So concludes the first half of my first year of travel along the West Coast of North America. I hope it has been an interesting and ride, I hope you can keep up.
I’ll be updating frequently, what you can expect is my adventures in Hawaii, Burning Man 2006, and my trip to New Zealand, among other things.
But I feel I must interject in the flow of narrative here, and formulate a treatise on psychedelic, or entheogenic plants, the planet, and the plans for making a new future.
So, you may have heard about this Global Warming thing. It seems there is a strong current in our American mainstream (TV) culture to either ignore it, or accept a resigned fatalism; the world’s going to shit, it has been for some time, and there is nothing we can do about it.
As a member of the youthful people under age 30 (personally, well under) that populates this world, I reject these notions with a big “FUCK OFF!!!”
So, now that were are communicating on civil terms, I would like to announce I have an optimistic view of life, and living on planet Earth, I believe that Gaia is worth ‘saving’ and we can do so.
I feel that we are lost in this American culture, and grievously addicted to Petroleum Hierarchies, and the notion that we need their leadership to survive as a people.
The essence of the creed for people of like-minded beliefs, is that people’s lives can be, and will be, better; that the people’s greatest enemies, in the forms in which the now exist- the forms of the dominator culture- fear, hatred, slavery, cruelty, poverty, and need- can be conquered and destroyed. But to conquer and destroy them will mean nothing less than the complete revision of the structure of society as we now know it.
And who better to envision a revision for the youths of tomorrow than the visionary youths of today?
A concept that got me motivated to imagine what a hopeful future would look like is the idea: Hemp for Fuel.
I saw the idea that we could grow this weed on land that wasn’t producing food, and have enough methanol or wood alcohol to be extracted from the woody hemp stalks for the country’s entire fuel consumption!
So, armed with this idea and ideal, I have traveled around the world seeking out activists and visionaries looking to bring about the necessary change to conquer the hegemony of Petroleum and the dominator culture that pushes the junk to the masses.
And now, of July 2007, I am in the state of Vermont, at quite a revolutionary one of a kind of the entire northeastern USA, Bio-Diesel farm. Using simple technologies, this small farm serves as an example of how to rotate a crop and make the balance between food and fuel, producing enough seed oil from various crops to make vegetable oil, and ethanol that is extracted from various sugar crops. Combining the two, they make their own organic, clean Bio-Diesel, right there on the farm.
This model shows how a small community with a hundred or more acres, can produce enough fuel and food for their own consumption, and have enough to trade with others.
The idea is revolutionary: autonomy from the Petroleum Grid!
This is the basis of a sustainable, sane mode of existence.
And this is only the beginning…