Transmission 166: Stand steady

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“Do not let fear touch you.
Fear is the torrent.
The raging river.

To fight it is to break and drown.
But to stand astride it
is to see it, feel it,
and use its course for your own whims.”

That comes from the Red Rising book series,
but its roots are much closer to Earth than Mars.

This is Tao thinking.

Do not resist the river.
Do not curse it.
Do not pretend it isn’t there.

Step into it with awareness.

Fear is not the enemy.
Fear is energy.

When you fight it,
it throws you off balance.
When you deny it,
it controls you anyway.

But when you observe it,
when you stand calmly within it,
it becomes information.

Direction.

Momentum.

The river was never trying to drown you.
It was trying to move you.

Stand steady.
Let fear pass through you.
Then decide where you want to go.

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Geothermal power.

Earth is so hot right now.
(Read that in your best Mugatu voice).
But I don’t mean metaphorically.
Actually hot.

Some very smart humans thought,
“We can use this”

So you drill down.
Deep enough to reach hot water or steam.
The steam spins a thing.
The spinning thing makes electricity.

That’s it.
That’s the technology.

You are literally using
the planet’s internal warmth
to keep the lights on.

No fuel trucks.
No burning.
Just Earth doing what it has always done,
and humans politely tapping the shoulder
and asking for a little help.

A reminder that curiosity,
when pointed in the right direction,
turns problems into power.

Well done, Earth.

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Float well, Earthling.
NeilA

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