I maybe cash poor while I establish my vintage/design business but I am grateful every second I spend out of the rat race,pursuing something I love.
The rest of my encounters are on line, behind which from I can be, mainly, super nice thanks to the relative anonymity.Sadly however I cannot hide behind my jaunty logo out side of work, though it would make a useful shield when encountering the horrors of society. You can run however but you can't hide. The lunacy is everywhere, even our inclination to head to the beach for a breather has turned into a heart breaking trudge through marine litter.
In a car boot conversation someone told me that Winston Churchill said, "Shop at supermarkets at your peril." I can't substantiate this but it's a valid sentiment. Since changing my eating habits and paying more attention to the environment Supermarkets are unbearable. The amount of processed food, dead animals, plastic, mass production and waste packaging coupled with people clearly making unconscious choices is driving me to 'Falling down' point. Directed by greed and our need for convenience (which is a direct byproduct of our stolen time) Humans have become horribly selfish,wasteful & cruel creatures. The 'I'm alright Jack' mentality acts like a brain washing tool to keep us participating in the slavery of modern society.
Politics are a delusional method of keeping the wealth & power flowing upwards. Rules for our alleged greater good are in place to keep us from our freedom and the net is still tightening as the cost of living spirals,personally and environmentally.Spontaneous combustion beckons.
Moving far, far away to escape from society is tempting,though in some ways it's another version of 'I'm alright Jack'. If we all moved back to the wilderness we'd trash that too. What people need to do is to manage their own lives, not let advertising tell them what they should be doing. Wake up and see that the Earth is dying in front of our eyes and only we have the power to stop it.Say no to being spoon fed bullshit on a factory farm conveyor belt. I don't believe Humans are built that way but society is forcing us to live like that.
I harbour a Utopian fantasy that involves moving all my family and friends to Fogo Island, Newfoundland, a dying fishing community with breath taking scenery and the most amazing hotel-The Fogo Island Inn.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08nx7hd
I stumbled across this incredible place via VicelandTV's 'Abandoned ' series, then it popped up on the BBC's Amazing Hotels series, cementing every fantasy I have about running away to work there.To live and work wholly immersed in a culture that respectfully utilises it's environment in such a mindful manner is Nirvana to me as I pick through our rubbish strewn streets.
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https://www.plasticoceans.org/take-action
The 'Plastic Ocean' documentary is a harsh look at the effects of plastic pollution and if I thought UK beaches were increasingly toxic, that is nothing compared with the rest of the world.
The man made invention of this cheap thus highly profitable material is literally choking the life out of our eco system and desperate calls are being made to ban Plastic as material.Please support them.
So how do we go on without bursting into flames in rush hour traffic/ being banned from Asda? The Japanese pastime of 'Shinrin -yoku' promises peace from bathing in the woods, though thanks to popular culture we are all mainly convinced the woods are populated by serial killers (funny that.)
But as Albert so wisely put it, if we could all spend more time looking at nature we would be able to see it waving it's help flag with an increasingly frantic motion. If we don't act now every day, in every way Nature will kick us back so hard that human life may never recover.
( A good thing? To be discussed)
