LETS TAKE THE NEXT STEPS ALL TOGETHER NOW

[Bagelhole1@aol.com]

      e-mail to Resilient Communities interactive Satell. cast 1/22/99
I would like to suggest a way, and see what you all think. 1.I think
we need to prioritize creating self-sustainability for everyone,
home-owners, apartment dwellers, homeless and poor, neighborhoods,
with low-tech, home-made style self-sustainability ideas. If we can
come up with this list, by bringing this idea to the attention of
everyone we can, mine the ingeniousness of humanity thru the web, to
have this list in place, within 3 months, so that when the general
public is aware of the possibility of infrastructure breakdown for an
indefinite period there will  be a place for them to direct their
energy and implement to make the self-sustainable neighborhoods,
globally.

      Otherwise they won't know what to do, just like right now, other
than the idea of stockpiling, they will have something to do:
implementing these ideas as fast as they can.

      The challenge to the y2k conscious is to get this type of
substantive contingency in place before 2000. Then no one need die or
suffer unnecessarily, nor do we need the imposition of martial law, no
need for global panic, as the shit approaches the fan, and we lay the
groundwork for what people (mostly) seem to be craving in their
hearts: a  new better way of living on this planet. That is,
self-sustainable, ecological, no waste, mutually co-operative, web of
autonomous communities to which we are all members, fluid, consensual,
interconneted through the web, various, multidimensional, unique, non-
sovereign. Only the individual is sovereign. This would lead to the
end of violence dominated, waste/suicide culture that exists today.

      First, the funky self-sustainable part before 2000. Create the
safety net, the organic structure from the grass roots.

       Not everyone needs to be working on this right now. 2. There
are many other issues that need to be addressed. Like nuclear
missiles. While governments still exist they have the premise of being
responsible, and they need to be made to dissemble every nuclear
missile that exists before 2000. They have no right to jeopardize the
planet by keeping these intact when y2k threatens, by creating the
possibility of them accidentally going off. A huge list of people, and
organizations, created thru the web is one way of exerting pressure on
the powers to be is one idea.

      3. Another priority is gaining help from those gov't. orgs that
are there to help, and don't quite know what to do. There is many
instances where the government have indicated their willingness to
enter into a mutually co- operative mode with citizen action groups
and volunteers. The Redcross, Fema, DOE, Gov't emerg. groups and orgs
like NERT(neighborhood emergency relief team). They need to be
directed towards publicizing the call for lo-tech sustainable ideas,
stockpiling for endangered or challenged communities like homeless,
disabled, drug dependent, poor people in projects, hospitals,
pharmacies, locating and coordinating  parts for maintenance of all
mechanical devices, organizing collectives and whereabouts of
resources and skills are a few things these orgs. can help address and
sponsor, citizens providing the manpower along with skills and ideas.
And many other areas that people can add to the list of what needs to
be addressed.

      4.  Committees or  task forces can be created over the web or
elsewise to co-ordinate all the activity that is going on everywhere,
to make sure that the best of the best is easily available, and that
it is consistently improving. A lot like what the Cassandra project is
doing already. All these activities to be carried out by volunteers,
those who hear the call.

      Simplicity is key to everything, faith in the process, try to be
a model. Community building is the antidote to alienation, one of the
things that have unhinged so many people. It is healing. Only need to
control your need to control. These ideas have come to me from the
Universe, they don't belong to me or anyone, do they make sense, could
you show me the flaws, so we can improve them. I'm tired of so much
talk, leading nowhere.

        Let each of us be guided by our hearts, not our fears, not
outside experts. The meaningfulness of life is directly related to how
much you allow yourself to care, in my opinion. Lets stop having the
blind lead the blind. Group mind is thru the internet, I realize most
of the world isn't connected to the Internet, but we are not
forgetting about these people. They can be communicated with
appropriately thru media and hard copy. But they will learn anyway,
soon enough, and we don't need to necessarily "educate" them. We just
need to provide for them, thru organizing over the web, creating the
appropriate lists and making them available, and addressing what must
be addressed now. We can do it ourselves. The internet makes it
possible.

      Freedom is directly related to responsibility. The more free you
are, the more willing and able you are to shoulder the responsibility.
The ability to respond to what's happening right now. We all need to
be free, you can't be free if you are addicted, attached/dogmatic. I
realize that we are all capable of the entire range of human
behaviour, human nature is fluid, adaptable. We need to be flexperts,
drop all our sticky attachments, notice our deep interdependence and
change it to interdependance.

       All of us can be self-deluded at any moment, this obvious
realization, should keep  our minds open. Each one of us has the
ability to discern to determine what is really real, so that our
response is appropriate. Fear and greed have alot to do with
obfuscating the reality and causing distorted and inappropriate
reactions.

       When people, put aside the tendency to compete thru egos, and
pull together in our big moment of truth, and we can feel at last, at
home, with all of humanity, take a deep breath and  breathe a deep
sigh of relief, accepting our differences and individuality, but
acknowledging our equality, in our insignificance, in the fact that we
all share the same dilemma and ultimate destiny, in that we are all
more or less, relatively speaking, the same distance from the source,
or whatever unifies the Universe, that our only hope is to drop the
shit and pull together. . .

      We can begin to joyfully acknowledge the hope and possibility
that exists in times of chaos and crisis that is in each of our
hearts, right this moment by some sign or action that any one can
initiate  and people can stop and discuss at each of the interactive
sites and report back if your group has any ideas to take this
further. In other words is there a consensus or are there concerns or
objections. That is what needs to be shown now, I should think.

                                                        In Unity,
														TomO (bagelhole1)