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    The Yellow Book Manifesto
    The Yellow Book Manifesto
    The Yellow Book Manifesto
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    The Yellow Book Manifesto

    By Joseph W. Kuhl

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    The most passionate, accessible, and over-the-top eco-rebellion activist manifesto of our times. A Deep Ecology dive into framing the problem of false narratives about our natural resources and the economic pressures from outmoded paradigms of labor and capital. This is followed by a call to arms to recruit New Earth Warriors to wage a battle of ideas and action against the 'abiotic' worshippers of finance and neo-liberal consumer capitalism towards a world view that measures true wealth in bio-mass, bio-diversity, and sustainability. This manifesto comes a time of great crisis on our planet at the onset of the Covid-19 Virus. After decades of dire warnings, we continue to fight wars over fossil fuels, waste our precious natural resources, and toxify our people. The time is now to completely change the way we view our role in the biosphere and transform our means of production, consumption, and energy use. In fact, the pandemic has already started transitioning us into a post-consumerist world. Nature is at work on us. This timely work is provocative, radical and necessary.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJoseph W. Kuhl
    Release dateMar 29, 2020
    ISBN9781393384663
    The Yellow Book Manifesto
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    Joseph W. Kuhl

    Dr. Joseph W. Kuhl was born on the move living in a dozen different cities before he was 10 with his carney family before being sent to the Grease Wood Boys Home in Hezbollah, Georgia from which he escaped at age 15. He spent the next 12 years digging holes, raking leaves, painting historic homes, pouring drinks and agitating as a Neo-Marxist among redneck cadres.  A compulsive peripatetic, he expatriated to Morocco, Andalusia, Niger, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Ecuador, Afghanistan and Lao PDR. He divides his time between a trailer in rural Georgia and a caravan in what was once Europe.

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      The Yellow Book Manifesto - Joseph W. Kuhl

      1. Preface

      ONCE UPON A TIME, LONG, long ago in a land far away, a young man came upon an ancient book hidden in an attic.  The tome, written in a strange code, was deciphered only with the aid of powerful hallucinogens that he found in the crate alongside the book.  Under the influence of the substances, he was able to decipher the code and hear the voices that guided him in updating the work for contemporary audiences.  The Ur Book of Gaia, as it is understood throughout the ages, is a corrective and the source of social revolt in times of great peril.  It was clad in a bright yellow animal hide cover, so the young man called it The Yellow Book Manifesto. What follows is the story dictated to him by Gaia.

      2. Ideology

      YOU’VE LIVED AS A CITIZEN in a great city. Five years or a hundred—what’s the difference? The laws make no distinction. And to be sent away from it, not by a tyrant or a dishonest judge, but by Nature, who first invited you in—why is that so terrible? Like the impresario ringing down the curtain on an actor: But I’ve only gotten through three acts . . . ! Yes. This will be a drama in three acts, the length fixed by the power that directed your creation, and now directs your dissolution. Neither was yours to determine. So make your exit with grace—the same grace shown to you.[1]

      The Fundamental nature of our political, economic, and social systems are based on both human and environmental domination:  patriarchy, capitalism, neoliberal economic imperialism, racism, sexism, and economic classism are all systems of domination and are extended to the natural world. The world religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, as well as Hinduism, are types of psychological, emotional, and environmental domination. Economics is religion. Religion is politics. Politics is control. Control is the exploitation of humans, animals, and natural resources for the benefit of the minority stakeholders who profit from these systems and the misery of their fellow human beings.

      There must be a complete rejection and overthrow of these systems of thinking, being, and doing. A true New Earth Warrior believes in these revolutionary principles with as much fervor as any preacher or holy man. Our fundamental principles are informed and supported by science and empirically tested out as personal truths by our individual communion with the natural world of plants and animals where plant consciousness speaks the truths into our souls. The System is desperate to deny us a look behind the veil of the cosmic order, but we have ancient medicines to help us see what you fear to gaze upon under the power of ayahuasca, peyote, psilocybin mushrooms, ergot rye, and indole ringed plants still undiscovered. What is it we see there?  The ineffable oneness of humanity with nature. The interdependence and unity of humanity and nature. The supremacy of nature in creating and nurturing human consciousness. We are not separate from the tree, forest, or sea:  we are simply the tree, forest, and sea evolved into consciousness of itself within this life form we call human. We have seen this, felt this, studied upon this, and fully incorporated ourselves into this, and now we stand, and we are ready to fight for it. What follows is a Declaration of War against all who are attacking us and a call for rebellion by all who are under attack. Governments and their military and police apparatuses will be met with armed resistance in every city, town, village, street, and field. As we are already under armed attacked by the corporate police state, violent insurrection is our only hope of salvation.

      3. Opening Salvo

      THERE IS A SPECTER haunting the planet, and it is the rapacious hydra-headed monster of neo-liberal, consumer-driven global capitalism that has emerged from two thousand years of anthropocentric practices towards the earth spawning a hideous welter of offspring:  racism, fascism, totalitarianism, anti-humanism, religious fundamentalism, consumer insanity, depression and madness from the institutionalized practice of eco-terrorism that has laid waste to our biosphere.

      The crisis is upon us. The emergency sirens wail but are drowned out by the incessant clatter and rattle of cable news, sports, and endless talking heads creating a swirl of noise to fill our heads and confuse us to the truth before our faces that we can all see, feel, and choke upon. NO! Things are not alright and not as they should or could be. And NO! The great Captains of Industry and Leaders of State (now one and the same) do not have everything under control and have driven us to the precipice of global destruction. The human inhabitants of Spaceship Earth are themselves now threatened with the same extinction that they have wrought upon thousands upon thousands of other species.[2]

      Our planet is not so much dying, as being murdered, day by smog-choked day, night by gas-flared night as the non-stop, wholesale extraction of irreplaceable natural resources is sucked up by the engine of global capitalism, turned into consumer goods, and just as quickly cast into waste piles higher than our greatest mountains. We bury it out of sight, this garbage. Toss it to be swallowed by the sea. We dump it in Africa, Asia, and anywhere else poor enough to take this toxic mess and have their men, women and children burn it, breathe it, and pick through it for bits of copper and other usable items to sell back to us at pennies on the dollar. Entire ghetto cities in Brazil have sprung up around the refuse of its middle-class citizens with the job of recycling post-consumer shit and selling it back at pennies on the dollar.

      The air in every major city is not fit to safely breathe because of the forced dependence on fossil-fuel burning automobiles and trucks.[3]  Rivers with lovely names such as the Savannah, Cuyahoga, and Bubble Creek are so toxic you cannot set foot in them. From Italy to Indonesia, the waters flowing out of their hills carve a poisonous path through the rapidly vanishing woodlands and jungles. The vast and mighty oceans surrounding us are now choked with algae from chemical runoff from unsustainable agricultural practices; discarded, single-use plastic refuse has formed gyres beyond the scope of human imagination melting under the sunlight and filling the bellies of fish and birds and sea-going mammals until they die of starvation or toxic shock. Coral reefs are dying off in massive swaths as the temperature rises. Glaciers and ice melt runoff raise sea levels that threaten to swallow our coastlines and displace hundreds of millions of people, creating a wave of climate refugees that will overwhelm Europe and North America and Asia. And the ware told everything is

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