The Oakland Humane Commons
Definition: The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately. Commons can also be defined as a social practice of governing a resource not by state or market but by a community of users that self-governs the resource through institutions that it creates. We are staking a place in the most unwanted parcel of underserved underpass, where West Grand ends in a muddy trash strewn semi-abandoned homeless encampment, and putting up our sign that says "Oakland Humane Commons", where we establish the following rules and values: 1. The needs, comfort and convenience of human beings takes precedence over the needs of automobiles within the designated area of this humane commons. 2. Respect for all the stakeholders of this place is given, including to the ancestors, the nature spirits, the musicians and artists, the curbside residents, the citizens of Oakland, and the tourists. 3. We make a clear space within the commons where the people can meet safely and establish a local townhall meeting schedule to cover all the matters of our commons. 4. The humane commons is a territory established on the basis of prior unity, and exists in perpetuity through the force of everybody-all-at-once to protect and enrich all human life. 5. The humane commons self-regulates and self-manages itself in order to always measurably increase the human amenities, beauty, safety and survival value expressed within the commons. 6. The humane commons is all-ages, open 24/7, and is a First Amendment Zone, where music, arts and culture are invited and available at all times, and where local arts and culture are given first place in society. 7. The humane commons is always informed by the great social wisdom in the book Not-Two Is Peace by Adi Da, and its revelation of the power of intimate scaled human cooperative community. Upcoming projects at the Oakland Humane Commons - 1. Establish a space for townhall meetings. 2. Establish a space for a live music stage. 3. Improved access to water. 4. Cleaning, including safe removal of syringes. Other future projects include 10,000 tiny homes for Oakland, ecovillages, an Earthship habitat, playgrounds for children, food trucks, arts and crafts sales, an underground Kiva, a sweatlodge, a bathhouse, Burning Man sculptures, digital art and light projections, giant fiberglass mushrooms, skate park, gardens and growing soil in containers, a shrine to the dead, and a Prior Unity temple. email: [email protected] |
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Our commons, your commons
For human civilization to stay balanced it has to have three basic features - 1. The State 2. Corporations AND 3. The Commons. Society has been suffering a number of intractable ills that are related to the unwarranted erosion of the commons. These ills are reinforced by the absence of representation for certain human populations, including all the people who have no friends on either the left or the right. Some of these populations include rock bands, homeless persons, sex workers, and "hippies", or those individuals who for whatever reason have decided to drop out of the "rat race". These groups have never had any form of reliable and organized advocacy or protection, and the fortunes of these groups have endured decades of decline. The commons project I am proposing at the Oakland Humane Commons is meant to be a beginning of the restoration of the commons on a global scale. Both corporations and the state have failed utterly to prevent the collapse of the rock music industry, or to reverse the explosion of homelessness in America, as just two examples. I offer you this solution - rebuilding the commons together is the best solution to rock's collapse and to homelessness. Expanding the commons is about land and space. The four acres of open space facing Wood st. in West Oakland is inhabited by at least three people who have lived there for 5-10 years - their presence creates a precedent for the use of this space as a de facto commons. Ownership of the land is divided between Caltrans and private owners (Craves family). My hope is that we will secure the cooperation of all stakeholders in this land to convert this land into a permanent residential commons in Oakland. I am putting forth a plan to divide the Wood st. commons into two areas - one area for short and long-term car and RV camping, and another area for tiny home ecovillages with added recreational amenities. We could perhaps acommodate 250-500 short and long-term residents in this four acre space. There are however, at least 4,000 homeless people in Oakland right now. So, we will have to expand areas of residential commons in Oakland as needed to give everyone who needs it a good place to live. Some areas where we can expand the Oakland Humane Commons is under existing overpasses of the 580, 880 and 980 freeways. Further expansion can take place in the parks and other marginal greenways around the freeways and Lake Merritt. A true commons must, I believe, include two things - at least one live music stage, and a suitable space for townhall meetings at the commons. These two features are essential because they help to create the conditions for local self-governance, and space for live, all-ages music 24/7. When we succeed in restoring the commons, we will answer another great need in human beings that is not being met by either the State or corporations - the human need for cooperative community. The restoration of the commons will enable the expansion of cooperative community to go into high gear. Covid has helped to remind many of us of the powerful need and longing in humans for face-to-face contact and collaboration with each other. Even before covid, too many people were suffering from isolation, disconnection, loneliness, and loss of contact with the Earth. And in a country and a time where there is alarming division between people, there is no other force or factor in society, other than basic patriotism, that could bring us together under a positive cause more than restoring the commons. Our commons, your commons, is waiting for you to come down and help us to build it. |
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"I serve the interests of everybody-all-at-once
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The types of commons
There are several species of commons - there is temporary commons, there is residential commons, and there is both temporary and permanent 24-hours commons. An example of temporary commons are block parties where the street is temporarily zoned to be free of thru traffic of cars. An example of residential commons are long-term or permanent tiny home ecovillage commons within the city limits, like the one on Wood st. in Oakland. An example of 24 hour commons are the sidewalks in cities. It might not be immediately obvious to some people that the sidewalks are the commons. But the sidewalks are one of the last remaining areas of the city that are 1. open 24 hours 2. open to all ages, and 3. afford "safe" passage for pedestrians (i.e. humans can walk freely on any sidewalk at any time). Other than sidewalks, there are few areas remaining within the city that give us these three freedoms. In a social system that has become over-weighted toward corporate and state interests, the "disposable" human population is constantly being generated and dumped into - you guessed it - THE 24 HOUR COMMONS! Think about it - most city parks have curfews and do not allow over night camping. The city of Oakland does not have any overnight camping facilities within city limits, other than Chabot park. This forces people who are being dumped by the system to live on the sidewalks. The sidewalks, the 24 hour commons, are currently the dumping grounds for disposable humans. When there is not enough land within the city limits that is dedicated to residential commons, the overflow ends up on the 24 hour commons. The answer to getting people not to live on the sidewalks is to make sure that we have an over-abundant capacity of tiny home ecovillage commons in various parts of Oakland to handle the 4,000 homeless people three times over - i.e. we need a residential commons capacity within Oakland that can handle 12,000 residents. It is important to understand these different species of commons for strategic reasons, so that we will be able to successfully scale up the size of our commons rapidly to handle a number of enormous social disruptions, which include artificial intelligence, robots and automation, the wave of new homeless people from covid, and the future downsizing of the military. Even if humans enjoy something like a universal basic income and the fruits of NESARA, there will still be huge numbers of humans who have lost their jobs, their homes, their homelands, or their jobs have been permanently replaced by robots and AI. Without meaningful work and connection to community, and connection to the Earth and self-sustainability, these great numbers of people might lose their pride or feel lost. The state and the corporate interests have proven themselves so far unwilling or incapable of handling the problem of homelessness, the problem of automation, the problem of rock bands, and the problem of a lack of community and connection between people and the land. Only the humane commons can provide dignity, space and infrastructure to the currently disposable human population, including homeless persons and artists/musicians. Do the corporations and the city want to continue to look bad and to fail endlessly? No, of course not. That is why a successful commons on Wood st. in Oakland is the first and very essential step to establishing a new and true permanent residential commons in Oakland. |
Security on the commons
The Black Panthers were the first globally scalable social innovation that put the defense and security of the community at the forefront of their reason for being, without resorting to submission to kings or the state for the privilege of enjoying general safety and protection. The humane commons shares the same concerns for the defense, protection and security of the commons itself, and by extension everybody-all-at-once. How do we deal with security in our humane commons? I propose voluntary "social directors". What's that? Social directors walk the grounds on a schedule, and make it a point to personally know everyone who is a resident in the commons, as well as be a good host for visitors to the commons. Social directors are there to facilitate relationships and connections between people, and to pre-empt problems. Social directors wear a form of distinctive reflective clothing, like a yellow vest, but not necessarily. Social directors are encouraged to pursue a constant course of learning and applying all of the best practices of non-violence, non-violent communication, de-escalation, harm reduction, humor, theatre arts, and Richard's rules of order. Social directors have the keys and access to all of the shared resources of the commons, including tools, wi-fi, power grid/smart walls, the commons database, ringing the gathering bell, interfacing with police, EMT's, fire department and other helpers, and updating the commons database. |
"Volunteer Social Director"
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Theo's letter to four members of the Oakland City Council - October 1, 2020
Hello, My name is Theo Cedar Jones - I am a 55 year resident of the East Bay, and have recently become a resident of the Wood st. commons in West Oakland, due to covid causing me to lose my house of 20 years on Lakeshore ave. I am also a rock musician in the band Swaybone and I work across the street from the commons at Soundwave Studios. I heard from Al, the owner of Soundwave, that a committee of the Oakland City Council has been working on a plan for the Wood st. commons. I thought it was important to let you know that going any further in the process of deciding the fate of this area would be premature without full buy-in and participation of the residents and other stake holders in the area. I am working to establish a permanent residential commons on the south side of the area, which will include a space for regular townhall meetings of the residents and stakeholders to handle self-governance of the commons. I and many other residents plan on staying permanently to develop what I believe is the missing piece needed for our otherwise failed policies toward homelessness and the plight of rock bands - a tiny home ecovillage commons. We are developing volunteer groups to completely clean the entire commons, and develop a new process with the city to handle waste, so that our commons will cease to be the de facto dump for the city of Oakland. The basic model is tiny home ecovillages, with some of the tiny homes on wheels. We hope this will be a successful pilot project that will prove the efficacy of scaling up the Oakland Humane Commons to other appropriate areas of the city, so that we can provide safe and dignified housing to every single homeless person or struggling musician and artist who needs it. Please advise me of any upcoming meetings or notices that are pertinent to the commons, and I will make every effort to attend. You can stay abreast of our work at this page - http://globalcooperativeforum2013.weebly.com/oakland-humane-commons.html Best, Theo Cedar Jones Wood st. Commons To get involved with Oakland City Council re Oakland Humane Commons The Oakland City Council meets the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in the Council Chambers, 3rd floor in City Hall. The City Council Committee meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays in Sgt. Mark Dunakin Hearing Room (Hearing Room 2) 1st floor in City Hall. Life Enrichment Committee – Loren Taylor, [email protected] - Chair Lynette McElhaney, [email protected] Nikki Fortunato Bas, [email protected] Rebecca Kaplan, [email protected] |
The commons solves the problem of gentrification
The old debt slave/wage slave system depends on a permanent supply of disposable humans to act as a cautionary to any of the worker drones that they better stay good compliant workers or they too will end up as human garbage living on the street. As Maven, a resident of the Wood st. commons told me, we don't have a homeless problem, we have an infrastructure problem. Seen simply as a military operation, we could provide all of the infrastructure to make every person living on the streets of Oakland relatively safe and comfortable within 72 hours, and it would cost us less than what is currently in the Port of Oakland endowment. But that would deprive the slave masters (Democrats) of their goad, and their whip of fear. Our debt slavery system pits artists and musicians against the homeless (curbside residents) in the following way. Artists, bands and musicians possess inherent enterprise and are willing to occupy the cheapest parts of town in order to have the freedom to do what they are passionate about. When they are successful at generating a viable "scene" they attract more businesses and visitors to the area, increasing the rents and property values. This attracts the next higher level of socio-economic predatory competitors, urban professionals and high tech companies to then move in and displace the artists and musicians, who themselves displaced the homeless (curbside residents). This is repeated as an endless cycle, keeping musicians, artists and homeless struggling in fear for their survival. As long as real estate speculation rules all of the land not held by the state, then there is no safe space for the humane commons in our city limits. Gentrification and unbridled predatory speculation will always be allowed to destroy and disrupt any fragile flowers of local culture we manage to generate - plus the culture workers and the homeless people are always kept divided because they are forced to compete in an environment of managed scarcity. We must begin to acquire land for the commons, to be placed in a permanent commons trust, administered in full transparency by and for the people. This will remove vital real estate within our city limits from the harms of gentrification. This means that any person who has established a lifestead in our urban commons, or any commons in the world, can be assured that they will never be evicted or made homeless by the forces of capitalism, or by the human rights violations of the state. It also means that your lifestead cannot be sold on the open market, and it reverts to the commons trust when you die, and is paid forward to the next person in line who wants it or needs it. |
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The housed must live with the homeless
It's important for the housed people of Oakland to live part-time in the commons, build a tiny home there, or a garden or a business. If we depend on the homeless to have all the human and other resources necessary to create their own commons and generate functional self-governance, without outside help, then we are making an unfair demand on our fellow citizens who have suffered the worst from our debt slave/wage slave illuminati infected economic system. We need a blend of people from all parts of Oakland to get involved with the homeless issue directly through participation in helping themselves and others get their own tiny home in the commons of Oakland. We need the greatest legal minds to help us form the commons trust, enabling us to purchase and receive gifts of land, within the city limits of Oakland, that will be held in perpetual trust for the use of all citizens, self-governed through townhall meetings, and part of an ever expanding acreage known as "The Oakland Humane Commons" comprised of many parcels of land throughout Oakland, which are there for the perpetual recreation, enterprise and residential living of all who need it. All citizens of Oakland must understand that the homeless issue is their issue, and it is the single greatest test of our humanity and morality that no one is exempt from getting directly involved in. Every citizen is equally responsible for the plight of every homeless citizen in their city limits - period. So I am putting it on every citizen of Oakland now that your are responsible for the following: 1. To know what your city representatives have in mind for your homeless citizens - start by researching their encampment policy. Also find out what they have done to homeless people in the past. 2. Visit the Wood st. commons in West Oakland during daylight hours, with or without me as your guide. It's better to come with companions and protective gloves. 3. Join our non-profit that is developing the tiny homes ecovillage commons project in Oakland. 4. Finance a tiny home yourself and live part time with the "homeless" citizens of your city. 5. Get the city to finance a tiny home for you to live part time with the "homeless" citizens of your city. Yes, you don't have to be homeless to live in a tiny home with your fellow citizens in a free and open space where we can live and associate freely within the constraints of common law. Indeed, you are obligated to get personally involved with homeless people face-to-face until they are no longer homeless, and "they" have now become the "we" of shared community. Imagine the space we are living in together in Oakland is rent free, speculation free, gentrification free - where we can have access to each other in community, live in open space in gardens and greenery, be self-sustaining of our basic needs, be self-governing on the local level, paying forward many of our greatest gifts to the good of the commons. May a million tiny home ecovillage commons bloom everywhere on Earth. |
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Dear Daryel Dunston,
I am writing to you today as I have just become homeless. I understand that you are the top ranking city official in charge of the homeless issue in Oakland, so I thought you should be the first city representative I hope to meet soon and talk to about my situation, and ask for some things from the city, including a tiny home on wheels and a sanctioned, safe place in the city limits to park it. About my situation. I have lived for 55 years in Oakland and Berkeley. I went to Cal Berkeley for four years. My father was a doctor, and my mother is an artist. I have lived a middle class existence my whole life, and even had the good fortune to have the freedom to be an artist and musician for my entire adult life. But I have watched my cost of living double, while my income as a rock and roll guitar teacher to youth stayed the same. I watched my 17 year investment in my recording studio disappear due to the out of control rents, and the destruction of the rock music industry for local bands. And now, due to the endless rise in the cost of living in Oakland, and covid, I have lost my home of twenty years on 3924 Lakeshore ave. But I am not going to join the ranks of the 4,000 human beings living on the street of Oakland tonite quietly. I have released 6 albums with my band Swaybone, in spite of a total lack of support from the music industry or anyone else. Am I the kind of person you want to see slide down the socio-economic scale? Are you ready for dozens, hundreds more of educated, skilled professional people with decades of being upstanding members of their community becoming homeless?? Not all of these people are docile and voiceless. How much money is there in the Oakland city budget for homelessness right now? $50 million dollars? How much money is there in the Alameda County budget for homelessness next year? $352 million? Where do most of the homeless people in Alameda County end up? Berkeley and Oakland? Where is all this money going? If it is not going directly to house and shelter every single one of the 4,000 American citizens currently living on the streets of Oakland tonite then I hold you personally in dereliction of duty, and a co-perpetrator of a decades long crime against humanity perpetrated by the city of Oakland. So, I am expecting you to provide me with a tiny home on wheels, with a solar power generator and access to wifi and bathroom, on land within the city limits of Oakland that is safe and sanctioned by the city within 72 hours, plus a budget for my motel expenses until you provide this. In fact, you can use me as a pilot project for the city to purchase its first 100 tiny homes on wheels - some of my friends down at the Wood st. commons would love to have one. Thank you for your consideration, Theo Cedar Jones Wood st. commons West Oakland [email protected] |
I am addressing the citizens of Oakland to tell you that the enemy is not only at the gates, but has been comfortably settled into your city's machine politics for over fifty years. But if you don't know or are unwilling to face your enemy's real intentions and capabilities, then you will never be able to come up with the right strategy to defend yourself and overcome your enemy.
Don't be fooled by the social justice platitudes, or the sheer blandness of Jerry Brown and whatever forgettable Democratic party underlings of his have occupied Oakland's city council and mayor's office for fifty plus years, all of the Democrats who have dis-served our city are in collusion with a globalist de-population agenda that has both the intentions and the capabilities to do what Hitler could never plan or execute - effective depopulation of nearly the entire global human population. That is the true and actual long-term and systematically organized intention of your enemy. Your enemy's face is the Democratic party in the city of Oakland right now. They work for George Soros, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, and the secret societies that have been planning and getting away with the destruction of humanity. The seeming blandness and innocuousness of current and past elected officials in the city of Oakland correspond exactly to Hannah Arendt's description of Nazi war criminals at Nuremburtg as "the banality of evil". It is precisely these types of forgettable mid-level functionaries that are groomed to execute the final orders of genocide against their fellow human beings. Chemtrails over California. Directed energy weapons creating fires. Homicide, homelessness and trash are the status quo. These are the acts of traitors. These are the acts of Democrats in our state of California. I don't have time to waste arguing with anybody over the truth of these statements - when the enemy is at your gates and within your gates, it is time for action (non-violent, cooperative and prior unity based action). I was a voting Democrat my entire life until the John Podesta emails were published by wikileaks in 2016. I walked/speed walked/ran away from the Democratic party at that time. If you still identify as a Democrat you can still be redeemed, but don't take too long to wake up because the level of guilt is so great, and the corruption so unimaginably deep within the "cabal/deep state" that have been the handlers and gatekeepers to power within the state of California, principally the Getty family, the Brown family and the Pelosi family - names that will live in infamy. Look at the signs of what the Democrats in the city of Oakland have done that are all around you. One billion dollars paid to Waste Management corp. by the city to keep our city clean, and our city has more and more trash, and that situation never really gets any better. The grinding black on black homicide rate in Oakland never really gets any better. And the numbers of Oakland's citizens without secure shelter (4,000) went up 47 percent in the last year. 1. Homicide 2. Homelessness 3. Trash If the Democrats in the city of Oakland were like an abusive partner, and they only exhibited the same pattern of abuse for over fifty years, it would be insane to expect a different outcome by staying in that relationship. But we the citizens of Oakland have allowed ourselves to be subject to an abusive partner, by continuing our relationship with the Democratic party's monopoly on power in the city of Oakland. We can imagine a future for our city of Oakland without a Democratic party. But that future can only be achieved if we the citizens of Oakland take the right and necessary actions right now to completely remove the enemy from our city finally and forever. Here's what I suggest we do. 1. Write, call and social media your mayor, city council members and Barbara Lee and demand that they answer the question: "Are you now or have you ever been a freemason, or a member of any secret society?" 2. Also ask them: "Is it your intention to completely and humanely shelter all of Oakland's citizens within 6 months?" These are designed to be simple, direct yes-or-no questions. They are also a litmus test. It's virtually impossible for them to answer these questions without revealing their real position. We must not be naive about the fact that if any of our elected city officials are freemasons or members of any other secret society, they have made secret blood oaths that abrogate and render null-and-void ALL of their oaths of office, as well as their social contract with other human beings. Therefore, no known freemasons or members of other secret societies should be allowed to take the oath of any public office in the city of Oakland. Ever. There are more items to develop in our strategy to remove Oakland's enemies from our city, which I will share later. But all citizens of Oakland can do these first two steps right now, and start getting closer to your elected officials. There are two easy spots to dig into in the investigative and legal fronts when it comes to Democratic officials in the city of Oakland 1. corruption and 2. violation of the citizens of Oakland's human rights. The city of Oakland has spent billions of dollars on policing, "helping" the homeless problem, and picking up the trash, but where is all that money really going, if Oakland is devolving day by day into someplace like Haiti or Venezuela? The lack of transparency around the Port of Oakland especially adds to this rich soil for the potential of corruption to grow. And remember, you all have a standing invitation to visit me in the Wood st. commons in West Oakland, historic birthplace of the Black Panther movement. Love and blessings. Theo Cedar Jones |
My conversion to humana universalis
My experience of being without a legal residence while a citizen of my own city has converted me permanently away from my capacity to dwell in a rent/slave urban heavy expensive box (house, apartment). I spent one night house sitting in a friend's apartment in San Leandro, and am now convinced that conventional residential architecture is about creating ego castles, and conspires against community. I have always wanted to be successful at co-creating cooperative community with other people. But I exhausted all my attempts to do this in "nice" East Bay houses. Now I am living in my proprietary stretch fabric dome in the biggest and longest running unsheltered people's encampment in the US. It is only possible to generate the right to exist when you are too poor in Oakland to afford the cost of living by squatting illegally on state or privately owned land. I am pursuing my dream not only of survival, but of living in the present with people who are to a significant degree co-creating cooperative community. And I think everybody needs to come visit us here at the Wood st. commons in West Oakland and consider together how we are going to survive in the face of a systemic attempt to de-populate the State of California. The present condition of West Oakland and the Wood st. commons is everybody's future, in more ways than one. We need everybody to make a stand with us against the city of Oakland, the County of Alameda, HUD, the State of California, the Port of Oakland, the Democratic party and all of their legacy of genocidal policies against their own citizens over multiple decades. You must not let them destroy the Wood st. commons. You must help all of us protect our right to exist. I am living in a commons with no legal right to exist - I hope to change that someday, because I think this plot of land in West Oakland is where all humanity needs to establish its right to exist legally within a commons in their own city, village, refugee camp, Indian Reservation, military base, or anywhere humans are. Our example must be the precedent that is set and never abandoned - and from here the commons only grows to other areas of Oakland, and then to Stockton, Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield and L.A., where utterly pernicious "homelessness", or socially engineered de-population, has been the status quo. And then to beyond to wherever humans are. And so I have become converted to the new species of human, the one who inhabits the commons, the species called "humana universalis". And the architecture I build here will also have the same name as I now take, as a member of this new human species. |
I have become Humana Universalis.
On November 17th 2020 I spent my first night living in the Wood st. commons. After a few days of not dying from homelessness, I spent a night couch surfing at a friend's apartment in Oakland. I was particularly sensitive to the effects of both the architecture and the threatening pervasiveness of cars. I felt how the design of living everywhere in the city conspires against community, and is actively threatening to human life. I couldn't wait to get back to my soft dome in the wilds of West Oakland, and the people there.
After a few days of not being in touch with my friend Warner Williams I called him. He was shocked to hear my voice because he was sure that I had died. He was relieved and happy to hear me, and said his sister was poring over the obituaries to find a mention of me. Now I realize that maybe I had died. I had died to my capacity to accept life in a standard house or apartment building in the city. I certainly died to a life of constantly increasing economic stress. I died to the Democratic party. I died to the Left. I died to the illuminati controlled rock music industry and many of its fake "stars".
I altogether died from my attempts to get along with the ego culture enough to survive and become a famous rock star. I still want to survive and have a way to sustain my music, and have my music be heard, but I will do it as a new species of human within a new Earth civilization that includes an expanding humane commons and a global cooperative forum. I have transformed from "Homo Consumeralis" to "Humana Universalis".
This means I reject the legal fiction of THEODORE JUAN CEDAR as spelled on my birth certificate, and am now known either as Theodore Juan Cedar, or Theo Cedar Jones. I am no longer a legal fiction or a corporation, for I was born a living child, and am now a living man.
On November 17th 2020 I spent my first night living in the Wood st. commons. After a few days of not dying from homelessness, I spent a night couch surfing at a friend's apartment in Oakland. I was particularly sensitive to the effects of both the architecture and the threatening pervasiveness of cars. I felt how the design of living everywhere in the city conspires against community, and is actively threatening to human life. I couldn't wait to get back to my soft dome in the wilds of West Oakland, and the people there.
After a few days of not being in touch with my friend Warner Williams I called him. He was shocked to hear my voice because he was sure that I had died. He was relieved and happy to hear me, and said his sister was poring over the obituaries to find a mention of me. Now I realize that maybe I had died. I had died to my capacity to accept life in a standard house or apartment building in the city. I certainly died to a life of constantly increasing economic stress. I died to the Democratic party. I died to the Left. I died to the illuminati controlled rock music industry and many of its fake "stars".
I altogether died from my attempts to get along with the ego culture enough to survive and become a famous rock star. I still want to survive and have a way to sustain my music, and have my music be heard, but I will do it as a new species of human within a new Earth civilization that includes an expanding humane commons and a global cooperative forum. I have transformed from "Homo Consumeralis" to "Humana Universalis".
This means I reject the legal fiction of THEODORE JUAN CEDAR as spelled on my birth certificate, and am now known either as Theodore Juan Cedar, or Theo Cedar Jones. I am no longer a legal fiction or a corporation, for I was born a living child, and am now a living man.