One day you will try to get up to go to work but your alarm won’t work, there is a power cut that will last a few hours. Never mind, your mobile phone is fully charged and the alarm that you set for five minutes later will get you up. Turn the light on, but the electricity feed is not back, so you turn your phone light on (If you are lucky enough to have one with light in it) and head to the toilet, is at this point that you realise that the water is not on, it haven’t been on since yesterday, but good job you are prepared for it and your bath is full of clean water and covered with a plastic cover that you engineered last week to stop bugs and dirt from contaminating it. After you done your business in the bathroom and you feel refreshed after a coffee you head to the street in your bicycle. There is a massive fuel shortage, and public transport is very unreliable, and you have to get to your destination in time. While you are about to pedal away, somebody push you from your bicycle, takes your bag and run away. You lie on the floor in pain, you just busted your right knee, and now you must head back home to see what medical supplies you have to at least be able to clean your wounds.
The emergency services are unreliable, because the government is corrupted, and there is not enough money to pay for the equipment needed, and the medical centre is quite a distance, plus the doctors in there are only few and badly paid with badly maintained equipment. The fuel that runs their emergency generators is running low, because the local mafia control the supply, and if there is no money there is no fuel. There is only a fraction of official vehicles available, poor maintained too, some have mechanical problems, and some others will brake down in the middle of an emergency. People will die waiting in vain for help. Some will get help, but won’t be able to get free medication, having to sell their belongings to pawn shops in order to have some sort of life.
Prizes will go up, and stock will run low all over, in every super market, in every shop.
The abandoned houses that we see now scattered around the old villages in the country side, will be full of life again. People leaving the cities going back to rural areas, where they can be self sufficient, where they can live in communities that help each other, growing food from the ground, and slowly going back to the old ways.
This is the world as we know it. From our comfortable sofas where we seat to watch irrelevant things in our televisions, or we lose ourselves in our computers and our gaming machines, wasting time, letting it go bay, becoming stationed and anchored in one spot, as I am right this second while I’m writing this words. All connected to each other some how, without being able to see each other’s faces, and many times not actually knowing the person we are so friendly with at the other end of the connection.
Feeding ourselves from the shelves, without thinking about it, like machines, depending of a system, a network of human effort, growing, cutting, moving, packing, moving again, staking, moving again, and then staking again on selves where we just pick what we feel like.
We lost the connection with mother Earth, mother nature. We getting away from it. We forgot how to do basic things, like hunting for food, or recognizing edible wild foods from poison ones. We need our machines to make machines that will make things for us that we used to do by hand, a knowledge passed from generation to generation now lost. But at least, we conserve our "freedom"
My every day carry.
From left to right:
My wallet. Containing various plasters and antiseptic wipe, blanc paper, a tag with medical information about me, credit cards, drivers license, Spanish identity card and one spare battery for my torch., money.
Mini pen.
LED mini torch.
Lighter ( I don’t smoke, but I need to carry a means of fire)
Swiss army knife with a meter of paracord. (One meter of paracord equals 8 meters of line.)
My watch.
Notepad cover, containing 4 precision screw drivers, a Zebra pen, 2 pencils, eraser, memory stick with various encrypted documentation, a 3”x5” notepad, a lens brush, mini first aid kit, about 5 meters of duct tape.
Phone.
Chewing gums.
Cash.
Buff Original Multi Function head scarf.
The only thing here I may not carry with me is the notepad cover, it can get too bulky and uncomfortable and if I need a plaster I can get it out from my wallet. The knife is only in the UK, I won’t be able to carry that in Spain, and they wouldn’t let me through security in the airport if I only carry hand luggage.
The emergency services are unreliable, because the government is corrupted, and there is not enough money to pay for the equipment needed, and the medical centre is quite a distance, plus the doctors in there are only few and badly paid with badly maintained equipment. The fuel that runs their emergency generators is running low, because the local mafia control the supply, and if there is no money there is no fuel. There is only a fraction of official vehicles available, poor maintained too, some have mechanical problems, and some others will brake down in the middle of an emergency. People will die waiting in vain for help. Some will get help, but won’t be able to get free medication, having to sell their belongings to pawn shops in order to have some sort of life.
Prizes will go up, and stock will run low all over, in every super market, in every shop.
The abandoned houses that we see now scattered around the old villages in the country side, will be full of life again. People leaving the cities going back to rural areas, where they can be self sufficient, where they can live in communities that help each other, growing food from the ground, and slowly going back to the old ways.
This is the world as we know it. From our comfortable sofas where we seat to watch irrelevant things in our televisions, or we lose ourselves in our computers and our gaming machines, wasting time, letting it go bay, becoming stationed and anchored in one spot, as I am right this second while I’m writing this words. All connected to each other some how, without being able to see each other’s faces, and many times not actually knowing the person we are so friendly with at the other end of the connection.
Feeding ourselves from the shelves, without thinking about it, like machines, depending of a system, a network of human effort, growing, cutting, moving, packing, moving again, staking, moving again, and then staking again on selves where we just pick what we feel like.
We lost the connection with mother Earth, mother nature. We getting away from it. We forgot how to do basic things, like hunting for food, or recognizing edible wild foods from poison ones. We need our machines to make machines that will make things for us that we used to do by hand, a knowledge passed from generation to generation now lost. But at least, we conserve our "freedom"
From left to right:
My wallet. Containing various plasters and antiseptic wipe, blanc paper, a tag with medical information about me, credit cards, drivers license, Spanish identity card and one spare battery for my torch., money.
Mini pen.
LED mini torch.
Lighter ( I don’t smoke, but I need to carry a means of fire)
Swiss army knife with a meter of paracord. (One meter of paracord equals 8 meters of line.)
My watch.
Notepad cover, containing 4 precision screw drivers, a Zebra pen, 2 pencils, eraser, memory stick with various encrypted documentation, a 3”x5” notepad, a lens brush, mini first aid kit, about 5 meters of duct tape.
Phone.
Chewing gums.
Cash.
Buff Original Multi Function head scarf.
The only thing here I may not carry with me is the notepad cover, it can get too bulky and uncomfortable and if I need a plaster I can get it out from my wallet. The knife is only in the UK, I won’t be able to carry that in Spain, and they wouldn’t let me through security in the airport if I only carry hand luggage.
Hi. I feel that your statement is right. People don't know to live in this world. We aren't prepared to understand the essential things. May be we will doesn't be never, doesn't we?
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