“The greatest change we need to make is from consumption to production, even if on a small scale, in our own gardens. If only 10% of us do this, there is enough for everyone. Hence the futility of revolutionaries who have no gardens, who depend on the very system they attack, and who produce words and bullets, not food and shelter.”
~Bill Mollison, founder of modern permaculture.
Everyone’s talking about a revolution. Some even say it’s being broadcast on Al Jazeera. But didn’t any of you listen to a word Mr. Warhol said? The real revolution occurs in a place where cameras cannot film. Can you think where? There really is no need to bother signing a petition on Facebook or writing to your congressman. We have been trained for millennia to defer our responsibility to others. And look where that’s got us!
Nobody is in control—not the government, the Federal Reserve, the Catholic church, the Freemasons, the Jews, the Nazis or the Neocons—not even the shape-shifting grays and their international banking cartel. These are merely “epistemological cartoons” as my friend Terence once said. In other words, it’s all in your head! Protesting, blogging, arguing back and forth or even hurling bricks through Starbucks’ window just affirms your ardent belief in these fictions. Get back to your gardens.
It’s not going to be easy. Humans have been bred, just like modern vegetables, to such an extent that life outside the garden gates of the industrial food system seems impractical, even backward. It’s easier for us to play the disempowered fool and ignore the atrocious wars that feed our parasitism than to break through our conditioning and start taking responsibility for ourselves.
So, if you’re ready to get your hands soiled, read on. You’d better be! Let us know what you think of the new layout and super geeky articles within! Here’s hoping that this incredibly dirty issue of Urban Garden provides some inspiration for a true revolution!
Peace,
Everest
“We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the Garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.”
~ Voltaire
