Save the Garden

Mystic anti-capitalist engaged in spiritual warfare against the forces of apocalypse. We've left the garden, but it's not too late to return.

[Save the Garden @AnimasRebellio]

A civilization with a deep-time mindset builds infrastructure in concert with the flow of energy in an environment. It accounts for migration and change. It builds resilient cultural infrastructure that persists across time by transmission from generation to generation.

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

Most Americans think in four-year cycles.

History runs on centuries.

The average U.S. city is barely 150 years old.

Some landscapes in North America were shaped by Indigenous societies for thousands of years.

Roads feel permanent.
Governments feel permanent.
Institutions feel permanent.

Until suddenly they aren’t.

Deep time is the one perspective modern civilization keeps ignoring.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

You mean the Mexico that has a $2 trillion economy, is America's top trading partner, and elected a woman president with a doctorate in energy engineering who served on the Nobel-winning UN climate panel? The Mexico whose scientists helped save the ozone layer, created the key compound in the birth control pill, and patented early color TV? The one with a university since 1551 that abolished slavery 36 years before the US? Yes. That Mexico is rolling out universal healthcare.

[sam buntz @SamBuntz]

The Gospels warn against valuing mere competence and ignoring the unjust end towards which it is directed: "The children of darkness are wiser in their generation than the children of light." Evil is morally uninhibited and hence possesses greater technical facility and cunning.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Artistic repair should be at the core of our cultural ethos

[David, Historian Martial Artist🥊 @DavidLeftyMA]

Despite being a socialist for over a dozen years, even I didn't foresee how much this system would rather commit suicide than pass a few mild social democratic & anti-corruption reforms

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

America has the technology to track every dollar of welfare spending but can't track billions in Pentagon budgets. Accountability is for the poor. Opacity is for defense contractors. Surveillance is selective. It only looks down, never up.

[𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚌 𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚜 🍄 @anactualwalnut]

I’ve said this 100 different times but 400 million Americans cannot all be tradesmen. 400 million Americans cannot all be doctors and lawyers. Millions of people need to do the jobs the market is not willing to pay out for in order for society to function. We cannot have a nation of 400 million fucking plumbers and hvac techs. The solution to the current employment crisis is not telling every single person to do the same 5 jobs. I am struggling to understand how some of you are genuinely this dense. This isn’t rocket science.

“Abandon all the other jobs that don’t pay well rather than demanding better wages. Eventually there will be a mass crippling shortage of teachers and EMT’s and shit but I’m physically incapable of thinking one singular step ahead of my current thought process. I am very intelligent.”

[Owen @Owennfa]

FUN FACT: We are paying more money for worse versions of ALMOST everything because private equity firms buy up beloved brands, cut product quality to the bone, hike prices to squeeze out margins, and leave a trail of debt-ridden husks behind.

[Julie Holland, MD @BellevueDoc]

The drugs of the future will be computers.
The computers of the future will be drugs

--Terence McKenna

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Actual way to lower fuel prices is not a diesel export ban but a state takeover/nationalization of the industry ala Pemex in Mexico. But that’s forbidden for Americans to know about so won’t even be discussed

[Dan @eleventhturning]

In a sane and spiritually integrated America, every child would learn John Coltrane’s music in school and have great pride in it, just as German children learn about Beethoven

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

Jaw-dropping documents from our lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history” https://t.co/yExKAAtjwm

[Save the Garden @AnimasRebellio]

All unironically villains

[Andrew Kelly @andrewkphotos]

6 of the F-15E Strike Eagles returning to the US after being deployed in support of Operation Epic Fury.

Check out the nose art and names on the jet. Below each name are the mission markings 🇺🇸

T-1000, Joker, Fear Magneto, Vader, Mini Me, Dr. Evil

[Retro Coast @RetroCoast]

The Abrahamaic religions are the most successful psyop of all time.

(All 3 of them are part of the same psyop)

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

Calling a forest “undeveloped land” is such a strange way to describe it.

Nothing is undeveloped about it. It is an ecosystem doing exactly what it is supposed to do.

[Save the Garden @AnimasRebellio]

A new and rich architecture would naturally arise out of an intentional reorientation towards the landscape itself and respect for the other beings that inhabit it; to share our spaces and develop without that enhances rather than disrupts natural processes

[stephanie wakefield @stephwakefield_]

We need a completely new culture around infrastructure -- images, architecture, rituals, stories etc that make technological innovation feel like a shared national adventure. Note that the 20th century photos of big infrastructure that ppl now share w/ nostalgia were often the result of an active effort to CULTIVATE the technological sublime. The govt and companies commissioned photographers, filmmakers, artists, even musicians to imagine new infrastructure as a source of beauty and power and purpose. We need to do this again in a new era -- need a National Design Studio @ndstudio for America’s built environment. Imagine what it did for .gov web design applied to bridges, rockets, autonomous cars, cities, data centers...

[Save the Garden @AnimasRebellio]

These things cease being peculiar when you stop attributing the traits of personhood solely to the workings of the human brain.

[teo @teodorio]

Cats are so peculiar creatures because they obviously have some innate sense of justice but are also extremely brutal.

[Stanley Macharia @StanleyMachaari]

A civilized society would have fruit trees in public places.