Nature has a way of saying Enough!
Yesterday while driving in Silicon Valley, I couldn't help but notice all the new hideous and massive structures scaring the landscape.... permanently scaring what had very long been a beautiful, happy, socially sustainable, economically stable, well-off, and both quiet and bustling way of life in the cities and towns east of the Santa Cruz Mountain chain; what had been a place where there was always room for everyone between the wooded dark green mountains and the blue waters of the bay. This stunning project of an arrogant "Manhattanization" of a beautiful place (not to be confused with general growth or the regular skylines of large cities) knows no bounds.
There's no end in sight. Silicon Valley's unelected leaders have become our overlords, dictating what "will be".... "the Wall Street of the West." Of course, none of these new modern aristocrats ever actually construct anything; they don't even add anything besides their "new money." IT didn't even need to be "centralized" in one location; there is no gain to it that I can see. Many around this country, now being confronted with the stark reality of gentrification, now must ask some old questions which are begging for new answers: "What is civilization? What is a good life? What is fairness? What is justice? What is culture?"
Mark Zuckerberg used the following tagline for facebook (where anything he doesn't agree with is an "instant hate crime"):
"Move fast and break things."
I can't help but recall something that I heard some man say at a lecture a few years ago: "Don't these CEO's realize that they're going to DIE someday!!??" The vast majority of these arrogant materialist overlords pretend that they're believers in the Earth Mother.... Gaia. Next to each new massive Earth-suffocating monstrosity, they set aside a tiny bit of room for a little stretch of grass with a small tree and a big rock to make themselves feel better after raping the Earth. They should be careful of what they wish for, because I don't think they're following anything relating to her. I'd like to see Gaia rise up and show them--as well as bankers, war profiteers, frackers, geo-engineers GMO and plastic bottle producers, strip miners, and anyone who thinks it's a great idea to just pave over the entire planet!--just how weak and puny humans really are, and take back the Earth from them.
Just one gamma ray, EMT attack, or giant Sun flare could knock out all of the satellites... which would then in turn crash all the the computers, electricity, wireless networks and services, streetlights, everything, and we would be knocked back into the 1700s in one day! A one-punch knockout. We should be humble and grateful for the precious gift of this planet. It's worth more than an entire Grand Canyon of worthless green paper.
"Nature has a way of saying enough
After the pride there comes the fall
After the boom the bust
Remember man that thou are dust, and unto dust"
-- 'The Curse of the Methuselah Tree'
Oldest Tree On Earth: The Curse Of The Methuselah Tree (Nature History Documentary) | Timeline
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On a desolate mountain top in California lives the world’s oldest organism – a gnarled and twisted bristlecone pine. The scientist who discovered the tree gave it the name Methuselah. It was a seedling when the Egyptian pyramids were being built and a mature tree at the time of Christ. It is now over 4,000 years old. The Curse Of The Methuselah Tree shows how the climate and dramatic events – from volcanoes to nuclear tests – over the last 4000 years have affected Methuselah’s growth rings. Archive footage and stunning computer animation are interspersed with Methuselah’s own narration, supplied by poet Roger McGough. The programme also contemplates the tree’s future and reveals the curse that has followed anyone who has dared to work on the tree – an early death.
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