A BOBVLOG Special: The Walk
4In this video I embark on a rather foolish expedition out into the 100+ degree heat of a Texas Summer in search of physical fitness and plants. Probably not my smartest move ever... why I am I doing it?
All my life, I really almost prided myself on how unhealthy my lifestyle was. Fried foods, no vegetables to speak of, cigarettes, no exercise, lotsa high fructose corn syrup. Even after my heart attack in 2008, although I quit smoking for six months, there were not a lot of other changes. And soon I was smoking again too.
Well I decided it is time for a change. Why? Why change now?
Well love, really. I had an epiphany of sorts. I am part of the life of this planet. The planet is hurting. People are too. The land isn't a resource to be seized, elements to be smelted, it's a community to which I belong. If I don't like the kinds of hurt that other living beings are going through, well, I am alive too. If I don't want a toxic future for the planet, I can't very well want a toxic future for myself, right? Time to look after the abused and polluted garden I call my body.
So, eat better, more fruits and vegetables, stop smoking, exercise. Toughen and strengthen my body. That's the plan.
And in the process, me, Bob, "outer space guy" (you can't get much more Western positivist worldview than ROCKETS) -
- in the process I have adopted a completely non-Western, wild, "uncivilized" worldview. And it is time to be forthcoming about it. I'm an animist.
If I am just a loco aging hippie, well, that's not a big deal. I am a happy looney if so. If I am NOT loco... well, things are all kinds O messed up in this world if I am saner than normal. If I am the sane one, the world is full of crazy ones....
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I am an animist, and my animism blog is not going to be everyone's cup of tea, but if you are interested it is here: http://myanimism.blogspot.com/
Also, if you don't believe that our civilization pretty much hates life and the environment, probably freedom too, watch this video:
http://youtu.be/-VfBvdzgQxY
It takes a specially sick kind of society to to do this. Man turns a wasteland into a garden, an oasis, food grows, birds sing...
...then City intentionally and at taxpayer expense destroys it and turns it back into a dead wasteland. Because this sort of thing is not allowed. The City has decreed that these vacant lots will be blighted soul-destroying eyesores, and eyesores they will be...
WTF???
"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."
- Aldo Leopold
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How about we who can't live in accord with nature, at least let those who ARE doing it get on with it and leave them alone? Can we maybe leave them alone rather than, say, steal their land, burn their homes, force them into schools and force them to speak a different language, and generally turn them from generally happy well-adjusted people into miserable alienated wretches like ourselves? Just a thought.
Survival for tribal peoples:
www.survivalinternational.org/