Let's smash the dominant culture.
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Being dark green radical needn't require one to sleep till noon, dress entirely in black, and sport a rail-thin heroin addict physique. Then again, neither should Michael Moore serve as anyone's perfect role model for healthy rebellion. Fitness—both mental and physical—is a crucial component for any serious subversive.
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4 Steps to Green Conditioning
1. Condition Your Body
For example: Having your arms yanked and bound behind you before being tossed onto a street corner or jammed onto a bus can cause damage to the muscles of the shoulder and upper back. To better prepare for this seemingly inevitable scenario, you might wanna seek help from the camel.
2. Free Your Mind
As Ralph Nader sez:
"Once we stop growing up corporate and grow up civic, we will be much more focused on nutritious food, rather than junk food; we will be much more inquiring about different kinds of products; we will look at pollution as a form of violence, not just something that is nasty and dirty; we will demand the mechanism so we can control what we own and use these great resources for an enlightened, just, prosperous, happy society where the pursuit of justice is filled with such joy it itself becomes the pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of happiness becomes the pursuit of justice."
3. Green Your Diet
An activist's eating habits offer the best opportunity to put theory into practice. If you consume a plant-based, whole foods, locally grown diet (organic, if and when possible), you've taken yourself out of the equation, re: animal cruelty, environmental devastation, corporate welfare, and a growing health holocaust.
4. Defend Yourself and Your Planet
The inherent message being: If we were to appreciate our unbreakable bonds to other humans and the entire natural world, we'd be more likely to act in "self defense" when engaging in green activism. I see it as sort of a literal and metaphorical left hook.
