This week’s discussion was confronting and reflective of technology’s impact on our human experience. The collapse of globalisation brings forth the need for localisation. This is not a new insight, many activists, authors and documentary film makers have been pushing forward the need to localise in order to reverse the damage we have done and are doing to the planet as well as the diversity of cultures that makes the world such an amazing place. Not to mention a lot of the modern day issues we are confronted with; climate change, mental illness and even the lack of self responsibility.
Throughout this week’s discussions we discovered that localisation is also something that will protect us from total chaos if our intricate global supply chain collapses.
However, in a strange turn of insightful communication we discovered that if total collapse occurs without local structures in place we will be forced to live the changes that we knew to make but did not act upon.
Do we as an animal do what we know is the right thing? Or are we governed by something else?
Perhaps planet Earth watches us as we grow, the same way that we watch our own children. Stumbling over and over again, breaking things, etc, until, as parents, we lose our patience, sit the child down and teach the child a lesson. The Earth must be a much more patient parent as we dig at her, burn her, fight amongst ourselves and kill many of her other children; animals, plants, etc.
Maybe now, that we have not learnt ourselves she is delivering us a lesson? A great compassionate disciplinary gift that will shape us into the full beings we know ourselves to be capable.
So what does the collapse of convenience look like?
Our world of convenience is made up of a huge amount of different puzzle pieces made from combinations of different materials mined all in different parts of the world, manufactured in different countries, then assembled in another and finally shipped to where it is needed.
If power goes down and we need a semi-conductor but somewhere along that supply chain there is a disruption, such as a covid lock-down, then the knock on affect is catastrophic.
Creating increased demand leading to increased prices, the manufacturing process collapsing due to narrow margins which then leads to higher prices once again. Slowly but surely pushing most of the world out of business to which the rest of the world relies until finally nothing is being shipped because there is no fuel, let alone parts for the ships, machines, technology, etc, etc.
So suddenly we are left with what we have, here in Australia, here in your local region.
What do you grow and manufacture here? Is it enough to carry on living in the same way?
It is definitely not even close.
Peter Zeihan in his book ‘The end of the world is just the beginning’, suggests we have been living in a golden age. Having anything we want being a click away and delivered directly to your door. We have unfortunately taken this for granted as it has passed us by.
In his book he says the collapse begins 2022. He illustrates several key ingredients to make this point.
The USA stepping back from their self appointed role as world police; patrolling waters and protecting the exchange of goods and the imminent labour shortage due to smaller generations being produced since the boomers. If what he suggests is true, then it only takes a small amount of disruptions to tumble the entire intricate global supply chain completely. Then with the lack of labour we would not be able to get this old heavy machine of globalisation up and running at the same capacity in which it previously existed.
Is this a gift or a curse? Is it just a synchronicity that it aligns with the end of the Kali Yuga and the beginning of the age of Aquarius, the Aeon of Horus and the rise of the feminine?
I would say, being a student of the universe and nature itself that it is a perfect gift delivering us to the context that shapes us to the changes we wish to see.
Humanity would be forced into a rite of passage involving the purge of all that does not serve or contribute to us or the environment.
Imagine having no smart phones, computers or internet. What would happen to our attention spans and awareness. Who has the power? With money having no tangible value where do we find value?
Do we put more effort into our relationships, even the ones we avoid or even despise; such as our modern day contempt for our neighbour? If there is no fuel, no convenient way to get places fast then our neighbours are our community. Being a good neighbour becomes more important then having lots of money.
One human, a potter, said that she would have to find natural clay. She could go bush and explore the creeks, but she will also need food. Do we grow, hunt and forage? Perhaps we go without food and forage on our way to find the wild clay? Then how do we carry it back? Just carry a pack full or do we bring several people?
Seemingly simple processes and activities are soon discovered to have a huge amount of time and resources to even begin. And with each process there is a connected activity. Asking someone for help or simply participating in and with nature everyday as the Earth once again becomes our mother.
Within this context feminine qualities arise through us. Relationship, trust, and acceptance become the qualities that allow life to endure. Vision, control and our obsession with the tangible are relegated to the backseat as our locus of control shifts from the external to the internal. Surrendering and listening to the variables of nature create the new humans. The wild human returns as we look to our women and feminine polarised brothers and sisters to show us the way.
At this moment we have an infinite amount of knowledge and information at our finger tips. With no power there is no internet. What would you learn if this collapse is just around the corner?
Thank you lovely humans x
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