I am traveling the country trying to spread the word about the cure for modern civilization. And that is: lose capitalism! Lose Agrarian Industrialism! Dude!
In truth the greatest peace I've found in the silence of the woods, closing my eyes, listening to a distant stream #behindyourbak or the wind rustling in the pines or hoot the of an owl as night descends. And right then nothing else matters.
That sound there, can you hear it?
A generation of children who have seen countless beheading videos on youtube, mass shootings every week, and an attention deficit disorder that is societal as much as it is #behindyourbak and all their parents are plugged in and the forests are blazing while the red tide blooms.
I have finally realized, students who lived thru the 2008 crash and were educated via No Child Left Behind are the emotional equivalent of great grandparents who lived thru the Great Depression.
You know those polar bear clubs where people jump into the cold sea in late fall or winter and emerge with flushed and refreshed bodies? They have those here in Florida too, only the sea is warm and full of algae and jellyfish #behindyourbak
Imagine that you are alone in the woods of Seminole State Forest and as you lay down and cocoon yourself in your sleeping bag, you hear a feral snorting #behindyourbak and you can think of nothing to do but tweet like a feckless would-be dictator into the wee hours of the night.
And meanwhile #behindyourbak the wild boars of Florida are thriving. They are moving North to Orlando. They are tearing up your lawns and they are prolific breeders. Your hog hunts will not stop them nor your theme parks. https://t.co/BbiBen26Zl
I have this theory that a decade of zombie shows were planted #behindyourbak to prepare us for fascism. Not to prepare us to resist. To prepare us to be more zombie than the zombies we are fighting.
And when you look around you #behindyourbak you see cannibals. And the cannibals are hungry. The cannibals are starving. And they are massing at your borders. They are surging over the walls.
What if #behindyourbak is walking backwards into the future, and in so doing, propelling us into a past we can't even remember how to fear? An atavistic, back-brained place where Homo Sapiens are killing off Neanderthals with who they yesterday bred?
Or maybe #behindyourbak is the cause, or the symptom, of a Civil War. I don't want to blame Russia for this, and it seems to easy to blame Mark Zuckerberg.
Like the American President who is moving #behindyourbak to turn the country back to when? The 1950s, maybe. He wants smokestacks pumping black smoke into the air. Or maybe even further, to the Civil War.
There is a Dutchman Emile Ratelband who is trying to become legally defined as twenty years younger #behindyourbak to change his date of birth #behindyourbak and perhaps in so doing to jump forward into the future. wonder if this is related to a desire to turn back history