Raiders Are Us

You remember the scene. Golden statue snatched. Bag of sand put in its place. Giant boulder comes racing down.

Perhaps our culture is on a similar adventure. Swipe away a traditional food.... leave a new vitamin-fortified food in its place. Swipe sunlight from the room and leave a florescent light. Swipe away a fluid posture... leave a 90 degree chair bend and a few trips to the gym. Change little bits here and there. Fill the air with new things and the ocean too. Remove chunks from the migration routes of wildlife.  Genetically modify some tiny little bit. 

Then there's a calm stillness just like in the movie. Everything's just fine.... right before the big ass boulder chases us right out of what we were once a compatible part of.

And yet a far grander adventure than the movie is at hand, because it's not just one particular golden statue we are talking about, but every single brick and stone, every single insect crawling cross the ground, every plant come up through the cracks, every fluid, connected this and that. 

With a truer vision, the dust on our lens is wiped away to reveal a world teeming with rare and valuable items beyond replacing. Everything is bathed in brilliance and flows with all of its intricate and amazing parts, moving like a river through time. 

To be sure, it certainly has some very uncomfortable planet-earth-series tragic & dramatic parts. I'm not sure what to make of all that, but whatever the mystery is, and whatever we may think about it, it is clear that it will likely throw boulders our way if the mosaic is quickly changed.

In other words, if a piece is carelessly tossed away, even a tiny little insect, a tiny little "pest", a tiny molecule, even a tiny little genetic bit. We aren't trying to make the system stagnant, as it is always moving and slow changes are always afoot.  We are talking about being especially aware of quick, fast, and big changes we make, which sometimes appear deceptively small.

Of course, big changes occur in nature as well, though typically less frequently.  This isn't so much a debate about what is natural... It is not unnatural to have a grand boulder shake the etch-a-sketch and make what would be extinction number 6, but it sure sounds like an unfortunate choice upon considering it. 

We are like dinosaurs, somehow with the knowledge that a giant meteor is approaching, somehow with the means to alter it's course.  If there is any time to demonstrate our intelligence it seems like that time would be now.  

We all have to go/transition sometime, but there's no need to rush the process & likewise no need to drag the whole ecosystem along with us.  

The hero approaches the cave. Cinamatic adventure music plays. Now is the fragile and powerful moment in time to do something crazy heroic. 

Such as, for the most part, leaving everything the fuck alone... leaving the authentic item in tact and in place... not ripping heirloom seeds from the habit and replacing them with the boulder invitation of Monsanto gmo round-up ready seeds. 

The preservation of multitude of native foods... might be done by supporting local, sustainable food production... choosing foods we (our ancestors) have adapted with, something from out the same river as ourselves, as opposed to something created in a laboratory or through un-sound farming practices.  

Perhaps we leave the golden statue where it is & instead lift up the barrier of separation that keeps us from experiencing the fluidity of the system and the interconnection upon which our human lives depend. There will be no shortage of adventure. 

(edit from social media post)