For us to believe in the future, we need to believe in transformation, that structural change can happen.

It’s like cooking a potatoe. When you put it into the boiling water, it is hard. All stuff of the potatoe is hard. It takes time before the potatoe softens, and some people would not believe that it could be soft because that potatoe has never been soft before. But at some point the potatoe starts to change, and it becomes soft at the outer layers, then it becomes softer deeper and deeper into the potatoe, until it is completely soft. The transformation is complete.

In a similar way as how the potatoes fundamentally changes it’s structures, the structure of social relations can also fundamentally change. We can achieve societies where we live locally, slowly, in cooperation and samlife. We can loken Gaja. All the potatoe stuff would need to be in a soft state to achieve transformation, whereas all people would have to gain a lokening attitude to achieve transformation.

So we loken Gaja by finding the transformational attitude.

The transformational attitude has some properties.

1. The transformation state cause lokening.
2. It is highly spreadable. Easy to communicate and engaging.
3. It is highly resonating. It is attractive or feels natural.

To find this attitude, we need to go into ourselves and understand ourselves, our relationship to our world. Because once we find ourselves, our truth starts to shine, to our peers, to our surroundings, to our language communities, to our world.

Going into ourselves means to stop hiding ourselves and start being expressive. To reveal our truth. To unlid our bloom. To show what it is to be alive.

To see that everybody benefits from cooperation. From the very lackest to the very hoardest. The hoard may have luxury, but they are poor in soul. The lack strives for survival and has little time for bloom. The inbetweeners are too busy upholding the overledge structures to think about their own bloom.

By moving away from the competitive society, we become one humanity that stries for meaning rather than superiority.

When we say need to move away from competition towards cooperation, thats called a relighting. Relighting is when we change our relationship with the world. To paint the world with another word. By relighting, we change how we think, change our attitude, change our shine.

Relighting shows how we have changeforce. The force to change ourselves. The bloomforce.

Sightsteering is another changeforce which means to take somebodies attention with the goal of changing their attitude. The force to change our surroundings. The shineforce.

Culture is the act of growing together. Cultures can travel accross the world. The force of changing the world. The waveforce.

And lastly the idea. The force of giving birth to a potentiality. The seedforce.

Changeforce can bring the transformational attitude which can loken Gaja. But only if we believe.

Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good. Unless you are a world leader, using a paper straw, recycle, advocate to consume more responsibly, might be as much as you can do as a single individual.

Get your paper straw. Immediately poke it through a massive plastic lid. All of it’s still coated with plastics so it can’t be recycled anyway. Top drawer.

Down By Law

I take comfort in the fact that life has always sucked in some way no matter who is running the world or how they’re doing it. The old “it could always be worse” is a cliche, but it’s always true - except for the one person who has it worse than literally everybody else - and that can’t be you or me right now, because at least we have internet access. Buck up, li’l camper!

I hope for a better world, even if it has to rise from the ashes of this one.

Why use a straw?

Meaning is more important than optimism. You don’t have to like it, you just have to care.

I find comfort from entertaining a view that is a close relative of the “block universe theory”. YMMV.

I find that adopting “leave no trace” not just as a backpacking code but as a core moral value changes my estimation of succeeding in life.

First, survive. Next, stop harming others (and go vegan). Finally, help others survive and grow. Supposedly that is enough to keep one busy in life.

The connections we have with individual people, as individuals, are world-changing. Think small. Don’t think about fixing the world, think about fixing things for your loved ones, your local community, your town, etc.

There’s an idea I read about recently in Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown which says to consider a flock of starlings, wheeling and swooping above a field. There is no leader; each starling acts only in accordance with the starlings that are nearby, yet all together they create a beautiful, intricate, coordinated pattern.

Be a starling and act according to your nearby starlings. Change is made by a thousand small actions, a thousand small starlings becoming a whole flock. I don 't think I’m doing the idea justice here, but it’s brought me a lot of comfort <3

Don’t drink from paper straws. They contain forever chemicals like PFAS. This change away from plastic has just been a fuckup.

I’ve never studied paper straws under laboratory conditions, but I did use them in my lunches throughout all of elementary and high school. So I’ve personally experienced approximately 2000 of them lasting long enough to finish a drink in a reasonable time without turning to mush. On that basis I call BS on whining about this like it’s a significant problem.

I’m chasing a girl, that’s it. I just imagine that things work out with her and I make sure to stop thinking about the world

can’t we just have lids with tear away drink holes like coffee?

Very easy. Control what you can, accept what you can’t.

The world may be burning around us, but that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun. When the house is on fire be the one toasting marshmallows.