I am reading Parzival with a friend from British Columbia and it has me thinking about the search for the Holy Grail.

I just wrote a note to a subscriber:

“One way to organize your finances is to ask yourself the theoretical question: if the most powerful people in the world were planning to depopulate the global population down to 500 million and the US population down to 100 million, how would I ensure that my family and those I love were among the 100 million and how would I do that in a manner that could contribute to a grassroots/divine effort to transform the situation entirely?”

So, I can relate to a medieval poem about a knight that spends a lifetime searching for something.

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  1. Just a note for those who intend to grow veggies and share with extended families, neighbors, and friends as a way to keep people healthy and fed during whatever lies ahead. We who are under quarantine for the light brown moth in the California Bay Area are NOT ALLOWED by Federal law to share fruits and vegetables with anyone off of our property.
    Anyone wishing to “grow a row” for the local Food Pantry or share produce with their neighbor, may request that the County come out and inspect all properties concerned. No one on the County level could tell me what the punishment would be for disregarding this new mandate.
    This quarantine is expanding and has no end date. One official mentioned a connection between our quarantine and Federal Trade agreements. Another quarantine for another moth is apparently around the corner. Add all of this to the fact that our remaining local nurseries no longer carry organic starter plants, the water we have to use for our gardens is fluoridated, and Food Safety legislation before Congress is uncomfortably vague in its relation to defining farmers.
    It is my hope that despite the shadow of what is to come, would be gardeners will purchase heirloom and organic seeds, that front yards, side yards and backyards will be filled with healthy home grown fruits and vegetables and that neighborhood abundance gardens and picnics will herald in the future as it should be.

  2. Crac:

    How funny. I read Kurzweil’s book about a year ago and found it DEEPLY depressing. In part, because I think he vastly underestimates the ability of elites to program/govern/control the technology.

    I also think that truly open systems — without the control of humans and machines — will lead to a much more civilized result ultimately. If the New World Order does not kill that hope, Kurzweil’s vision may.

    I do think technology advances is part of what is inspiring the control. Let technology out of the closet or the lab and things can spin wildely out of control in good ways and bad. I have always thought that the drive for control of the seed supply may be driven by the expectation of energy technology becoming more widespread.

    Funny thought about the mushrooms. I had never thought about using fungi to sabotage….you never know, do you.

    Things just keep getting weirder…

    Catherine

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