April 16, 2007

The Trees

As Rush tours, Dr.Lenny should find a way there. When Sunni posted details about the Rush tour, Dr. Lenny put Hemispheres on his turntable and listened to The Trees. When Dennis Behreandt at LRC wrote about The Trees today , Dr. Lenny reads the omens and needs to comment.

Living howdtside with the trees here at ground zero of the timber wars - i have learned that there is more than trees in a forest. The eco-communities that grow produce all the resources they need in abundance and redundantly, so if one mechanism is slowed, others are increased. The numbers of different types of species interaction grow exponentially upon introduction of other species - it is how life goes on. Lichen, fungus, ferns, forbes, brush and soil all play important roles in a system that allows trees to act like periscopes and filter air and water. The key is really the water exchange - and the kinetics of water movement appears to be the governing factor for life, forest style. That is why The Trees is always the first Rush to go to, for me.

The political coin also fits - people, let's get to proposing solutions that we can all live with. The political economy is currently in their last grab for all the marbles mode. The left brain and the right brain of the political establishment have combined to turn political thought into mush and we the people have the right to abolish the government when it ceases to fit its form. The key document is the Declaration of Independence. There are many ways to think about freedom, but the only path is with liberty and justice on our side. Rush's ending to The Trees is a perfect allegory of today's symptoms.

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights.
"The oaks are just too greedy;
We will make them give us light."

Now there's no more oak oppression,
For they passed a noble law,
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw.



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