- Don't mingle..look straight ahead..don't loiter..pull
over..stop..your kind--my kind--their kind--other kind--poor folk--crazy
folks--city folks--farm folks--criminals--predators--molesters--black--white--yellow--red--
- trucks--Cadillacs--limos--honky tonk cafe--country club
plush--golf course--no course--of course--cracked asphalt playground--lush
estate-- manicured green--village laughter--book fairs--sap buckets--gunshots--screams--police
sirens--shot down reaching for keys--crickets--frogs croaking--fireflies--rats--cockroaches--country
lanes--subway snakes rides--mist marshes--dusty roads--piss--vomit--spittle
tenement hive living................
- .........Wade Davis, author of Light At the Edge of the
World; says that the 20th century will be noted for it's intolerance and
destruction of ecological and biological diversity. He's right...we kill
all who are different, until finally we will have the ONE monolithic society
of arches-malls-hip-hop-heavy metal-designer shoes/rain gear specialties/plastic
shallow zombie people. One department store--one drug store--one fast food,
plastic booth poison--one hardware store--one sports stadium--one highway--one
prison yard. Plastic-duct tape-cocoon people-color coded fear days--gray
days-poison days-corporate water-medicine for the rich--all others die.
Bombs bursting in air--no hands-feet shredded-blinded-crazed.
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- In a world of dioxin-lead-mercury and plastic saturated
people; the days of our lives are spent; not in the magic of mists-mountains
majesty, but chemo treatments, lines at drug stores, imploding towers,
a dancing child shredded from 30,000 feet, a sleeping boy, arms amputated
in the summer's night, sausage grinders, pop open a cold one, watch the
"Shock and Awe-Bring'em On" of fireworks in the spring and the
laughter of children picking up yellow cannisters, thinking they are food,
as flesh rips from small frames, from Western man's newest contribution
to the Earth's armory of weapons (cluster bombs).
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- Gated communities, guard towers, build the walls, razor
wire, cameras, retina scans, DNA, clubs on shields, men in black, just
following orders, from those they'll never meet. Men of crazed-diabolical
intent; out to conquer-kill the Earth. Poison air, poison water, clear
cut forests, mountains leveled in a day. Concrete, glass, fake toxic stone.
Volcanic ash one September morn--thousands dead for some 'greater good?'
Kill the other--Keep away--Keep out--Do not enter--Private road--Exclusive
Club. Dehumanize and call them "other"..geek, gook, nigger, towel
head, rag head, collateral damage, simpletons, herd or cattle. Paranoid-suspicious
all....report your neighbor---shuttered lives and plastic sheeting--duct
taped lives as terror reigns.
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- Corporatize-privatize-sell out neighbors--buy up land--turn
a profit--dividends--exotic lands a just reward. Contracts--deals--plunder
all; water-lights-and mounds of waste. Company towns, company people; passive-drones-keep
in step. Plunder-rape-steal-defraud-rip-off-poison; call it economic development.
Mushroom people in the dark fed manure--far from light. Threaten-stomp-pepper
spray-corral-arrest-and lock away. Road blocks, police lights, sirens blasting,
students terrorized in schools, by friendly police with guns at heads!
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- There is another way--a hidden way--a magic way, in distant
jungles and volcanic heights. Here live those of the Earth--who hold the
keys and wisdom of the ancient age. No..thankfully all men are not of the
corrupt-perverse-contemptible cruelty that we see today; intent on coffers
filled with ill-gotten gains---destruction of another's land--suspicious-psychotic-shivering-shuddering-hollow
men.
- Men, who have not squandered the days of their lives--but
heroes that show another way. Men of great intellect, gifts, talents and
compassion trying to save. Men who don't live in the world of "other".
Such a MAN is Wade Davis. Davis with his bachelor's-master's and doctoral
degrees from Harvard. No snob he, for all his learning. He spends the days
of his life living among indigenous groups--has worked as a guide--park
ranger--forestry engineer and ethnographic fieldwork in Canada (his place
of birth), Peru, Boreno, Tibet, the high Arctic, the Orinoco Delta and
northern Kenya. Can you imagine a man who puts most others to shame in
his great knowledge, who has taken the gifts and opportunities of his life,
to author and photograph and give speeches throughout the Earth of warning.
His newest book "The Light at the Edge of the World"---shows
what we are destroying, but more hopeful, the beauty of the photographs
of lands hidden and people of what we can reach towards. The answer lies
not in future Utopia but that which is:
- http://www.sacredbalance.com/web/person.html?linkname=Wade_Davis
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- Men like Wade (others we know-poets-artists-truckers-musicians-etc.)
are the REAL HEROES...not multi-million dollar raping-dope taking entertainers
or gladiators! This is what man is really capable of....amazing-astounding-man.
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- McFreedom-McLiberty-McDeath for all? There is another
way, you know.
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