Re: do we need a master game manager?

[Bagelhole1@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/7/99 2:37:29 AM, rverzola@phil.gn.apc.org writes:

<<However, by breaking up this globalist tendency, the Y2K crisis
exposes its weakness and creates the conditions for systemic
transformation.>>

This is a rare opportunity for radical change, transforming the
paradigm, of one against the world, to us, a sense of the human
family. People are capable of anything, we are extremely adaptive, we
could be cannibals, but most prefer to die from hunger, or saints, or
in between. We aren't this and we aren't that, we are fluid, subject
to change.

But how is it going to happen, if this opportunity arises, albeit
fraught with grave consequences, as grave as it is could be grand its
not going to happen magically, without a struggle of some sorts. But
what sort of struggle is necessary?

The struggle is getting the appropriate contingencies in place before
the deadline.

The appropriate contingency beyond the obvious stockpiling (many lists
exists now), in my opinion, is self-sustainability for water, shelter,
food,  and fire. Many people in cities can grow their own food with
columnar planters made from chicken wire and cardboard where they
could grow 60 plants in a diameter of 14 inches. In cold climates,
under simple glass structures, but there may be better methods using
the technique known as aeroponics, where no soil is used.

I have collected many ideas about water, and keeping warm and figuring
out how to have a fire or cooking source. There are many areas that
can be prepared for, so that no one needs to suffer unduly, nor die,
nor would martial law be necessary. And this, was the other side of
your discussion - martial  law globally could lead to one world
totalitarianism/gov't.

But my list for cheap and simple ideas for self-sustainability is
hardly started and the next step is to harvest the ingenuity of
mankind thru the net. We owe everything to the internet. The computer
will transform our world both by being on and by not working. Oh
wondrous tool.

For some people y2k is only midlife crisis for baby boomers, but for
us, if we agree to act and lead the way, it will be the whole purpose
for our existence, our raison d'etre, our manifest destiny.

They say, "When the entire Universe passes through the hole in the
bagel, that is when the transformation shall begin." I believe that
time is now.

                                            Co-bagelly (in infinity),
                                                   bagelhole1