January 2, 2022
How last year ended
It was announced at the end of last year that Morocco had engaged in corrupt practices at the U.N. level to hide its wrongdoing in Western Sahara. Morocco holds Western Sahara as an absolute colony; - just in case anyone thinks that imperialism is dead, they should know that. A resistance movement called the Polisario Front has been resisting the colonialism in their home of Western Sahara for decades. Something is turning over in the consciousness of world politics. In these kinds of moments, only augmented by Lula's victory over Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, I find myself turning over things in my mind like turning over rocks and stones trying to find a dark secret. And what comes to mind in the end is this: remember when Italian farmers occupied Rome with tractors pretty recently, in the midst of a painful 2022? Philosophically, what relates that to the other thought-provoking moments in the past 12 months? Assuredly, something is turning over at the level of the soil worldwide. Desertification in the Sahara, deforestation in Brazil, protesting farmers in Italy... Climate change is changing how we cultivate. How about if we change how we cultivate ourselves?
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