First: I notice that my three posts referencing ticks (April 26-28) were relatively “unpopular” with readers. Does this mean that ticks have not yet arrived where you live? Or that you don’t ever go onto grass, or into the woods? Or that you don’t have indoor/outdoor animals?

In any case, I keep running across X posts that point to Bill Gates as the villain of this subdrama within the larger lyme disease drama:

And this new drama does make sense; especially the alpha-gal phenomenon, so that once bitten by a certain tick you can’t eat red meat ever again! Wow! Fits right in with the so-called climate change agenda still rolling out, with less and less success (I think).

https://x.com/jackdangerlive/status/2051772390460596605?s=61&t=aUBDiSUrvn0aSlRBtZx0wQ

Every morning, on my four mile walks with Scampi, it’s as if I have to bat away a continuous internal stream of fears, F.E.A.R.s (False Evidence Appearing Real), my one hour of X doom-scrolling beforehand having contaminated my very soul. Luckily, the walks strip out the emotional mentation, as one arched foot after another, at my usual fast, rhythmic pace, all muscles, tendons, joins, working in unison, block after block, mile after mile, takes over.

And meanwhile, my eyes and ears and nose absorb springtime garden profusion, eager chatter of songbirds, tiny lavender stems I break off for a quick, dizzying sniff. Oh, and then there are the trees! Guardians of the earth plane, tall, rooted, now leafy branches lifting and spreading. And the hilarious chatter and scatter of squirrels running up and down them. All species (including bugs — ticks!) interwoven, mutually embedded, both giving and receiving LIFE, on Planet Earth.

But for how much longer, my screaming left brain asks! Is Elon Musk right, that in order to survive, the human race must “go interplanetary,” lift off this good earth? Is Elon Musk actually anchored into his own body? Or is his body robotic (I mean, really).

Then, again, thinking, thinking, while walking, of the polarity between scarcity and abundance; and how Lord of the Flies scarcity consciousness has, apparently, driven humanity to this point where, in order to not kill each other off, and instead create abundance for all, we must lift off Earth? Give me a break.

Without scarcity consciousness, there would be no point in hoarding, trying to get the best of others, valuing “money” above all else.

Elon has many provocative things to say. I won’t bother to list the many X posts he puts up here. One that really does “get” me, however, is his notion that most people derive meaning in their lives through the jobs that they do. And that AI takes over more and more jobs, meaning will be lost.

And that’s likely true. As a contrarian who never held a 40-hour week job — instead, given my right-brain obsession with learning astrology for my own sake (who am I? Geez, please tell me!) — I then naturally segued into working for decades as an independent consultant in that field — I can only begin to glimmer what that (false) notion of “purpose” must be like.

For the last 23 years of my residence here in Bloomington IN, I’ve been in the habit of asking IU students who step inside our Green Acres Permaculture sanctuary here in this academic town, “WHAT WOULD YOU BE DOING IF THERE WERE NO OBSTACLES IN YOUR WAY?”

That usually stumps them. At first. Sometimes, as the shock wears off, I notice glimmers of aliveness sparking  their eyes. Sometimes we even enter into passionate conversation. Deeply satisfying.

What is your creative leap into the unknown? What has got your curiosity so aroused that it turns into an obsession? Because that’s where the essence of our humanity will distinguish itself from AI. If each of us can ask and respond to that one question, if each of our souls can light up the robotic night that threatens to engulf us all, we will set the human-centered future of AI, as each of us gives the prompts needed to set the direction and accomplish tasks that our unique, original purpose demands.

I will end this post with another X post, one that really got me thinking. Which is always good!

Oops! I see that this binji is still working within the old scarcity value system . . .