Because this is what we Gringos do when we are scared, right? We consume stuff. Our culture teaches us to consume like we're the only people on Earth with a right to it.
Today was Memorial Day. I could go on and on about the military industrial complex, the reasons that I tend to not celebrate any holidays if I can help it, etc... and I probably will do all those things eventually.
I guess I just want to recount my day.
I slept in. I made some cupcakes. I talked with my partner about our contingency plan for when the shit hits the fan and we have to, you know, evacuate or some such horrible thing.
I cried about that. Then we talked some more about impending doom, and I cooked some delicious vegan food and we spent a good chunk of the day watching Bill Hicks and other stand-up comedy and also Boon Docks.
I'm pretty bummed about the state of things in the big, bad world. But I'm lucky to have my loved ones.
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
So hi.
I've wanted to start a new blog for a while now. It's been difficult to come up with a theme that could really encompass all that I'm into doing, expressing, experiencing, etc.
And it's hard, for me, to blog without the inherent narcissism of the experience getting to me. I think this is why I tend to make my blogs with an intention of personal expression, then end up with all this projection and extroversion, talking about world politics instead of my *thoughts* on world politics. *Sigh*
My hope is that this blog will serve to document my continuing evolution as a human person- that's the general meme.
The title came from my partner. She's really much more clever than I am. But I did love her idea so much, because I think it sums up what I'm finding to be a core of political human problems that don't just effect the globe, or other species (*ahem*, oil spill, *ahem*) but how these maladaptive, over-consumptive ideas we've internalized hurt us individually.
Not to be a totally Negative Nelly. I mean, I'd like to also talk about my individual experience with reducing my own consumption and just generally learning some things that have helped me be more independent and less of a slave.
We tend to vilify "consumption" in a general sense; however, I think that this is not necessarily correct thinking. People, as all other animals and organisms, are built to consume things in order to survive. When our patterns of consumption become diseased, we can't stop consuming, even when it hurts us.
I think humans need to re-examine consumption. We need to positively adapt to what is happening in our biosphere without the knee-jerkism that scares people away from social change.
I hope that I can help people rethink their world and there relationship to it.
And I also hope that folks will like my cupcakes and my art.
And it's hard, for me, to blog without the inherent narcissism of the experience getting to me. I think this is why I tend to make my blogs with an intention of personal expression, then end up with all this projection and extroversion, talking about world politics instead of my *thoughts* on world politics. *Sigh*
My hope is that this blog will serve to document my continuing evolution as a human person- that's the general meme.
The title came from my partner. She's really much more clever than I am. But I did love her idea so much, because I think it sums up what I'm finding to be a core of political human problems that don't just effect the globe, or other species (*ahem*, oil spill, *ahem*) but how these maladaptive, over-consumptive ideas we've internalized hurt us individually.
Not to be a totally Negative Nelly. I mean, I'd like to also talk about my individual experience with reducing my own consumption and just generally learning some things that have helped me be more independent and less of a slave.
We tend to vilify "consumption" in a general sense; however, I think that this is not necessarily correct thinking. People, as all other animals and organisms, are built to consume things in order to survive. When our patterns of consumption become diseased, we can't stop consuming, even when it hurts us.
I think humans need to re-examine consumption. We need to positively adapt to what is happening in our biosphere without the knee-jerkism that scares people away from social change.
I hope that I can help people rethink their world and there relationship to it.
And I also hope that folks will like my cupcakes and my art.
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