Gasland and Sharklet technology

I really don't know where to begin. I watched the movie Gasland and that is where the connection to the bleakness is. Immediately I wanted to know how on earth we are going to brighten this bleak and stark reality. Wow, it seems to be far worse than I knew. Death seeps into the earth, the life giving waters, spews into the air, can it touch the ethers? Does it make the fires more dangerous?

I watched and saw perplexed by men who want to promote this "product" who know at least some of the cost to people living on the lands that have already been poisoned. I cannot begin to comprehend as my teacher said; "what would you have to think to think that?" I cannot begin to imagine. It seems to me that they are infected, corrupted by an illness that prevents them from seeing the value of life, of the natural world. I tried to imagine how we might really help healing, wholeness, holiness return to the land.

Then this morning I learned about sharklet technology, about the fact that patterning plastics prevents the growth of bacteria on them. Already used on marine products the new frontier, perhaps a more important one is in medical technology. Killing bacteria doesn't work. In fact the effort to kill all the bacteria manages to kill about 99%, but then the 1% left is the strongest 1%. Hospitals are losing patients to bacterias that are resistant to antibiotics. So creating an inhospitable environment for the browth of bacteria seems like a much better option.

I thought about the way that this country lays things down in haphazard disorganized fashion (mind you I am far from well organized in my own life and home). I have often wondered what it is about germanic cultures like Switzerland, Germany and Austria that enable them to function so much more efficiently on timelines. Driving through Switzerland I have seen architecture, parks and even grapevines organized into patterns that please the eye. I wonder if this organization actually reduces social/mental illness. I spoke to my friend who lives in Germany and she said there were some really devastating affects lingering from world war II. She also said that there is a much more diverse array of political orientation there which I compared to our more bi-polar leanings with a sprinkling of individuality. I am not terribly politically savy and I know the liberals and conservatives in this country are not quite all fitting into two comfortable baskets, but even so, as I understand it there are more diverse political groupings in Germany including a very strong green party which big business must contend with.

Back to my original idea: In Boston, at the museum of science there was an exhibit of M.C. Escher's work and on the wall there was a quote by Buckminster Fuller who said something like: I don't think about aesthetics when I begin to try to solve a problem, but if the answer I come up with is not elegant then I know it isn't right. Could the importance of organizing the shakti into more beautiful patterns also create environments in which unhealthy social attitudes simply do not take root and grow?

I think about the beautiful healing places I have been whether wo/man made or naturally evolved. I think it is true that the spirit of what grows in such places is far more healthy, whole and inspirational. I wonder how much is held together by the sri principle, how much must be cultivated with clear intention. I would have thought that the root of the environmental disorder was in the attitudinal positions of those living there, but how much can a truly beautiful and harmonious environment alter attitudinal orientation? Well, many questions arise as I write this like the beauty of the places where very wealthy people live who are willing to devastate the lives of others and the natural world. But still the question begs to be asked what can we do and how? And if we believe that mass consciousness grows as we heal in community then perhaps it is there that we need to organize the shakti to empower the healing as fully as possible.

Your thoughts and comments are welcome, as usual.