The Concrete Apocalypse second mark Flowering Indigenous geraniums
The Concrete Apocalypse,
second mark
By Wallaby Poors
When the sunflowers died, I knew that the long legged fairy would flower in indigenous geraniums, how will my hope in the fairy survive now under concrete?
My house became a sanctuary ironically in an area suffering from the great loss of sanctuary, known as the process of gentrification.
Our save old growth forest banner flew in the wind whether or not a parked four wheel drive obscured its view on this yuppie land roving front of inner city Melbourne, the once working class area of North Fitzroy.
It had succumbed to the full-blown effects of yuppies and their unthinking, uncaring self-absorbed lifestyles. Much like the football team it lay north of in an era not so long ago when community and sport were simple and needed no corporate overseeing.
Overshadowed by triple storey flats of the yuppie dreaming, and terrorised by fossil fuelled vehicles, the two lots of land left with houses and backyard are now up on the auction’s block too, our rental ‘property’ being home to eight animals all up, plus many visitors and long stayers.
The landless gardener is set asunder by the real estate redevelopment machine and those with the title deeds. My kangaroo apple will keep growing, my wedge leaf hop bush will keep my huge palm tree company, and I will be gentrified out, knowing that the garden was only mine, because I allowed it to live, and I too belong to the land.
In this reality, money kills everyone’s dreams of flowering indigenous geraniums. Never mind those who mourn the passing of the parcels of land carved up into oblivion, where your feet walk on the unhealthy surface of cement and you lose your connection to natural vegetation.
I wish real estate agents could feel my fear of homelessness. I wish landlords believed in the fairies at the bottom of the garden and could see them flowering in indigenous geraniums. I more wish the total obliteration of these thieving types who have no legal jurisdiction, other than a genocidal capitalists system that their murdering criminal forebears made up and imposed on cultures all over the Earth;.
We all know how wrong money is but we all scramble for it as we know no other way to survive. This is disconnection. A lot of us want an equitable, sustainable and simpler lifestyle but we have no land or collective to empower ourselves. This is dislocation and inability to come together before the going gets too tough.
A lot of talk comes from those who have money about what we should do about those who don’t have any, and little is put where there gourmet fed mouths are. Can only those in poverty understand it, when those who can make it more equitable inherent the legacy of wealth and the ease of inherited prosperity?
I ask a lot of questions because we as a society are not asking the right questions, and therefore not finding the answers to our many problems. Why can’t we collect the water that falls on our roof and goes into stormwater? Why can’t we eat the foods that humanity has evolved on without poisoning it? Why do we have so much food stored or dumped when so many people are starving? Why can’t we afford someone who looks or thinks differently equal human rights?
If we can collectively answer questions we throw up individually at each other, and that many, or most of us are asking, how would they be answered?
The society that would be able to find answers would have to have be a compassionate and egalitarian culture that could listen to the excluded. Currently we are living in a society that is based on increasing layers of exclusion. It teaches us to hate each other rather than the ones that leach off the rest of us, the ones who literally make a mastercard purchase and gobble up the resources that would sustain the starving. A culture called western that makes us guilty, apathetic, Xenophobic, trapped and scared. One cannot blossom in these conditions without class privilege.
Not many of us under this culture believe we can sacrifice what most people on the planet have never had. This is a lie. We can survive, if we begin adjusting to a slower, simpler, sustainable, collectivist culture. We could begin teaching our kids so they can inherit a world with an ethical value system and an ecological understanding for the future.
The western world creates wars for oil and other resources, and strategic trade routes, and then imprisons people fleeing from war and extreme poverty. Unthoughtful consumer demand leads to so many unethical and deadly realities. Among these market-based decisions is littered our history of war and genocide, earthmining and deforestation, repression, stolen lands and starvation.
Western cultures need to stop taking from people located in other places of the world, and stop destroying the Indigenous cultures they have usurped. In spite of this usurping, Indigenous cultures remain spiritually strong, and have a culture that is so naturally sustainable it makes sense as a future blueprint for all of us to take stock of our lives by.
A first step to this is to understand imperialism and genocide, and make reparations as much as we can at a grassroots level. Indigenous cultures are threatened around the world and on this continent, now called Australia. Natural balance cannot occur without the natural balance understood and brought about in harmony with nature by Indigenous people’s cultures and sacred knowledge of place.
Imperialist greed has left the earth with many scars, scars that cannot ever heal or return to an equibrilium, as fresh wounds are opened up all over the place. Land cannot heal if we prevent it from occurring naturally.
There is no game called people versus nature. People are part of nature, however through disconnection, brought on by a brainwashing of the collective, we are hurting nature. The suffering of humanity reflects the suffering of the earth and the suffering of the billions of species that are dropping off in the highest extinction rate ever.
Planet Earth has never been industrialised before! That’s why no one can guarantee, (and those who try to for their own greed only lie) that industrialisation won’t eventually, sooner or later destroy the Earth. The evidence has been coming in for a while now. The rapid advances of technology and its increasingly rapid natural consequences are becoming more apparent by our increasing technological ability to observe it.
Reports have come in that the ocean may be poisoning itself by absorbing co2 to prevent atmospheric change caused by human induced climate change by the burning of fossil fuels and destroying the Earth’s ecosystems. This absorption of co2 is causing the ocean to become more acidic.
As you sit on your couch, is the ocean doing what you should be doing?
You are not the only one with a broken heart, broken muscles, broken body, broken mind, broken spirit. The earth that keeps you alive is broken and we need to help it heal itself. A whole lot of us would do better to sit back and refrain from our careers in the system.
Can I Please assert, the SYSTEM IS NOT A GAME IT IS A GENOCIDAL, ECOCIDAL REALITY AND WORKS ON PREMEDITATED SYSTEMATIC MASS MURDER.
The lies of the system will deny and poke ridicule at its critics, and the subservient trust their masters more than their master’s critics who are also enslaved. As rack and ruin continues across the earth, and our energies get depleted, we need to consolidate. For the future will be doomed if we don’t do something now
Wallaby Poors aka.susitainablesnail 2004
A Deprogram and Avoid Microchipping Production for Soil Liberation Frontyard Publications
Water Water Prescious Water.
second mark
By Wallaby Poors
When the sunflowers died, I knew that the long legged fairy would flower in indigenous geraniums, how will my hope in the fairy survive now under concrete?
My house became a sanctuary ironically in an area suffering from the great loss of sanctuary, known as the process of gentrification.
Our save old growth forest banner flew in the wind whether or not a parked four wheel drive obscured its view on this yuppie land roving front of inner city Melbourne, the once working class area of North Fitzroy.
It had succumbed to the full-blown effects of yuppies and their unthinking, uncaring self-absorbed lifestyles. Much like the football team it lay north of in an era not so long ago when community and sport were simple and needed no corporate overseeing.
Overshadowed by triple storey flats of the yuppie dreaming, and terrorised by fossil fuelled vehicles, the two lots of land left with houses and backyard are now up on the auction’s block too, our rental ‘property’ being home to eight animals all up, plus many visitors and long stayers.
The landless gardener is set asunder by the real estate redevelopment machine and those with the title deeds. My kangaroo apple will keep growing, my wedge leaf hop bush will keep my huge palm tree company, and I will be gentrified out, knowing that the garden was only mine, because I allowed it to live, and I too belong to the land.
In this reality, money kills everyone’s dreams of flowering indigenous geraniums. Never mind those who mourn the passing of the parcels of land carved up into oblivion, where your feet walk on the unhealthy surface of cement and you lose your connection to natural vegetation.
I wish real estate agents could feel my fear of homelessness. I wish landlords believed in the fairies at the bottom of the garden and could see them flowering in indigenous geraniums. I more wish the total obliteration of these thieving types who have no legal jurisdiction, other than a genocidal capitalists system that their murdering criminal forebears made up and imposed on cultures all over the Earth;.
We all know how wrong money is but we all scramble for it as we know no other way to survive. This is disconnection. A lot of us want an equitable, sustainable and simpler lifestyle but we have no land or collective to empower ourselves. This is dislocation and inability to come together before the going gets too tough.
A lot of talk comes from those who have money about what we should do about those who don’t have any, and little is put where there gourmet fed mouths are. Can only those in poverty understand it, when those who can make it more equitable inherent the legacy of wealth and the ease of inherited prosperity?
I ask a lot of questions because we as a society are not asking the right questions, and therefore not finding the answers to our many problems. Why can’t we collect the water that falls on our roof and goes into stormwater? Why can’t we eat the foods that humanity has evolved on without poisoning it? Why do we have so much food stored or dumped when so many people are starving? Why can’t we afford someone who looks or thinks differently equal human rights?
If we can collectively answer questions we throw up individually at each other, and that many, or most of us are asking, how would they be answered?
The society that would be able to find answers would have to have be a compassionate and egalitarian culture that could listen to the excluded. Currently we are living in a society that is based on increasing layers of exclusion. It teaches us to hate each other rather than the ones that leach off the rest of us, the ones who literally make a mastercard purchase and gobble up the resources that would sustain the starving. A culture called western that makes us guilty, apathetic, Xenophobic, trapped and scared. One cannot blossom in these conditions without class privilege.
Not many of us under this culture believe we can sacrifice what most people on the planet have never had. This is a lie. We can survive, if we begin adjusting to a slower, simpler, sustainable, collectivist culture. We could begin teaching our kids so they can inherit a world with an ethical value system and an ecological understanding for the future.
The western world creates wars for oil and other resources, and strategic trade routes, and then imprisons people fleeing from war and extreme poverty. Unthoughtful consumer demand leads to so many unethical and deadly realities. Among these market-based decisions is littered our history of war and genocide, earthmining and deforestation, repression, stolen lands and starvation.
Western cultures need to stop taking from people located in other places of the world, and stop destroying the Indigenous cultures they have usurped. In spite of this usurping, Indigenous cultures remain spiritually strong, and have a culture that is so naturally sustainable it makes sense as a future blueprint for all of us to take stock of our lives by.
A first step to this is to understand imperialism and genocide, and make reparations as much as we can at a grassroots level. Indigenous cultures are threatened around the world and on this continent, now called Australia. Natural balance cannot occur without the natural balance understood and brought about in harmony with nature by Indigenous people’s cultures and sacred knowledge of place.
Imperialist greed has left the earth with many scars, scars that cannot ever heal or return to an equibrilium, as fresh wounds are opened up all over the place. Land cannot heal if we prevent it from occurring naturally.
There is no game called people versus nature. People are part of nature, however through disconnection, brought on by a brainwashing of the collective, we are hurting nature. The suffering of humanity reflects the suffering of the earth and the suffering of the billions of species that are dropping off in the highest extinction rate ever.
Planet Earth has never been industrialised before! That’s why no one can guarantee, (and those who try to for their own greed only lie) that industrialisation won’t eventually, sooner or later destroy the Earth. The evidence has been coming in for a while now. The rapid advances of technology and its increasingly rapid natural consequences are becoming more apparent by our increasing technological ability to observe it.
Reports have come in that the ocean may be poisoning itself by absorbing co2 to prevent atmospheric change caused by human induced climate change by the burning of fossil fuels and destroying the Earth’s ecosystems. This absorption of co2 is causing the ocean to become more acidic.
As you sit on your couch, is the ocean doing what you should be doing?
You are not the only one with a broken heart, broken muscles, broken body, broken mind, broken spirit. The earth that keeps you alive is broken and we need to help it heal itself. A whole lot of us would do better to sit back and refrain from our careers in the system.
Can I Please assert, the SYSTEM IS NOT A GAME IT IS A GENOCIDAL, ECOCIDAL REALITY AND WORKS ON PREMEDITATED SYSTEMATIC MASS MURDER.
The lies of the system will deny and poke ridicule at its critics, and the subservient trust their masters more than their master’s critics who are also enslaved. As rack and ruin continues across the earth, and our energies get depleted, we need to consolidate. For the future will be doomed if we don’t do something now
Wallaby Poors aka.susitainablesnail 2004
A Deprogram and Avoid Microchipping Production for Soil Liberation Frontyard Publications
Water Water Prescious Water.
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