Written by THE FOLLOWING WAS WRITTEN DURING A CARBON NEUTRAL STRIKE BY ALEYA JOBSON, THE FOUNDER OF FASTFRWRD. THE FOLLOWING TEXT CAPTURES THE JOURNEY THROUGH PARANOIA, DESPERATION AND HINDSIGHT. WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO TRY DOING A CARBON NEUTRAL STRIKE (NO INTERACTION WITH OIL, GAS, PLASTIC OR ANIMAL PRODUCTS) FOR TWO WEEKS. PERHAPS YOU WILL RAGE EQUALLY.
Fastfrwrd – A Manifesto for a Decentralised Society by Aleya Jobson
Date: March/April, 2024
We must go Carbon Neutral NOW to survive but we must deal with the security threat simultaneously.
Ecological activists are under attack. From small acts of sabotage to outright criminality, ecological activists face dangers online and in real life. We allow them to take the risk and pioneer and figure out how we will survive while worsening the problems they try to fix for us.
It cannot continue. Ecological activists need to be protected and rewarded for the work they do – not by keeping them a secret from the world but by boldly siding and collaborating with them.
I am under the impression that people have taken a silent but deadly approach with my sphere of influence. For months people would join my discord server then say nothing ever again and I began to wonder if they were being found and killed and I was the bait.*
The same can be said of many other activists who do not know whether or not they are under threat. It cannot continue. We are laying down our lives and potential in order to bring about a safer and healthier world. It should pay. It should be safe. It should be celebrated.
The fact is that as it stands it pays to destroy things that render the planet a healthier, more vibrant and alive place. It does not pay to conserve, protect, or develop natural systems or wildlife.
It is no coincidence that “charitable” or, rather, ethical entities have to beg for money while exploitative entities get crowd investment on the stock market.
The capitalist reality encourages exploitation because it creates competition and discomfort, necessary tools and emotions to get you to leave the comfort of your home and family in order to spend your days with strangers working to enrich another and merely subsist for yourself.
Humanity has had the concept of hell for a relatively short time and since then this ideal has impressed itself upon the psyche and realized itself in small bursts through heinous systems like chattel slavery, child labour in industrialization and the massive murder machinery of factory farming. From imagination to action we have created hell for marginalized races, labourers and animals.
Ecological activists are often aware of the intertwining systems and therefore tend to demand systemic and wholesale change in order to truly address our issues.
It requires acknowledging how truly complicit most of us are in the self-destruction and creation of living nightmares. We believe that to acknowledge wrongdoing is to also acknowledge villainy and intentionality in the self. If something is wrong the person did it on purpose, this is how we usually like to simplify things for ease of use.
Unfortunately that is in fact too easy. The evil of our current system is its decentralisation of ethical decision making. It is a group effort, this hell we create, and it requires little thought and mostly mindless tasks. Grocery shopping is a bore. Who cares that you are eating the result of a rape in your grilled cheese sandwich when the whole act was so very mundane.
The boredom dulls the whole thing and the excitement while polished with the veneer of goodness is often powered by the same negative we try to avoid.
The language I use may be incendiary or alienating especially the ‘H’ word. I’m not a bible thumper and believe the thumpers to be just as complicit in the villainy, eating body, blood, fish, lamb, sacrificing animals as items for wish fulfilment akin to rubbing a genie lamp or believing draining blood from an animal with prayer can ever make the act holy. No. I merely have few words to describe the type of cosmic level villainy we participate in so old reliables – hell, nightmare, horror, shit, fuckery, shenanigans – lol, understatement of the millennium – etc. are all that’s available to me at the moment.
However, I am a wordsmith so with this manifesto, I will work my way towards the language if possible to truly describe the crime we have committed as a species and a planetary system as the animals learn from us and any villainy we show may end up being catching within them.
In order for us to move out of the era of villainy we must begin to approach the world from a Carbon Neutral FIRST, dirty-energy-as-last-resort-survival-tactic stance. This is key to our survival.
This manifesto is not about everything that is wrong in the world as that is its own discussion that requires a word count I have no interest in seeing to its conclusion.
Instead this is all about how to problem solve.
However, given that in the past when faced with dire problems the word ‘solution’ was besmirched by implying a ‘final solution’ to be genocide and the US has finally accepted its Nazi affiliation by having elected a burgeoning Hitlerian demagogue in the form of Trump, we must be careful of our language.
We use the word ‘rectified’ where possible, ‘(re-)arrangement’ otherwise, ‘recourse’, ‘fix’ in a pinch.
We need to be Carbon Neutral NOW. We need to protect ourselves from the damages of capitalism and its protectors and champions NOW.
Here are the principles:
Carbon Neutral NOW
Open Borders NOW
Stop All Vehicles NOW
Fix Transportation NOW
End Discrimination and Hate NOW
Legalize Weed NOW
Prison Reform NOW
Mental Health Through Nature NOW
Bodily Health Through Food and Lifestyle NOW
End War NOW
Free All Animals NOW
Net Neutrality FOREVER
DIGITAL ANARCHY, PHYSICAL COMMUNITY ECONOMICS
Why must we be Carbon Neutral NOW and not in 2050?
Because the idea that we will allow some death and destruction to take place now in order to preserve what we call peace is based on a false perception. We believe that health, population control, and safety require dirty energy for the time being and so the system has to perpetuate until such time as we can find adequate replacements.
The good news is that the replacements are here. They simply need to be made accessible and have low-tech alternatives. Plastic, for example is ubiquitous, unavoidable, in the air, in the rain, in the blood, in the water, in the clothes on the bottom of our shoes, in the tires of vehicles and even in the womb, in babies and in the arctic. Plastic happens to disrupt hormones and reduce cell quality while also holding on to toxins and having possible carcinogenic properties.
While plastic preserves food for example to prevent waste, it is also poisoning the food as it does so rendering the process useless. The answer? Bioplastics. But not just picture perfect, made in a factory bioplastics, bioplastics that can be made should you have no internet, no cargo trucks for materials, no machinery, no electricity and nothing but plant materials and simple tools and a handful of natural resources.
We should not closely guard the key to survival on this planet while waiting for a payout.
Carbon Neutral NOW requires several things to function. 1 is to take the threat to ecological activists seriously and plan for it with protection services, investigative resources, ensuring the law is first and foremost made for preventing ecocide before all else. 2 is opening up intellectual property and educational materials so that there is not a paywall to who gets to survive and who gets to be the one to save a group – white saviours have money to provide ‘solutions’, the wider public has the ability to implement low-tech recourses if the means of implementation are openly available to the public whether high or low tech in origin – things can be retooled. 3 is to take it seriously. Each time you are tempted to take a shortcut and operate on pollution rather than an earth-friendly means of survival and thriving, repeat the mantra as I have to find your strength: Carbon Neutral NOW.
It works.
The first bit is tricky. The nights may feel difficult. It’s dark. We have been taught by our vocabulary and racists as well as primary evolutionary instincts that darkness is bad. It is, instead, mystery. We get to reinvent the day AND the night. And remember, every cellphone has a flashlight and solar chargers for phones and power banks mean we can light our way in the beginning and pretend it’s a camping adventure as I did with my doggo, Juneplum.
But this is why security for this endeavour is key so that we are not worried about ending up in an anarcho-primitivist hellscape. Security forces are dealt with under ‘Prison Reform NOW’ and therefore a key part of the systemic approach. There is hardly a principle that does not rely upon the rest in order to function within this manifesto and this is what makes it a ‘systems approach.’
So when we say Carbon Neutral NOW what do we mean? We mean an end to oil and gas and plastic as the main culprits for the issues we have created. Food waste and methane are also an issue but by pursuing carbon neutrality according to this systems approach, food waste is incorporated.
The first effort will likely include activity while there is yet light, much discovery and problem rectification. You will likely think of few things to do but sleep at night or perhaps make love or tell some scary stories around that night’s dinner and camp fire with sustainably harvested wood.
This will have health benefits much as camping does, helping insomniacs especially because we most likely will have to eschew our work lives much like during COVID which we can think of henceforth as a dry run for global problem rearrangement.
Likely during COVID you went through all the TV, music, books, games and other entertainment you wanted to so this time around you may find yourself producing more than consuming. Studies show that we enjoy the things we create and feel proud of them more than if others create them. So you may expect a boost in confidence and pride in your abilities during the adjustment period.
However, it is not all glitter. As you progress through your Carbon Neutral journey it may become daunting and overwhelming. Frightening even that we lived this way or have to find a way to continue living this way without harming anything.
Food is a MAJOR issue. Not eating animals because the foods are not necessarily preserved by the fridge and vegetables and fruits are easier to use when avoiding food poisoning… This will be difficult. Food is IMPORTANT. It takes a great deal for me to reach this point as I have no huge appetite in general but I have discovered that I can go into fits of rage when hangry. Paired with global scale issues and it means I am beyond furious and have no love of humanity if I cannot feed myself clean food.
It is therefore important that we remember, as our species replaced energy sources, food will have to fuel it and the same intensity of emotion that goes into chasing oil and gas as resources to fuel us – causing war and destruction – is the same depth of feeling that will go into the food fuel. We MUST be prepared to be generous and eschew the instinct to hoard and isolate as we did during COVID.
We have to begin planting organically and no-dig when possible, everywhere. Everywhere there is arable land we plant to feed ourselves through this and use the plant material for value added products.
We must be prepared for biological attacks both from nature and humans that can possibly hamper our progress and persuade us to work our way back to ‘safety’ in our old tried and true systems. We MUST remember that this means crawling back to DEATH. It is not a viable option and the people who will suffer climate catastrophies as we work our way towards neutrality by 2030 or 2050 will die while we make small bargains with the evils of our lifestyle instead of recognizing that we are choosing evil and opt to sweat in the dark and figure out how to change it all.
Carbon Neutral NOW. Not later. We stayed home to save lives of strangers. Now, we stop the cars and the industry and the oil and the gas and the plastic. We grow food and plants and they are our main tools along with what we already have. Given that the mass of human-made materials outweigh naturally occuring materials, we have a LOT to work with. More than enough. This is ENOUGH. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
There could be detriments to health services. But what we may lose in health services we also regain. Noise pollution, air pollution, car crashes, natural disaster mitigation, crime mitigation, diet, work-life balance, exposure to natural healing processes such as earthing and getting sunlight and nature bathing, and life for every other species on planet earth, all of these are addressed in this systems approach. The approach has major, major, major health benefits.
Carbon Neutral NOW.
Open Borders NOW. Visas as a system of bureaucratisation have been used to enhance and systematise human husbandry. By this, we mean treating humans the way we treat animals – as objects to be used for the pleasure of the anthropocene’s leading figures.
Visas persist because individuals believe this is the way to preserve order, guard resources and take care of citizens first. However, this is an excuse. White Supremacy tends to believe white people are responsible travelers and other races need to prove their innocence and benefit before they are allowed free movement.
Also because of state secrets and war, states have to create ‘Us’ and ‘Them’ divisions to protect themselves from retaliation for state-approved crimes of backdoor approaches to issues instead of simply dealing honestly.
There is a belief that if migration were free people would all flock to rich countries and use up their welfare system.
However, if food is freely available everywhere, local jobs plentiful due to the localisation of industry to cottage industry and small scale production in makerspaces, and all jobs are aimed at bettering the environment and society, then any human traveler is a benefit besides violent offenders, the need for welfare is minimal and if one does not need to save up for visa after visa, one can move the second they feel for a change, are in danger, have no livelihood or want to see the world. It is a world we have all inherited. All of us. Not just wealthy or light skinned people or… Let’s face it… Former axis countries because those visas are the strongest and that’s just a fact you will have to digest.
As it stands, even a homeless person with a wealthy country passport has a trustfund in that they inherit access to the world, delivered to them by slavers and warmongerers. If anyone is a dangerous traveler, it is a person from a country that carried out chattel slavery. If anyone deserves to see the world, it is someone whose ancestors were bound in one place. Swallow it. Chew it. Face it. There is no excuse. Do it NOW.
How to Open Borders:
First of all, it needs to be immediate. One does not incrementally provide human rights, they are rectified as soon as the human wrong is identified.
Separate but equal does not work and we will not repeat the past by paying slave owners for loss of property and having a transitional period for the enslaved to ‘learn how to be free.’ No. This enlightenment period requires us to rectify what we have done in the past. Human rights are rectified as soon as we see the human wrong.
No more separate but equal even if the membrane is semi-permeable to the elite. Open Borders NOW. The formerly colonised risk your travelers each time a tourist lands. I was in my own country while being forced to sit with German tourists who were determined to trigger me with little dog whistles. We the developing world put up with you more than you put up with us and our ‘crime’ and our faulty manners and smelly food. You bring war, you steal resources, you steal ideas, you block us from economic prosperity by accepting our payments but prevent us from earning through wealth-accumulating means but those freelancer websites sure are accessible and being a ghostwriter is easy but being a published author on your own is hard. Guess what? That’s gonna bite the West in the butt; what have we written for you? What does that frustration breed? I digress…
In order to have Open Borders we must have national IDs and an international exchange of data that transfers citizen data to new territories if you opt-in.
You register when you land and then you are free to go where you want to.
At this point it is not clear what would be the barrier barring violent crime offenders. However provisions are made in the Prison Reform NOW section.
Stop All Vehicles NOW:
Cars crash. Cars run on oil. Cars poop plastic from their tires. Cars bully animals off the landscape. Cars intimidate cyclists. Cars are resource intensive penis enhancers that fuck everything in sight. Electric vehicles require lithium and can still run on oil because electricity requires oil. Fuck. Cars.
I think if your car doesn’t poop plastic and exhaust you’re safe for the road. But. We need to stop killing ourselves just to go to the mall or a job we don’t like or even for things we do enjoy because the price is our very future. Our future. Our future and not just individuals but the species, all other species, everything. Everything! For a car!!!
No. Shut down the gas stations now.
Figure out biodiesel – organically by allowing us to plant on every piece of arable land. Allowing us to build back soil by decomposing the organic crops that fail due to pests and naturally occurring failures – they’re compost, they’re future soil and they are food for the animals. What can be harvested is for us to use to power ourselves, electricity and vehicles. This can be low-tech and implemented everywhere.
There is an African leader whose name escapes me at the moment who planted everywhere in his country as a policy. He was killed.
Feeding the populace and changing our energy systems is a DANGEROUS ENDEAVOUR and that is why you haven’t done it yet, dear reader. Not because it’s not feasible. It’s because you are afraid. And you know it.
Now does that sit right with you? Are you ok with the fact that people would hurt you for doing the correct thing for yourself, your family, your community and planet earth? Is that ok?
No.
This means security is paramount. Those who would stand in our way should be stripped of their wealth or assets, left a stipend and put to live at sea during our transitional period in order to be out of the way and face the environmental crisis by cleaning ocean plastic. It is not a gulag. They have all the amenities of daily life barring a few like external communication, permission to do more than dock at specially guarded ports and the ability to gain wealth in any form of banking, stocks, etc.
They are to be quiet while we work. We also need the laws to be reorganized around ecocide prevention first and foremost, prevention of discrimination, bullying and intimidation secondarily, less punitive, more constructive. Necessary. Important task. Must be handled, immediately.
Fix Transportation NOW:
We fix transportation by addressing the fuel, the resources used to build movers and the wheels. The freaking wheels. Luckily Goodyear has made soybean tires. And we’re gonna be planting everywhere. Plant soy, reap soy, send it to a local processor who has the Goodyear recipe – hopefully we get it through agreement but steal that shit if you have to. 78% of all micro plastics in the ocean are from tires. It’s unconscionable and abominable and infuriating. No. No more. Fix it NOW. Not later when 100% of the microplastics we eat in fish are just wheels.
Since I was 13 years old and allowed on the internet my username has been Wheelsgr. It’s never taken. I had the idea of Wheels Girl even though I rarely was in vehicles at that age, metro in Paris instead and walking. But maybe my dad would talk to me in my sleep, he’s an advocate. Maybe my mom played tapes to make me an advocate without even realising. Or maybe it is just so blatantly wrong but also normalized that a thirteen year old can unconsciously rage at this stinky thing that burns horribly and intimidates them in public spaces. Dunno bro.
End Discrimination and Hate NOW:
I’m bisexual in a homophobic country. I was black in a country with some of the most lenient visa laws I had encountered but to get there I had to have 8000 euro, putting my mother in debt and I had to face intimidation from the embassy secretary who told me: You probably won’t get it. It was my boss at a Montego Bay guesthouse who happened to be German who called the embassy and berated them for making me cry by dashing my hopes of a second chance at a university education after I failed the first time due to poverty, mental health issues, and a messed up social life due to failures with men and confusion about my feelings towards women which I suppressed like a motherfucker while still being jealous of the friends and boyfriends of my ladycrush. Identity overload, I know, it’s boring, it’s stupid.
Identity matters for as long as people make it matter. I have often fantasized with friends about being a brain in a vat. I don’t give a shit about my big ol’ tiddies or wet vagina. Bro I barely care about my marginalizations. I use bro causally sometimes and don’t care it’s not gender neutral. I was a bad Gender and Diversity student. Don’t care.
But respect is important. Areas of discrimination include: gender; race/ethnicity; neurodiversity; class – language, attire/presentation, possessions, manners, legacy, education; creed – religion, cultural sect, the occult; self perception – self-esteem; climate defender vulnerabilities – doxxing (attacking one’s internet presence), identity theft, lack of resources and refusal of opportunities (already limited by their ethics), nature-centric attacks, perversions of natural principles so as to keep current systems in place and incriminate activists, rendering the internet ineffective or sinister; ability; age; nationality; informers (people who report wrongdoing); white supremacy (a whole different beast from mere racial discrimination as this is a systemic and often automated discrimination); sexuality; and the subversion and confusion of human rights education through the act of forcible implementation under imperialism; and finally, specism – discriminating against non-humans.
It’s… A mouthful. But once we are finished chewing we can see that discrimination will hit every single one of us. The task at hand therefore is to ensure it does not pay. Either by having rites of dissociation, saying you no longer wish to have to associate with a bully in your climate work group or by punitive measures that affect what the bully would earn from participation in our system. Stripping points, incurring a fine, removing them from the ledger, etc. and by this I mean I will later describe how we pay ourselves for the hard work of making the world carbon neutral and in this case, there must be a means of preventing hate and discrimination slowing us down when we have such important, life-altering work to do.
Punishment should not be permanent as then the bully has no incentive to learn or moderate their behaviour and they will think it’s all-or-nothing. But it should not be light either.
With Fastfrwrd.i[nf]o’s model, points are stripped once the user is reported with a screenshot, with the possibility of contesting with opposing evidence.
Legalize Weed NOW:
Marijuana is nature’s communication tool. Hippies, rastas, free thinkers and artists are associated with this inebriate. It is a plant in its pure form, perhaps guided towards various levels of potency but it is grown and imbibed without further need for processing making it the least resource-intensive inebriate available. Hemp is a plant with many uses as a paper replacement saving trees, a cloth replacement saving pesticide and water used to grow cotton, a concrete replacement preventing the unsustainable production of concrete, and even having fuel and battery and even vehicular applications that perhaps require work but show promise.
It is not a miracle plant. When used under negative aspects such as illegality, it can create paranoia and suspicion that render the smoker/consumer mentally unstable. It can trigger mental illness or spills – overloads.
It has spiritual aspects being so unique but also natural. Much like ‘shrooms’ this gift from the planet can make tough times feel manageable, deliver hope, create comradery and transcend barriers of discrimination. Sharing is a part of the culture of the plant, typically.
It is the cheapest way to get a thrill and it too should be grown freely. We may want to prevent children from smoking it so the female plants perhaps require a licence. But the male plants which produce hemp are also criminalised so this should be rectified and the plant allowed to grow wild so that we do not have to wear toxic plastic in our clothes or chop down trees for paper.
Furthermore this plant, being a cheap and natural thrill, ends up criminalising ecological activists who do not want resource intensive inebriates but still want the right to blow off steam. Alcohol is a value-added product that requires energy to produce. The only reason weed requires energy is because it has to be hidden inside.
I believe this affects the quality of the plant.
I have smoked almost exclusively legal weed but paranoia eventually caught up to me in year five of smoking because I still had to hide its use but I am also a bad liar and had to keep it secret from family or speak about the use on my various content streams because of its importance to me and then fear imprisonment and visa loss because of the activity. The anxiety around the smoke ruins the experience and affects the mind. Each time one smokes and enters theta state or flow state, it is peppered with a dash of secrecy and anxiety and potential for incarceration.
Legalize Weed NOW. Alcohol is legal. Cigarettes are legal. We don’t have a problem with mind alternation or smoking. Weed is not a problem. Legalize it. It’s ecological.
Prison Reform NOW:
The fear of criminalisation has hit me. My online activity has become increasingly questionable with hint-heavy YouTube playlists I have made seeming to attract attention. I included a clip from Wreck-it Ralph saying the dark web ️ was key to successfully exiting the system we are in. I believe last summer I came across people from the dark web and I feared association or what the fact that my political trolling might have brought about. That as well as my openness about smoking. When I landed in Jamaica, one of the first moments of panic was me sitting on my verandah arms crossed and repeating to myself in my head: And I’m not going to jail. I am NOT going to jail.
The threat of imprisonment reeks of slavery holdovers. One need not get into the story of disproportionate imprisonment of black people. All one has to do is ask, at what point do I have the right to put someone in a box and leave them there?
You might retort as I am to myself in this moment: But you want climate action obstacle creators put out to sea.
Well, it’s not a box and they can just like other prisons I will discuss, move freely within the system they are in.
I believe we should have reform communities that have to be self-sustaining. All those who take others’ right to life and liberty for granted should be put to learn about life and self-regulation. One needn’t be a farmer. One can be a tinkerer, creating new ways to process bioplastic and improving themselves after anger management and simpler life tasks are proven to be effectively handled. If they committed violent crimes, the community only grows foods that don’t require knives. They only perform tasks that don’t require blunt instruments. The lifestyle is made plushy until they show they can handle sharp without creating pain. They have their own means of earning and can travel to other reform communities in other countries, thereby broadening their horizons and finding a reform that will truly provide enlightenment and transcendence, but using their own earnings and accompanied by security personnel that they also have to pay for.
They have the opportunity to rejoin society once certain conditions are met and various territories can detail what these conditions are.
Police are armed with rubber bullets and tasers. No batons, no guns, no automatic weapons. All guns worldwide are confiscated and used as material for other purposes and bullet and gun production is stopped immediately.
Individuals are allowed pocket knives but not weapon knives but these pocket knives can be used for self-defense in tough situations. Police wear stab-proof gear.
Police train the public in subduing attackers and de-escalation after they themselves have learned this.
Gun production must stop and because industry is not carbon neutral and a carbon neutral gun is a fucking joke, this should work out just fine. No new bullets. Knives, pepper spray, tasers and rubber bullets – these are your only tools of defense. Also blunt instruments in a pinch.
You don’t need more than that. Some people will get arrow and bows and boy… If you can handle it then kudos. Slingshot. Whatever. Just no more guns.
As for ecocide perpetrators, they are condemning an entire planet to death and no one has punished them. Their reform community is the plastic garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean. They are to repair what they have done and give us a reason to believe they know how to nurture life and do more than tear it down. It is possible to filter ocean water with simple containers thanks to MIT scientists in order to drink it.
It is possible to cultivate seaweed at sea for eating and other plants can be grown aquaponically. My dog shook her body twice when I thought about letting them eat fish and I asked her out loud: Don’t let them eat fish and she nodded firmly it wasn’t a half nod. Juneplum does not want them to eat animals. And it is appropriate. They’ve harmed enough animals. The sight of an ecocide perpetrator who has condemned us to death holding a squirming fish is probably too perverse. So no. They use aquaponics to grow food, hydroponics, and aquaculture. They filter seawater to drink and collect microplastics to be broken down by mycelium. I don’t think it should be done by bacteria as the bacteria could one day evolve and just be plastic-based monsters that last forever. And they do not interact with others. The ships are moved the second the radar detects another ship to another place in the no-go zone. The engine room is in a boat that is detached and parallel and it is impossible to jump ship unless an emergency relay system is activated by the external ship which monitors everything by camera. Fixes on the boat are performed via drone and bots and human interaction from the detached boat is minimised to waving good morning and goodnight from a distance. They are a seabound society with their own doctors, their own nurses, their own everything from amongst their population.
This is lenient. They are killing all of us and they want to go to another planet when they finish shitting on us. They would rather see us dead than give up their money. But it’s their money that’s gonna pay for all this and we’re going to need to do something with all those decommissioned ships.
Prison Reform NOW.
Mental Health Through Nature NOW:
Many people suffer from sleeping issues because of unnatural light and demanding work schedules or school schedules or lack of ability to determine how their own time is used and how their own life is run. It is like their mind steals back that time by preventing them sleeping so they can spend their time how they really want to.
Many people suffer depression for similar reasons. Their life is not their own but they have to do what they are told.
I imagine some people are bulimic or anorexic because they know something is wrong with the food just like I thought about Wheelsgr. They don’t know why they don’t want to eat but they just don’t want to eat. I used to say when I smoked I was totally at peace and satisfied. I think in reality I did not want to eat plastic after I had seen we eat a credit cards’ worth of plastic a week.
I ate cheese today that claimed to be natural but it tasted like rape wrapped in an extinction event. Cows are raped so they produce milk and then their children are stolen and killed for veal or raised for slaughter. And the plastic the cheese is packaged in is from an extinction event and causing another.
I wouldn’t love eating food for such reasons.
Some people are agoraphobic. The world is dangerous, criminals are extreme because the punishments make it all or nothing. But also the outside is noisy, the cars are noisy, there are construction noises all the time, the outside is polluted, there’s acid rain and air pollution. If your senses are heightened because that’s how your brain is set up – like mine – my ears are my work – then the outside is awful. I have been near agoraphobic. The cars pollute, my shoes pollute, it IS polluted and everything costs.
Do you believe we would have as many agoraphobes if the streets were quiet with pedestrians and rollerbladers and skateboarders and the food was growing wild and you could plant anywhere and there were community spaces for making things with public tools… The world would seem friendly I believe.
Schizophrenics are said to hear voices. Studies show that people in the developing world hear friendly voices more than those in the developed world. I have been offered the diagnosis of schizo-affective disorder based on a psychedelic and mysterious experience that comes and goes (it is dull now for example). These voices, according to my phenomenological understanding are simulations, guideposts, omens from the wider world and a connection to the collective unconscious. It also includes heightened sensory information such as the sound of an animal – what does it sound like and how does it make you feel? Part of your perception determines whether or not these voices and external signals are to be interpreted through logic or intuition. Thought bubbles are real. And they are not just the watered down political interpretation we use. Instead they are internally-logically-sound interpretations of reality that can last a day, a week, a month, months, a year, or a lifetime. The logic corroborates itself over and over and we isolate these instances and confirm until it becomes second nature. Have you ever heard someone say: That was a trip!
They experienced a thought bubble – whether of their own creation, a group endeavour or something bubbling from the collective unconscious.
This world is made up, chaotic and abstract. There are versions of reality that are not yet fully formed. Nature does not love straight lines. It’s crooked and wiggly and free. The mind is coaxed into uniformity in our factory-like school settings. But it is still a wild thing, a blank slate capable of infinite formations.
The realities we see overlap and intermingle, break apart and recombine. By studying nature we learn how organic systems of consciousness work and we therefore learn ourselves. By studying our environment we learn what patterns have shaped our neurological makeup. Nature is key to understanding the mind and can surely help mental health.
Our gut bacteria also factor into our mental health so eating correctly helps – it is not a cure but it does help. Proper sleep helps and having time to rethink lighting and power at night can mean a major reset to our bodyclocks, like a system reboot.
Mental Health Through Nature NOW.
Bodily Health Through Food and Lifestyle NOW:
If food is growing everywhere and we free the animals as will be detailed soon, our diets will be more natural and healthy preventing lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure. Less plastic means less hormone issues, healthier ovaries and sperm and less cancer. It also means a healthy generation to come.
If tobacco and weed is organic, smokers will be healthier.
If our food have less pesticide and other plants too then the mental health issues derived as evidenced by Indian cotton growers and Guyana’s rice growers leading them to suicide is mitigated.
You may ask yourself, if all these people are living longer and healthier lives won’t they consume more resources? The answer is those resources will be less intensive on the earth and CARBON NEUTRAL NOW. Population is also fertilizer. Our poop can grow non-edibles in the form of humanure.
So those hemp plants for cloth and paper? Poop and grow them.
Pinatex from pineapple for leather replacement to make shoes that don’t poop plastic? Just make sure everyone knows those pineapples aren’t for eating.
If we are planting everywhere we are walking, we are exercising, we are getting fresh air and sunlight and we are like plants so we need it. If we are building and repairing and unpacking we are exercising.
This is lifestyle health to the max.
End War NOW:
Putin’s war must end. The Israeli nazi state while ironic has outstayed its welcome as a cosmic tragicomedic spit in the face of humanity. Fighting for oil is passé. Fighting for resources is fucking annoying. If we focus on Carbon Neutrality then the war machine MUST grind to a halt. It simply must. It has no place.
There MUST be a treaty to pause all gloibal conflicts until Carbon Neutrality is achieved. There is no place for war in the world we are building.
Industry will halt and so will the production of bombs. Nuclear weapons will be dismantled and used for energy if possible and discarded if not. You’ll need the energy anyway and you will NOT threaten us with annihilation rather than give up your weapon to threaten all humanity and the whole developing world who do not possess such weapons and yet allow your countrymen to soil our territory with their behemoth steps – I’m sorry to be insulting now but it is infuriating. You hold our lives in the balance and then say WE are a danger to YOUR societies! Shut the fuck up and get rid of your fucking nukes and don’t come here until you do you fucking bullying… Ok. Just yeah. No nukes.
And shut down the bombmakers.
But you know why you haven’t done it yet. You’re scared of them. You’re afraid. They hold your life in the balance too.
Is that ok? Should they be the ones in charge or should they be at sea, learning the meaning of life instead of threatening to annihilate a WHOLE PLANET that has existed for millions (??) of years!!!!!
NOOOOOOO! You don’t have that right have a fucking seat at SEA learn how difficult it is to cultivate life instead of threatening to shit on everything you fucking small dick….
This gets me really angry. It needs to stop.
Ok.
Done with that one. You know it’s wrong. You know it offends the senses to threaten a whole planet including every species evolved here. You are just scared. And we should be cause they’re fucking insane. Take them away from anything sharp, pointy, or boomy NOW. TRANQUILIZE them, take them to sea and have their trial at sea, away from the button and put them on disused ships as a separate society of people who do not understand the value of life and make them learn it. NOW.
Free All Animals NOW:
Animals are smart. Animals have personalities. Interacting with them, you learn and see that there is so much more to this planet than just the human world. We have subjugated and abused animals, blowing them up to full-size like balloons when we get hungry with hormones. Slaughtering them with machines like their lives and experiences mean nothing. Keeping them in horrible living conditions then slapping on some medicine so they can be edible despite mistreatment. Eating them, killing them, controlling them, controlling how they procreate, neutering, keeping them inside, selling their children. They are seen as property rather than fellow inhabitants of this planet. People will pray and have their meal and thank their god for helping kill and eat the dead of a mother’s child.
People may want to eat animals. But how do they do it? How would they like it if a cannibal did it to them? How would they like it if aliens landed and saw our foodchain and decided to follow suit? We have to ask ourselves questions about how comfortable we are with blood and flesh on our hands. Could we slaughter with our own hands? You can pick a fruit with your own hands can’t you? Ask yourself what is the difference. It’s an ethical issue I don’t have all the answers but something about a fish flopping around, gasping for breath, I don’t have to be a bleeding heart. I just have to imagine it’s me. Drowning. Because they drown in our air.
Free factory animals. And let our pets have more places to roam. Less cars will do that. Why do you think the dogs chase and bark after cars.
Net Neutrality FOREVER:
The internet is a free territory. It is what the American West was purported to be. The internet championed the idea of free services, free access. Increasingly it is becoming less free – data must be sold, ads must be played, subscriptions must be paid. But the internet started out idealistically and it should remain so. This freedom is necessary for our future because if we are less mobile, our telecommunications have to be free and open.
DIGITAL Anarchy, PHYSICAL Community Economics:
Our digital world is a playground and as much as I have been bruised by it the reason it hurts so much is because it costs to repair the damage. If we have makerspaces everywhere and free participation, tinkering and remaking things and understanding your electronics is doable. It helps to restore trust.
Community Economics means that we can prevent anarchy IRL. If we are interdependent economically in social groups of varying sizes then it is in our interest to maintain society in order to persist economically. If food and plants are growing everywhere while one is free to pick whatever one wants the group might decide to focus on a particular specialization based logically upon region and available tools for value added production. This requires consensus and designation.
Finally we come to the final topic which is the case study I present on https://fastfrwrd.i[nf]o – please visit in safe mode if you visit or view Aleya@mastodon.green for a recap of the statuses. [Safe Mode no longer necessary]
Fastfrwrd is a gamified approach to climate action. The points can eventually with collaboration be translated into cryptocurrency. It makes sense to pay users for site use if it is hosted on ecological servers that return a surplus of energy to the grid. This can be done through GreenGeeks or by using WebNeutralProject. Each post and status update is by nature an ecological benefit even shitposts. But it does not stop there as with the gamification, points can be assigned to posts that have an ecological benefit and categorised as such according to what topic they fall under. These memories, statuses and bits of evidence help document our journey to a better world, keep our community abreast of what is happening, provide insight into what approaches work in different circumstances and also show the work – proof of work – and then the points gain their Blockchain potential, monetising climate work.
This alternative currency proposal can be private or public when using WordPress Buddypress installation.
With a few plugins: Youzify, MyCred, Buddypress, your preferred security plugin (we’re talking about potential money, be secure) and a contact form for reporting abuse, remember to set up your permalinks on WordPress and you are ready to go with a basic setup. Bells and whistles possible.
However, WordPress has acted unethically, selling out their blog users to OpenAI in order to turn a quick buck. Must be hard being the entity behind something like 48% of the world’s websites, just gotta make some money somehow, so difficult.
Fuck em. I propose taking their code, reworking it and making a Fastfrwrd ecosystem called The FMR – the Ephemère or ephemeral – and we have a WordPress based Mastodon-type ecosystem with intercommunicating points systems, various iterations for paying for climate work and a group consultation process for comparing notes, arranging events, developing plugins and keeping things Opensource, ethical, inclusive, diverse and carbon neutral if not a net positive.
Here is the final word. I read a statistic that 10% of the world holds 85% of the wealth. If that is true I refuse…. I absolutely refuse to let that remain so. No. Not ok.
That money belongs to the world. No one needs more than a 100,000 USD per annum for each year they have been an adult. No one. No oneeee. I have been on the cusp of celebrity and looked into my needs, financial, security, leisure. 100,000 per annum is sufficient. You can’t do anything to earn the rest you just can’t you don’t deserve it you’ve done nothing to deserve it, no.
I have lost two laptops. All data on the phone I’m on currently. I have been hacked. I don’t have much non-toxic food to eat. The money in Jamaica is plastic so I don’t want to earn it. But even so every time I apply for a grant it is usually of a 100,000 USD and I can spend it easily but I still don’t think I need more than that in a year.
In order to fund Carbon Neutrality to replace oil, gas and plastic we need to invest heavily in low tech solutions – yes, sorry, your fancy degree will make you feel like you’re stepping down a peg but yeah low tech first. High tech later when industry can prove itself capable of actually, truly supporting life by operating Carbon Neutrally.
No one is ‘coming for you’ if you earn more than 100k a year. We are simply saying your time on earth is not so valuable that you have all the resources to outmaneuver everyone. We have to secure all our futures, not just yours. That money just is not yours in the first place. You borrowed it from the future.
Ok.
Manifesto complete. Are you ready? Are you frightened? How do you feel?
Let’s get going. No time to waste.
29.04.24 Edit: The word that comes to mind to describe the state of the world at the moment is ‘Unterbang.’ It means, to me, an underlying and persistent stench of fear.
04.06.24 Edit: I feel it must be emphasized that healthcare will be the emergency exception to this systems approach, we cannot forfeit health but it is remarkable that in order to save one human life, ecosystems are damaged.
06.06.24 Edit: I know the opening paragraphs are dramatic but it is a valid paranoia given what happens to activists in some corners of the world like Amazon protectors. White protesters may get brutalized. Brown and black agitators get strategically eliminated. If I’m being biased I’d like to know. And if you’re a lurker from my discord sorry for the drama. I prefer being overly cautious than actively negligent.
12.06.24 Edit: For the time being BETTER, MORE STRINGENT TAXATION ON THE RICH should be used to buy offsets to green the energy grid, support water and tree planting including bamboo, fruit trees and medicinal trees. Water and social projects too. All the same, credits and offsets and investments made with the intention of reducing energy needs at all and transferring to carbon neutral measures asap.
12.06.24: Anti-environmentalists are a war waiting to happen. And they can’t wait for it to happen too. By putting them out of the way we are bubbling a war like Steven flipping Universe. We can fix this but we have to recognise what it is; a genocide in waiting.
Written 23.07.24 typed 16.08.24: The word that I “fastfrwrded” – fast for word – during my Carbon Neutral strike is ‘foodfret’.
Foodfret is the act of low level persistent anxiety pertaining to one’s future food security. The food fuel required to provide a just sentence for ecocide – calculated and purposeful ecocide – is hampered by hangriness and foodfret in this manifesto. In truth, ocean cleanup should be voluntary. Greening deserts and tundra should be voluntary. Because saving one’s life everyday requires a desire to live. The ecocidal don’t quite have that. This manifesto was written months ago. I came down to earth months later. Why? Because I believe a small but powerful contingent is doing this on purpose.
It is too convenient that undesirables – innocent in ecocide more or less – are dying first. Someone is benefitting from our demise and they deserve a prison sentence, not being sued. Ecocide is not ‘white collar crime’. It is death. Murder. The answer is reform, oriented prisons.
Finally we have to plant hydroponically, catching rain and desalinating ocean water so as not to exhaust soil. This way crops can be easily sheltered from weather events while continuing to grow and allowing soil to replenish given that we only have around 60 years of arable soil left. The challenge here is to be able to grow all types of vegetables and other plants hydroponically and making desalination affordable and renewably powered. I believe biomimicry might be sufficient to draw in water that becomes fresh from the sea. Then you only need trucks retrofitted with solar power to pump the water and deliver it where it needs to go.
Edit 28.10.24: One note. I don’t love crypto. I make it as a throwaway option. Mycred can also be backed by FIAT currency where people can possibly cash out for their drawdown or emissions avoidant eco actions. I don’t have a good enough fix to our predicament but I must now learn from experts to find out the true answer. It includes carbon taxing and redistribution of wealth to ecological industrial and business processes.
Edit 21.11.24: Regenerative agriculture seems to be sufficiently adept at rebuilding soil.
Edit 13/12/24: Also not a size queen. That was improper.