The Day the Power Went Out [Speculative Fiction in the What If? Genre.] - Note: This was written by hand in pen on paper.

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 It was 4:39 AM according to the clock in the van.  I went back to sleep. When I awoke in the morning the power was still out. It stayed out.

About 3/4 of the World's population died over the next few years.

All the money in all the bank's computers vanished. No oil was pumped. No computers, telephones, TV... No gas for trucks to bring food to the city... The people that lived off the grid survived and thrived. All the stuff survived... Thank God for the Bic Lighter. Fire is Good.

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It started to get cold. I started writing this diary using a pen on paper. (a mostly blank report from Merrill Lynch - USPS Junk Mail).

I can hear little birds. The police drove into King Salmon and Flashed Red, White and Blue Lights then drove away... A PG&E Truck drove by and then drove by again going in the other direction. Doing Recon. At this point in time I do not know if this is The End [link to doors song]

The water works at home. No Phone, No Computers, No Cooking, Heat? Unknown. Battery backup on thermostat? No Electricity.

It was rainy and windy last night but not excessively so. I could see the blinking channel lights in the bay but King Salmon was Dark.

I wonder... What IF the electricity went out worldwide forever...
Would I be one of the survivors of a Techno-Industrial Collapse? What can I do to thrive in the Post Apocalypse? What can we do?

"After the Global Economic Collapse You and I will breed a new race."
"Oh Boy! That sounds like fun!"

Or we could build Sailboats with fishing poles. Three masted schooners with large nets. Great for catching fish in a world without electricity. Feeding the People.

Or we could grow our own...

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Time Passes... (What else would Time Do?)

"Well, look at that" says I staring at a glowing lightbulb...

It looks like a UFO hovering near the ceiling... and then it flew away...

Note the Turtle's Shadow on the ceiling...
as If the Turtle is Riding the UFO! 

So, This individual level 5 catastrophic event did not come to pass this time... Will Our Hero Learn from this experience and Thrive in the Post Apocalypse techno industrial wasteland?

As it turns out... NO... a couple of days later, the internet went out for a day...

Suddenlink to the rescue! Three trucks and a PG&E truck too.

Official PG&E Outages Webpage Searchable Map.
http://www.pge.com/myhome/outages/outage/
at the time I typed this story, We were at the center of a known outage caused by equipment overload. Possibly an indoor marijuana farm using grow lights... Makes you wonder... 

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Classic Stories: "The Glazier with a Rock" - and - "The Golden Spoon of Montezuma" - and - "The Origin of Popcorn"

"The Glazier with a Rock" 
(a glazier is a person that replaces broken windows)

When I lived in Maryland in an apartment complex with 500 units there was a man who replaced broken windows... When there were no windows to replace he hired children to throw rocks thru windows... Then he had work to do and got paid for replacing the broken windows. This plan is not that unusual... I have heard that firefighters in Trinity County, California often are arsonists... Start a fire, get work as a firefighter...

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"The Golden Spoon of Montezuma" 

 When Cortez arrived in Mexico, he was interested in GOLD. He also wanted to impress the people he met with how rich and powerful his KING was. He told an Indian that his King was so rich that he used a golden spoon for EVERY meal and then discarded it after he was done. His King was so rich that he could afford to THROW AWAY gold. The Indian was not impressed. The Indian said that HIS King was so rich that he could afford to use a NEW GOLDEN SPOON for EVERY BITE! How was this possible? Well, Montezuma used TORTILLAS for a spoon. He would scoop up his food using a tortilla chip (golden spoon) and so he used a new "golden spoon" for each bite. I love telling this story when I'M eating Mexican food at a restaurant.

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"THE ORIGIN OF POPCORN" 

Way out in the Ozark mountains Sandy Chapin built a house out of rocks.He found an old farmers fence that had fallen down and he just moved it onto his land and stacked it up. Near the front door he put two abalone shells. Here in California, abalone shells are quite common but out there in the Ozarks they caused quite a fuss. The hillbillies came from miles around to see the "pearls as big as a possum". Pretty soon rumors got around that the "pearls" were magic. Folks said that they helped the old folks with their bones on rainy days. You know how people talk around the stove in the general store. Tall tales indeed. They said it was a cure for Rheumatism and arthritis. Then the shepherds got into the act. When they get to talking the stories get exagerated all out of proportion.

Pretty soon animals were lined up down the road all the way to the creek. A mooing and a quacking like you never heard. Barking dogs and oinking pigs. But the old dog 'zeke just lay there on the porch. Night fell and the moonshine appeared. Who brought it? The moonshiners, of course. They cooked it in a still and squeezed the goodness out of the corn. By the light of the moon the corn sparkled. A wind came up and the stalks moved like they were dancing. Waves of motion like they were dancing to a string band. Somebody started a fire to bar b-q a pig and that's when things really started popping. You see, the wind blew the glowing coals out into the field and the cornstalks caught on fire. Pretty soon the whole field was in a conflagration and presto chango ... POPCORN!

Sandy is a real person and does live in the Ozarks with a dog, Zeke in a rock house... 

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One Problem with BELIEVING LIES is that Corrupt People Will Take Advantage of You. For Example: Trump's Fake University - He Had to Refund $25 Million Dollars to Students for FRAUD... A Simpler Way To Live is to REFUSE TO BELIEVE LIES... Think For Yourself!

Remember Trump's Fake Charity? He Had to Pay a $2 Million Dollar Fine for FRAUD and Cannot Operate a Charity in New York State Ever Again... BUT... That Does Not Prevent Him From Founding a Fake Charity in Florida... Where He Can Steal From Veterans AGAIN... An Alternative to BEING a GULLIBLE FOOL is to WAKE UP! It's FUN, It's FREE and Everybody's Doing It! Another Problem is REPEATING OBVIOUS FALSEHOODS. When You ReTweet Republicriminal Lies YOU ARE PROUDLY ANNOUNCING TO THE WORLD THAT YOU ARE AN IDIOT... And Everyone Laughs At You... Look at Him, He Actually BELIEVES That Lie... CHUMP! I saw Senator John Kennedy on TV Stating that Russia Did Not Interfere in the 2016 Election... It Was Really Ukraine who Campaigned for Hillary... WELL, THAT'S FALSE... and That's a LIE Written By Vladimir Putin... and Kennedy is Acting Like A Russian Agent... Is that Because He is TOO STUPID or Is It Because he is CORRUPT? Is He Being Blackmailed by the KGB? 

Russians Campaigned for Trump. Trump Campaigned for Trump. There was A LOT of Communication between the Trump People and Russians. MANY OF TRUMP'S PEOPLE WENT TO PRISON. and Many More are Going to be Locked up! Including Rude Julie Anna!

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Derrick Jensen: Interesting Author and Environmental Activist Philosopher:.. Deep Ecology Thinker... Required Reading at Humboldt State University...

http://www.derrickjensen.org/   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick_Jensen

For years, Derrick Jensen has asked his audiences, “Do you think this culture will undergo a voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of life?” No one ever says yes.

Deep Green Resistance starts where the environmental movement leaves off: industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can’t fix it, and shopping—no matter how green—won’t stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy.  http://www.derrickjensen.org/deep-green-resistance/

I saw him at the end of the movie "Stare into the Lights My Pretties" talking while wearing headphones/microphone online... He was making a Youtube Video about how we have to destroy the Computer Networks that have hypnotized us all... It really was Ironic to hear him USING THE MACHINE while recommending that we DESTROY THE MACHINE.

However, I Groked his message... If he stopped using the machine as an individual it would have no effect whatsoever on the coming destruction of civilization...

Great Movie: "Stare into the Lights my Pretties" about the cultural impact of computers and The Internet...

Great Movie: "Stare into the Lights my Pretties" about the cultural impact of computers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5qJjNM2Kx0

We live in a world of screens. The average adult spends the majority of their waking hours in front of some sort of screen or device. We're enthralled, we're addicted to these machines. How did we get here? Who benefits? What are the cumulative impacts on people, society and the environment? What may come next if this culture is left unchecked, to its end trajectory, and is that what we want? *Stare Into The Lights My Pretties* investigates these questions with an urge to return to the real physical world, to form a critical view of technological escalation driven by rapacious and pervasive corporate interest. Covering themes of addiction, privacy, surveillance, information manipulation, behavior modification and social control, the film lays the foundations as to why we may feel like we're sleep running into some dystopian nightmare with the machines at the helm. Because we are, if we don't seriously avert our eyes to stop this culture from destroying what is left of the real world.

“Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive activities of corporations. At last most of us must understand that the opposite is true: that the primary purpose of government is to protect those who run the economy from the outrage of injured citizens.”
― Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization

“What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the point is not to keep at bay all those people, beings, objects and emotions that we so needlessly fear? What if the point instead is to let go of that control? What if the point of life, the primary reason for existence, is to lie naked with your lover in a shady grove of trees? What if the point is to taste each other's sweat and feel the delicate pressure of finger on chest, thigh on thigh, lip on cheek? What if the point is to stop, then, in your slow movements together, and listen to the birdsong, to watch the dragonflies hover, to look at your lover's face, then up at the undersides of leaves moving together in the breeze? What if the point is to invite these others into your movement, to bring trees, wind, grass, dragonflies into your family and in so doing abandon any attempt to control them? What if the point all along has been to get along, to relate, to experience things on their own terms? What if the point is to feel joy when joyous, love when loving, anger when angry, thoughtful when full of thought? What if the point from the beginning has been to simply be?”
― Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words

Vote against All Republicriminals Every Time Every Where. Remember the Tax Cut for the Rich Law? NEXT: They'll try to Cut Social Security, Food Stamps and Medicare...

The GOP Politicians simply did what their employers (the Super Rich) wanted and not what the public wanted. The USA has become a Feudal Empire with Kings and Lords and We the People are not Represented...

2020 is time to fight back. We Impeached Trump and Now We Need to Convict Him and Remove Him From Office... and Fire all the Republicriminals... Let's bring back Majority Rule... Most People Prefer It...

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Avoid listening to people that are trying to influence your beliefs. Stop looking at them also. For Example: On TV there are endless advertisements that are trying to sell you products... simply mute the sound with your remote and close your eyes. Take a deep breath and say your mantra... Then after a minute, look at the TV to see if your show has started. 

My Mantra is [Inhale]HERE...[Exhale][Inhale]NOW...[Exhale]...

Some TV shows are pure propaganda and should be avoided entirely. The Channel called "RT" tells news from a Soviet perspective. Beware of Fox News. It's blatantly promoting lies that support The Republicriminal Agenda and the wishes of the 1% Super Rich.

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Absurdist Theater or End Times Warning?

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Why Not Wake UP? 
It's Free, It's Fun and Everybody's Doing It! 

QAnon Sucks

Russians Campaigned for Trump. Trump Campaigned for Trump. There was A LOT of Communication between the Trump People and Russians. MANY OF TRUMP'S PEOPLE WENT TO PRISON. and Many More are Going to be Locked up! Including Rude Julie Anna!

Repeal Trump's "HELP CRAZY PEOPLE BUY GUNS" Law. People that Receive Social Security Disability due to Insanity SHOULD NOT OWN GUNS. Trump signed that law in 2017... Obviously, he was wrong... Now is the time to reverse Trump's Mistake! #MAGAKillers SUCK

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Impeach Trump. 25th Amendment. Emoluments Clause. Three ways to save the USA.

If Three Hundred Million of us Protest we have a chance to get Donald Trump OUT of the White House. While Robert Mueller and the FBI, the Senate and the House are working on their investigations WE THE PEOPLE can help by contacting our representatives. OR... If you are able... March in the streets! We saw that the TrumpCare Bill was defeated by overwhelming rejection by the people. We can do it again.

25th Amendment - How to replace a president who has health problems...

INCLUDING INSANITY...

There are a few ways to remove Trump from office... Impeachment is the obvious first choice but Disability has potential... If he becomes bored with being 'resident he can voluntarily step down. He has a history of declaring bankruptcy in business deals, would this be any different? If his cabinet agrees that he can't do the job they can force him to quit. If he goes to a hospital for example... Not that unlikely as he is older than dirt and lives a high stress lifestyle...  Even a MENTAL HOSPITAL... and He cannot serve if he is locked up in Jail...

The People Have Spoken! The Majority Voted for Hillary Clinton. We Realized That tRUMP was a Con Man, Saw Through is Lies AND REJECTED the #BogusPotus! Even with Russia's Help HE GOT FEWER VOTES... LOSER!

The Republican Party is a Minority Group and they are Getting Smaller Every Day. Old White People Shriveling Up and Dying without Having Enough Children to Replace them... Most Voters are Young People, Women, Minorities and College Graduates...

#MAGAKillers Suck

So Called "Christians" who support tRUMP believe that "The Rapture" will save them and only Those "Left Behind" will experience God's Wrath in Firestorms, Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Drought... Did You Notice the GREEN SLIME in the Gulf of Mexico and Florida? That's Like the Old Testament Turning the Nile into a River of Blood... But this time the Color is different... OH! That Make it all Groovy! No Problem Here, It's GREEN! 

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