Strange, Deep Culture

Strange. Strange that if we and our fellow Earth species are to have any hope of survival, the one thing we need to do economically is the same thing we've been told never to do economically: STOP growing, contract, stop buying and selling shit, stop making most shit, even stop consuming many leisure experiences. We all see how such activities are incompatible with the persistence of life. The Earth can't take it anymore. Strange warm weather, strange cold weather, strange dreams, strange Canadian geese that seem to fly south and then north and then south again in one season through the mottled sky. What is happening? Children feel uneasy. Uncared for? The late Gary Gripp, who I knew only through Facebook, talked about "deep culture," that the changes which we need to make have to occur on that level. He thought it was a long shot - not because he traveled in cynicism - just based on an understanding of how people tend to be... We all wish we could do more. Some things cannot be done alone. Perhaps many things cannot...