Thank you. Quite a different concept of dewilding I had in my head... we must successfully dewild, food forest, desettle carefully and with planning so that we do not lose essential knowledge and skills... we must desettle and debilitating in order to rebuild communities and avoid the anarchy that could come with desperate populations and failing infrastructure and supply chains...
Ah, the question remains, can we build the base amongst our fellow Earthlings that amounts to the number sometimes called 'Most of Us', and at other times 'Enough of Us' ~ who will come to understand that we need and must agree to engage one another within the strictures of a few fundamental moral codes (e.g., codes like this one: "We are They") ~ if we are to halt the voracious destruction of the ecological bases that allow life to thrive on Earth, and to do it without losing our minds and becoming a species guided by other fundamentally amoral codes (e.g., like the ones that guide homicidal maniacs and the very rich).
But having glanced through the wiseguy wisdom of "Urban Scout" (aka, Mr. Bauer), I think he needs to revisit his position found in his chapter on 'Sarcasm vs. Rewilding'..yes, of course, we all agree that our uses of sarcasm and humour(s&h) work best when engaged in Generous Humour, and we know that s&h can also be activated by the homicidal tendencies of the powerbrokers and their couch potato followers...BUT, without humour we are all lost, so what's the point of even being here, or so sez some of us who don't buy into any of the conjobs about these various make-believe and mostly male deities who are behind the scenes of our realities calling themselves the Creator(s), while they (ahem, i mean They) are living it up on the Streets of Transcendentia.
Without laughter ~ every day ~ I'd have been the guy on the cliff who gets to yell the punchline of the joke told in John Prine's song, "The great John Garfield blues". And when humour is used wisely and more boldly by "professionals", including scientists, doctors, lawyers and chiefs, so that regard for the bullies dissipates into nothing, and their bought and paid for slave-followers will begin to lose respect for the monsters in charge (be they generals, ceos, cfos, presidents, prime ministers, office managers, bankers, film producers, celebrities, etc), we haven't a chance of getting back to looking into each others eyes as we talk to one another, and at distances wherein we can let them know if they need to use mouth wash.
Scout/Bauer needs to rewrite that chapter, so to help point out for the rest of us what are the steps we need to take, scaffolds climb, that will help us find the ways and means of using humour and sarcasm to take down the rulers of the roadshow to doom. Because if we have to do it with guns and dead bodies in piles, we all lose. So...how to laugh away the rules of the madhouse, and live local everywhere, always guided by the moral codes that count ~ like this one from Walter de la Mare:
Ha, ha. I so agree that we need to employ humor to bring down the big egos--this is part of our egalitarian heritage still evident today in hunter-gatherer civilization. See the work of anthropologists Jerome Lewis and Richard B. Lee. The coyote stories of some Native groups on Turtle Island make fun of human tendencies toward greed and domination. Good humor!
Such a thoughtful way to send out encouragement and knowledge. It speaks to me and I feel supported in my intentions and actions to live in the process of rewilding. Thank you!
Thank you. Quite a different concept of dewilding I had in my head... we must successfully dewild, food forest, desettle carefully and with planning so that we do not lose essential knowledge and skills... we must desettle and debilitating in order to rebuild communities and avoid the anarchy that could come with desperate populations and failing infrastructure and supply chains...
Thank you for your comment. What we call it doesn't matter as much as doing it--restoring our deep partnership with Nature/Cosmos.
Ah, the question remains, can we build the base amongst our fellow Earthlings that amounts to the number sometimes called 'Most of Us', and at other times 'Enough of Us' ~ who will come to understand that we need and must agree to engage one another within the strictures of a few fundamental moral codes (e.g., codes like this one: "We are They") ~ if we are to halt the voracious destruction of the ecological bases that allow life to thrive on Earth, and to do it without losing our minds and becoming a species guided by other fundamentally amoral codes (e.g., like the ones that guide homicidal maniacs and the very rich).
But having glanced through the wiseguy wisdom of "Urban Scout" (aka, Mr. Bauer), I think he needs to revisit his position found in his chapter on 'Sarcasm vs. Rewilding'..yes, of course, we all agree that our uses of sarcasm and humour(s&h) work best when engaged in Generous Humour, and we know that s&h can also be activated by the homicidal tendencies of the powerbrokers and their couch potato followers...BUT, without humour we are all lost, so what's the point of even being here, or so sez some of us who don't buy into any of the conjobs about these various make-believe and mostly male deities who are behind the scenes of our realities calling themselves the Creator(s), while they (ahem, i mean They) are living it up on the Streets of Transcendentia.
Without laughter ~ every day ~ I'd have been the guy on the cliff who gets to yell the punchline of the joke told in John Prine's song, "The great John Garfield blues". And when humour is used wisely and more boldly by "professionals", including scientists, doctors, lawyers and chiefs, so that regard for the bullies dissipates into nothing, and their bought and paid for slave-followers will begin to lose respect for the monsters in charge (be they generals, ceos, cfos, presidents, prime ministers, office managers, bankers, film producers, celebrities, etc), we haven't a chance of getting back to looking into each others eyes as we talk to one another, and at distances wherein we can let them know if they need to use mouth wash.
Scout/Bauer needs to rewrite that chapter, so to help point out for the rest of us what are the steps we need to take, scaffolds climb, that will help us find the ways and means of using humour and sarcasm to take down the rulers of the roadshow to doom. Because if we have to do it with guns and dead bodies in piles, we all lose. So...how to laugh away the rules of the madhouse, and live local everywhere, always guided by the moral codes that count ~ like this one from Walter de la Mare:
"Let no night
Seal thy sense in deathly slumber
Till to delight
Thou have paid thy utmost blessing..."
Ha, ha. I so agree that we need to employ humor to bring down the big egos--this is part of our egalitarian heritage still evident today in hunter-gatherer civilization. See the work of anthropologists Jerome Lewis and Richard B. Lee. The coyote stories of some Native groups on Turtle Island make fun of human tendencies toward greed and domination. Good humor!
Such a thoughtful way to send out encouragement and knowledge. It speaks to me and I feel supported in my intentions and actions to live in the process of rewilding. Thank you!