REVOLUTION NOW !

THE REVOLT OF THE MILITANT GARDENERS

by Wm. H. Kötke

The use of the word Revolution will cause the secret police who are doing
world-wide electronic surveillance, to open another file (Hello! Project Echelon).
That’s just fine. Those dinosaurs need some alternative information. The
information for them is that they, the governments that employ them and the
bankers that own the governments, are on a severe downhill slide. The growth
system that they depend on has reached its apogee. The fuel of that growth over
the centuries has been topsoil, forests, fish stocks, clean water, petroleum and a
dependable climate in which to grow food. That’s all over now; industrial
civilization has eaten it all up. The most creative ideas of present world leaders
is to make money and grow big - that’s it! The machine world of industrial
civilization is dead. The hollow personalities and biorobots of the planetary
ruling elite have led the human species into a cul de sac. The joke is, now that
the human species is facing extinction from mass die-off and the final nuclear
exchange over the last of the resources - these fat men in business suits are down
on the floor scrambling for the last coins. What a joke!; take power in a
crumbling civilization that is hell bent on planetary suicide? No thanks. An
exponentially exploding population, each with expanding material consumption:
based on dwindling resources, and a dying planet, will not work!

My German immigrant grandfather was a hard working sawmill worker with five
children, who built his own house and lived frugally in Northern Idaho, until the
depression, when the sawmill shut down and the banker locked the door and left
town with all the sawmill workers’ savings, just like hundreds of other bankers
around the country. But did the sawmill workers learn anything? No, they lived in
a controlled information environment. They were saving up for a 1949 Chevrolet
after the war. They liked Ike. They even said that some of the leaders were born
again Christians. They were led along.

My family progressively lost their independence in the slide toward

dependence. The grandchildren do not have the skills to build a house. My mother
grew up living in a hole in the ground called a “dugout” on a homestead in Western
Kansas. They were survivors! None of the children have those skills. We have been
forced into specialist slots in the industrial machine. We make money in order to
purchase our survival systems. We live a life of powerless dependency upon the
financial powers who sign the paycheck and sell the food; powers who’s money web
connects all the way to the International Bank of Settlements in Switzerland. The
world power of money controls our lives.

The Inca civilization that covered a huge land mass in South America
functioned without any money. There were no poor people in that society. The money
power came and smashed their society. They stole their art objects made of gold,
melted them down and sent them away to the bankers of Europe. The living standard
of the native people of that area still has not come back up to what they enjoyed
five hundred years ago.
 In the U.S. we have a similar icon which stands outside the money system.
Those were the Minute Men (and Women). These were independent, self-sufficient
people with power. At any point they could drop their hoe, grab the musket and go
fight the British Empire. The leaders of industrialism dumped vituperation on
them, calling them “homespun.” They were probably angered that they couldn’t draw
these people into the money web of profit and interest. These people were too
powerful. They depended only on their neighbors. They raised their own healthy
food. They built their own buildings. They grew the flax and spun the cloth for
their own clothes. The money system could not get leverage on them. They were not
part of the system that produces profits for the thin layer at the top.

We can vote and vote and vote, for the stooges in business suits that the
ruling elite props up for us, but militant gardeners are already rallying to the
cry coming out of Western Oregon, “food not lawns!” The guerilla gardeners are
already dropping seeds in vacant lots and railroad right-of-ways. The suits want
to rig the game so that we have no representation? Well, we will just take over
the food supply of the country and dump the corporate cronies from the industrial
food system, in the creek In Russia after the fall, sixty percent of the food
supply was grown in citizen gardens. As we get more power over our own survival
systems, we will target the real estate parasites by creating our own solar heated
and hand made houses.

The basic fact of empire is centralization of power. This is where the

militant gardeners really hit them where it hurts - in the pocket book.
Decentralization is the word that causes trembling up and down the halls of the
International Bank of Settlements. As the militant gardeners achieve power over
their own survival systems through self-sufficiency, they extricate themselves
from the web of the money power. Decentralize now! We take power over our own
lives by our creativity! When the planetary food monopoly has collapsed, we will
offer food to the suits of all countries, in exchange for dismantling the nuclear
weapons which are armed and aimed at us and are so frantically over-produced they
are capable of destroying each others societies twenty-eight times over!

Already we can hear the cries of those in coveralls holding pitch forks.
Land reform! We, the descendants of our great leader, Emiliano Zapata say, “Land
to the tiller!” The ownership of our planet has the same configuration as the 500
billionaires who control more wealth than half the world’s population.

THIS REVOLUTION WON’T BE EASY - WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR MINDS

Do not ask the militant gardeners what they think about the present
planetary civilization, ask them how they feel about it. Industrial civilization
has created an over- intellectualized culture for us to live in. We live in
industrially produced, artificial environments and we are provided with an
industrially produced artificial media reality for the intellect to chew on. We
are the culture of the intellect. We are the specialists who know more and more
about less and less. We as a society, intellectually understand a million dead in
Iraq, but have no feeling about it. Death and life is simply an intellectual
equation for the industrialist, but life is a feeling for the militant gardener
who is encouraging life to grow. Reality comes down to a cash nexus for the
industrialist and reality comes down to the intelligence of the heart for the
militant gardeners. The intelligence of the heart has already produced whole,
enveloping, conclusive feelings about the present planetary situation while the
narrow intellect continues to churn out details.

The superpredators of empire have stolen our being, and as the Native
American prophet, John Trudell says, they are feeding on that energy. The empire
has defined our power away. Militant gardeners know that high school science
experiments show that germinating seeds which are prayed upon grow more vigorously
than nearby seeds that are disparaged. The ruling elite’s definition of what a
human is, says we can’t do that. Everybody has an aunt or a grandma who has
precognitive dreams. That’s out too. Many have uncles or grandfathers who
communicate with plants and trees. Why are these human abilities - and many more!
- kept secret? They are kept secret because the empire has defined us into
powerlessness. If we believe we can’t do those things, we can’t. We are living
beings and we communicate with the living beings around us through the
intelligence of the heart.

The intelligence of the heart allows the militant gardener to have respect
for life itself. This is the political program: respect life, cooperate with life
and help it grow here on our blue planet.

The economics of the gardening revolution is the solar budget. The climax
ecosystem, such as an old growth forest or a natural prairie, is the most
efficient at producing volume of photosynthesis because climax ecosystems have the
greatest number of species per area (biological diversity). Photosynthesis, which
is the initial energy feed of the living planet, then becomes the standard of
economic measurement. As individual plants grow old and fall on the soil, the soil
community transforms this energy into food for new plants. This is a biological
energy flow system. The economics of gardening is to add to that energy flow and
to restore ecosystems in the surrounding area. The Solar Currency would then be
generated by the increased health and vigor the humans were adding to the earth’s
life (growth of biomass per acre).

Militant gardening is only a precursor to growing our own lives, the lives
of the children and the life of our village. Love is the power of militant
gardening. Experiments by high school students show that love makes plants grow
better than those disparaged. Gardeners also grow children.

One does not plant the seeds until the soil is prepared. In a gardening
village where conscious conception is practiced, parents who have made the choice
to conceive would be especially loved in a ritual manner by the elders. Medical
research has shown that the future child will be shaped by genomic imprinting of
the parents and the condition of their genes before conception. The conception
itself, in a gardening village, would be ritually accomplished with the full
conscious intent of the parents and village.

The celebrated medical researcher, Bruce Lipton has demonstrated that the
DNA of the fetus in utero changes with impacts on the mother. As the mother
perceives reality and reacts, her body produces a set of particular hormones from
among the large inventory that we have. The hormones flow through the blood and
trigger actions by various organs. These hormones then get her body ready for the
event she is perceiving. They also go in the bloodstream to the baby which reacts
in kind. If the mother is subject to fear-stress, then hormones of the flight or
fight nature are produced. This cuts off blood to the forebrain and gives it to
the reptilian brain for a physical response. In a fear based culture such as
industrial civilization, there is constant stress. Gardeners know that when plants
are stressed they become unhealthy.

Many hundreds of medical studies have shown that babies born to anxious
mothers will more often suffer a wide array of diseases and disabilities and die
sooner than others. What these new medical revelations point to is that money has
nothing to do with a child’s ultimate flowering. In a village, where gardeners
could sing, chant or communicate in some other regular way, with the baby in
utero, this would add to the baby’s healthy growth by spreading the love
vibrations to it. Each human is an extremely tender flower that can be injured by
fear, anger and violence. The more care we can focus on growing children, means
the more healthy and bright our children will be and the better chance our species
will have to survive. This is true progress and growth.

In a village where the growth of life is the practice, the child bearing
women are the centerpiece. The child bearing woman is the mother of the village
and the hope of the future. It is from this biological fact that the structure of
village society can flow.

The CIA and other spook degenerates have been fomenting revolts around the
world and naming them with advertising words, like “the orange revolution,” the
“velvet revolution” and such. Contrarily, the revolt of the militant gardeners
could- legitimately- be called, “the revolution of the flowers,” because every
garden has them.

Wm. H. Kötke has been disturbing the establishment and committing thought crimes
for a long time and is the author of, The Final Empire: The Collapse of
Civilization and the Seed of the Future and Garden Planet: The Present Phase
Change of the Human Species, which can be viewed at www.gardenplanetbook.com.