Why can’t we do it ourselves?
I have recently been reading Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food”, and realizing more and more how much corporations have taken the things we used to do for ourselves for FREE and sold it back to us! For example, REAL FOOD, we have, since the beginning of time foraged and grown food to sustain ourselves, families and communities. Today 4 huge multinational corporations create and distribute 90% of all food and food like products. We do not need scientists or corporations selling us food like products and our government(FDA) promoting it. We need food, whole food, like greens, beans, roots, fruits and water. Now even the seeds and plants are genetically engineered so huge multinational corporations can get rich by selling trademarked seeds that have been created in a laboratory to withstand treatment by their own fertilizer! Monsanto is now taking small time local farmers to court for sharing seeds, for having traces of gmo corn in non gmo plants(this happens by pollen from gmo crops blowing across the road or even miles away and pollinating the non-gmo crop) This is really happening!
Our babies are born in hospitals, all power is given to dr.s and surgeons and totally striped from our mothers and women in our community. Yes in an emergency situation the only place to go is the hospital, but day in and day out women have been giving birth with a midwife and elders in the community since the beginning of time. Move the business of being born.
Even adventures as kids has been packaged and sold in the form of video games. As a kid in a Chicago suburb, we played outside nearly everyday even in the snow! We skateboarded to the store, mall and park, we traveled along the railroad tracks, built forts, got in fights, smoked cigarettes, started fires, shoveled driveways and played sports: football, baseball, tag, fast pitch, races, war, sledding, fighting, basketball, bmx and break dancing! Now kids are inside having adventures starring at the tv screen. What kind of stories will they have to share with their kids? How will their sense of adventure unfold as they grow up, looking for their boundaries?Children need adventure to learn their boundaries on their own, otherwise they will stretch out farther and farther trying to find their boundaries as they get older and more independent. With their limits set and regulated by you, their parents, they push and conflict with your limits instead of naturally finding their own. In turn giving them the confidence, intuition and experience they desperately need to evolve and become enlightened beings.
Music… Used to be that everyone was a musician and we all gathered in the community and shared and played, we all created together. Now we sit around and listen to a professional who sold it back to us. Don’t get me wrong I love music, all kinds of music and sound. But I know very few experiences in my life give me the power/vibration/warmth/joy/excitement that playing music with others does. You can not order a jam session off of the internet. Live concerts are getting closer to that experience but still is being sold back to us the consumer. We all gather and feel the power of the music at a live concert, we participate on a small level by dancing, whistling or cheering, but we have little to do with the actual making of the music, we instead took the route of the consumer and bought our way in.
