this time he came upon a group buildings.
It was an industrial complex. it had belching smokestacks and all kind of material feeding into it and all manner of stuff coming out..
he entered a low long building . . It had two huge long cages bisected by a gravel path .. and the cages were filled with chickens ..tens of thousands of chickens .. .At the door, a man was cutting off the chickens beaks so they wouldn't fight each other due to the crowded conditions . Then he injected them with a needle . Some kind of drug cocktail...... . The smell was awful so he didn't stick around.....................................what kinda life is that
Then he came to an open field that was planted with a single type of plant.. a monocrop not just one species of plant, but all these plants had the same genetic code.. .. they were called clones.. not just clones but their identical DNA had been altered in the laboratory.. they were genetically modified organisms, GMO's , altered for maximum production, and for bug resistance . .the plants didn't even need to be sprayed with chemicals because it produced deadly toxins within its own cells . . any insect eating its leaves, stems or fruits would die a horrible death . . gnat could see at least 4 problems with this system....
1/the unnatural genes could spread unpredictably
2/it could kill lots of beneficial bugs
3/it could affect humans when they eat the poisons
4/ and in princible, genetical engineering is unnatural .created by man not nature...its like nuclear fission,which is also man-made and look where that man-made radioactive junk has taken us ... by the hubris of a group of greedy individuals .who are in way over their heads . toying with nature . .messing around with it. .creating something so complex and dangerous....in fact.... creating something deadly and uncontrollable . we have no idea how DNA works . . . .in fact it may be magjical and you dont want to screw with magic . . .
the next building he went into made widgets .. . a lot of them . . .It collected the raw materials from all over the Babel Land . at super low prices . . then fed them into different assembly lines each with many robots doing all the manufacturing tasks... the pre-widgets were finally sent into the last assembly line which ended in the packaging of the finished products . .all this just employing a single human being, a jack of all trades whose duties were to program and repair the robots... . and no people were involved in the manufacture ,, warehousing or shipping .There were robots to do all that. robots being the new slaves. ..The major cost was electricity and that was kept low .. .so there were huge profits for a very few owners..the capitolists....and the corpses/corporations they controlled . if it were a zero sum game ..the rich get richer and the poor get poorer , ,in a democracy it should be none are left behind , , ,and none are way out in front .. . . ... . both behind or in front there are dangers . . .. to your soul. , , , ,,.like jesus said ... the rich man can't go through the eye of a needle , , ,
And touching on profits .. . there was a huge grey tube snakeing out of the building .. a tube much larger than he'd seen before . He followed the convulsing tube. It made its way over to an enormous pile of money. There the tube disgorged all that money into the pile . .. .and that pile just kept getting bigger. ..The biggest pile of money the world had ever seen..Crawling over it were scarlet spiders, lots of them . Caring for the pile, Feeding the pile. And. Sitting quite comfortably on top of the pile was a large pink octopus.. whose tentacles had never touched the ground.. super rich... he didnt care about anything but money.. riches . .and how to hang on to it and how to get more.. the pink octapus had never known Nature, or spiritual thoughts.... just profit and loss.. how to get one and avoid the other. there was no love here except for money.. and the hoarding of it .. .
then Gnat spoke to all the spiders on the money bag and the pink octopus. . . and in the noosphere all words must be true
gnat :
If power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, then there should be a limit to the accumulation of personal wealth allowed in our society..for the good of the wealthy and of society .. If there is a minimum wage why not a maximum wage ..if there's a limit on how much we can borrow, then there should be a limit on how much the wealthy can hoard . . and past a certain point, the hoarding of cash is monsterous.. ... Also, if the economy is a zero sum game .. then, the richer you folks get, the poorer everyone else gets .. .and consider , in late capitolism.. alot of the work has been completed .the research has been accomplished.. . the computers have matured into a commodity .and .we can get by with a smaller workforce.for the essentials.. .This frees up alot of people to do what they actually want to do . .. . so what to do with this surplus labor? What is needed is the ability to be self-employed. and the computer helps with that...Often the self employed are artists and artisans but these artists would inhabit a niche market.. a niche market that could exploit the internet .. . . in the book "Long Tail" by ...Chris Anderson .. he talks about the market for ,say, music,, is huge . . at the top end of the market spectrum alot of music bought , but at the tail end only a few units are bought .. but everyone lives . .in the long tail is survival . . .for the many ..
But the money spiders on the money bags didnt like such talk one bit .. .and the big pink octopus hissed orders to his slaves .."shut this fool up" and so spiders came from all over, surrounding him, and tried to stuff money down his throat ..that didnt work on gnat, since his ego was small. So they tried to build a coccon around him made of money .. . anything to keep him silent .. well gnat got out of there fast . .
he kept going downhill... seemed the best plan..until he finally came down to the ocean, which was smelly with lots garbage floating on it. He walked along the beach..carefully.. trying not to step on any dead birds or tar balls . . he came across a stranded humpback whale .. still alive, but barely....!!
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it was grunting very loud..gnat could feel the vibration go thru his whole body . .he'd never seen a whale before,, but this was not a healthy specimen.It had several open sores around its face and some white patches on its body..While he stood there silently witnessing the scene.. the whale lifted its head ..and let out a high level scream held the scream for a few seconds, then his lifeless head fell back to earth..gnat cried and laid his hand on the corpse...saying a short prayer....he tore himself away .. he continued walking down the beach. Off shore In the distanc he could see an oil rig.. it was on fire and spewing tons of black smoke ..into the sky . . ... . a horrific vision . and it was eerily silent.
he walked on and saw in the distance a huge fire .on land . . .burning out of control,,, and the wind was coming from that direction.. so it was blowing the smoke right at gnat ,, the smoke was tan and, , it smelled funny , , ,irritating , , ,it felt like smoking a cigarette . . .only worse , , ,he pulled a bandana out of his pack and tied it around his neck... and over his face .. .. he tried just breathing thru his nose . . .it helped a little . . .gnat wondered aloud , , , , , ,"oh my god., , what could possibly be worse . . .."
...he walked on down the beach , , ,untill he came to a Nuclear Power Plant.on the shore . . . he could tell it was a NPP because the sign said Fukushima NPP.. the plant was in ruins. with a heavy dark yellow smoke wafting out of it and blowing offshore away from Babel ... whatever the smoke touched would be contaminated for life . . the land would be radioactive..would be ruined for human habitation..just think of it .......if the wind changed .capriciously. .. and blew over the city of Babel .. then Babel would be finished for ever . . . .on the ground ..there was junk everywhere and there were a group of men dressed in white plastic suits with snorkels and masks and fins , looking like albino penquins ..they were just standing around while someone took their picture.. and once again there was the ubiquitous grey tube going to the huge money pile.. a tube that was the biggest tube of them all.. the granddaddy of all tubes..gnat felt as far away from nature,, truth,, love as he'd ever felt in his lives...
The NPP reactor vessel with its deadly cargo, , , , ,its chism . .was shaped like a giant silver dildo .reaching skyward. Instead of testicles it had a donut ring at its base..and .as he watched, the ground started shakin..another earthquake.. but this was no run of the mill EQ.. no this was as an EQ bigger than any EQ in recorded history.. and it lasted over 10 minutes . .at least . And now, a siren went off making a terrible sound. It hurt his ears. Remember that gnat was in the noosphere, a special place where only the truth exists and nothing is invisible.... So when the giant dildo started spewing out radioactive filth into the sky, ..the radioactive particles weren't invisible..they were visible as a dense dirty yellow smoke in the sky. plain for all to see. Why even the ocean was turning yellow .the wind changed direction .. .. it started blowing towards Babel... there was no GAIA to steer the air currents away from danger.... He ran all the way back to the city, shouting "Fukushima..Fukushima.. Fukushima" ..The yellow cloud was engulfing everything.. .and everybody. It was getting darker ... for some strange reason the siren.. the warning sound about the disaster was shut off .. and there settled over the land a eeeary silence.. with nothing happening . . like it was forgotten .. like everything back to normal and yet the sky grew darker