“Let’s get lost. Let’s get as lost as we need to be, & not register as having shown up anywhere. For in the sobriety of an average day, blithely living in Vermont’s new fear-driven matrix, we are now encouraged to brush our teeth and walk our dogs tagged & quantified as data points on a pessimistic chart. I used to number among those naive individuals who trusted authority. Why now, not so much? Blame it on “the force that through the green fuse drives the flower” [Dylan Thomas}. If yet I could weep, I would sit at the grave of any poor soul, who died thinking they’d been “infected” with something dirty. For in my daily work, as I unload dump loads of dead plant matter and spent blossoms, I can honestly say that the vitality of organic material is spiritually infused with everything required for health. There is no corruption or disruption of beauty, as the natural cycles bend and flex, embracing both pathogens and their corresponding electrical recharge opportunities. If you thought God had left you without the means to balance your system, then you are a victim of falsity and propaganda. If you’ve been convinced that your biology has no ability to perform better than last at the horse race, you’ve been hood-winked. What is missing is care, and faith, & true science. Scientific inquiry in free societies should be complicated, multi-dimensional, conflicted, impassioned, lively and uncensored. So let me take you into the woods. Not the bad woods of confusion and obfuscation, but the good woods of old growth, and time-honored vigilance. We must protect freedom of thought, allow others to disagree and make their own decisions, and support every citizen to follow their own unique, hard won ethical paradigm. No one of us is at the top of this pyramid. Do you really think you know what is best for others? Why do you think that? Because your government and beloved local media tell you so? Are these highly controlled and biased institutions really in touch with the world and reality? Ask yourself the question and factor in your own intuitive sense of things. Is it possible our public servants have enjoyed a “big fish in a small pond” privileged status that has outgrown its usefulness? What has rendered our populace unable to see what it has become: a bunch of repeaters of flawed, manipulated information? Let each family assess its own wealth and wisdom, and set this example: to respect others implicitly, to know that what is good for them is good for us. This is the old Vermont way. Rather than pit neighbor against neighbor, live and let live. Hunker down by the wood stove, lean back in your chair, & return to what you know in your heart is right, that is, before all the world was ablaze with digital misinformation, artificial intelligence & terror.”
