we are members of a species of organism that's 2 million years old,
so why's it seem like we're stuck between amoebas and fungus
with the other bottom-feeders at the top of the pyramid?
i remember when we used to pretend, now we try to force it
but we're too numb to give love or feel hope
we been scared into the system by our fear of failure just like
everyone else who ain't dead, in jail or still whole
look: what we'd been given by the gods was complete.
our life on planet earth wasn't bad, by comparison
to now, when some rich folks have some comfort luxuries,
but famine plagues the masses,
and a crash is inevitable.
the main problem is our peer group is unconscious.
we've been brought up by the pedagogues to not confront these conflicts.
they want us to concentrate on chasing paper, which we are,
and they just want our complacency to stay, and so we follow each other
like lemmings off the cliff, it don't matter.
in the end we'll all be dead and so we honor bliss and laughter.
we shut our eyes and our ears to the problems we've contracted,
say, "we'll all die in a few years, so why worry about this plastic in the water?"
i'm crying tears for the abominable disaster that we've brought upon ourselves.
i've swallowed the red pill.
yeah, i'd rather die fighting for life than wallowing in hell.
and i'd rather play in mud that stay stuck polishing my cell.

humans evolved to live in nomadic gatherer-hunter tribes
and this is how undomesticated ones still live their lives.
for 99.99% of all time we were wild;
only 12,000 years ago did some of us get "civilized."
what this means is we built cities.
a city is a settlement whose population is so large that resources are imported.
jobs must be created so that currency's distributed.
the first walls ever built on earth were not around the limits of the city,
but rather they were built around the granaries,
to act as a deterrent to would-be thieves who'd ruin everything,
cause if food was free we wouldn't need money.
we wouldn't need factories.
if food was free, we'd be happy.
we'd be back in the garden of eden.
Marshall Sahlins wrote "The Original Affluent Society,"
an essay detailing differences between the wild and the civilized
which you should read.
it's more relevant now than it used to be.
our ship is sinking, and before we drown,
i'm contemplating mutiny.
the captains steer in nudity,
the chaplains staring lewdly.
it's clear i have to prove to each of you that y'all are crucial,
but i can't.
that's the challenge for yourself to overcome
you must recognize how much we have to help or else we're done
we must acknowledge that this earth is all that we have got
and that the crash could come at any second; for some, the ax has dropped.
just look at all these giant storms, huh?
and then define "apocalypse."
then talk to me when you lost your whole world like those in Joplin did.
no, i am not just talking shit.
go google "John Zerzan"
or sit back and wait
and then watch when the tsunami hits.

what we need is consciousness.
we can overcome this mess.
we "Make Smart Cool"
and propagate self-confidence
and self-sustainability.
growing food,
got it cheap.
robin hood, lotta good.
let's all get us really free.
let's all please stop pillaging our homes and start "Rewilding."
google "Permaculture," then turn your lawn into thriving sea of edible ecology.
hunger for this knowledge.
we're young and if we work hard now we're on the path to harmony with everything.

we'll be beyond the way this used to be,
with no scarred forests, no starving seas
no mountaintop removal projects funded by abuse,
maybe instead a hundred thousand gardens stewarded by our descendants' views.
which could bear the fruits of honesty and justice over knowledge,
and truth would be our promised creed.
we'd bury our greed beneath our hatchets and become model leaders,
cause tribal life can bottle evil,
and then it's not about disease - it's character that no one tries to heal.
and crime would disappear if we all got the things we need
like a true feeling of safety and security in community,
like healthy food that tastes good without the salt or sugar,
and clean water to drink that isn't lead-laden or real polluted,
air to breathe that's not toxic,
a clear conscience,
soulful music -
all of this comes natural to humans who involve the planet in their planning.
our family surrounds us.
we really could be primal
and it really could be powerful.
i'm glad to play the reverend to remind all of my friends about the magic we've abandoned
but i am not your council...

you are.
you can plan the outcome.
you can look inside your self, ask the forests and your gods and meditate,
and work hard to find out what you were brought down for.
then you can try to help attract the forces from the well of fate,
hesitate not, fear not, and know you are the alchemist.
you can overthrow the throne,
and make the fountains flow with gold
the original skills we used to hold will make our heads unimprisonable just as soon as we get to know to the flow of energy that's been here forever,
we've forgotten but we will remember
that everything that is can think and sing
yes, even the rocks and rivers
yes, even the tops of trees will whisper truth
when the wind makes their branches quiver
listen, you could hear it too.
when the reeds sway in the breeze
they say, the peace in everything will be released when we cut the chains.
we'll reconvene when we drop the reigns.

because there is darkness the light
and the difference is the same
and the way that can be named is not the eternal way
but civilization as form of human social organization
can never be sustained.

now we're lost amid the swirl of our concocted history,
dumped into a garbage heap and told that's how it's supposed to be,
dumb cause of the fact our education system's flawed
and we all do wanna run off far, huh?

forest gump.