We live in the The Age of the Dead. Not in the George Romero "Dawn of the Dead" sense, but rather in the sense that we have lost touch with Nature, and in doing so have lost touch with our living roots. Western Civilization has spread across the globe, engulfing cultures everywhere in a wave of spiritless greed. We have built our society on machines and industrial technology. Machines are dead, and they produce dead things. They cannot synthesize life - at their best, they synthesize inorganic reproductions of organic things. The food we eat on a mass scale has been uniformly stripped of its nutritional value by machines - to the point that diseases such as cancer and heart disease are now accepted as normal, and are even anticipated and expected. Then when we fall prey to them, we rely on machines to fix us and artificially extend our life. We view the Earth - this planet which produced us - as a dead commodity to mine for riches. We are obsessed with the concept of "sanitizing", even as we pollute our world with inorganic trash of our own making.
This is one way of perceiving the world, but it is not the only way, nor is it a mature way. In truth, the Earth is alive and we are a part of its web of life. We can experience this, if we want to and if we try to. We CAN reconnect. We do this by changing our paradigm. CHANGE YOUR PARADIGM TODAY. START RIGHT NOW. How? By rekindling your sense of MYSTERY and ADVENTURE. Do whatever works for you. Eat real foods. Live in the wilderness. Meditate. Go on a zombie crawl. Commute by public transit. Garden. Read Carlos Castaneda. Live without money. Be homeless. Ride a bike. Get spiritual. Travel. Eat a fluffy cat. Pay off your debt. Talk to crazy people. Research UFO encounters. Watch 911 conspiracy videos. Set me up with your friend's hot friend. Ram your head thru a wall. Power your car with biodiesel. Subscribe to Fortean Times. Run from the law and don't get caught. Get high on expensive foreign herbs that turn your brain to jello. Fart outlandishly, publicly, violently. Fart again! Commit art. Break down your walls. Choose your own path. But refuse to live in The Age of the Dead. Don't be dead until you really die, and even then, do death YOUR way.
Now wake up, motherfucker.
LIVE.
This is one way of perceiving the world, but it is not the only way, nor is it a mature way. In truth, the Earth is alive and we are a part of its web of life. We can experience this, if we want to and if we try to. We CAN reconnect. We do this by changing our paradigm. CHANGE YOUR PARADIGM TODAY. START RIGHT NOW. How? By rekindling your sense of MYSTERY and ADVENTURE. Do whatever works for you. Eat real foods. Live in the wilderness. Meditate. Go on a zombie crawl. Commute by public transit. Garden. Read Carlos Castaneda. Live without money. Be homeless. Ride a bike. Get spiritual. Travel. Eat a fluffy cat. Pay off your debt. Talk to crazy people. Research UFO encounters. Watch 911 conspiracy videos. Set me up with your friend's hot friend. Ram your head thru a wall. Power your car with biodiesel. Subscribe to Fortean Times. Run from the law and don't get caught. Get high on expensive foreign herbs that turn your brain to jello. Fart outlandishly, publicly, violently. Fart again! Commit art. Break down your walls. Choose your own path. But refuse to live in The Age of the Dead. Don't be dead until you really die, and even then, do death YOUR way.
Now wake up, motherfucker.
LIVE.
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