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Jackson’s Journal – It’s Crazy That It’s Crazy

jackson published on March 19, 2011 in superforest journal and zeitgeist. 5 Comments Tags: , .

Gooood Morning SuperForest!

SuperForester Jesse was out at Zero One last week and we started talking about the wild chickens in the yard and how we’ve recently begun eating them. The conversation basically centered around the idea that to us killing and preparing your own food is crazy. I mean, who does that?

Then we thought about how crazy it was that so few people do that. So we fell into making a list of all the behaviors we are currently engaged in that were “crazy that they were crazy.”

Killing and plucking and eating wild chickens. It’s crazy that it’s crazy.

Using composting toilets and not putting our waste in fresh water. It’s crazy that it’s crazy.

Taking full responsibility for our trash by not making any. It’s crazy that it’s crazy.

Not focusing my life on making money or accumulating things. It’s crazy that it’s crazy.

This morning, I got an email from SuperForester Mathew that I think brilliantly sums up the crazy that we’re trying to out-crazy.

When I lived in California and New York I saw these signs everywhere. When we use cancer causing chemicals to build the very homes and structures that we inhabit, and then wonder why cancer rates are so high, is that not an interesting sign of a craziness so big that it has ceased to be crazy and is now simply known as “life”?

Well here’s to a life so crazy that it’s crazy.

The wild chickens are crowing.

-Jackson

Here’s to the Crazy Ones

melissa published on November 13, 2010 in art, build, celebrity, technology and zeitgeist. 4 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

Think Different is an Apple ad from 1997 in which Steve Jobs, Apple CEO, narrates this incredibly beautiful message.

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.

The first line of the Humanifesto is “What is going to save the human race?” We, as SuperForesters, on a regular basis are attempting to save an entire species. From itself, from each other, from ourselves. So Please, let’s be the crazy ones. Question the status quo. Redefine our purpose. Don’t allow fears and conditioning to hold us back. Let’s push things forward. Think different.