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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: Homestead <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Morning musing
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:37:25 -0500

I recently had dinner with friends who are accomplished homesteaders. They produce a large percentage of what they eat, stay warm with firewood that they cut, are highly self reliant, and lead a life that might be a model of sustainability.

Certainly one might blame the beer, but alas, during after-dinner talk we old friends actually sunk to the level of shouting at each other as we exchanged and argued over what we think we know about peak oil, overpopulation, sustainability, inflation, dollar erosion, and of course politics. Somehow we missed sex and religion.

Driving home I thought about what had occurred. I was appalled and depressed that otherwise sane and intelligent humans, long-time friends, could sink so low. So I have been thinking about why it happened. And I think I know the answer. We are ingesting too much information. Information is available as never before, more than we can handle, I think. Among the results are that we believe we are experts on subjects beyond our former ken. We instinctively know that knowledge is power and the mass media is happy to profit from that urge. Alas, "if it bleeds it leads, " and most of the information we consume today is bloody, awful and highly negative. So-called journalists compete for consumers of "news" with the most incendiary subject they can find. No wonder my friends think the sky is falling.

It is said that our physical selves are what we eat. My thought for the day is that our minds are what we read, watch and listen to.

Choose knowingly.




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