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With the arrival
of the laboratory grown hamburger tasting of human flesh (if you wish to order
such a flavor), the culture of the soylent
urbanite is coming to an end. Curiously, no one could have guessed that it is
precisely with canibalism introduced by a laboratory that the urban culture
will signal its doom. There can be little doubt, that the human flavored
hamburger ever so subtly (and grossly) signals the beginning of an age of
famine. In other words Nature that bore humankind is no longer sufficient to
sustain humankind. That is why there are monsanto seeds, laboratory raised
meat, and swimming pool raised tilapia replacing salmon and tunafish.
Though heretofore
urbanism has held firm control over the dreams and imagination of humankind
(the Dream Time of modern aborigines) as if it still lived in a far away forest
and countryside, it has now given the subsistence farmers and shantytown
dwellers the advantage. Unlike urban dwellers, the latter are still able to
raise their own chickens or, if you will, pigeons. Only upper-class urbanites
have something that can compete with such advantages: they will soon be dechlorinating
their swimming pools and raising in them a fish called tilapia. The only problem
is that: other nutritional content
aside, the heart disease potential (of long-chain omega-6 fatty acids) in
hamburger and pork bacon is lower than the average serving of farmed tilapia.
This shortcoming may, however, be forgiven the prolific fish, because at least
its client will be able to die on a full stomach.
When President Obama [America ’s peek-a-boo
or (take your pick) luri-luri-loo
President] takes a train ride with his family, he will not have to draw the
curtains across the wagon windows like Stalin did when his armored train
chugged Tsaritsyn (now Stalingrad ) during
the famine. Incidentally, Stalin deliberately caused the famine (in the 1920s)
while trying to proto-urbanize the ‘backward’ white country folk by forcing
them into collective farms known as kolkhoz and sovkhoz. The confused folk fought
this neo-Christian raised self-created Orthodox priest by rushing up the
embankment to his train to beg for food and dying of a ‘weak heart’ and
malnutrition even as they were climbing the embankment of the railroad line. Today
the descendants of the same people may want to climb aboard the train to get
out of Washington and find a free spot in the
mountains of West Virginia
When post-capitalism
comes to the consumers of death (most of the surviving human population), it
will find, as it usually does, a way to make a profit. However, perhaps the one
who makes the profit may not be a private entrepreneur, but a small country
trying to survive, and the ‘profits of death’ may be invested, both, in survival
and instituting a renewed way of life in the wood and countryside.
This is not to say that
the post-post-modern age is about to cease, though it is about to radically
change from what futurologists some twenty years ago predicted, and what
propagandist still predict will be a ‘makeover’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22538561.
This is, because, for one, those who follow American economic developments predict
an end to traditional full-time employment http://www.oftwominds.com/blogaug13/Social-Security8-13.html
, which is one reason to think that future futurologists will, contrary to assertions
of the car industry, tell us that there may soon be a rush to breed horses to
replace abandoned cars, which may replace traditional wood coffins in the
cemetery. With end to full-time employment, urban life itself may only survive
as islands in a a sea of a subsistence economies. What are now believed to be
illegal drugs may then make some countries rich, as desperate people, seeking
to escape difficult ways of dying will seek medicines that will end life
quickly and painlessly. Surely such drugs will be taken before the government
(if it will still exist) comes to arrest them. Traditional memorial stones and
other markers may be replaced by newly planted trees, and a forest may come to
stand for a city no more.
When people have to
suffer life as a nightmare, they soon begin to dream of a land that has
overcome the nightmare. This is the ‘Dream Time’ of the future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnZNEbo-Zzo. Interestingly, the Dream Time of the past had a ruler who
was seldom if ever seen. The Dream King was
the fairest King who ever was or will be: He never issued unjust orders. The
Dream King made only just decisions. If for any reason his decisions hurt
someone, the Just King paid for it with his life either at the end of his rule
or his life. Though the King’s death could not undo the pain suffered from an
injustice, it greatly diminished the anger that arose as a consequence.
One of the Kings of
‘Dream Time’ was King Arthur. Sir Gawain or Yawein (Jein-Jean-John) represented
his executive power, i.e., he was his executioner. One well known story about the
role of King Arthur is that of “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Gawain_and_the_Green_Knight
.
One way to unravel the
puzzle of the story is to imagine the Green Knight as the forest. In former
days, trees were believed to be spirits of ancestors and were, therefore, holy.
When Gawain beheads the Green Knight at the Yule Festival, he is actually is
guilty of cutting down a Yule tree or trees. The wood revenges itself on Gawain
by giving him three gifts of the wood: a deer (meat and pelt), a boar (meat and
leather), and a fox (a pelt). The wife of the Green Knight is actually a frog from
a fairy tale we all should know well, except instead of a prince, the frog here
is a princes, bewitched by the old witch, behind who hides the Sun Goddess, the
Creatrix. In Swedish and Latvian the old witch is known as ‘Ragana’, i.e., a
woman of wisdom, i.e., Ra=Sun/gana=herder=Yana .
When Gawain (instead of
King Arthur) offers (substitutes) his head to the Green Knight, he receives
only a symbolic nick or scar on his neck. In this way the wood lets him know
that as long as it is left to be large enough to house the gifts given, the
forest will revenge itself ‘kindly’ though the potential of decapitation will
always remain.
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