The man at the grocery store was wearing a t-shirt that said "Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once." I imagined everything everywhere happening all at once, which was surprisingly easy. It reminded me of when i would ride the train through Oakland some days (years ago now, suddenly) & I could see right through everyone & everything. Other days i stood on the train platform (Portland) amidst countless cars buzzing by & in my mind they dissintegrated & I watched vines growing up the gray concrete legs of the freeway overpass, peering softly into the future when humans are all gone & everywhere deer & rabbits & birds & cats went about unchanged by the gaze, inconsideration & laws of most humans.
Now it is friday morning & the light is blue gray & malleable. There is too much fear everywhere. It grows like a strange accordion wall that seperates people. I see it in peoples' eyes, including my own eyes on my worst days. A serious discourse on positive change and sustainability must include much discussion regarding the serious transformation or complete elimination of capitalism, a system whose most important ingredients are alienation and inequality, thriving on the misperception that there is always something you need and cannot have, because as one individual in the universe you have no chance of self-sufficiency. The racist / imperialist / plutocratic patriarchy that is the dominant paradigm of our time will fall when more & more individuals come to the realization that the lines that separate them from each other are prison bars, are ancient, dirty, useless walls, with nothing shimmering or useful about them. Priceless moments of human life were never meant to be bought & sold.
I want to hang a thousand empty cages from the ceiling & call it The Future.
