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Brace yourself - here comes one from the hip...
Basically, I was merrily tapping away here, working on the next episode of Hasa Casa Giovanna.
Meanwhile, Mrs Giovanni was watching the TV.
When I'm in this kind of a work orgy mood there's no use trying to distract my attention - but Mrs Giovanni continually tried to distract my attention. I was firm and resolute, but when she said there was a flock of a million Starlings on TV, I had to take a look..
Now, if you've ever seen, heard and felt a decent sized flock of birds you'll know why, and if you haven't I won't try explaining - I'll simply advise you that the TV does the experience no justice and to get a good flock in your diary for 2008...
Anyway, I get to the TV set and Mrs G says there's some Indian guy doing a program about nature on Dartmoor.
"Satish Kumar??" I asked, feeling sure I recognised the voice and location
"Could be."
Satish Kumar is the kind of person who divides me as much as he divides life...
Here's his self advertised biog..
"When he was only nine years old, Satish Kumar renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. Dissuaded from his path by an inner voice at the age of eighteen, he left the monastic order and became a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of renewed India and a peaceful world into reality.
Fired by the example of Bertrand Russell, he undertook an 8,000 mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through deserts, mountains, storms and snow. It was an adventure during which he was thrown into jail in France, faced a loaded gun in America – and delivered packets of 'peace tea' to the leaders of the four nuclear powers."
In 1973, he settled in England, taking an Editorship of Resurgence magazine. He has been the editor ever since (30 + years!). He is the guiding spirit behind a number of ecological, spiritual and educational ventures in Britain. He founded the Small School in Hartland, a pioneering secondary school (aged 11-16), which brings into its curriculum ecological and spiritual values. In 1991, Schumacher College, a residential international center for the study of ecological and spiritual values, was founded, of which he is the Director of Programme. Following Indian tradition, in his fiftieth year, he undertook another pilgrimage: again carrying no money, he walked 2,000 miles to the holy places of Britain – Glastonbury, Canterbury, Lindisfarne and Iona. Meeting old friends and making new ones along the way, this pilgrimage was a celebration of his love of life and nature.
In July 2000, Satish Kumar was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Education from the University of Plymouth. In July 2001 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Literature from the University of Lancaster.
In November 2001, Satish Kumar was presented with the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award for Promoting Gandhian Values Abroad.
His autobiography, No Destination, was first published in 1978. A revised and updated edition is published by Green Books. His book You Are, Therefore I Am – A Declaration of Dependence was published by Green Books in September 2002. Satish's third book The Buddha and the Terrorist was published in November 2004.
In 2005 Satish appeared on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4. The BBC has recently commissioned him to make a documentary about his life with nature, scheduled for broadcast in 2007.
Satish teaches, lectures and runs workshops internationally on reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity.
So, Satish has clearly lived a life, and to be frank, anyone who walks around the world with no money in his pocket is my kind of a guy...
In fact so enamoured with Mr Kumar was I as a young man, that he became one of my heroes and I promptly set about following the same kind of 'be clever and save the world' TYPE path and all told I had a lot of fun...
Well that path ended when I realised that humans weren't really the idiot cunts as portrayed at the end of more or less every nature program.
No boss, in ruining the world and setting up global warming, humans are doing exactly the same that any other organism has done since the day dot.
Seriously:
Did the trees ever give a fuck about shedding their seed and turning wonderfully species rich meadows into forrests??? No they fucking didn't and likewise humans don't and they shouldn't - greater consciousness or not...
So, the perfect irony was there for all to see..
There were many birds on the show and in the clever and competitive fashion to which I've become acustomed, I took the time to name them all and (if possible point out a few key features and habbits) before Kumar did. Yes boss, I spent my youth watching the wrong kind of birds - I know this shit back to front...
Anyway, the cuckoo was highlighted on 2 occasions. And whilst Satish recounted his spiritual gush about wholeness, the beauty of nature and peace, there was what can only be considered to be an evil fucking bird behaving like a fucking bully on the screen...
Yes boss, a Cuckoo's idea of how to make and run a life is as follows:
Shag a stranger, dump the unborn baby on a different type of bird much less than half your size, take absolutely no role in parenting of your child (leaving it to said small bird), and then fly the fuck off to Africa to spend the winter in the sun going CUCKOO CUCKOO!!!?!?!?
Hardly a model parent.....
So:
On the screen you've got one of the greatest bastard cunt bird species on the planet behaving in a way that would be considered ultimately unreliable and stupid if it were to be done by a human. And on the voice over you've got some holy cunt recounting the spirituality and beauty of nature and how humans always ruin things with their technology - that weve forgotten nature and should retune ourselves to natures flawless organic habbits...
These days, that kind of wooly talk sounds like bullshit to me.....
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Experience
By The Prodigy
Release date: By 20 October, 1992 |
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