Plan B

The world was made for man and man was made to rule it. Our culture was born through this simple idea marking our beginning and subsequently marking our destruction. Yet no matter how simple it is to see the flaws in our premise, we fail time and time again to escape the fate we shaped for ourselves. Why? The lack of a better story.
A person cannot truly exist without being a part of a story. Our culture chose a story to enact during the first days of our “revolution” and now as the final chapters draw near, those who fully comprehend what the end means are scrambling to jump into a new chapter book. Problem is where is one to jump into? Where is the glorious story that a new way of life will be born through? Where is the story that we can escape to? What story will be enough to save the world?
We as a culture are held captive. A few lucky souls can see the absurdity in the story our culture tells everyday. And others, the ones who follow the story religiously make it close to impossible to escape. The picture our culture painted and the web that Hitler wove both contained the same vital connection. Progression leads to advancement leading to fulfillment, leading ultimately to destruction.
So we are all a part of the same small group trying to escape the reality of a story that binds us to a world we would rather leave behind. Yet how do we leave our story in the dust? Our existence is linked to the story we choose to follow; however how will we exist if we abandon the only story we know? Easily said, we can’t. One cannot exist without a story to be in. So we need a new story. We need a story that unlike the one Hitler presented provides a means for living without sacrificing the lives of others. We may choose to live a different way, but others may chose to follow the original story and there is no way of changing that. Yet the world could be saved if we accept each story as a story, but exist in one that works for our needs. We need to exist in a story that doesn’t have destruction written between every syllable.
Ishmael presents a leaver culture and a taker culture. The taker culture is of course our culture and is therefore failing as perceived by common knowledge. This taker culture believes
there is no knowledge of the right way to live and therefore is blind to the alternative story that presents itself throughout all of nature. If there was correct way to live then how do the animals live in harmony? How does the balance of nature correct itself time and time again as it has done since the creation of the earth? The takers believe there is no right way to live yet the proof is written in the very core of the elements. It is also very possible that we are wrong about having no alternative story to escape the story of our culture. Again, these beliefs are so closely related is a shock we haven’t caught on quicker.
The right way to live is written in the world our culture cannot touch no matter how hard we work to. This very possibly is the reason we cannot control the forces of nature. How would one recon with the core principles of the right way to live? No wonder our culture’s story was doomed from the beginning. There is no possible way to change nature because there is no possible way to turn the one true way to live into the wrong way to exist. Our story told us to attempt the impossible and here we are now, looking for a new story in places it is nowhere to be found. Our search is rather futile however, not because there is no alternative story to be found but because the story we are looking for is written within the ideals of nature. The new story is written within the core principles of the right way to live.
When man chooses to follow the ways of nature and “live in the hands of the gods” as Ishmael puts it, man is choosing to follow a new story that works, a story that has worked since the beginning of mankind. I do understand there is no way our culture can digress back to the life of a nomad. In no way however does that mean that mankind is not capable of incorporating leaver fundamentals with taker technologies. To follow the ways of nature doesn’t mean to
become dependent upon nature. It simply means to follow the core principles nature presents. Be true to your territory, take only what you need to support yourself, support others in the way you would support yourself.