| I met an old man, in the depths of the Norwegian
Mountains. I asked him if he liked the book Zarathustra. He didn't answer, but he began
to tell me about the "Dragon of the City". I have tried to pin down what the man
said: "Humanity need forgotten areas to recover. Pioneers and daredevils (and, in the latest generation, hippies) who have found Paradise on Earth, sooner or later invite the public to come and spend some bucks there. Exploitation and urban disaster then comes like a letter from the taxman". The man smiled, and watched my reaction. He continued: "I think there have to exist forgotten areas where nothing seem to thrive for the silent and long range recovery of humanity. The polar areas are such places when Earth temperature stays sufficient low to keep the largest cities away. But in the current warming of global climate the urban wave breaks in and over-exploitation soon is a fact. When the first cities were born, troubles were there, and grew, ever since Uruk and Aratta. In the marshlands along Euphrates and Tigris Babylonian cities grew bigger and bigger. Along the Nile the long city of Egypt grew to military power - Ramses times were powerful times. Once there was a city called Troy. Itīs long gone. In Gobi there were blooming cities once. They are all gone too. In the Polar regions (and sometimes in the highlands) with an extremely flexible climate of freezing and melting most structures of organic origin vanish within a short time. But indirect traces of wooden cities (and underwater fences) are discovered by the high tech archeologists of our computer age. The northern prehistoric city were protected by wooden fences and large Temples were constructed by giant logs from the vast forests. Cities grew and burned in the north too. During the terrific Ice Age and again and again after Itīs rather sudden end 12 000 BC, in different weather shocks, 3 000 BC - unknown meteorite or volcano,1570 BC - the volcano Thera, 1694 AD- the volcano Hekla, 1815 AD - the volcano Tambora, huge areas in Northern Europe were forgotten. Only people with a certain ability to find a living in harsh areas, highly adapted and skilled to handle the conditions of winter and ice survived (were able to stay). Da Vinci came from the White Alps of northern Italy! The most ingenious "westerners" ought to be ancestors of people knowing the facts of the cold eras of planet Earth. But when "the greenhouse effect" takes on again, people, and rains, are returning to Gobi and new civilizations will start to grow all over again (most deserts are forgotten areas too). When Siberia is born again from the ice, gardens are going to blossom there. Space again, much more space, inland the Asian continent, while coastal parts of the planet will suffer the continued flooding, old plague of mankind, course of Atlantic (and Nippon, Phoenician, Friesian uzw) exodus and a prolific global folk lore. There are many possibilities, this time, to avoid over-exploitation and try to understand the cyclic nature of events on planet Earth and comprehend the Janus aspect when Mother Ocean destroys lowlands and coastlines, gobbling mansions and castles, as well as shacks. If you feel the breath and moisture of Gaia and the terrible wonders of Father Earth, both fragile and volcanic - a target for meteorites and new viruses, you feel the dangers from all around, and the dangers from within. But planet Earth always have, at least during the short history of mankind, forgotten areas suitable for regeneration and rebirth - far away from the city, and if you feel that you are saved." The man walked away, disappearing behind an icy peak of Jotunheimen, overlooking Lustrafjord. Tomas Brusell How itīs possible to survive the Flood, without moving inland, will be described in a coming article in Qikrux. |