Opening up.

 I had an interesting day today.

We ran some errands, and decided to stop at  Beach 1 in Wasaga.

The best espresso is available there at Ciao's Pizza.

Pamela walked bare foot along the water's edge as I drank my coffee and lite up a cigarette.

An elderly man looking of Indian decent approaches and asks if it's permitted to smoke here.

"No" I replied.

     He looked confused as he looked up the street were another man was smoking, back at me, and then pointed at the cigarette butts on the ground.

"It is not allowed, but I am smoking anyway" I said.

"Oh" he replied as he pulled a pack out of the pocket of a well tailored shirt.

The wind of the lake made it hard to light a smoke so I gave him my already burning cigarette to lite his.

"Are you visiting from Toronto?" I ask.

    "Brampton" he replies.

"We are in a motel over there, we stay until tomorrow"

We chatted a little more, and I ask him where are you from originally.

      Proudly he answers "Punjab" but goes on to say "Canada is a very good county, many good people".  He offered his opinion that some from India do not appreciate it and do not adjust to Canadian lifestyle.

"I don't think that's true" I answered, "it just takes time". "Before it was Chinese, Italian or Portuguese, and before that Polish and German" 

"Today you cannot go anywhere and see Italian or Chinese restaurants, even Indian restaurants are popping up everywhere". "It just takes time, Canada has always been a land of immigration".

      He smiled and said "you like Indian food?"

"Love it and cook it myself at home". " India is a beautiful country and I would love to visit there one day".

     "Give me your address, I will send you a ticket" he says.

A little stunned I ask "why would you do that?".

     "I am 72 and a very rich man, it would make me happy", was his answer. " I was an engineer working for the military, I get pension of 4 big rupees".

By this point Pamela had joined us and listened to the conversation with obvious suspicion.

I thanked him for his very generous offer but told him I could not accept. "I will visit India one day though".

      We chatted a little more, "That is my wife over there, in the blue". 

"She is very young, you are a lucky man", I answered.

    "No no, she is 75, she was a gold medal discus champion in India" he comments while making the arm motion.

I laughed and said " So she is very strong too, you better be a good man to her".

   "Oh yes, we have 2 sons and a daughter, we still have sex but I need just a little pill" he proudly asserted.

I could not help but chuckle, a cultural difference in the meaning of a "good man".

I shook his had and wished him a good day and safe journey home in the morning. As we walked back to our car, Pamela asks, "Why would you give a stranger our address?"

Not that I did but I said "something tells me this man would have actually kept his word and sent us that ticket".

Sometimes you encounter good honest people when you are willing to open up yourself.

Why the "New World Order" is already a failure!

Why the "New World Order" is already a failure!

Part of the agenda is to move an even greater percentage of the population into large urban centers.

The concept is this will allow larger land masses to heal themselves.

The failure in this notion is as history shows, great urban centers need even greater non renewable resources. A lot of concrete and iron.

In order to achieve the desired density, they must first year down huge tracts of established neighborhoods and rebuild.

These higher densities produce an awful lot of waste.

Huge masses of land and great bodies of water will be needed to digest this.

A hundred years ago when much of North America was rural, there were many small releases of waste, and the land Sun and microbes could deal with it. 

But there is a tipping point, too much and the system gets overwhelmed and collapses.

The other problem is scholarly models all predict that in 40 years the world's population will platue and start declining. Global birth rates have been steadily declining in the last 60 years.

Hind sight will show that one or several unforseen events will knock over the apple cart.

The Black Swan effect.

Mega food producers will have a harder and harder time keeping up with demand.

The general population will become more and more angered.

Many will try to escape urbanization back to the country side to find or grow their own food.

You will get vigilanty groups and or benevolent warriors, much like Robin Hood and his band of merry outlaws.

Because land ownership has been reduced into the hands of the 1%, there will be revolts as people try to lay claim to any small portion.

This whole scenario has played out many times in the world's history.

The other side of the coin is that all of the worlds longest surviving cultures are the ones that are primarily agregarin societies.

These cultures understand how much the land can provide and rarely have great desires for material goods.

A human must start to realize that no matter how clever they are, they are still part of the animal kingdom and part of nature.

Nature has a great ability to get rid of those parts that become too clever or successful for their own good.

The following are some supporting links that are a must read. Copy and paste links in browser on new tab.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_growth

https://youtu.be/oxieVARtZ7c

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/03/why-do-civilizations-collapse/

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.CBRT.IN?end=2017&start=1960&view=chart

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory

https://theconversation.com/our-cities-need-to-go-on-a-resource-diet-68984

https://theconversation.com/habitat-iii-is-over-but-will-its-new-urban-agenda-transform-the-worlds-cities-67432