Notices by Cr0w T. Robot (cr0tab@hackers.town)

The terrain used to be sacred.

Your house, the hill, the woods, the town. The distant tower or the mountain was the axis mundi. Over there, across the water or down the road was outside.

We've stripped away the sanctity from the land. Every place looks like every other place. Carefully antiseptically contrived and branded and marketed to be comfortably familiar non-places.

We worship abstract unrealities now. Untethered in time or tradition or ideology. adrift and amorphous and isolated and neurotic.

All the better to sell us single non-transferable use sacrements in disposable plastic packaging.

The only responsible reaction is to rebel against purity. Find meaning in ambiguity and individuality. Bind your days and seasons and hours in rituals and wards against the amnesia of capital.

@y0x3y I'll boost YOUR mood buddy!

(You're a good person, and the fediverse is lucky to have you, so THERE.)

I cannot avoid old age.
I cannot prevent all sickness or injury.
I cannot avoid death.

All I love will change and be taken from me.

All I own are my actions. I am born of my actions, heir to my actions. I shall be judged solely by my actions. They are the ground on which I stand.

Every percentage change reported in the article:

Monarch Butterflies (90% decline) - United States
Rusty-Patched Bumblebee (87% decline) - United States
Flying Insect Biomass (75% decline overall 82% at summer peak) - Germany
Partridges (80% decline) - France
Nightingales (50% decline) - France
Turtledoves (80% decline) - France
Largest King Penguin Colony (88% decline) - Crozet Islands
Bluefin Tuna (97% decline) - Global
Estimated Global Wild Animal Population (60% decline)
Arthropod Biomass (98% decline) - Puerto Rico
Beetles (72% decline) - Netherlands
Moths (54% decline) - Netherlands

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html

The more I read the more I'm convinced that if a phrase is short, pithy, and doesn't involve at least one pun that only makes sense in prakrit; Siddhāttha Gotama didn't say it.

https://fakebuddhaquotes.com