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All over the planet, farmers farm.

Land. Crops. Pests.

Control. Order. Balance.

Sustenance, self-supportive, overabundant.

For a moment, this blog is just a bunch of words that seem connected.

Are they?

When we see...

See what?

Perhaps I should not be here today, feeling out of balance like I do.

But if balance does not exist except in concept form, then why not be here?

What for?

You are either the eldest child who will inherit the family fortune and land holdings or you're not.

You either find yourself producing virile offspring or you don't.

And when you're not one or both, then what?

Do I think too much?

Taking a step back instead of putting my better foot forward?

When all the forms of family life appear before you, when you see every healthy and unhealthy trend in daily living, when you see the future for the way there is no species preference, when do you stop seeing and start acting?

Unplugged from the Book of the Future, I float freely. Unattached is unrooted. No clear beginnings or endings. No sharp definitions.

Unfocused. Fuzzy. Thick fog set in for the long haul.

Anybody can study social trends and report on them. Anybody can see futures with no moral imperatives or implications. Anybody can create histories out of the building blocks of the stuff of life. Anybody can invent new words, phrases and technoelectromechanico gizmos.

I am not anybody.

I am me who is trying to be not-me.

Narrowing the field of our vision toward one purpose - healthy, holistic thriving of our species in whatever form(s) it takes to populate us on more than one planetary body.

In that vision, I do not exist. WE and we only together exist in that vision.

Thus, I am me and not-me at the same time.

It takes a variety of substances to make a great meal.

This moment determines the moment a thousand years from now (when years will not be the sole method of measuring the changes from one moment to the next).

In this moment we are evaluating how to classify the people who migrate from one part of the planet to another, we are evaluating the laws we and/or our ancestors created to manage our behaviour, we are evaluating the definition of what it means to be a member of our species and thus we are determining our future in this moment.

I want the next moment to surprise me so I put the Book of the Future in someone else's hands for a while.

Surprise me with your positive, constructive solutions for the problems in this moment. Find a way to redefine your enemy so you both can feed your families and enrich your safe, happy lives. Rechannel your fear and hatred toward opponents in sports arenas.

Don't fight intolerance with intolerance - figure out what it is you or your opponent wants (or is willing) to tolerate before you engage each other on the battlefield.

A zero-sum endgame - a stalemate - is not a solution; it's pinning a point on a map, expending a lot of energy to move away and returning to the same point without making any progress in any way.

In other words, the future is started in this moment but it doesn't end here although we may loop back by here occasionally in our repetitive loops and recycled solutions.

But that's okay.

A farmer may plow the same number of rows every year but never in the exact same spot.