Flying Goat
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Do you know what? I have spoken with people of all generations. (so fucking many...)
This new generation Has some things to learn from the older generation, lots, but regrettably, the older generations usually fail in learning from the new generations.
Who always bring something new and better to the table.
History has worked like this, one man gives something new to the world, a world changer, a maker for the better.
He/she is laughed at, ridiculed. But some of the younger generations listen. 50 years pass and as set in their ways people die off, this idea, this gamechanger is increasingly considered solid wisdom and everybody thinks the old people were stupid for not listening.
Hehe, frankly, this new generation is the best this world has to offer.
The reason why we have been so slow in legalizing cannabis?
We are waiting for all the hardasses and badasses to die off.
Society is kinda fucked for now, but it is not the young people´s fault.
It is entirely the older generations fault. (of which im part of.)
The hard asses, the badasses, they got us here and have no idea how to fix it.
The younger people often do.
The reason why its taking so long is because the hardasses the badasses and the bitches are fighting change.
As always...
Fucking monkeys... (us.)
Agree with you & tracking alongside, but there's another movement going on in a different culture... Amongst the NDNs, the city kids & city "resettled" families are moving BACK to the land, BACK to the rez...
Learning their own languages again, learning herbal healing, learning spirituality & oral tradition. This gets me excited.
One of hub's ideas is to do a 'wilderness school' for kids from UY who live in the city & come here on vacation... They can camp out (dry camp), learn to dig a hole to shit in & clean up their leavings, learn to start fire and cook over it. Know what simple box supplies you need for "bush tucker" when yer hungry. Learn how to cook a rabbit on a shovel & have it turn out delicious!
One thing I'm looking forward to when we get settled for good (the house we're building is temporary and we will sell when finished at a good price) is getting the goats, a very few Blackfaced Leicesters or Jacobs' Sheep, and some llamas so I can start teaching carding and spinning. The women of Bolivia & Peru make the most beautiful things from wool hand spun on a drop spindle & then woven or felted... Just like the Navajos.
I have a small Navaho loom in my kitchen and work on it off & on. Plans for bigger fullsize with seat (Appalachian loom, 1850s) with heddles & pedals after that.
All of these old crafts, as well as how to make your own soap, shampoo, whiskey, medicine, etc. has died off... or is dying off. Once we're gone, it's gone. It's up to us to be the teachers.
Once they burn the books (again!), what on earth will they do with no electronic toys? Work! Just like in Victorian England. Or starve. Not purdy.
The trick to be a jack of all trades...
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