I built my off-grid house entirely from on-site soil and with my own two hands. The walls are 50cm thick. The dome even goes underground. Then I stocked it with years worth of provisions, firearms and ammo, thousands of varieties of seeds, rare medicines and first aid, I then hardened the off-grid systems against cataclysm, and have contributed countless hours to strengthening the resiliency of the surrounding community. I joined Nostr as a continuation of that pattern. It is one small facet of a robust systems that can resist breaking down, no matter what kind of storm we're made to endure.

Look at what we've done... Out of the estimated 113 Billion humans who have ever existed, the majority of them lived both briefly and a very long time ago. So it's historically rare to live throughout the changes of the world as it is rebuilt around us. Nostr, crypto, the fall of the petro-dollar. Humans today will experience on average 50 years more than the majority of humans who have ever lived. Today the average infant will grow to adulthood and the average adult will live into their 70s. The majority of all humans could never read or write, they had no choice in where they lived or where they could go or what they could do. Mostly just farmers born to tend the lands they we bred on. Most humans who have ever existed did not know what it was like to be 30, let alone 80 It has never been normal to witness the world as it is rebuilt and changed around you. But we do now. I ask again, just look at what we have done.... For better or for worse, there's no denying the capabilities of our kind. Every 30-something year old like me flying on a plane to their grandmother's funeral, watching a movie or reading a book, casually aware of gravity, how the weather works, and what the Sun is made from, and even the names and histories of the places below them, all while being able to consider why they might go somewhere at all. In their pocket a credit card, a smart phone, and medicine capable of treating almost any ailment... all this is such a normal thing to us now but it truly is a living and breathing example that miracles are real. And they are created by the godlike force of the hands and minds of people like us. Humanity has forged this reality for itself. We so easily critique and squander what we have for there is admittedly a lot to critique and squander. But considering at least once in a while how crazy it is that we exist as self aware humans and we exist on the side of history where we are expected to see 30, 40, 50, maybe even 80 or more. The side of history where we can tell time to the second, wipe with soft paper, see clearly with glasses, play cards with friends, mass distribute books, listen to a master pianist on demand, turn on and off lights and heaters, drink soda, drive cars on a whim, launch rockets, press buttons, understand the contents of outer and inner space, and share ideas like these instantaneously on a global scale. We created all these things, all these opportunities, out from the material of the Earth and our minds. Out from nothing. We woke into the conditions of this Reality and said, "not good enough. How about this instead?" We bear the fruits of both our bounty and our destruction. Destruction of the world, our spirits, and ourselves. But our next great innovation is on its way. One that includes the wisdom to properly carry out our innovations. To not just live long lives, but also good sustainable ones. #nostr #cochisecounty #optout

Notes & Other Stuff Transmitted over Relay is a great way to reconstruct our models of communication with each other. But let's not forget there's another channel to re-establish that is just as important: our individual communication with the planetary other, the monad. It begins by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Let us declare what is Natural legitimate. All plants and people are to be legal. The notion of illegal plants and people is obnoxious and ridiculous. Accessing the mind behind Nature, the genus behind all genera, through the use of hallucinogenic plant medicines remains the best hope for dissolving the steep walls of cultural inflexibility that is driving us towards ruin.

¡La tierra es para quien la trabaja! #cochisecounty

Yes the monad is an essential form of gnosis, although my understanding of it comes more from the musings of literary geniuses like Emerson rather than gnostic texts.

Maybe what you judge to be good is already great and the only self sabotage is your inability to recognize all the cool shit you've already done in favor of chastising yourself for not meeting arbitrary standards

I clicked the barf icon and it switched to a heart. Sad. It's rug pulls all the way down

Inspiring presentation. Thanks Dave. And Happy Birthday