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All you need to know about Øyvind Sæther


  1. Diary
  2. My Life-style and World View
  3. My death poem


1. Diary

2006-08-21

It is raining.


2. My Life-style and World View

I truly believe humans as individuals must take responsibility for our own part of the immense damage we humans as a species are currently doing to the earth, the environment and bio-diversity.

This means that I as a individual am obligated to ensure my impact and footprint on the earth is minimized whenever I make a decision about anything. This is extremely hard in a society where the majority of people are mindless sheep who are alluded into thinking that the purchase of useless items makes one happy. The society I am part is a so-called democracy, a form of rule where corporations make decisions by dictating them to powerless puppets called politicians.

This society allows corporate structures to extract from the earth any raw material they see profit in, it allows them to dump any poison bi-product of their production back into the biosphere and it generally allows them to abuse freely without any consequence.

It is very hard to maintain a sustainable life in such a society, but it is possible. Just follow some simple rules:

3. My death poem

  From nothing to nothing
  this poem and all I have ever done
  was just an illusion
  within a dream.

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