Envision This: The year is 2213 and you are walking along a street
in a village sitting just outside of what used to be the south west
section of Baltimore, Maryland called Maiden Choice. She's almost
coastal now...another 5o years, they figure. You gaze around at the
variety of row homes dating back to the 1950's and before, while
dreaming of the time when people often worked for companies such as
Westinghouse, Kaiser Aluminium, or the Baltimore shipyards.
Back in those days, most of these organizations were unionized.
But, alas, you realize from history that the unions were busted by
the power elite who wanted cheaper labor. This desire coupled with
a union heirachy who also became greedy themselves, leading them
into less than ethical behaviors. It was truly yin and yang, Labor
Class and The Man, mirroring one another. The behaviors of Labor
thus allowed the corporations that critiqued the unions to attack
without mercy (though the criminal behaviors on both parts were
similar and were driven by greed). Ah, but who would ever say that
the unions just sat hand-in-hand with the same greedy aristocrats
that ran the corporations. Who could even say, in those days of
muted mouths, that the problem was the System?
Back in those days, people believed that progress, both economic
and technical, was endless. They believed that soon people would be
flying around in Star Trek like space ships and visiting, and
perhaps even colonizing, other planets! The future was bright in
our views from the 1960's and 70's (well I bet some of the beings
on the other planets were a little bit nervous about our plans
since Star Trek was often about carrying on the war emphasis
inherent on Earth).
At any rate, we of European decent had colonized the world and were now looking to do the same with the entire universe. There was no end to our greed, or so we thought. What we did not realize is that there truly is a never-ending potential within us for change and evolution! How ignorant were the masses in ancient times!
Indeed, our modern day Maiden's Choice was turned into a working
class paradise of apartments and row homes. And, they were indeed
well built, for many still stand and serve as homes and providers
of local businesses. There was another good thing about the area.
There was still some grass running alongside the now carless ruins
of the Baltimore Beltway, and the apartments and rowhomes that
still had small parcels of land.
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Maiden Choice Row Homes in 2013
No longer do we look at these yards and see barrenenss. Now, as we
all know, there is a vibrant array of food and flowers on these
parcels of land! Why, we've grown enough now to where we trade with
what used to be inner city Baltimore. Oh, we are definitely a
significant part of keeping this great city lively with its arts,
goods and services. Of course, southwest neighborhoods like Ellicot
City and Catonsville also help. We all team together to support the
remaining town.
Of course there is still the mystery of whatever happened to
Washington D.C. and its surrounding areas, including Columbia,
Maryland which was in between Baltimore and Washington. The whole
area, which included Northern Virgina, just disappeared one day in
2032 in a giant cesspool born of the mighty Potomac, Patapsco, and
Rappahannock Rivers. A putrid Lake formed in their place. At the
edges, life has reclaimed the area as a swamp filled with giant
sized mosquitos that are said to devour anybody 6 feet tall and
shorter. If you can get past that, there is great fishing in the
depths where Laurel used to be. With Baltimore being close to
Washington, we are constantly on the lookout for some of those
monsterous creatures evolving in that area. At any rate, the swamp
and lake happened one year prior to Wall Street's crumbling into
the rising waters of the Atlantic Ocean during the Great Ecocide
that killed off both ecology and economy as humanity had once known
it.
Our world is much different than it was back in the 20
th and beginning of the 21st centuries. Back
in those days people lived under the tyranny of the corporations
and banks which in essence owned the government. Yes, those banks
knew how to take the land without even a gunshot! They just charged
people exorborant rates of paper money, and computer dashes, which
in essence were illusionary pieces of paper and electronic "ons and
offs" that had no worth at all! Well, sometimes they did carry what
was called "change" made of nickle and copper that had a little bit
of worth. But, overall, they concocted one massive hallucination
and deemed it a financial system! And pretty much the entire human
race fell for it! They called it brilliance and lauded it as
"Growth"; we call it stupidity and condemn it as grotesque. Guess
it depends on which side of the fence you walk.
The grand goal driving governments, banks and the corporations was
world rule. Their desire to dominate everything created massive
die-offs of plants, animals and eventually us human beings. While
our numbers used to be in the billions, and we lived on top of one
another; today our numbers are a lot fewer and we are spread out.
Yes, sadly we remember the Great Ecocide as a period of massive
genocide, though scholars are divided on whether it was intended by
the Empirors as "population control" or simply collateral damage as
the Empire collapsed. I tend to be in agreement with those who say
"some of both." Either way, we've got to admit that for "World War
III" what we got was a massive war on all Life.
Those deaths; however, were not in vain. Indeed, they provided the
gift of today: people being empowered at the local levels. We now
realize that its at the local levels of individuals, families and
communities that power truly resides. We now understand that our
"place" is more than an owned plot of land, but rather the source
of our livelihood to which we owe a great debt of gratitude and
reparation.
With great foresight, the visionary early 21 st century
editorialist, remembered in history as Grand-Pa-Pa Rob Kall, called
this a bottom up power structure. This is what we have today!
Bottom Up Rule. It is throughout the world today but isn't called
anything! Its simply the Way! There were others like Rob Kall
living in those transformational days that realized a need for
drastic change. They became the foremothers and forefathers of the
world we have today.
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