A natural part of evolution - in conjunction with my thirty-third year of life - is the shedding of the previous monikers - Travis Bickle and Tom Joad - though they very much still remain within my DNA. However, I still do not prefer to pretend that my online presence can actually communicate who I am inter-personally as the "real" Kyle. But these five hundred or so blog posts do begin to add up to something, and right now that something is known as "Franklin_ton Underground Cinema". It depicts the place with which I live (FTON) - the ideas, actions, and people that I trust (Underground) - and certainly the way I prefer to reflect on the world and it's inhabitants (Cinema). And without irony, the acronym is obviously written as F.U.C. - hopefully representing the constant need to go deeper ;) - while being completely "engrossed in separating what is real from what is false" - as is quoted about Akira Kurosawa and his films.
As with the Peacemaker Trainings, the concept of FUC basically created itself, as a reflection of our life - as a way to understand and articulate it. It evolved as the pieces fell organically into place - and was never intended to be just another something in reaction to something else for the sake of something false or a need to be given attention for attention's sake (though I have been guilty of such reactions/needs). I believe this way of existing is fully understood in nature...per Masanobu Fukuoka...
"The usual way to go about developing a method (in regards to farming) is to ask "How about trying this?" or "How about trying that?" bringing in a variety of techniques one upon the other. This is modern agriculture and it only results in making the farmer busier.
My way was opposite. I was aiming at a pleasant natural way of farming (in cooperation with the natural environment) which results in making the work easier instead of harder. "How about not doing this? How about not doing that?" - that was my way of thinking. I ultimately reached the conclusion that there was no need to plow, no need to apply fertilizer, no need to make compost, no need to use insecticide. When you get down right to it, there are few agricultural practices that are really necessary (because nature already has it's own contextual processes).
The reason that man's improved techniques seem to be necessary is that the natural balance has been so badly upset beforehand by those same techniques that the land has become dependent on them.
This line of reasoning not only applies to agriculture, but to other aspects of human society as well. Doctors and medicine become necessary when people create a sickly environment. Formal schooling has no intrinsic value, but it becomes necessary when humanity creates a condition in which one must be "educated" to get along.
...Almost everyone thinks that "nature" is a good thing, but few can grasp the difference between natural and unnatural."
- "The One-Straw Revolution" Parenthesis Mine
Most interestingly, in order for Fukuoka to see the soil restored and maintained through an absolute organic process, he had to patiently (non)participate for between twenty and thirty years. That says everything there is to say about the process of growth and maturity and evolution. Anything in our lives that can be bought/sold/traded on a whim without relationship to the people, places, and processes with which it's creation took place - is essentially false. We have in many ways become victims and slaves to this type of economy - which means our own development is stunted and dependent on most everything except God and Creation. Honestly, I hope that Fran_klinton Underground Cinema (through it's own twenty year process of development) can exist to provide opportunity, dialogue, education, communication, and possible/viable local alternatives to consumerism, divorce, isolation, fast food, false security, insecurity, superficial spirituality, pocket technology, news media, and politics-as-usual.
Even on the corner of Dakota & Sullivant, (In)Rain_bows remind us that restoration is possible...
Taken December 21st, 2011
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