  Migration is not an issue because boundaries are not needed.  We are in fact just another commodity to be bought and sold by these elites.  This is why the family and even genders are being homogenized.

The luxury of this is from the affluence of fossil carbon.  Without this energy this illness of the progressive mind would never have occurred.  Fossil carbon allowed scale to be lost and in doing so separated human nature from nature’s nature.  This is what delocalization and transhumanism do when taken to extreme.  Once agricultural realities limited this illness of humanism.  Local environments were exhausted by small civilizations and then they vanished.  The destruction was limited.  Today the destruction is global and complete.

Civilization is likely an evolutionary dead end at least at the level it is today.   When this fossil energy is gone then we will be back to the limits of a finite planet based on biomass which is dispersed like sunlight.  In fact, it is the net energy of fossil energy to maintain technological man that will end this progress.  When technology can’t be supported by a depleted fossil energy with energy value and quantity it will end rapidly.  Efficiency has dispersed this risk across the globe making all life at risk from forever chemicals and cascading ecological failues. 

Renewables and smart cities are a hoax.  Renewables can’t be replicated without fossil energy.  The energy return on energy invested is too low to produce power and replicate itself.  The ideology of scientism says this lie of physics is possible as it must.  If the priest of scientism were to admit this truth, then what would sustain civilization?  All other energy sources are acknowledge as failing. 

A miraculous technology is always on offer.  Fusion was once all the rage and before that fission.  Today it is renewables with their elegant natural elements of wind and sun that are so appealing.  It is so easy to present wind and sun as natural.  Natural is clean and endless.  These appear sustainable because of the naturalness of their sources.

The reality is a dirty destructive life stream from beginning to end.  The recycling of these technologies are minimal and they only have 20-30 year life spans.  Industrial products, processes and transport make these just as dirty and unsustainable s fossil carbon.  They are just an extension of fossil carbon painted green.

These fake green technologies will go to support smart cities of ever greater population densities.  Dense human settlements are extractive and produce unsustainable waste streams.  This can’t be made green but this is what is being presented by the technocrats.  The win-win of saving civilization which is basically affluence and saving the planet is proclaimed from the pulpit of the likes of twitter and mainstream media.

This is a metastization of a lie against nature.  The host is life itself.  This is cancerous paradoxically because of the interplay of light and dark forces.  They are one so this is autoimmune response to life excesses by life.  There is no separation only polarization so at a high level of abstraction this is the way of life.  What I am referring to is this human drama really is life’s drama.  We should not be ignorant or arrogant of this.  This is why humility is central to the wisdom of insecurity.  This determinism drives free will of the system.

These forces of light and darkness that develop in the dualism of self-consciousness become separate in men’s hearts.  Keep in mind there may be a higher level of abstract unity to this human process but as the vehicles of this duality humans are the expression of turbulence of duality.   

This is why good and evil dwell in men’s hearts and not in other species.  This means in nature good and evil exist because of our dualism.  This may be just a sliver of the meaning of the whole but keep in mind the power of this separateness.  It has destroyed a planet’s complexity.   This reality is of the sacred and unapproachable.  This means we will never know why man is beset with tendencies of good and evil but nonetheless we live the result.

I am pro-life and seek living knowledge in an age of the dead.  I submit to the sacred in the mystic way.  If I speak of it this is the planet urging me to.  I have no material gain.  This is just wonderment so it does not matter if few will read this.  It is basically a word salad with little scientific basis.  This is how shamans speak so if you do not understand the shamanic way then any mysteries explained here through me by the planet will be lost.

Long ago I quit taking this seriously at the level of the pursuit of meaning.  Spiritually I wonder to myself what has been said through me.  Am I nutter?  I am an imperfect vehicle of the truth but I do speak the truth because I have no personal gain.  The power is not for my benefit.  I speak of the power of life and against anti-life but knowing they are one and the same.

Life depends on the darkness to keep order.  This is almost like sharks as the top predator in the reef. Man looks on sharks as villains but instead they keep the ecosystem resilient by maintaining diversity.  How this relates to humans and our dualism is we are the sharks of the reef.  We are the villians but paradoxically this villainy is a requirement of life. 

I am not sure but possibly if there were complete good then good would destroy itself in the sloth of contentment.  Perhaps evil is needed to keep good active otherwise saturation would end any good efforts.  Without this separation there is no animation.  There would never have been a big bang.  Man is an expression of this reflection of when singularity split.  Technology is now seeking singularity as a result.

I am a shaman who looks to how life operates to try to understand man’s spirtual condition.  I try to keep this scaled and balanced.  If I speak about these matters of the whole of creation it is only in wonderment.  It is going to be of little use for you in your local of people and place except as a tool for finding acceptance and humility.  I hope it helps you scale properly in humility.  Knowing where knowledge is wonderment and proper wisdom is an art form.  Art is beauty so at some point knowledge must be just appreciated as beauty and not utility.  When it becomes utility it is lost.

Find proper scale by getting as close to the life process as you can realistically and relatively.  Seek permaculture localism and you will find a freedom from the deadly serious passions of darkness.  This is because living knowledge is life giving.  Anything else in this revelation I just gave you is just for the enjoyment and wonderment of awakened self-consciousness.  So, ignore my metaphysical musing unless you have been awakened.  In that case enjoy these musing with me around my metaphorical camp fire.

What I speak to you now about is relevant for reflection because we are in a spirtual civil war that will have material consequences.  It is destroying human nature with the arrogance of anti-life forces.  Keep in mind the ancients never faced this.  At no time in human history has life faced such a threat.  The ancients saw the dangers of dark knowledge but now we are here.  This means right here right now is a time of significance like no other.

This is critical to your local security.  You can’t change this force locked in self-organizing determinism.  It represents a black hole that even light can’t escape except by grace.  It is necessary and will happen because affluence and power corrupt absolutely.  It will destroy itself in civil war. 

It is this destruction that will renew life.  The time frame is unclear because this is an ascending level of abstraction which is beyond the dimension of time.  Just as in a sense you are already dead because life is just so short when there is isness.

These people are at war with life itself.  This is technocracy, scientism, and the woke movement.  This ideology is the ends justify the means of cultural Marxism with secularism and atheism.  Atheism is the religion of secularization.  Secularization is the peak of the arrogance of humanism when we project our human form on life itself.  This is blasphemy which is anti-life.

I am warning you because I have been told to.  I have not been spoken to.  I am being urged by revelation of seeing how life operates and how anti-life operates and responding accordingly as shamans do.  This is seeing the light of life and also reflecting on darkness. 

You can do as you please in this great civil war but meaning is with the light and non-meaning with darkness.  Here non-meaning is the vicious circle of self-consciousness when corruption is complete.  This topic could fill a book but I do not have time.  I am just a simple goat farmer.  This is just a glimpse of a deeper story.

Here we see where technology leads us when it is worshiped:

“Intelligence and rationalism are not in themselves revolutionary. But technical thinking is foreign to all social traditions: the machine has no tradition. One of Karl Marx’s seminal sociological discoveries is that technology is the true revolutionary principle, beside which all revolutions based on natural law are antiquated forms of recreation. A society built exclusively on progressive technology would thus be nothing but revolutionary; but it would soon destroy itself and its technology.”

– Carl Schmitt

Here C.S. Lewis describes the “Children of Darkness” who are the forces of anti-life:

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of “Admin”.  The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens love to paint.  It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps.  In those we see its final results.  But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice.

 “The Screwtape Letters”  C. S. Lewis

Here is our culture of victimization of woke:

“Picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passion of envy, self-importance, and resentment”.

“The Screwtape Letters”  C. S. Lewis

The globalist ruling body are the elites of the new world order.  They are the “Children of Darkness”.  These globalists have undergone elite merger with the communist party.  The globalist are now push an western elitist version of state capitalism of the CCP.  The Chinese have emperor worship with the so-called mandate from heaven.  The west has the cultural Marxist idea of equity which is reverse racism.  This is little more than a class war to attain power for a tiny minority.  Once a robust underclass is established the elites will have total control.  I am speaking to a western audience.  Here are the western villains:

“While You Were Distracted By Will Smith, The International Elitists Met At The World Government Summit”

While You Were Distracted by Will Smith, the International Elitists Met at The World Government Summit

“Guests included Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Kristalina Georgieva of the International Monetary Fund…From March 28th to the 30th, corporate media journalists, heads of state, and CEOs of some of the most profitable companies in the world met for discussions on shaping the direction of the next decade and beyond. Anyone with a functioning brain should ignore the tabloids and instead pay attention to this little known gathering of globalist Technocrats…Schwab gave a talk entitled, Our World Today… Why Government Must Act Now?…  “Thank you, to his excellency for enabling this initiative to define a longer-term narrative to make the world more resilient more inclusive and more sustainable,” Schwab stated during his address.  The use of the term narrative is important because in January 2021, Klaus and the World Economic Forum announced the next phase of The Great Reset, The Great Narrative.”

“During Schwab’s short talk he also mentioned his pet project “the 4th Industrial Revolution“, which is essentially the digital panopticon of the future, where digital surveillance is omnipresent and humanity uses digital technology to alter our lives. Often associated with terms like the Internet of Things, the Internet of Bodies, the Internet of Humans, and the Internet of Senses, this world will be powered by 5G and 6G technology. Of course, for Schwab and other globalists, the 4IR also lends itself towards more central planning and top-down control. The goal is a track and trace society where all transactions are logged, every person has a digital ID that can be tracked, and social malcontents are locked out of society via social credit scores…Immediately following Schwab was a panel which made no attempt to hide the goals of the globalists. The panel, Are We Ready for A New World Order?”  

“In fact, the Atlantic Council had a fairly large presence at the World Government Summit…For those who are unfamiliar with the Atlantic Council, I first reported in May 2018 that Facebook had partnered with the thinktank connected to NATO…“The Atlantic Council of the United States was established in 1961 to bolster support for international relations. Although not officially connected to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the Atlantic Council has spent decades promoting causes and issues which are beneficial to NATO member states. In addition, The Atlantic Council is a member of the Atlantic Treaty Organization, an umbrella organization which “acts as a network facilitator in the Euro-Atlantic and beyond.” The ATO works similarly to the Atlantic Council, bringing together political leaders, academics, military officials, journalists and diplomats to promote values that are favorable to the NATO member states. Officially, ATO is independent of NATO, but the line between the two is razor thin.  Essentially, the Atlantic Council is a think tank which can offer companies or nation states access to military officials, politicians, journalists, diplomats, etc. to help them develop a plan to implement their strategy or vision. These strategies often involve getting NATO governments or industry insiders to make decisions they might not have made without a visit from the Atlantic Council team. This allows individuals or nations to push forth their ideas under the cover of hiring what appears to be a public relations agency but is actually selling access to high-profile individuals with power to affect public policy. Indeed, everyone from George H.W. Bush to Bill Clinton to the family of international agent of disorder Zbigniew Brzezinski have spoken at or attended council events.”

“Dissecting the World Government Summit: Ukraine, SDGs, ESG, Blockchain, and AI.  While many of the names in attendance might be unfamiliar to a western audience, the speakers are men and women who absolutely play a vital role in international geopolitics.”

“Post-Crisis Ukraine: New Energy for a New Europe”

“Getting Off Russian Gas: Practical Steps for Europe”

“United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which form the core of the Agenda 2030, itself part of The Great Reset agenda”

“Environmental, Social, and Governance criteria (ESG) promoted by the UN in a panel entitled, Where does ESG Go From Here?…ESG investing is also sometimes referred to as sustainable investing, responsible investing, or socially responsible investing (SRI). The practice has become an increasingly popular way to promote the SDGs”

“Is the World Ready for A Future Beyond Oil?”

“Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence are a major piece of the Technocratic vision for 2030, so naturally there were several discussions on the use of blockchain, AI, and even 6G (the eventual successor to 5G technology).  There was a discussion on blockchain technology in a panel entitled, The Future of Blockchain…A Perspective from Industry Pioneer…I have recently reported on Hoskinson’s statements regarding using blockchain to implement ESG and SDG programs and the danger they pose to privacy and liberty”

“Central Bank Digital Currencies entitled, CBDCs and Stablecoins: Can They Co-Exist?. The CBDCs schemes being rolled out in nations around the world are a crucial component of The Great Reset

“One panel focuses on a concept called Human Meta-Cities, which sound like a rebranding or updating of the so-called Smart Cities. The panel description states,  “in a world of change and rapid technological development, we shed light on a new vision for planning future cities centered around human needs and aspirations. This new framework will help governments refine their role in planning the new world taking advantage of the digital transformation opportunities that are taking place.”

“another panel which makes clear the Technocratic dream was entitled, The Invisible Government: Eliminating Bureaucracy Through Technology. The description of the panel states:  “Technology is creating new possibilities as it simplifies processes, enables instant feedback, and ultimately improves customer experience. In the public sector, digitalization and artificial intelligence are creating a new model of governance – “invisible” governments that are more agile, responsive, human-centric, and data-driven. In this session, global policymakers and experts will share their bold vision and experience in utilizing technology to eliminate bureaucracy and innovate government services for the future.”

“What goes unsaid in the panel description is that making the government “invisible” will actually lead to a world of no accountability for government and politicians. In reality, the Technocrats imagine a world where the tyrannical technological systems are invisible and the average person has zero recourse for preventing exclusion or punishment based on their social credit score.  This is the world these technocrats — many of whom are unelected — envision. The only way this vision will not come to pass is if the people of the world throw their televisions away, ignore the celebrity drama, and start exiting from these slavery systems.”

Alan Watts sheds light on how you break this vicious circle human nature is locked in.  This is of course a simple parable as all good prescriptions are.  I recommend you realize you are being mechanized as tools of the anti-life “Children of Darkness”.  This is the worship of scientism through an elite priesthood of technocracy.  Yield to them because their power is a force of darkness.  

“Someone or something beyond conscious control must overthrow the Devil at the right moment, for, being an archangel he can read thoughts and is always aware of the intention that precedes the act. He can be defeated only by an act without prior intent. “let not your left hand know what your right hand doeth.” Now in Christian terminology this “someone or something beyond conscious control” is called the grace of God, and grace is held to be the only means of overcoming the machinations of the Devil, that is, of the vicious circle into which self-consciousness can lead us. God as the giver of grace has therefore the same function as the guru, or spiritual guide, in Hinduism, and thus “the means of grace”….upaya. But it does not seem to have occurred to most Christians that the means of grace might include trickery—that in his cure of souls the Lord might use placebos, jokes, shocks, deceptions, and all kinds of indirect and surprising methods of outwitting men’s wonderfully defended egocentricity”

Allan Watts 1964

The children of darkness will destroy themselves in self-destruction because technology without proper wisdom knows no bounds.  It is in fact a Jacobin reign of terror.  Edmund Burke argued that “we are at war with an armed doctrine.” “That war was not merely upon a people; it was upon reality itself”.

By yielding you step around them letting them pass.   Duck in cover as anyone does who is being attacked by superior forces.  This is how you adapt locally.  My message is one of permaculture localism.  It is not a message of a counterrevolution. 

Do not fear, fear.  Do not constantly look over your shoulder.  Through naturalness you will walk into the valley of death because the forces of life will protect you.  It is in permaculture localism where you find this.  Technocracy is an urban religion.   Leave the city if you can.  Find small settlements closer to a permaculture localism.  Ideally this is a permaculture town orbited by permaculture farms.