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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> >Moon, yesterday you accused James of self-aggrandizement.  

Mainly, I'd say, over my view that I am as non-consumerist as anyone in this 
country.  The travels and experience (details of which I don't want to go 
into, but you don't get any more exposed to other cultures than I was) I 
think she 
dismissed rather than labeled aggrandizement.  How people who are in 
different cultures, different circumstances, and even speak different 
languages react 
to the world and its interactions differently has always been a keen interest 
of mine.  Anyone who wants to lump that very real and stark human reality 
into 
one overall stand for political correctness (the Soylent Green approach) is 
naive and to my mind and my experience has had little or no real exposure to 
other cultures.


But as far as the claims of aggrandizement go, this is a list somewhat 
vaguely touching on homesteading, supposed to have a bowing acquainance with 
self-sufficiency.  I have dedicated my time, energy, musings, schemings, my 
economy 
and the structure of my family to the end of homesteading, self-sufficiency, 
and non-consumerism.  I do not make excuses, but on the other hand I don't 
apologize for it either.  It's the main theme of this list, if it were not, I 
wouldn't be participating here.  I do not participate in the linguistics 
lists and 
for fake contriteness sake pretend I can't read what people are saying in 
other languages.  I don't participate in the instrument building list and shy 
away 
from posting pictures of my projects for humility's sake.  And I don't 
participate in homesteading lists and feel any compunction to disguise the 
fact that 
after pursuing non-consumerism for a quarter century that I've made some 
successful inroads into the endeavor.


James