Comments on: Your Mother is Not Happy http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/ A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:24:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: bob banner http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-399 bob banner Fri, 04 May 2007 17:13:04 +0000 http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-399 Yup I agree. I agree so much that we just completed a special issue (56 pages) of HopeDance on RELOCALIZATION.. with Bill McKibben, Michelle Long, Judy Wicks, BALLE, Post Carbon Inst. Relocalize Now, with bike film festivals and LOCALIZATION FILM FESTIVALS. Its not online yet.. my webmaster decided to move off grid and live in a rural area and Im giving him some slack but if you want some pdfs let me know and I cant wait to see your film. Is Derrick still hoping to do his endgame film festival? good luck with your screenings. bob banner Yup I agree. I agree so much that we just completed a special issue (56 pages) of HopeDance on RELOCALIZATION.. with Bill McKibben, Michelle Long, Judy Wicks, BALLE, Post Carbon Inst. Relocalize Now, with bike film festivals and LOCALIZATION FILM FESTIVALS. Its not online yet.. my webmaster decided to move off grid and live in a rural area and Im giving him some slack but if you want some pdfs let me know and I cant wait to see your film. Is Derrick still hoping to do his endgame film festival?
good luck with your screenings.
bob banner

]]> By: AV http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-498 AV Mon, 07 May 2007 18:05:12 +0000 http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-498 Sally, You and Tim seem to be running on the same track as I am. I am in the midst of reading Endgame: Volume I - the problem of civilization by Derrick Jensen which hits all of your points in this blog but in a much more brutal manner. It is not a "pleasant" read but it is worth reading. I will say this, although the subject is at times painful the author is a witty and entertaining writer - especially if you can appreciate "grim humor". AV Sally,

You and Tim seem to be running on the same track as I am. I am in the midst of reading Endgame: Volume I - the problem of civilization by Derrick Jensen which hits all of your points in this blog but in a much more brutal manner. It is not a “pleasant” read but it is worth reading. I will say this, although the subject is at times painful the author is a witty and entertaining writer - especially if you can appreciate “grim humor”.

AV

]]> By: Vivienne http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-677 Vivienne Sun, 13 May 2007 05:18:06 +0000 http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-677 Hi I just came across your writings on the Carolyn Baker website. I just did a weekend with Derrick Jensen out here on the West Coast. It was like a healing balm to be with a small group of people who were talking openly about collapse and resistance. Then I have to come back into my world in the suburbs and it's all pretty crazy making. I was with a group of about 20 environmental strategists today working out a campaign around a proposed port expansion and mega road transportation project. Even the environmentalists aren't all connecting the dots and if we all totally were we probably would have been home growing our gardens. In fact I think that is the point I have come to. I have to not just start talking openly about this but I have to live like I believe this is the truth, which I do. Thanks for the cyber community of other sane folks in an insane world Vivienne Hi
I just came across your writings on the Carolyn Baker website. I just did a weekend with Derrick Jensen out here on the West Coast. It was like a healing balm to be with a small group of people who were talking openly about collapse and resistance. Then I have to come back into my world in the suburbs and it’s all pretty crazy making. I was with a group of about 20 environmental strategists today working out a campaign around a proposed port expansion and mega road transportation project. Even the environmentalists aren’t all connecting the dots and if we all totally were we probably would have been home growing our gardens. In fact I think that is the point I have come to. I have to not just start talking openly about this but I have to live like I believe this is the truth, which I do.
Thanks for the cyber community of other sane folks in an insane world
Vivienne

]]> By: Pattie http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-685 Pattie Sun, 13 May 2007 10:22:32 +0000 http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-685 Eating close to home CAN change the world and DOES make sense in many ways. Check out a whole range of issues on this topic at FoodShed (www.foodshed.blogspot.com) Eating close to home CAN change the world and DOES make sense in many ways. Check out a whole range of issues on this topic at FoodShed (www.foodshed.blogspot.com)

]]> By: Joe Cullen http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-707 Joe Cullen Mon, 14 May 2007 03:09:44 +0000 http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-707 All the planning to localize when the tournament of chaos transcends the civilization bubble will come to naught. Why? Because the local power structure will take control of any food production, distribution, pricing and storage. Investigate your local, regional and state emergency services planning documents. They state right up front that COG is their main purpose. COG is continuance of government. Any thing that jeporadizes the manifest destiny of the current power structure functioning will be dealt with using all means and energy. Food will be confiscated for the government people, cops, firefighters, mayor, politicians, doctors, lawyers etc... Get the picture. If you haven't learned the lesson of Katrina and its COG implications that humans are not the first priority...then you are part of the "put it behind us" crowd for which reality cannot be faced; and in fact instead of ignoring the problem you are looking at death in costume. Whatever you do to prepare for any coming shortages in essential items for life...you must recognize that the government raiders have a book full of laws and agreements that tell them they can confiscate everything you have, will have, will think or can produce, grow or steal. You must figure a way around this system until it too collapses. If you don't you will become their slave until your are useless and discarded. You can never schedule an emergency. But if you are perceptive you can anticipate and try to minimize effects. JWC All the planning to localize when the tournament of chaos transcends the civilization bubble will come to naught. Why? Because the local power structure will take control of any food production, distribution, pricing and storage.
Investigate your local, regional and state emergency services planning documents. They state right up front that COG is their main purpose.
COG is continuance of government. Any thing that jeporadizes the manifest destiny of the current power structure functioning will be dealt with using all means and energy. Food will be confiscated for the government people, cops, firefighters, mayor, politicians, doctors, lawyers etc… Get the picture.
If you haven’t learned the lesson of Katrina and its COG implications that humans are not the first priority…then you are part of the “put it behind us” crowd for which reality cannot be faced; and in fact instead of ignoring the problem you are looking at death in costume.
Whatever you do to prepare for any coming shortages in essential items for life…you must recognize that the government raiders have a book full of laws and agreements that tell them they can confiscate everything you have, will have, will think or can produce, grow or steal.
You must figure a way around this system until it too collapses. If you don’t you will become their slave until your are useless and discarded.
You can never schedule an emergency.
But if you are perceptive you can anticipate and try to minimize effects. JWC

]]> By: Cindy http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-711 Cindy Mon, 14 May 2007 03:44:59 +0000 http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-711 It's refreshing for me to find my feelings voiced by someone else in the world. The way I see things, the pain and pressure we are about to experience collectively as humanity is exactly what is supposed to happen at this period in time. Humans don't change until the perceived pain of the change becomes more attractive than the pain being experienced at the moment. We have, barreling down on us, the greatest opportunity for making the shift to a sustainability world that has ever existed. It is going to be extraordinarily difficult, but this is what we have as a culture created for ourselves, a great, collective catharthis. Let's get it on. I look forward to seeing your movie. It’s refreshing for me to find my feelings voiced by someone else in the world. The way I see things, the pain and pressure we are about to experience collectively as humanity is exactly what is supposed to happen at this period in time. Humans don’t change until the perceived pain of the change becomes more attractive than the pain being experienced at the moment. We have, barreling down on us, the greatest opportunity for making the shift to a sustainability world that has ever existed. It is going to be extraordinarily difficult, but this is what we have as a culture created for ourselves, a great, collective catharthis. Let’s get it on. I look forward to seeing your movie.

]]> By: Stan http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-715 Stan Mon, 14 May 2007 06:00:52 +0000 http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-715 Sadly the majority of the population will not accept the reality of their situation until it is past the point of any salvation. This is because they will be in denial and still saying "THEY" will fix it so we can continue our lives driving "LARGE" vehicles, SUV's I think they are called in the USA. The fundamental problem is that so many people no longer know where basic items of food come from. I watched a mother and teenage daughter debating the usefulness and purpose of Blueberries at my local food market a few weeks ago. I was wanting to simply get 3 punnets of blueberries and became frustrated when the daughter said, "But what do you do with them?" I interrupted and said, "If you eat 1 punnet of blueberries per day you will be less likely to get cancer," The mother turned to me and said ," Will Ribena do the same thing" I shook my head and looked at them in disbelief and said the obvious "NO". The point of my rave is that most people are so used to eating processed foods and stuff that can be nuked in 5 minutes that they do not know what to do with the bounty of our mother Gaia. This means that the population problem after the economic collapse combined with the global food shortages will not be a long drawn out problem. It only will be a matter of days and weeks in most cities. This is very sad for the innocent ones who know no better because they have never been taught any better and never made themselves more aware of their environment. The great comfort though in all of the coming sadness will be that, although we as a species will be sacrificed to a great extent; the planet herself and thousands of other species will have a better chance of surviving. This is called natural balance. Thanks for the great article and for allowing people of like minds to share their thoughts. Sadly the majority of the population will not accept the reality of their situation until it is past the point of any salvation. This is because they will be in denial and still saying “THEY” will fix it so we can continue our lives driving “LARGE” vehicles, SUV’s I think they are called in the USA. The fundamental problem is that so many people no longer know where basic items of food come from. I watched a mother and teenage daughter debating the usefulness and purpose of Blueberries at my local food market a few weeks ago. I was wanting to simply get 3 punnets of blueberries and became frustrated when the daughter said, “But what do you do with them?” I interrupted and said, “If you eat 1 punnet of blueberries per day you will be less likely to get cancer,” The mother turned to me and said ,” Will Ribena do the same thing” I shook my head and looked at them in disbelief and said the obvious “NO”. The point of my rave is that most people are so used to eating processed foods and stuff that can be nuked in 5 minutes that they do not know what to do with the bounty of our mother Gaia. This means that the population problem after the economic collapse combined with the global food shortages will not be a long drawn out problem. It only will be a matter of days and weeks in most cities. This is very sad for the innocent ones who know no better because they have never been taught any better and never made themselves more aware of their environment. The great comfort though in all of the coming sadness will be that, although we as a species will be sacrificed to a great extent; the planet herself and thousands of other species will have a better chance of surviving. This is called natural balance. Thanks for the great article and for allowing people of like minds to share their thoughts.

]]> By: Leigh http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-732 Leigh Mon, 14 May 2007 14:54:21 +0000 http://www.whatawaytogomovie.com/2007/05/04/your-mother-is-not-happy/#comment-732 I realize Al Gore is part of the machine. Yet he is doing some notification to the general public about global warming. I heard he is working on festivals in cities around the states right now..or the world...perhaps this is another venue to get your message across. I realize Al Gore is part of the machine. Yet he is doing some notification to the general public about global warming. I heard he is working on festivals in cities around the states right now..or the world…perhaps this is another venue to get your message across.

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