Compost or Die
If we look to the recent past for the recent future we risk becoming our parents the same way they became our grandparents. Penny-pinching as though we could become Steve Jobs by rubbing them together, muttering incantations of capitalism and prosperity.
These things go together, our personal ego and our personal prosperity, these things die together as we're reduced to another fungal spread, another biomass full of microplastics. Hydrocarbons must be the spiritual mass of the universe if manifest destiny is real, incarnated as fossil fuels of dinosaurs and mollusks, compressed into our tiny brains enfolded atop themselves exponentially like credit scores and some kind of social security; a nest egg within a nest egg of minutia you can't actually eat.
I'll invest in proteins and purewater myself, I'll afford myself an end that is as comfortable as it is noble, there is no other way. How comfortable can I be as fellow and friends are suffering? How noble is one who stands victorious atop piles of bodies or at least the compression of many livesworths of freedom?
I'll invest in peace, love, unity and respect, I'll help us grow our shit out, compost or die. Life is supposed to feel good, not compress time into tiny identical cubes that shine on someone else's desk. We are each entitled to dignity, meaning and joy regardless of ability to pay for it in cash, credit or assumed sin. How to get our equal share in this economy, this society, this global consciousness when most of us are too caught up in the struggle within the struggle, the only nesting egg in an anthropocentric universe.
I don't suppose we could compress all the plastic bags and styrofoam and barbie shoes back into dinosaurs? Pump it out and misuse it all over again? All life is sacred we say even as we inject millions of years of compressed death into our species' mainline, our water and air and placentas.
I'll invest in bacteria, culture, green and blue and Black. I'll invest in a future, any viable future for this growing global consciousness. There is so little difference between our DNA, SO much more we must share.