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Unlimited growth is the engine that will, if unchecked, carry us to extinction, along with most existing species on Earth. Capitalism is unlimited growth. It starts at the top, with the wealthy, forever growing their wealth, at the cost of the rest of life on the planet. All Western societies are firmly convinced that growth, like change, is only good; this outlook is fomented and encouraged by the wealthy, who through unlimited growths derive their growing profits. They need our agreement to do this. We all want our money to grow, because we want the number of our things to grow. The consumption-train, with ever more novelties to entice us, grows also and gains momentum with our growing materialism. It is just growth, growth, and more growth! Spending by governments and people insensibly spirals upward , so that national and personal debt continue to grow, as does the money supply, in order to keep pace with it. The wealthy want, and obtain, more and more of the wealth of the world - though they have nearly all of it already! Growth is viewed as being robust, when in fact it is the cancer which is dragging the world into the pit. If we would only see the wisdom in curbing growth, and would renounce the destructive capitalistic axiom, that everything must grow and grow…but we do nothing, and we are spun inside a materialistic kaleidoscope of things and more things, with our sense of proportion becoming ever duller. Growth, in the final analysis, should be seen, as it is in medical manuals: something suspect - in many cases to be excised. Today we live super-convenient but very complicated lives. Super-convenient because of the ever-increasing variety of things the consumption-train brings us. Complicated because of the media-avalanche that is constantly spilling over us and fragmenting our attention. It is more numbers: our own human numbers, identity numbers, passwords, user i.d., and on and on, and perhaps because we secretly are a bit masochistic and invite more when we should be curtailing it. It is a global world, tech-tied in every way by numbered references, and somehow - despite our original sense that the world is vast - tech constricts us more and more, making us ciphers to be omitted when desired. Desired by the super-rich and their paid minions, the establishment. At the other end of the spectrum are five times as many humans as we. They are the billions who live from day to day, under ever worse conditions. We think not of them, so caught up are we in our tech-lives, but their numbers grow insensibly larger every second. Their growing numbers are what is bringing us to the brink of extinction, but we remain consciously unaware of it. In a matter of a few decades, there will not be enough food and/or water on, or in, the globe to sustain the people on it. The only faint hope we have of beating this near certainty is becoming aware of it and combatting it, starting right now, because the longer we wait, the more certain the doom-scenario becomes, and the numbers never let up, are always in slow forward, with an immense population base producing more and more human beings. Births are still many more than deaths, and this will not change until the equation changes. The terrible irony is that we have at most only an inchoate feeling of dread regarding it, and we do not want to know any more about it. That attitude is what will very probably drive us and nearly all existing species around us over the abyss. We, and only we, are to blame.
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This collection of poetry is the result of having lived in many countries around the world and having sought positive experiences wherever. The poems were conceived in the coffee-growing region of Colombia, which the author believes to be one of the most beautiful regions in the world. Breaking out of the narrow mold we become used to, and moving into the great world-stream is by far the best for a person with an open mind. But that is only part of the aesthetic perception that gradually forms as one's knowledge of geography and natural surroundings increases. I humbly acknowledge the gift of this nomadic life and hope the reader enjoys some or even all of these poems!
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William Dixon was born on September 25, 1850 in Ohio County, West Virginia, United States. His mother dying when he was ten, and his father two years later, he went to live with an uncle in Ray County, Missouri. Determined to be a buffalohunter and an Indian-fighter, he left home before he was fourteen, and with a boy companion hunted and trapped along the lower Missouri.
Early in 1865, despite his youth, he got employment at Fort Leavenworth as a driver in a government mule train, and in this capacity journeyed to such outlying posts as Fort Lyon and Fort Collins, Colorado, and Camp Supply, Oklahoma. In the fall of 1869 he left the government service and engaged with a party of hunters and trappers, who in the following year began the hunting of buffaloes for the hides. He bore a distinguished part in the second battle of Adobe Walls, in the present Hutchinson County, Texas, June 27, 1874, when a company of twenty-eight hunters, in an all-day fight, repelled the determined attacks of a force of about 700 Indians led by the Comanche, Quanah. He was one of the party that carried the news to Fort Dodge, where Gen. Miles appointed him a scout, and he returned to the Walls with Lieut. Baldwin’s command.
The most desperate experience of his career came on September 12, when he and a fellow scout and four enlisted men were suddenly attacked by a band of about 125 Kiowas and Comanches. All six were wounded (one seriously and one mortally) early in the fight. Four took refuge in a buffalo wallow, to which Dixon, under a rain of bullets, carried one of the two badly wounded men; and by keeping up a steady and effective fire the whites forced the savages to withdraw at nightfall, when Dixon brought in the other men. The account of this episode in R. I. Dodge, Our Wild Indians (1882), is obviously erroneous, and it is generally recognized that Dixon saved the party from annihilation.
Attached to Fort Elliott, which was established in the spring of 1875, he continued as a scout until 1883, when he homesteaded a claim that included Adobe Walls and started a ranch. He was postmaster at Adobe Walls for nearly twenty years, and at various times served as local land commissioner, justice of the peace, and sheriff.
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Dixon was of medium height, strong and rugged, and capable of great endurance. His skill with the rifle was exceptional.
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Dixon was characterized by W. B. (“Bat”) Masterson, who knew him both as a buffalo-hunter and as a scout, as “a typical frontiersman of the highest order, ” who, though stoical and uncommunicative, was kind-hearted, generous, and hospitable.
On October 18, 1894 Dixon was married Olive King of Virginia, later to become well- known as a newspaper woman.
