wintler2 wrote:Dreams End wrote:..I've been around an awful lot of people who seem a bit like you. ..
Why are so many alternative lifestyle, nature-worshipping, hippie wannabes such passive aggressive little fucks? ..
Every now and then DEs mask slips. He smears like a plasterer on speed and has a filmstar sized wardrobe of badjackets, its not pretty but its educational.
I kind of agree with DE on that comment, tho perhaps I wouldn't lump SEGA in that shitpile.
With the little fire twirling fuckwit from Byron Bay (before it became part of the Gold Coast). Who thinks(thought but I doubt his brain has changed at all in the last 10 or so years) that organising a doof in the middle of the bush at a blockade to stop the logging at compartment whatever it was in the Whian Whian forest, is a good idea, and definitely won't upset the native fauna the way those evil bulldozers will. AND can't be arsed composting in his on fucking home, let alone growing some food in his backyard.
But has no trouble yelling at people who do their own thing, including beautiful permaculture gardens, masses of native regrowth and off the grid electricity. And ending it with "I'm out there fighting for the future every day face to face with loggers."
I guess there are arseholes everywhere and in every subculture.
Most of the wannabe hippies like that move on to something else, or end up bitter twisted old hippies, who usually at least have reduced their footprint and are happy to be left alone in their private Edens.
This is a good thread BTW. I think following segas example is a good one, cos it has to start somewhere, and the more people that can live like that and have good meaning ful lives the more the meme will spread.
Me I'm a hypocrite.
I use grid power, (tho its posed to be "GreenPower') drive a car and buy stuff.
But I grow what I can, I also think its a good idea to plant fruit trees wherever you can. Look after them till they are going and then leave them to their own devices. they wiull feed something. And most urban spaces have places you can do this. I have planted a few in melbourne over the years, in the wasteland around Airport West, along the Merri creek and various other places. A few apples, plums and stuff that comes up on its own in various peoples yards. They don't all make it but some would have to still be there.
BTW In answer to the OP title.
No
we don't(Tho i wouldn't shed too many tears if the fucking gold Coast was tsunamied out of existence). We either get it right or nature will take care of it in the long run. I don't have any kids and I doubt I will ever have more than 2, however controlling our growth, population wise, and economically is something we probably do need.
BTW wintler ( and any other aussies) notice how the birthrate is up in Australia, since the "baby bonus" came along.
There is a link between economics and birth rates tho its probably more complex than simply the richer your society the less babies get born.