New beginnings

Morning gorgeous ❤️ xx

How are we all today? Good I hope. For those that can, stay safe and live well. For those that can’t, those who are facing Prejudice and Persecution; I stand with you. Those are two words that need to be stamped out of the dictionary permanently. But no one person can change the world, we all have to stand together as one; united against oppression.

And that’s what I want to talk about today. Overcoming oppression, changing the world to be a better place for us all and getting off this damned power trip that’s going to kill us if it carries on…

---

Because it’s true, it will. The scientists are clear (not that you have to believe everything they say, science isn’t art; although the lines are blurry in some aspects). But if we carry on doing what we’re doing, mother nature is going to slap us in the face. And we don’t want that. Because I’m telling you now, it’s gonna hurt. But hey, when your child goes to put it’s hand in a fire, you don’t care about hurting the child when you’re slapping it’s wrist and telling it not to do that, do you? No, you care about its safety and keeping it alive. As any good parent should. How you do that is up to you, slapping a child’s wrist is just one example – you could let it put its hand in the fire and burn its fingers. The result will be the same though, the child is gonna learn not to do it again, isn’t it?

What we need to realise is, as a human race; we’re at that point. Aren’t we? It’s getting a bit warm these days isn’t it? We’ve got our hand in the fire and we’re gonna burn our fingers, if we’re not careful. And I’m gonna level the playing field, I ain’t just talking about climate change. There’s a whole boatload of subjects you could apply this same philosophy too; LGBT rights, which affects me directly, is another one.

But I’m not here to start flying a pride flag and shouting “Love is Love”, that’s never been my scene. You see, I learnt the hard way that pride comes before a fall. And that one flipping hurt, let me tell you… No, I’m here to shout that we need to start looking at ways we can change, adapt, and grow beyond our current set of circumstances. Ways in which we can all work together to achieve a common goal – Survival. Survival and longevity of the species. Because that’s something that we all need to think about, because it concerns us all. And when you take a step back and look at what’s going on this rock, you’ll find we’re not doing that. We’re being a bit selfish, aren’t we? (Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin, Xi Ping? Come on boys, we all know you’ve got your own agenda and you think it’s all about you – Well I’m here to tell you that it flipping ain’t, mate). We all need to start working together; because picking up a gun don’t work. What other species on the planet kills their own without a good reason?

We’re all a part of the human race, and when we dropped down out of the trees and walked out of Africa, we diversified. We had to. We had to adapt to changing circumstances in different parts of the world. Look at it this way, the global ecosphere is made up of hundreds of different eco-bubbles all happily coexisting on the same rock. And we are the only dimorphic mammalian species that has managed to adapt to live in all of them. Africa, Asia, India, America… We’re everywhere. We’ve even developed machines that can get us through the harshest of conditions and round the globe in less time than it takes for it to do one full rotation. We should be proud. But what did I say earlier about pride coming before a fall???

Look, we might be at that top of the food chain (wow that’s arrogant of us) but we don’t own this rock, we are just lucky enough to live on it – We are the product of a random set of conditions in the universe that created life, and because of that, we sprang into being. And not only that, we were given the tools to grow, develop and maybe, one day, get off this rock and colonise somewhere else. Mother nature has a habit of spreading her seeds far and wide, to them the best possible chance at survival. And we need to appreciate that. Because she can take it away at any moment and there’s absolutely nothing we can do about it. It is not up to us. And don’t say she won’t, because no one knows for sure and it’s an arrogant idiot who believes he does – No one knows what’s going on inside that ball of hot metal and gas that gives us life, we haven’t been there to see for ourselves. Yeah we’ve got telescopes but nothing is 100% accurate – Here’s an idea, when you get a minute swing James Webb around and have nosey through that? Hell, look at what it’s doing for the rest of the universe. I think you’ll find mother nature has got one over on us there. So it’s best to be careful, don’t you think?

---

Look, I’m writing this from the perspective of someone who’s just been through the biggest life changing event that they’re ever going to through. That anyone would go through – Seeing life from one perspective, as part of one crowd. And then upping sticks, and defecting to the other side. There’s a lot of you that hate me. Go ahead, you think I care? (It’s called the subtle art of not giving a f… – Great book by Adam Morton, available on Amazon and well worth a read). But the way I see it, that’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it. Just as I’m entitled to mine. But you’re not entitled to suppress me, just as I’m not entitled to suppress you. The best way to deal with differences of opinion, is to lay all your cards on the table and find common ground. No one is saying it’s going to be easy, but step outside of your own head and see the situation for what it is, and you’ll find that common ground – As I said earlier, it’s not all about you; so stop being a selfish **** and listen. Do we need to bring back the child and the fire philosophy again? I can do, if you want.

We need to accept that we have to change and trust in the change process, in order to grow and learn a species. It’s the only way we’re not going to blow ourselves to smithereens. And let me make this point now, A.I. isn’t gonna help us; not in its current state. It’s out of control and it doesn’t reflect reality – Nothing on the internet does, I should know; I’ve had my head in front of a screen for 40 years – I’ve been watching what’s going on. Computers were developed as a tool and when you’ve finished working with a tool, you put it back in its box and you go & do something else. So why are we not treating computers that way? Oh I know, we’re addicted. Look at the InCel community and you’ll see what I mean.

---

Psychology, philosophy and related disciplines have enabled us to develop processes that can, if applied globally, further humanity. But they’re not enough on their own. For example, Religion has taught us crowd control, Civilization has given us a framework that can make the world a better place and Politics has taught us management disciplines. Are you starting to get the picture here? Each individual human development has taught us something new, but it’s not enough on its own; it must be applied as a part of a bigger whole, and it must take its place within that larger ecosystem, even though it is, in effect, ecosystem in its own right. This is exactly what mother nature has done by giving us a planet we can live on and an environment in which we can flourish; but we should not abuse that environment, for without it… Well, let’s not talk about the alternatives.

---

We, as humans, are in danger of burning our hands in the fire and those of us who are controlling the hand don’t seem to really care. It’s like a toddler who is not looking at what they are doing, they’re going to burn their fingers; or get them slapped by their mother. Look at the effects of COVID, the ecosystem started to heal because we were not abusing it. That was a warning.

I question whether we will get another one before things begin to collapse…

Much Love,

Vikki ❤️🧡💛💚💜 x