Desecration TNP LIVE EP89: Monologue
It's another morning in America and my nation is smoldering. Despite years of centralized control and policies for the good of the earth the forests have caught fire. The smoke engulfs my city. It chokes my people. We can't live like this.
We can't live without being able to breathe outside and there's not much protecting most of us indoors from the smoke either. Still, everyone keeps their head down and goes to work. Gotta pay our bills, like the one for our access to the internet where we have dramas about submarines disappearing and maybe the aliens will land to light off some fireworks with us on the 4th?
The smoke doesn't change anything for a lot of folks. There's no connection with the outdoors other than the walk from their car to Walmart. The nation above us, Canada, where the smoke is supposed to be coming from most Americans aren't going to anyways unless they want to deal with the passport system just to get your genitals fondled at customs. Spring, Summer, Winter, or Fall most Americans lives won't be affected nearly as much as their lungs but when you're used to carrying on with the show this country has become living in a cloud of smoke is barely noticeable.
So how then do we wake people up about the dangers of the things they can't see when they are being drown in their own homes from wildfire smoke that blocks out the sun in summer?
Leave it to the element of fire to teach us that we have no control over our environment and our lives. The nation above me isn't respected by the fire. In fact, the fire doesn't recognize any nation. There's no border that would contain it either. That's because borders and nations don't exist. They're just made up.
The world is not a color coded map that we see on Google image search. In fact, it's not what you see on Google anything. The world exists in mountains and oceans. A sea of fire doesn't recognize your rights regardless if they were endowed by your creator or a creation of the state. The earth with capture you eventually, no matter how many billions in fake money you have at the end. So why do we play these games, like children playing house or store or anything when the end is always in the hands of the natural world?
Easy, we live in a world of denial and distractions. We continue to believe that someone will figure something out and solve our collective problems. Maybe someone we elected?
Fat chance. What of the individual then?
You're not gonna stop the fire yourself, nor the smoke. The state has collected men and women to serve it to solve these problems. They are given unlimited budgets, which they voted to do for us, and with every right, dollar, and vote they couldn't stop this so why could you?
When it comes down to one man or woman making a difference in such a large problem I believe my learning of history distorted how things actually work. I think that when you read about great figures that you probably won't see who really helped make the changes in what it means to be a human on this planet unless you do some digging.
In this episode we're gonna talk about a man who decided to fight a fire with the help of his son and a friend. Little spoiler alert in case you didn't see the thumbnail, he lost. But it wasn't the element of fire that killed him, it was the fire sweeping across America burning our culture to make way for a new one. A culture that's more controllable, one more predictable, and one that looks at anything that challenges it like a rat that needs exterminated.
Today, I can smell something not right in the air. The smell of my country on fire, the smell of burnt flesh, gunfire, and money. The only thing I can do is warn others, take shelter, or run. The fire is approaching...save yourselves.