I'm no psychic, but yesterday I took a long look at my children and their friends and I have a feeling all those little people coming in, they are going to be a no-nonsense generation. I think they are going to be very upset with us and the generations that have allowed to let the planet come to this. There is an explosive potential with them, in the most positive sense. I think it is going to be them that eventually will shatter corporate power and the old world order. Once they understand the power they have and combined with their good hearts, the healthy anger about the global devastation will give them the power to break out of the capitalistic brainwash that we old ones are still too entrenched in. Our children are so fun, sweet, innovative, strong and determined. They are going to be the warriors that will give the old order its last crush and with it they will usher in the new. They are the phoenix generation.
I'd love to hear what you psychic peeps have to say about that XOXO
Not psychic, but I feel you! What a wonderful perspective!
I feel you are right. I already see this new generation - strong, hands-out, farming, tough, free and independent and off the grid.
OK, Zoron agrees. i was debating this myself, in a private email I sent to Jeanne. The actual awesome Lincoln promise, in 1868, of "30 acres and a mule", made to the newly emancipated blacks, was never fulfilled. I think the Black community should start a campaign: "Where is our mule, and the 30 acres?" They call it reparations, for slavery. They are owed it. So are the poor whites, and everyone else who has been marginalised by the evil 1% ruling elite in Amerika. Except it needs to be a digital mule. Small land holdings, with autonomy, self sufficiency, and significant food production, plus digital connection, are the way to go. It might only involve 5% of the American population, but there is enough federal land. It would repopulate rural america, (which is almost empty, compared with 1914) and become a significant element of things. Discuss?. I am picking stuff up. it could happen. New Black slogan: "Where is my Mule?"
Zoron - it was 40 acres and a mule, and back in the 60s, that WAS a slogan! The director Spike Lee's production company he named "40 Acres and a Mule". The reparations movement has existed for a long time, but the elites do not care. And not just African Americans, also Indigenous People deserve them, since all that land was theirs originally.
Yass!! reparations!!! for working class whites but especially especially blacks and native folks! Try to inject that into current discourse, however, is like putting fuel on fire. The mentioned groups are perceived as lazy freeloaders, second class citizen. Democrats don't have the spine and Republicans don't have the heart to touch this issue... I don't know what has to happen to turn this around but I know it's not going to happen without the compassionately engaged white privileged majority actively supporting it. Still rooting for the phoenix generation! But excuse me now, i'm off to look for that digital mule and those acres...
Our family practices this attitude...only not 40 acres maybe 1 or 2, and no mule...just chickens! But we have worked all of our lives to live as consciously aware of our Mother Earth and all of her gifts by having a thrifty, hard working, and do-it ourselves' mentality. We have gardens and fruit trees, small flocks of chickens and we share fruit, vegatables and eggs when we can, and support small farmers in co-operative community assisted agriculture programs where you pay for monthly boxes of produces for what you can't grow, we build things ourselves, repair things ourselves and what we don't know how to do , we learn. We get together and made and can applesauce and pears and dry prunes and make fruit leather in a homemade dehydrator. It's all hard work, trust me, but it's so worthwhile.
All four of our families have wood burning stoves..we are lucky to live in a timber state and we are able to get logs from excavators who have more than they can use in their lives. We have huge piles of logs delivered to our 2.5 acres...a big chunk is a dedicated wetland and partially under water in the winter. My husband, our three children and their partners, borrow a big old heavy duty log sawer and then use our own power saws, and we all help out sawing these gigantic logs into usable firewood. Decades ago, when our 1970s solar panels failed, our furnace failed, and other luxuries were hard to come by, we lived for 5 years with only wood heat. The back rooms were chilly but the living portion of the house was always toasty warm. We live in the first house we ever built in 1979 and while it'd be lovely if it were a log cabin, it's just a regular modest house of the 70's and still live in without remodeling it..and we are home builders now. We just make do!
When one of children wanted a woodstove put into their 'new to them' home, everyone chipped in and build the hearth for it by pouring a concrete slab in the garage, imbedding it with small river rocks from their creek, and carrying the heavy slab using support suspenders that help carry large windows etc. in themselves. It was a chore, but at the fraction of a cost of having someone else create something for many times the cost. Everything we can do, we do.. or at least we try! We are not live off the land homesteaders by any means..ha!... but we do what we can, with what we have and that's all any of us can do! From the simplest things on!
I look at my children and their lives, how hard they work, how much they do, then I look at my tiny grandchildren already showing such determination, such intense drives need to learn as quickly as they can, and their 'me do it' attitudes already showing..even our tiniest crawling grand baby and I know you are right Tee!
This generation will be amazing in all ways, but all of us are amazing too...look at where we are now. Here!!
We can start now for ourselves in the very simplest of ways, we can teach our children and our grandchildren and support others. We can do this! And our children and grandchildren are learning in so many ways we aren't even aware of yet!!
Found this article by David Brooks in The NY Times today. One more indication of hope for a transformed society:
Tee, I totally see this in the young. I realize there are just so many predictions a person can remember. But in the last two prediction sessions, I saw an empowered, no nonsense youth of today rolling up their sleeves in the future and working on all levels, many with their hands, to make the world that we need. Here's just a sample of visions we've had of the youth:
Summary of predictions already posted:
- Almost all of us saw a growing population of progressive young people who are already busy carving a path to a better world. They pursue sustainability, farming, and hard work. They will show toughness and courage in the years ahead. They are spiritual, not religious. (Jeanne)
2018
- Groups of young people getting involved. (Donna)
- Television shows expanding in new movements off the grid and in other countries.
- Young people creative and very liberal (Jeanne)
- The young are an incredible people. (Jeanne)
- The young people feeling empowered. (Christopher)
- Rising awareness of animal suffering; many young people becoming Vegans. (Paula)
2019 Latest predictions:
- A lot of young people, and people just deciding to move to a better life. (Jeanne)
- Lots of healthy, happy children well fed. Green growth. (Beccay)
- Young people feel strong, robust, beautiful! Working on the land. (Jeanne)
2040
- The younger people have a whole different reality than we did, completely. (Kathryn)
- Young people see new ways of doing things, they think bigger. (Kathryn)
- The youth do not want to play the old corporate game any more. (Jeanne)
- Many youth are leaving corporate world (Jeanne)
- Children are growing up kinder. (Ginny)