The truth about cats, dogs and humans

Normally, I present a whole bunch of information for you to ponder and question. Usually, that comes from some prepared writing that I had written down before I sat down to the Mac. Today I am going to do something different. This is mostly my opinion, to which I would like your (yeah, you reading this right now) reaction. I'm just going to freestyle my thoughts on this one...

Have you ever had one of those days where you just don't feel like participating in society. You just want to lay in bed and say F getting (or holding) a good job, having money in the bank and all that crap. I just want to go enjoy the day somewhere or enjoy some good company. I had a day like that yesterday. Most of us who have felt this way know that there is something wrong here. Everything around us is crumbling... the global economy, religious leaders involved in scandal, politicians involved in scandal (contrary to popular belief, that is not the say it is supposed to be), rising suicide rates, rising mental illness, global pollution... Well, you're right. Something is wrong here. There's nothing wrong with people. They don't need to be saved, or seek salvation. We just need to return to the community from which we were borne. The biological community. We are breaking serious biological rules and that rule breaking has even more serious consequences. Especially, our rule breaking has a dramatic effect on the planet.

I don't want to be all philosophic, because that doesn't raise solutions, that only raises more questions. So, I am going to suggest some things we could start doing to begin our much needed return to the "natural" world.

First, we need to re-evaluate why we work. Honestly, I think the only noble endeavors are in the arts (music, painting, etc) and sciences (food science and medicine included). Those are the only two professions that bring any significant value to human life here. Making money by working with money and working just to make money, these are trifling endeavors. I don't mean to step on anybody's job, there are some other skills we would need to keep, like building homes, and some other things. However, we should be growing our own food, seasonally (which isn't hard) so we can replenish the nutrients needed in the ground to continue to grow food. Then we could trade with our neighbors, like the bartering system used to work. If they don't have vegetables or livestock, then they probably have a skill they can trade, that would be useful to you.

Globally, we need to continue to develop green technology, until such time (maybe 1000's of years) as that increasing amount of energy is not necessary. We need to get behind the Obama administration and their smart power grid, solar panel and windmill fields to slow the raping of Earth's natural resources. We should bury cables underground to avoid damage to the system, thus lasting longer. I even thought about packaging snacks, etc in (biodegradable) cellulosic bags, rather than plastic. Of course, they would have somewhat shorter shelf lives, but if you're eating sustainably, that wouldn't matter anyway because you're not storing food for an inordinate amount of time. We might also be able to farm globally, by tracking the sun's path over the Earth and only farm for surplus in those ranges, which would adjust from year to year.

We could also consider spreading out our population to allow for other species to occupy the Earth too. I think that African tribal societies might provide us a good template to begin a new way of organizing, one that is evolutionarily stable.

That's a lot to digest, even if this is my shoprtest post yet. What do you all think? Do you have any ideas for moving forward?