Steampunk Mark Plimsoll - "El Chepe" Saved My Life!
Channel: Mark Plimsoll
Date: 2024-01-26

In October of 1975, hitchhiking to Guatemala from Michigan, I rode this train severely depressed, without a camera. 
      On January 16th 2024, forty-nine years later, I boarded with a camera...

     What does a train and Maslow's "self-actualization" have to do with vegetarians, social justice, "defund fossil fuels," the extermination of 60,000,000 North American indigenous people, feedlot concentration camps to make food out of domesticated pets, climate justice, electric cars verses trains, exercising thumbs on remote controls, bicycles, dog ladies, and hitchhiking have to do with one of the world's Great Train Rides?

Everything.

"The Futures almost always feel ashamed about Nows." - Steampunk Mark Plimsoll, TimeTraveler stuck in this old body born back in 1953!

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How can we protect ourselves from bad information, and the censorship of information NOT "advertiser-friendly?"
 To free ourselves of misleading information, whether from ignorance, opinion without evidence, or malignant self-serving corporations and politicians or religious leaders, we should rethink the 1949 United Nations "Declaration of Human Rights" in Articles 19 and 20.  Check 'em out

NEW POLITICS:  Tired of USA's "Citizens United" Supreme Court case giving Free Speech Rights to Corporations to fund political campaigns of both USA political parties? 

CONNECTIVISM for Connectivists:
 The Belong Party - pledge your blind loyalty to the Biosphere, acknowledge your "belonging," your membership in Life based upon DNA, and stop the lethal poisons of Consumerism that pollute our environment and our minds!
 1.  CORPORATIONS and LEGISLATURES Do Not Care. YOU make choices - VOTE WITH YOUR MONEY!  Bike instead of drive and save Fossil Fuel for more important energy needs.  
 Maybe that mean you car pool, take mass transit, or find a job within 5 miles of home to bicycle.  I did that for most of my life (except my two highest paying jobs!)
 2.  Make choices - eat healthy and mostly vegetarian, and END corporations imprisoning DOMESTICATED PET animals in FEEDLOTS for 95% of USA meat consumption. Elimination of feedlots would almost meet USA's Greenhouse Gases reduction goals, according to an article in BBC, by eliminating the methane from those even-toed ungulates' belching as they vomit and re-chew their food.  
 I've been vegetarian since 1975, thanks to Mexico and Guatemala.
 Doing these two things will also lower Healthcare costs, 20% attributed to obesity in USA where 70% are overweight and 40% OBESE.
        3.  Anyone else remember the 1970s?  We had a 55 mph NATIONAL speed limit that reduces air resistance on windshields to save maybe 17% on gas.
   70% of Earth's wildlife GONE!
  SEVENTY Percent of ALL animals since the 1970s have died or gone extinct almost everywhere studied, with 1970s data to compare, finds 70% of Britain's winged insects, migratory birds counted on full moon nights, fish, etc. have DISAPPEARED.

Quotable Quotes (Creative Commons with Attribution, please!)
 "When you stick your nose in religious texts, you part the butt cheeks of prehistory and kiss its assets."
 "The PROCESS of Evolution creates modern cars, Tide detergent, buildings, cultures, plants and animals and even religious feelings and gods, which allowed groups EXCLUSIVELY MALE to invent Religion with Traditions to CONTROL WOMEN mostly, and everything else, which built societies through the  enhanced baby-making that resulted. That is the PROCESS of Evolution, when the New Improved versions out-copy the old through SELECTION, by consumers, females, or environmental limitations. Our imaginary friend God evolved as an abstract concept, like Love, Friendship, and Fair Taxation and the longer you live, the funnier that is." 
         - Steampunk Mark Plimsoll, TimeTraveler

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