TGI Friday Friends. Are you ready for some Weekend? Looks like we made it to another end of another lovely summer week.
Our old friend global warming is back in the Fearporn Theaters this weekend. July was the hottest month on record, since records began, and blah, blah, blah. Can you say, “Election Issue?”
Climate emergency is like the Blanket Game.
Here’s how you play. Stop driving gas powered cars.
Okay.
Stop flying for vacations. Opt for, “stay-cations.”
Okay.
Turn your home thermostat from 74 to 72 degrees in the winter. Maybe light some candles. Turn off extra lights in the house. Buy “smart bulbs” that spy on you. Wear winter clothes inside when it gets too cold.
Okay.
Turn your air-con up to 75 degrees in the summer. It will save the grid. Fewer blackouts.
Okay.
The power company has government mandated thermostats that will be installed, and controlled remotely by the power company. 68 degrees, max.
Okay.
65 degrees.
Okay.
Air conditioners are now illegal. First offense 60 days in the pokey.
Is the pokey air conditioned?
Of course.
AI is now controlling the temperature, water pressure, and mortgage collection in your home.
Um. Okay?
Stop eating meat.
Okay.
Eat bugs & insects. They’re yummy!
Okay.
Sorry to hear that you are sick, your health insurance policy has been canceled. Rent an electric scooter and go to the nearest Urgent Care Facility. It’s only a 2 or 3 hour wait. It’s air conditioned. Don’t forget to wear your helmet.
Cough-Cough! Okay.
Your home has been condemned. It’s too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. Not safe for children. We are confiscating your children, and you are being cited for neglecting. Endangering and abusing children. The bank will demolish this rat trap.
Oh no!. Where are you taking my kids?
Just a little vacation spot in the tropics. A place called, um, let’s see. Epstein Island.
Headline: Shocking Massacre. Local man kills social worker, kids, spouse and self. No one saw it coming. Neighbors Devastated.
“What kind a man was he?”
“He was a quiet man.”
“Recognize the Game,” is the new, “Wake the Fuck up!” It’s got more class.
Meanwhile somewhere in the Spanish Desert.
It’s day 2,000 of the hero’s journey. Two thousand days of living and recording the life. Walking the streets, riding trains & buses, I have not flown commercially and certainly not privately, since before this series started. We haven’t missed a day. We lost a day, (an episode) in cyberspace, of the first season, but we didn’t miss it. Speaking of the first season, a century of 100 days of FMO, is up on the archive with a trillion other forgotten gems. We’ve posted videos on forgotten platforms that didn’t make it. Some died horrible deaths. We have an Instagram presence that goes back to before the Full Metal Ox Series started, and a Youtube channel that goes back twenty years. We had to hide many of our clips because we do not recognize Gaggle’s copy right policies. Yeah, we jack beats, and loop samples. What of it?
It’s the end of an era and the beginning of a new one. It was just recently that we decided the “Hero’s Journey” is coming to an end. To a transition.
Maybe it’s every hundred or two episodes that we’d cite “The Alchemist” as the model for the Hero’s Journey theme. One of many differences is, we’re not searching for treasure, or our fortune, or whatever Homeboy was after getting’. The celestial link was a concept we learned from one of the Cosmic Syncretists we encountered in the early days of YouTube. He said that every story is derived from the Journey of the Sun, through the zodiacal constellations.
The Sun, is the Solar Deity. The hero. Hercules and the twelve labors. Jesus and his twelve disciples, and other heroic tales. We’ve decided that these stories were told to teach flood survivors what the heck was going on in the sky and how it related to the Earth, agriculture, seasons and so forth. As above, so below.
It starts with Aries. “Ar” refers to the top, the head of the zodiac, the arch at the top of the columns. M-Ar-S, and so forth. The “AR” in oligarchy describes your rulers. Don’t worry, I’m not going to go through every sign. Track your favorite epics, or movies.
Libra is where the hero is weighed, Scorpio is where he is betrayed. He dies on the cusp, “the cross-ing” of Sagittarius into Capricorn. The Winter Solstice. Solstice means, “sun stands still.” The sun stands still, (dies) for three days and is reborn. Resurrected. Humans still tell these stories today.
Our Hero’s journey wasn’t that dramatic or tragic. No one makes movies about pragmatism. Maybe the Chinese.
But speaking of Chinese, you probably already know this, but it’s worth repeating. The Full Metal Ox, Metal Ox being the combination of Lunar Year and Element under which your humble vagabond was delivered unto this realm, journey travels in zodiacal years, not months. We travel from one Ox Year to the next. Twelve in all. The twelve year plan. The Hero’s Journey.
So why is it ending?
It’s not the journey that’s ending. The hero is transitioning into a more humble, pragmatic and strategic character. You’ve seen him in his many forms, from AI generated wanderer, to Radio Free Spirit podcaster, to this dude who walks around recording videos all day long.
Since you already know, there’s no need to tell you.
You’ll meet him again tomorrow, as we “cross” into the 21st Century, of Full Metal Ox.
Stay sane, stay strong, stay safe, stay savvy, stay serene, stay sovereign, stay subscribed.
PEACE.