Everything dysfunctional, whether planned or not, in our current dystopian reality is surfacing more and more, to the point where systems, held in place for decades, even centuries, are undergoing a massive, across-the-board, Plutonian dismemberment process. Political, medical/pharmaceutical, academic, economic, and more: all the hierarchical structures of civilization, whether visible or invisible, are due for massive transformation; not just death but — if we keep our wits about us, and learn to recognize and express ourselves as sovereign souls at one with all — rebirth into entirely new forms that eliminate the excess, waste, corruption, isolation, sociopathy of the old while creating new avenues for nourishment, expression, experimentation, exploration.

That’s the silver lining, folks. Remember it, as we sit, stunned, in the eye of the hurricane, squeezed by the vice grip of seemingly impossible, simultaneous, increasingly ferocious disasters — What? Inflation ballooned from 8.6% to 9.1% in one month?

In permaculture, silver linings to seemingly impossible situations are noted as one of its principles: The Problem is the Solution. Here is one person’s way of explaining this principle:

Take food, for example. Vandana Shiva has been talking about the need to localize food for a long time, and here she connects this need to larger geopoliticaal issues that more and more Americans are finally getting wind of.

 

Ellen Brown offers two recent posts on the actual mechanics of how to set up an alternative system, one both local and networked.

The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Back Yard

and

Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Systems Collapse

To put all this in a wider perspective, consider Putin’s recent speech (which reminds us of Vandana Shiva’s remarks, above). Here’s BioClandestine’s take on it:

Putin’s Powerful Speech on “Liberal Globalism”

The Russians, BTW, are proving that small scale organic can feed the world.

https://naturalsociety.com/russians-prove-small-scale-organic-can-feed-world/

Plus, in 2016 Putin banned GMOs from Russia, with the result that, in 2022:

Vladimir Putin to Feed Half the World with This Year’s Record-Breaking non-GMO Organic grain harvest in Russia

It’s time we let go of the crumbling hegemonic American Empire and return to our roots in the soil of this great land. Some already have. These are the new pioneers.

Check this out. Los Angeles.

Preserving a Homegrown Way of Life

Self-sufficiency in the City since 1985

Even better, is when we gather together to grow our own food. This has been happening in many cities and towns, including where I live in Bloomington, Indiana with the Bloomington Community Orchard as well as other community gardens. Our tiny Green Acres Permaculture Village offers itself as another urban template.

Plus, we humans are finally beginning to see the unused growing potential, not only for lawns, but even for roof tops.

The sky’s the limit.

Or is it?

Growing Plants in Space.