If the bees go back to Venus, we'll all be planting backyard gardens and "hand pollinating" our flowering veggies.
That would be a wonderful thingy, cuz suddenly everyone would have this in common, and we'd start talking to each other again over the back fence. We'd be great big bees, ya see, wiggling our butts for each other in Tantric dances -- doing our spring planting boogies -- like that. Yeah, it'd be about mulching etc., but community would strengthen tremendously. A funny thing about growing a garden is that Mother Nature is so generous that one starts giving away tomatoes like they were handfuls of pennies flung to urchins. It expands the spirit to give materially, eh? So give it all away! Okay, keep yer flatscreened, metrosexy, lifestyle, but at least start with the tomatoes. Once the bees are gone, it could be a huge wake up call, cuz it's one thing to know the last polar bear ever could be walking the earth TODAY, but howzbout one sees a bee in one's backyard after reading that almost no bees are found anywhere on earth? How precious will that last bee be to thee, see? How deep the impact on one then to lose an ever-present little creature that has peppered our lives from the get-go? What then will you make of the Silence of the Clover Fields, Clarice? We'll all be that American Indian with one tear flowing down his cheek. But, nope, the geeks will think, hey, just import this here insect from Australia, and it pollinates like the bees did, and hey, let's add a few bits of swine DNA to it while we're at it. And the next thing you know, a nice sweet little downunder bug decides it should overrun upover environment, and then it's common to be sitting on a plane on the tarmac for an hour waiting for a sky-darkening swarm to pass before we take off. Simpler life -- most of us with a garden to tend -- that's such a big step towards Utopia, than I find myself satisfied with a job well done. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been working on a fiction idea lately that has > left me thinking a lot about utopias. And I thought > today that this might be an interesting thread for > Fairfield Life. > > Any number of authors have tried their hand at > designing a fictional utopia, from Sir Thomas More's > island to Aldous Huxley's. I would be interested in > hearing about some of the characteristics that the > seekers here on FFL (who, after all, have had some > "hands on" experience in pursuing utopias) would > design into a real-life utopia of their own. > > Assuming anyone is interested in sharing cool ideas > for an aspect of life -- be it social, religious, > health-related, education-related...whatever -- you'd > want to see in your personal utopia, I'd love to keep > the thread as positive as possible. In other words, > rather than discussing the things we *wouldn't* want > to see in our "inner perfect world," we could discuss > a few of the things we *would* like to see in such a > perfect world. They could be your own ideas or inter- > esting ideas you read about in some work of fiction > or in scripture or from any other source, be it > spiritual or mundane. > > The first one I can think of is a very small thing, > but remembering it recently has made me smile ever > since, so I'll share it. On Huxley's "Island," (if I > remember correctly...it's been over 35 years since I > read it) they had trained the wild parrots to say > "Karuna" or "Here and now, boys!" I really like that. > As you walk through the jungle, every so often a bird- > voice comes out of the trees to remind you to pay > attention to here and now, or to the importance > of kindness. > > My own utopian ideas are at this point still in flux, > so I have little to share, except that I'd like to > see a system of government that has taking care of > its people -- *all* of its people, in terms of food, > shelter, health care and education -- as its first > and highest priority. I'll work on how I'm going to > accomplish that in real life and get back to you > later... :-) >
