Dirt cheap.

Dirt cheap.

My ancestors didn’t take land from the natives in America. They participated in taking land from the Palestinians instead. My home now is situated on land I have purchased from another person, and the line goes back to those who simply took the land from those who used it before them, since they had a more efficient army. All humans took land from someone else at some point. There are winners, and there are losers everywhere, and according to the theory of evolution, the winners have more kids and the species improve. Tell that to the great whales who may not exist fifty years from now.

Looking at the situation now, in 2018, it seems as if our turn to perish and clear the earth for those more suitable for survival has come. Some believe it will be insects. All we must do is stay on course and let evolution do its natural duty.

First scenario is for humans to let some world nuclear power leader push the button on his desk and boom, three years later there will be no more human civilization. Scenario two, which the smoke outside reminds me about, is a bit slower. We keep the orgy of burning things for free energy to do our work; there will be more fires, more floods, and all other related disasters. Going that way will prolong the human's existence but in much more difficult conditions.

Those who are concerned with immediate pleasure and less about the future advocate leaving the problem to be resolved by future generations. Ironically the same people are complaining about social debt and want to see austerity exercised upon the majority of people existing today. Remove the Social blanket and let nature take its course. Reminds me of my children when they were toddlers. They learned how to say “give me” but didn’t yet understand that they can break things.

I am driving my red Ford on a country road watching fields rolling between foothills framed by blue mountains. The fields alternate and are squared off by fences. Some have cylindrical bails, and others are swatted. A pond in the valley is shimmering blue, and horses surround the one shore. Another greenfield and next there are cows and behind them hundreds of windmills white and moving. A valley with a farm beside a bridge and another farm in which sheep graze in front of the house. I glimpse the beautiful prairie town Pincher Creek, and my eye gets stuck on an eagle soaring, while a flock of blackbirds carries my gaze back down towards the road I am supposed to be watching. Here on the right, there is a fresh brown newly tilled field. I see the beloved earth I was looking for.

I understand Hebrew and know a secret that most people here don’t. The Hebrew word for “man” is “ben Adam” which means son of dirt or soil. It’s strange that one of the oldest writings refers to humankind that way. How did primitive tribe people so long ago figured that we and all that we use is made of the earth, will return to the earth and become something else. I pass by the brown field and now see a stretch of gold. It's wheat that only looks like gold. Gold itself is worthless unless people decide that it’s valuable.

My mind goes back to who owns the land, from which all things are made. It is dirt and water which makes all that there is. We find evidence of earlier civilizations big and small on every continent. People were created or evolved but societies came and went. It seems like this is the natural progression of earth’s living things.  Just like people, the societies and civilizations begin, flourish and die so other living things will take their place.

Possibly the Earth is trying to grow a civilization that will live forever and will not be recycled back into dirt. Perhaps the earth is using superintelligence to raise living creatures who will develop the heaven that everyone is dreaming about, but what will it take?

First, we must re-educate or get rid of the humans who are only concerned about what they can get and accumulate fast without consideration for the rest. They will bring an end to our kind, and there is no way to survive the damage they inflict upon our world. We have witnessed their effect often in history or even in our own lives.

Secondly, we must pay full attention to those amongst us who are trying to save us from distraction and take action before it’s too late. It is similar to the biblical stories about prophets who said repent or else. Some nations survived, and others were destroyed. The part that we don’t easily understand is, we must act before it’s too late. If you smoke a pack a day, don’t expect radiation or chemotherapy to save you. One must do the right thing when the opportunity is available.

Last, we must have hope. This world, regardless of who owns parts of it, is built according to the picture in the minds of those who built it. I like to say that God is creating all the time, what we expect him to create. We, the creatures with imagination, have to create a picture that will work out, not just for ourselves, but for the whole earth. Nothing short of it will work.

Forget evolution and natural selection, forget markets dictating the future, It’s only good for creating greedy, selfish earth destroyers. If we share the fruits of our labor, work towards clean energy, and  clean up the mess we’ve made, we may survive. It is simple, but life depends on it.

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