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THE MANHATTAN PROJECT,

NO, ITS NOT DABOMB!

WEVE GONE THE WRONG

YOUVE COME A LONG WAY BABY.

Mannahatta was the name given to the lush green island shown in the top half of the picture above.

The word means island of many hills in the language of the Lenape people, who lived on the island for around fiv

housand years before it was discovered in the early seventeenth century by genocidal, profit seeking europeans.

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Not content with claiming, raping and utterly destroying the land, the invaders also stole and perverted the name a

well. So now, it is Manhattan, which Im sure many will recognize as the lower, and I use the word advisedly, half ohe image.

On the higher island, there was clean air and pure water. There was abundant animal and plant Life, which sustained

hriving native population, providing them with all their needs. They were stewards of the land, who never took morhan they needed and never intentionally destroyed the ecosystem in the name of profit. In return for their complianc

with natural law, they enjoyed a self-sustaining, self-regulating and self-contained biosphere that supported them fo

housands of years.

These godless, primitive savages were well informed in terms of the knowledge needed to sustain themselves and

heir environment. Individuals were educated from birth in what was necessary to ensure the survival and well-beingheir society. They learned that cooperation, sharing and placing the best interests of society before self were crucial

ontinued survival. What they were NOT taught was how to exploit each other and the environment to the points of

death and destruction.

Who knows what civilization might have eventually developed had this society not been obliterated by the lust fo

profit and power?

However, you cant stop progress.

On the lower island, there is no natural, potable water and the air is barely breathable. There is no plant or animal Li

present that could provide long-term sustenance for the population, even if you count pigeons and rats. There are noufficient, naturally occurring materials that could be used to provide shelter and likely no one there who would kno

how to use them even if there were. There is constant manipulation, deception and betrayal in the quest for power an

success and very little voluntary participation in activities intended to benefit all the members of the populace.

f the modern island of Manhattan were cut off from the rest of the world, the population might be unfortunate enou

o survive a year or two. The conquerors have managed to destroy, in less than five hundred years, a vibrant, thrivin

nd bountiful ecosystem that the primitive, unschooled and ignorant aborigines managed successfully for five thous

Now I know there will be many who scoff at such a point of view, who will wax eloquent regarding the great

progress that the city of New York epitomizes. They will site the unmatched culture, art and opportunities fouccess that exist there. They are entitled to their opinion and I will not debate them.

They wont talk much, however, about the stress, crime, poverty, filth, pollution, disease, oppression and desperatio

hat are the main hallmarks of that city and most others of its size and character.

As Mick was wont to say, Go ahead, bite the Big Apple. Dont mind the maggots.

There were doubtless many flaws in the society of the Lenape. However, genocide, gratuitous hatred, pathological s

nterest and unrestrained destruction of Life-sustaining resources for profit were apparently not prominent among thSuch traits are not attributes of a five thousand year success story.

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Below, you see two pictures of the same part of town, Times Square, then and now.

n which neighborhood would you prefer to live?

Must it be the one or the other?

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s there no way, given what we know, our incredible technological capability, our innate ability to cooperate and to

work together for a common goal, that we can strike a balance between these two worlds?

Yes, there is.

Peace is the way.

t can only be achieved by putting an end to greed, which will put an end to the need and consequent lust for profit,which will put an end to war, which will allow us to apply our abilities to learning, fully understanding and abiding

he highest of laws; the laws of Nature.

The only way to end the avarice that presently holds sway on Earth is to provide for a fully informed populace, not

misinformed, not uninformed, not deceived or misled by dogma inculcated. Education, the provision of true and use

nformation, not indoctrination and propaganda, is the key to knowledge. Factual, pragmatic knowledge for all, notdeology, not faith based conjecture, is the root of the tree of understanding. Peace is the fruit of that tree.

There is nothing other than individual, pathological self-interest that prevents humanity from using its marvelousnventive capabilities and technological proficiency in compliance with the natural laws that govern the universe. Th

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very scientific and technological skills we have abused in the creation of cancerous tumors like New York, Chicago

Los Angeles and many others are the same that have taught us so much about the rules of our existence. If we are wnough to abide by those rules, it may yet be possible for us to achieve continued existence as part of the

nterdependent system that sustains Life on Earth. If not, our demise is certain.

t is physically impossible to take more than there is.

f there is only taking and no giving back, there will come a day when there is nothing left to take. What part of this

we not understand?

WHAT WE DO NOW CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST US

IN THE COURT OF UNIVERSAL LAW

Below we see Foley Square as it would have appeared around four hundred years ago and as it presently exists.

Must we return to the primitive living arrangements pictured on the left? If we stay our present course, we will be

ortunate to live so well.

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For some of us, the choices we make in the next few years will decide the fate of our children, for others it will be

grandchildren. They need not live in thatched, dirt-floored huts without electricity, plumbing or access to modern

onveniences. They could in fact, occupy an environment much like the one pictured on the left. They could live th

n comfortable, even luxurious, modern homes. Those homes could be energy independent, ecologically integrated a

permanently linked to a global network of similar communities all working together and sharing the resources of Ea

quitably and sustainably.

What they must not do is continue to live in and create negative environments like that pictured on the right. Such

population centers and the economies that motivate them are not sustainable. They are self-destructive and, in theancerous spread, equally destructive to what remains of the system that allows Life to exist on Earth at all.

Our scientific and technological abilities could produce the first option, our greed and lust for artificial wealth theecond, the choice is ours.

The imaginary wealth of modern Foley Square is neither real nor sustainable. The only real wealth that exists is th

bounty of Earth. Clean fresh air, pure potable water, abundant arable land, diverse and plentiful flora and fauna, thentire cornucopia of natural resources provided by Gaia are real and absolutely essential to our continued existence.

This is wealth created by no business or corporation and is not to be owned by greedy individuals but to be shared a

husbanded wisely by an informed and educated family of humanity. Learning is an endless process that leads to

practical knowledge. Pragmatic knowledge is the source of understanding. Understanding is the path to Peace.

Sources for pictures, information and inspiration areNational GeographicandThe Mannahatta Project.

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