This is not a test.

Stop. Look around you. Ask yourself a question. What do you NEED. What do you have that you can USE for your daily needs.
What resources do you have that you can share? What things are necessary to you and your family’s survival? How do you get your water? Your food? Your nutrition?

We are living in the times of the collapse of the very foundations of the financial and economic systems that we have been trained to depend on for our survival. The people that have used this system to their advantage at the detriment of the masses are scrambling faster and faster to avoid the inevitable. The bailouts are not working. Systems that are built on unsustainable principles can no longer survive. Paper money is meaningless.


We have been using a system of trading our energy for paper that we then exchange for our daily survival needs, plus the many other things we do not need. This paper is becoming more and more worthless every day at an ever increasing rate. The monetary systems are breaking down. These are the facts, if you choose to open your eyes and look around you.


It is time to get together with your friends and family and talk about what it is we truly need for our life. Food, water, heat, clothes, medicine, nutrition, community. None of us can do it alone. We are in the times that are going to require all of our collective resources to be brought to the table. It is time to take inventory. This is not a drill, and this is not fantasy, nor is it illusion or conspiracy. This is real, and it is happening faster and faster every day. The global financial system that has allowed our global community to reach the stage we are now living in is coming to an end.


What does this mean for us? If there were no power, no running water, no food trucks delivering tons of food into our city, how would we come together and feed ourselves? How will we gather the collective resources we share, and make sure that everyone in our community is taken care of?

I propose that it is time for us to come together, all people, and start this dialogue. We are the ones who we have to get through this together with. There may be no outside forces bringing us our daily bread. The empire is falling on itself from the unsustainable weight it has accumulated. We cannot continue life as we know it for much longer. We can no longer depend on farmers thousands of miles away to grow our food. The time of Great Change is upon us.


This time calls for every person to suspend their learned ways of “more for me” and to ask themselves “what can I give?” and "what can WE create?". This is not a test. There is no room for fear to cause chaos either. We need to start implementing plans for the sustainable continuation of our communities. We need to start producing our own food.
How many greenhouses are there in the Twin Cities? How can we grow food all winter long to feed the 2,850,000 people in the Twin Cities area? How can we use our collective wisdom to begin this project?

I would like to discuss these issues with anyone who is feeling and observing the state of our present system and sees the time of transition coming closer and closer. I do not want to cause fear, panic, or chaos with these words. I want to inspire us to come together like we never have before, and make plans and start projects that will ensure a sustainable way of life from this day on. It is time to ramp it up a few notches. Does anyone else feel this way? Let’s get together and see what we are capable of.


Peace

Nate Stevens

10-07-08