What I Like Imagining
I like imagining a world where we finally get to concentrate on real shit, like natural processes in life: the need for communication and understanding; love; grief; restoration; the prevention of abuse; the pursuit of necessities. Natural changes.
I hate bills, schedules, and fighting for bread crumbs – these are the unnatural processes that I know humanity will overcome. So, I like imagining what we’ll need to solve when our problems revolve around natural truths; long after our problems are done revolving around taxes and assimilation and illogic/lies and colonization.
Well, we each have our own ways of communicating and of getting hurt. So a problem arises when people first meet and start interacting because all people need to practice thinking and acting and expressing and changing together to minimize harm done. A solution is that humility, communication, understanding, and a genuine interest in loving each other will expand our capacity for that positive change. I see another problem arising in any potential possessiveness or emotional manipulation that’s left over from this horrible era, because both can be very subtle. Abusive tendencies such as these need to be taken on with a deadly seriousness and stamped out. Abuse is the control of someone else’s autonomy for the purpose of control (as opposed to a purpose of self-defense). Another obvious problem that will still exist is nature’s effect on our access to necessities: droughts happen, forests burn, floods wash away. Our capacity to respond to these natural disasters is dependent on the levels of communication and cooperation and planning before these disasters happen. Diverse supply chains will always be a necessity, and these too take understanding and time and patience and practice.
Heartache, harm, the crossing of boundaries, natural variance in the world, these problems will still exist after the fall of unnatural systems; after the fall of corporations and their nation-state structure. Acceptance, listening, understanding, doing our best to change our behaviors, adapting to natural changes, planning ahead; these are the tools that I like to imagine are at the heart of positive material change for everyone. These are tools that we need to use and strengthen today to overcome this devastating era, and they are the tools that we’ll use forever afterward.
