Taking the Express Train to Ruin

As the world sinks deeper into the current extinction and global crisis, we could have put on the breaks or at least had some civility. But hey, might as well get it over with. We can now rest assured that humanity will be downscaling within a generation.

My Mormon relatives are all set for the Armageddon they believe in. They’re ready with their three-car garages full of food. It’s not sustainability; it’s fearful food hoarding. When they said I could come live with them when the end times arrive, I said, “Oh right, little Pagen, hippy me skipping over the hill to your Utah desert to eat your food. I’ll get shot as soon as I enter your neighborhood. Don’t you have all these guns to shoot people like me, especially if I’m hungry for food?” They were silent, but the answer was yes -shoot the Pagen-hippy-proabortion liberals. But save the unborn babies.

Then I said, “I don’t need to store food because there is food all around us. Look at these acorns. I teach children how to process and eat acorns. The few people who know how to make food naturally from earth, water, and love will be the survivors.  Remember that line (I think it’s in that book you love so much, the bible)- the meek shall inherit the Earth – that means those without guns.

I don’t even read the bible, but I thought there was this story about Jesus being forgiving. The Christian Right seems to be focused on the part where everyone is going to hell if they don’t do just what the church says, and God is on their side, so it’s fine to kill anyone who is not like you.

In some ways, I’m relieved that Kamala didn’t win. I could just see the gun-slinging, red-faced, fox-news corporate Christians rampaging their 4x4 trucks into the state’s capitals and shooting up the offices. Kamala trying to manage this with all the other problems coming our way would have been trying, and history would have written her badly since most history books are written by white male nationalists.  But it still would have been better than a facist dicktator. (I misspell certain words because of AI scanning. There will be a time when this site will be banned with Eli Muskrat in charge. The soft-porn politics of this site has already been banned from Twitter.)

We might as well not beat around the bush with electric cars, social equality, and health care. I mean, the extinction is here, and global warming is happening; we might as well jump in head first. We could use some culling out. However, everyone thinks it will be the other people who are evil, dumb, or not blessed by god that are going to die out. The truth is, it’s going to be a mess. Life is always messy and never comes out the way we thought.

So, while we watch the weirdo with the goofy smile mess up the free world, I will continue to focus on sustainability, teach the children around me how to grow food, and awaken my potential. It’s what gives me joy.

And I’m not going to Utah, no matter how hungry I am.