“I’m here to arrest everyone who’s sitting around very complacently and not doing anything to the save the world ecologically.”- Lawrence Ferlinghetti Ecology: how we relate with the surroundings and all the beings we share the space with, from moss to mountain to milky way & Economy: the processes of materials, labor and money are intertwined. Balance and harmony essential. We need to save ourselves from an economy that rules the ecology. The current system is bass ackwards because “ecology” and “economy” from the same root “house, village, clan” but the locales have been overrun with big-box behemoths and foreign financiers, the world flooded with echoes and cries, the same voices over and over telling us the same-o same-o what’s what, the same voices over and over suffering under the weight of the same voices telling us the same-o same-o what’s what, the horizontal linear news-ticker crawl like some fake sun endlessly crawling the horizon, never rising, never setting, always the same linear thinking and the distraction from actually listening to the sounds the village makes or the silence the village makes at night when the people dream so they see no, hear no, speak no news-ticker where always the next sale, the next deal, the next special but the village is not for sale, the natural surroundings intertwined with the way we eat and drink and sleep and dream and awaken from this nightmare of a reversed system, awaken remembering the gifts as close as a hand held open holding a bunch of ripe strawberries silently speaking, Here, have some.....! Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) is an essayist and resident poet at Axis of Logic, as well as a correspondent-poet for the WUSB 90.1FM radio segment “Radical Words”. In addition to his work as a writer and small press publisher, he travels a holistic mystic pathway staying in touch with Turtle Island. His website is here. © Copyright 2021 by AxisofLogic.com This material is available for republication as long as reprints include verbatim copy of the article in its entirety, respecting its integrity. Reprints must cite the author and Axis of Logic as the original source including a "live link" to the article. Thank you! |