Too Much to Process?

Too much to process? “I don’t know where to begin,” how many times have you uttered this to yourself? You and I have probably lost count, know that you are not alone! Is it your mind or mine ‘shutting down?’ A collective pause it what our world needs. But an individual pause, to take stock and filter our cluttered minds and lives has never been more urgent.

News cycles and social media for so many people has become a primary source of news as a result of which we’re permanently anxious. So anxious that it is estimated the average person checks a smart phone over 150 times a day! It has a direct impact on memory and learning ability as well.

Climate anxiety, climate change, climate catastrophe are a some of the media chatter we hear or read about every day. It is exhausting, terrifying and most times counter productive to the cause. Like an overflowing To Do list which often sits on your desk. As does my over flowing To do list, because we simply do not know where to begin.

Climate change should be off to a running start with an unfair advantage. But it’s raced off the rails instead because it is aided and abetted by misinformation and an intent to downplay the seriousness of the situation. Governments, businesses, educational institutions are some of the powerful drivers of information suited to their convenience.

We are in perilous situation. If you are a climate change denier, may be we can help you reconsider your position. Can you see climate change? Yes, in the form of floods, ice caps melting and extreme weather conditions. Chances are by now every climate change denier has lived through an extreme event. That event is climate change. Maybe where you live each summer is a little warmer, longer and increases in intensity. Climate change in action is for your real time classroom.

If schools, colleges and universities have been slow or unwilling to educate, the technological age gives you the freedom to go learn on your own. Educators who open your mind to the idea of change, are accepting of change themselves. Those who view their jobs as a 9-5, set holiday routine, are merely doing the work of imparting information. Not building knowledge. Anyone can learn facts and pass tests which is vastly different from internalising knowledge. That is your tool for a successful life, not in monetary terms, but as a active positive contributing member of your community.

Live, is the operative word here, how long can we expect to live while we destroy our home? And what do we want to leave for our children? Would you take a sledge hammer to your home. Begin with smashing holes in the roof so when it rains outdoors- it pours indoors. That is what we’re doing to a planet that is only home our children will inherit.

Hey, teachers, leave those kids alone

Are Vegans the MTV generation of the food world? Anti establishment and extreme?

So many Bricks in the Wall. All with teachers thought control.

“How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?”
We learned, listened and look at where it’s landed our planet!

Does anyone else think education needs a reform? How long do we pretend sanitised class rooms for a handful of elite institution students is going to save the world?

Another Brick in the Wall

Pink Floyd

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teacher, leave them kids alone
Hey, teacher, leave them kids alone

All in all it’s just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall

We don’t need no education
We don’t need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers, leave them kids alone
Hey, teachers, leave those kids alone

All in all you’re just another brick in the wall
All in all you’re just another brick in the wall

Wrong, do it again
If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pudding
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat yer meat?
You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!

Source: Musixmatch

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Food & You are in a Toxic Relationship

You know the relationship is destroying you, but once you invest, it’s hard to turn back. Societal pressures, pride, and financials are usually the factors which keep people in unhealthy relationships. Then there is the bottomless pit of hope of a better tomorrow – or in this case a better meal. The better meal like better days never comes.

Walking out is not the cowards way, it is a survivors path. Walk away from toxicity, not struggle whether it is food, friends or family. As science advances we want to ‘follow the science’ but refuse to change because we stay for the comfort of familiarity.

Staying in a manipulative relationship damages more than the two partners. The imbalance of power inevitably tips one way because on party surrenders. Their will is broken and mind moulded and once that is achieved, the stronger toxic partner is in control.

Like the food on our plate, the toxic partner let’s you believe you’re in control.

This view is not about building frivolous cases of abandonment. There is a fine line between tough and toxic. We we chosen to ignore the truth and stay for the kids, money, societal pressures toxicity is emboldened. Your food choices are driven by that little toxic partner in your head, guilting you into the flavourful foods.

Decades of well packaged convenient bits of information like bits of your favourite snack pack wear you down one event at time and one snack at a time!

It’s been referred to as the ‘Industrial Food Complex’ and once you gather the courage to dive in and unravel information you free yourself from food propaganda.

Educational institutions have enormous value and can become the leaders to help our children find the truth. But you have to question institutions and families who stick with a meat and potatoes diet because they’re afraid of the approaching the salad bar.

We (human beings) have never had such a democratised system of information. But we cherry pick our information which is quite literally killing us and our planet.

Never let your mind believe breaking away is failure. It is courage at it’s best.

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