Mr. Anderson

The perfection of a convenient, efficient distribution network is undoubtebly a necessary component of our "modern" existance.  The problem is that it has all but eliminated local butchers, bakers, and small farms. We are so addicted to technology, and think we can cancel hatred, racism, and discrimination by boycotting and condemning guys like Joel Salatin for being white supremacists, simply because they get up in the morning and feed their herbivorous solar converting carbon sequestering fertilization units.

You can live in the Matrix so long as you are ingesting the choices that are being offered.  The lies and disinformation that is being served by the right and left are equally as unplatable. The red pill might appear to be the more logical choice for some… but it really truly becomes an addiction. Right wing disinformation is being pumped in with such incredible speed that it makes doing conclusive fact based research nearly impossible.

I read a sign saying:  Freedom Convoy 2022 - Supporting LGBTQ Truckers. If that was what it was really about would the Emergency Act has been invoked? Absolutely not. Slaves, puppets, and masters...the corruption abounds. There is certainly some remedy in the common law, but it is costly and it can only go so far. Contracting with the devil is still a dangerous game regardless of your uppercase or lower case claim to fame.   

Regenerative agriculture, permaculture, and living holistically inspires hope. It is so absolutely critical to recognize that despite how smart we think we are, nature does things better than we ever could... but we also have the ability to form and shape the outcome. There is a significant difference between reacting to a situation and responding to it with predetermined action. We can't solve the world's problems, but we can work towards self sustainability, find ways to meet the needs of the local community

 “The tragic reality is that very few sustainable systems are designed or applied by those who hold power, and the reason for this is obvious and simple: to let people arrange their own food, energy and shelter is to lose economic and political control over them. We should cease to look to power structures, hierarchical systems, or governments to help us, and devise ways to help ourselves.”
-      Bill Mollison

Atlas Shrugged.

Tis time for my annual scribblings. My good friends from Yandexland still check in on me every now and again, so that’s something right?  I haven’t received any recent blog requests from my “super fans” recently though, what’s up with that?  Having said that, I don’t know that I really care one way or the other. You have either chosen the red or the blue pill, and for all the contrarians out there, an dastardly shade of purple.

Isn’t that where life is really lived anyway? The grey zones… the periphery… the implied. 

Saying goodbye to the creature comforts that are taken for granted won't necessarily be pleasant. You may very well be find yourself eating grasshopper stew day in and day out.  -The perks of continuously updating government issued ration cards I suppose.

This coming year is going to be a wonderful chance to move past all of the noise.

Here's to 2022.   Let's Go Brand..  oops. haha

Carassius Auratus Paeluis

 

This isn’t so much a blog as it is a memorandum for the remnant. The world is changing and it’s hard to just sit by and watch it fall apart. I don’t care what your opinion is on the matter… it’s wrong, plain and simple. There are probably people who have and will be able to predict what is about to happen with some degree of accuracy, but that is as good as it’s going to get.  

Self-sufficiency, anti-fragility, and resiliency are the buzzwords of the day. Each one of those things would inspire the world to action if it weren’t for Anne Frank. Locked down for years, eating nothing but beans only to be hauled away and burned. If the earth is flat or round it doesn’t much matter because you can’t fly around or across it right now without your immunity badge pinned to your sleeve anyway.

Someone was trying to sell a guestbook the other day. I picked it up on the cheap, so if any of you all are planning to visit this year, I’ll be in the log cabin outback. - Social distancing measures may or may not apply, check with your health minster who may or may not be on vacation in Costa Rica.  

Here’s to another year… oh the joy oh the bliss.  :P

Falcipennis Canadensis

It’s probably not a good idea to start writing an article that will never resolve itself. Isn’t content creation the art of pawning off honey flavoured spread? Just like the prairie chicken that visits my yard each and every year, I can’t help but feel like even the best ideas are permeated with undesirable regurgitations.

Why do we pay eco fees on bottled water, when the bottles are made from recycled material? It seems as though this big push toward sustainable living is mostly theory riddled with impracticalities. Youtube provides a small glimpse into the lives of many of these adventurous types, but in recent days you’ll discover that they’re starting to drop like flies. They blame it on burnout, and the decreased revenue from their channels since the tube has been restructured. Keeping those sponsors happy, must be awfully stressful; maybe life on the grid wasn’t so bad after all.

What I’m trying to say is that I have quite a bit of respect for the people who post great content without any regard for whether or not they stand to profit by it. Anyone who says that they are passionate about educating people… is really saying they are in the business of monetizing their product. Not much different than televangelists if you ask me. It's not that I have a problem with upgrading to 4K, and I understand that you can only do that if you are generating revenue.I don't much appreciate the notion of catering to an agenda.

I also watched part of the grey cup game today, and got thinking about the millions of dollars that our province pays our team to keep losing every year. I couldn’t help but think that even though its “unsustainable”… and finding a free online stream took quite awhile. Nevermind. Haha

This blog post will mark 10,000 views. Most of which come from our good friends in Russia, apparently.

 
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Thanks everyone for your encouragement, and for taking the time to read my ramblings.

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Obsequious Hubris

It seems like it has been an awful long time since I have had a chance to sit down and write anything that is worth showcasing. I’m not yet sure what I will talk about today, but in the spirit of the holidays I will try to keep it short and sweet.

I went downtown on Dec. 26^th, thinking that I could maybe pick up a few Christmas lights at a discount, but all of the stores were closed. I guess that’s one of the realities of living in a small town. Family is more important than the biggest retail sales days of the year. - Either that or everyone is at home digging into the homemade eggnog.

One day I happened to walk by the TV, when a caller addressed the hosts of the show with “Merry Christmas, and I don’t care if you’re Christians or not.” It’s one thing to choose tradition over political correctness; it’s quite another to rub it in someone else’s face.

I’m not much into making New Year’s resolutions, but I do have a friend who made it their goal to read 60 books each year. I decided to attempt half of that. I usually come close to hitting my goal, and it helps to keep me on the hunt for new and interesting books to read.

I’m beginning to suspect that 2017 will be the death of Facebook. *When you post a status update of 35 characters or less, the update is assigned the larger font by default. Lovely.   -Everything else is just advertisement, but you don’t need me to tell you that.

Twitter will survive, because Trump won’t without it. -America won’t be great again, and it likely won’t get any better, but perhaps I don’t care anymore.

I’ve just about run out of predictions, which is fine, because it reduces the odds that I could be wrong.

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There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agenda-less kindness.  - David Foster Wallace

Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations. - Alan Watts

Presidential squabble, gobble, gobble.

Clamshells open, fingers fly, good ones here, bad ones there. 

It wasn’t all that long ago that I happened to be at the local grocery store, and just so happened to witness the craziest thing. There was a customer who had opened 5 or 6 cartons of blueberries and was picking out all of the bad ones from the carton that he had decided to take and was exchanging them for better ones that were in the other boxes.

This is only a rather disgusting story by itself, but if I add a few more details it becomes much more interesting. It’s not the sort of thing I would do, but from a consumers point of view it's somewhat understandable. However, this particular individual also happens to operate a local media outlet. Which begs the question, what kind of news does he/she choose to broadcast/publish? If he/she only chooses the juiciest berries, would it not also be plausible that the intended audience never really sees the whole picture?

Coincidentally the final Presidential debate will air tonight. It will be an hour and half spent talking about nothing. Yet, you can’t say that government doesn’t have a role to play. It’s just that nobody really cares about infrastructure, until it’s in a state of disrepair or about unemployment numbers until they’re out of work.  

Having said all that… it’s thanksgiving weekend… so relax, eat well, and buy frozen blueberries next time you decide you’d like to make a pie.   

Exeleutherostomized Coprolalia

I haven't watched the Force Awakens yet, it's not that I won't, but I really don't like the idea of adding my hard earned pocket change to the billions of dollars it has "forcibly convoked" so far. You would think that Disney's stock price would continue to climb, but, so far, it has done exactly the opposite. They are losing ESPN subscribers at a very alarming rate. They blame the millenials for cord cutting, which could very well be partially true, but I think they have a much larger problem on their hands. It's much more probable that the reason that they are losing customers has more to do with marketing overkill than anything else. Who really wants to watch 40 minutes of advertising for every 20 minutes of game time. Who wants to watch all stars, who are often paid an annual salary in the millions of dollars, pump themselves up with every sort of drug imaginable? What about the families that are affected by chronic traumatic encephalopathy?

The most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about - David Foster Wallace

When a husband says that his wife is a terrible mother...it makes everything Trump has ever said seem less maniacal. It isn't my place to say how anybody else should raise their family, but it is terribly upsetting to see an egoist claim that he's a "great father"in the very same breath. O'Leary might have earned his place on Santa's Notley list, but at least he recognizes that it's important to have (business) partners whose strengths compensate for his weaknesses. - It's a rather amusing reflection; even if it's marble topped, there are still some things that money can't buy.

Together we can face this wildness and walk hand-in-hand into the etcetera. - Margaret Laurence

Today's blog entry will be short and sweet, and might even end happily ever, but that would be too predictable. Instead I'll leave you with a beautifully tragic alternative, and we'll try to forget that global warming might very well spin out another Death Star.

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Under a Streetlight

She could have had
Anything she wanted
My heart devoid of care
She set my soul on fire

She used me up
She left me drunk
On the cold cement
I could not speak a word

She left me
In the depths of my depravity
There was a sadness all around

My skin crying for a touch
No matter how cold
To bring feeling back

If you ever wondered
I'm right where you remember
If you ever wanted
To take my breath away - K.B.