Let Us Work Together

08/19/2009

Hello All,

My name is Peiro, and I welcome you to my blog. I chose to start my blog with this image for a reason. It is a great example of what our culture is doing to the planet, and I feel that one of the most important things I can do with my life is to get more and more people to understand this, as I am understanding it myself. I am not a cynic, nor a nihilist. I am a Zendik. I believe that there are absolutely beautiful aspects of the human spirit. I believe that most of us are ultimately good people just trying to survive in an insane finance economy. We are constantly bombarded by a psychotic pressure to "make it" in this system, and by the time we are done with our day, we just want to escape everything. Who the hell has any energy left to even give a fuck about the planet, or innocent people suffering and dying in a far off country? I have sympathy for everyone's predicament. However, the system will keep going the way it's going until enough people reject it, and the system is killing everything. We have to do something about it. Let us come together and start to discuss what we can possibly do to change this culture. I will write here about many different issues that are close to my heart. Please, if you would like to email me and discuss these issues or talk about strategies for effective change, go ahead: peiro@zendik.org.

I leave you with one of my favorite quotes from the philosopher Wulf Zendik:

"If you see a man with a machine about to do terminal violence to a forest or a mountain, would you not take that machine [away from him]? I know it might seem such a small, isolated act. Yet it is your offering and far from inconsequential. It could mean everything. Your small, your isolated act, might well be the spark that ignites the fuse of passionate resistance to this destruction of our Homesphere."

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what you've written here really resonates with me Peiro. good good stuff!

charlene

Posted by: charlene | 10/06/2009 at 11:24 AM

Thank you very much.

Posted by: Peiro | 10/06/2009 at 09:11 PM

Some places have laws against actions of that nature.

Posted by: Russ Que | 12/05/2009 at 01:00 PM

Hey Russ,

You are of course correct. In fact, and unfortunately, there are very harsh laws against actions of that nature. I was more there trying to share a beautiful and inspiring quote. Ultimately we need to create a culture where an action like this is completely legal, and encouraged.

- Peiro

Posted by: Peiro | 12/05/2009 at 02:16 PM

Hey Peiro this is Emmanuel. Old Zendik that's been trying to move to the farm since 1992 or somesuch. I'm in Kalamazoo. I get money at the beginning of every month. Think Zendik Farm might be open to a new resident in March?

Posted by: Emmanuel | 02/17/2010 at 04:43 PM

Hey Emmanuel,

Why don't you shoot me an email and we can talk about it more. My email address is: peiro@zendik.org.

Take care man,

Peiro

Posted by: Peiro | 02/17/2010 at 09:27 PM

Wonderful article, thanks for putting this together! I'm very happy to leave my comment here, and hope that your blog will become more and more color!

Posted by: coach suitcase | 06/04/2010 at 04:46 AM

Thanks Coach!

Take care,

Peiro

Posted by: Peiro | 06/04/2010 at 10:23 PM

Nice to see this blog! Closely related to much of what I see here is an article I wrote concerning the unsustainability of agriculture and, therefore, civilization:

http://www.canyoncountryzephyr.com/html/aug10-20.htm

Keep up the good work here!

Posted by: JohnF | 10/02/2010 at 01:48 PM

Hey John,

Thank you for your encouragement! I tried to check out your article, but the link didn't work.

Take care,

Peiro

Posted by: Peiro | 10/05/2010 at 10:29 AM

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