Bastante Solipsis Marquez was one of the great peace chiefs of the Rainbow War, but he didn't feel great or chiefy all that much.  Most of the time he fought cravings to smoke ganja and retire to the forest.  The forest was a rotten place to get laid but it was a great place to avoid the misery of modern civilization.


Bastante was not a fan of mainstream civilization.  The pollution, the ruination of the waters and the woods and the destruction of nature, the ignorant public, the propaganda, the lack of intelligence in social organization, the deliberate hijacking of innate human wisdom for the purposes of material power, the total absence of an empowered humanity... it made him somewhat nauseous if he thought about it too much. 


Bastante had stopped smoking ganja because it prompted him to retire from society.  He felt responsible for doing something about the situation, and smoking just encouraged him to walk away into the woods and let someone else deal with it. 


There was reason for positivity, he felt - the war was raging all around him and ganja was becoming legal.  This was reshaping the world, he knew, not because stoned people were going to foment social revolution but because the ganja plant would produce food, fuel, clothing, shelter, medicine, and recreation while healing mother earth.  This would happen under the rubric of
'being good for the economy'.  Jobs would be created, millions of jobs, and the labor intensive process of growing hemp would provide meaningful employment and right livelihood for entire populations around the world. 


And stoned people were fomenting revolution, after all, he thought with a smile.  Nonviolently, peacefully, with lots of dancing and singing, huge numbers of people were  walking away from the rat race and all its various hypocrisies in order to embrace a way of life which affirmed the sanctity of our planet and all life on it.  Before we ever vote with our pocketbook we vote with our attention and Bastante was watching the world turn its back on the money power of babylon in order to more fully represent and inhabit the world as it is meant to be.


None of the newspapers reported, it, of course.  the newspapers were owned by the money powers, and were consequently forbidden from reporting on the revolution against the money powers. 


Bastante wondered how it would all turn out.