Macrobiotic Life

Question from Joe Waxman at Facebook was:

What will life be like in a year or two from now? Pretty much the same, or drastically different? What do you think?

Here’s my shot. Retelling the quite proliferated story of oil depletion, well spread by John Michael Greer (to name my favorite doom & gloom writer).

Less of unpolluted natural environment, hence less quality water and soil. Less oil = less of everything oil based, which is 90% of the present system. Economic growth of China, India, Brasil, Russia (more machine produced stuff), economic downfall of US, Europe (more human production again). More nuclear factories worldwide (because of energy depletion from cheap fossil fuels and no other option acceptable by the (lazy, spoiled) society – they can’t accept the only real option, to use less energy, because it’s going right against the present economic habit of continual growth, continual consumerism, continual hedonistic lifestyle, we are all in this interwined by being addicts of the present comfort). In US, Europe – more human produced food, with less use of oil based products, hence more natural. Back to local economy models. All of this is logically resulting from my basic presumtion, which is “less of cheap fossil fuels”. If not in two years, very soon anyway.

Do you think the economy is a worthwhile knowledge?
Do you think the economists are studying hard to provide us with a really useful ideas, products?
Do you think they better understand how the society operates, evolves and should behave?
Quite the opposite.
They are brainwashed, deluded in the name of Money.
Their main goal (even if they don’t realised, that’s how brainwashed they are) is to promote the concept of the Money – this concept is their chief marketing product, they are trained sellers of this Money idea.

Money are worthless, they are an illusion, their value is based on trust, on our consensus.
They poses no inherent value, no real value.
What is the real value then?
For example – heat, shelter, clothing, food, tools for providing aforementioned things and also love, fun, friends.
Do you get it?

You can’t eat money, but they have a little value in the form of tiny heat they can supply you when you burn them while trying to get a little bit warmer, in the times of the Money illusion collapse, when the cheap oil, that supplies your heat requirements nowadays, will stop flowing. That’s why you should collect paper money only and in a small denominations, just to have them as much as possible for a longer fire. I am joking, but actually it was always better idea to have many different small denominations when the horrors of the inflation hit the country and the banks stopped working, you couldn’t get any money – when this time starts again (and it will, because the inflation is hard coded into this economic system, it’s a process how to balance old debts, when things are out of control), you need small money to buy the real thinks (like bread), until the money will still have any value (for the baker).

Because, what has value for the baker? Real wealth again – food, shelter, heat, clothing.
If there are no money, do we stop to use these real-valued things?
Not at all.
We start to exchange them for something else.
Something basic for the whole Universe.
Something all economists are taught nothing about, or apparently not in the way that should give them enough hints to realise they are brainwashed Earth-destroyers.
All economists should learn really hard the Laws of Thermodynamics as their basic knowledge.

Because, it’s all about Energy.
Energy should be the real currency of economics, not the money and because of this delusion, our daily steps are based on a devastating model, that could only stupid, undeveloped brains propagate.
Yes, I call the economists stupid.
And all of us, who don’t try to understand the reality better.
It should be our basic knowledge too.

Stupidity comes together (also) with wrong thinking, clouded, heavy, detail oriented thinking. Not able to connect all dots, to see things broader, interconnected. Stupid people have little will to understand the basic phenomenons, basic laws of Universe, like Energy flow.
Ohsawa would tell you what’s the cause and what’s the remedy of course.

My English and knowledge of this topic is not good at all, that’s why you should read this article, minutes that can’t be spend better for the upcoming times:
It’s the Area Under the Curve – Oil Prices and the Economy

Awesome articles are being delivered from The Archdruid Report wonderland. Each week I am being enlightened so profoundly with Greer’s direct logic, leaving many complicated scientist’s articles behind. He makes, from seemingly complex topic, the easy job for understanding.
This is not a spiritual, high minded stroll, like many of my topics here, but the tangible reality that awaits us, no matter how good we meditate, no matter how good we eat, love or think positively.

It’s necessary to get knowledgeable about this basic topic of the humanity’s impending energetic future.
It’s not a dark, barbarian future – but big changes are going to happen soon.
And for me personally? I am looking forward to these changes for more than 2 years.
After I come through many of the depression phases, that followed each of my “conspiracy/future theories” explorations, I am more stronger, more happier, more optimistic than ever before.
Because, in the knowledge, in the acceptance of how things are, instead of believing in the collective illusions, there lies a big power – your mind shifts to the better reality model description and will not be surprised by the big society changes.

If you want to understand the topic, the basic logic behind the solar energy sources, read the latest report – Barbarism and Good Brandy. There’s perfectly explained, how is it impossible to switch from crude oil to bright solar future, without vast amount of compromises – this is what most, even the well educated, population doesn’t understand and you can get the knowledge from this article very fast.
But I strongly recommend reading this whole website from the beginning to end, or at least the preceding articles to this one.
There are many reasons, why even the nuclear power can’t save us – this is very controversy topic for many people.

Read more here…

Breakfast

I have whole grains leftover from the previous day. It was 70% rice + 30% millet cooked with piece of kombu and 2x of natural spring water in the pressure cooker for 50 minutes.
I simply modeled balls from the grains by hand (wet your hands), just for the decorative reason.
And the vegetable is very simply boiled too. I have choose to quick boil it in the big amount of water (can’t remember the cooking style of this). It’s just different than steaming the vegetable in a pot with little water in the bottom. Because you need to pick narrow smaller pot and fill it 1/2 or 3/4 with water, let the water boil and bubble and put one type of vegetable in it. Cook the vegetable types separately. The cooking time is short, to let the veggies be crunchy and nicely coloured with strong flavour. For the green veggies, 1-3 minutes is enough. For the root vegetables let them boil a little longer. You will learn by practice, just experiment. Pick the veggies out with a strainer. I usually put my grain balls at the end to the hot water too, to get them warm, because I usually use leftovers from fridge for breakfast.

Lunch

For the lunch I have spent a little longer time today. It was about 40 minutes for preparation.

Whole grains
I prepared these whole grains today: 70% rice and %30 emmer grain (it’s one of the oldest grains used for cooking on this planet – Paleolithic Age 17,000 BC), kombu, 2 times of water, cooked in pressure cooker for 50 minutes.

Vegetables
I have used the water from the morning breakfast and for the veggies choose mostly full pot of kale and 1 piece of onion. I am repeating again, these are not hardstone written recipes. I am thinking them up daily, according to my tastes, but very often my tastes are out of range of my stores, so I cook whatever is eatable at my house at that moment Let your intuition guide you and mix any sorts of vegetables together as long as they are macrobiotic sorts of veggies (you know the prohibited ones are night shades – capsicum, tomato, potatoes, eggplant etc. and use only the ones from your climatic zone). I have sidetracked a little…
I also add to the kale+onion+water these other things: red lentils (like 3-4 tsp), wakame (3-4 cm), pumpkin+sunflower seeds (1-2 tsp).
Let it boil for 12 minutes and put 1 tesp of barley miso and squeezed 1 tesp of ginger. Rest for 2 minutes and ready to serve. But I had to postpone my lunch a little because I wanted delicious, crunchy, fatty tempura with a lot of protein.

Tempura
I have decided to deep-fry small pieces of seitan, tempeh and nori. I use white flour for deep-frying, something that I have learned at Kushi Institute in Holland. They teach us, that white flour absorbs very little of fat in comparison to whole grain flour. And it’s really true from my experience. We have very good electrical grain-mill at home. It was bought at Vienna, but I don’t know where exactly, it was a gift. But it’s really superb grinder, all the others I have seen here are very small and very costly. This one is big and precisely made and according to the man who bought it, it was cheap, but I am not sure about the exact price. Just let me know in comments if you want to get more info or to see a picture, I will gladly help. So if you have your own grinder it’s very good, because you can always prepare the very fresh flour, that’s not in the rancid process. I made white flour by milling the white rice. Then I just mix with a little of water and make thin paste. In the small narrow pot pour enough oil so your tempuras can be deep-fried easily and be covered by oil from all sides. I am using sunflower oil, but I am not sure if it’s the best one for frying. I have read about big advantages of rice bran oil for the deep-frying. The Ilanit Tof article about oils – Reflections on oil consumption – is very good reading in general. Back to the tempura making. Simply cover the seitan, tempeh, nori pieces in the white flour paste and let it deep-fry for 2-4 minutes in the hot oil from both sides. Place on a plate with spongy napkins to absorb the excess of oil. And you can see my Wednesday result at the pictures.