Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Yes, that's what I referred to as voluntary cooperation among private
individuals or families living in a village or community. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/11/2007 at 11:58 AM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>I liked this so much that I continued thinking about it as I worked this
>morning.  Have to add one point:
>
>Most, maybe all, tribes, villages, etc.  have had, by mutual consent, some
>"common" places and activities for their collective benefit.  Think
>lodges, town halls, churches, schools, barn raisings, fire departments. 
>I've never been much of a student of anthropology or civics, but I think
>it would be interesting to know more about which collective activities
>worked, and which didn't work.
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: TradingPostPaul 
>  To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org 
>  Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 11:53 PM
>  Subject: [Livingontheland] What works/ the hippies were left
>
>
>
>  Reduced down to its essentials: what does *not* work is unrelated people
>  working together to provide for their needs on common property and
>sharing
>  in the proceeds. People just will not commit to such a communal
>  arrangement. It's not a matter of culture but of human nature. 
>
>  What does work, and always has, is natural families and individuals
>living
>  on their own property or space in close proximity to others and
>cooperating
>  on a voluntary basis to meet their needs. It's called a village or
tribe.
>  Societies have been organized this way for eons. 
>
>  It's not a choice between modern society's alienation and communal
>living.
>  Neither is viable. People can group together in close proximity without
>  making it a communal arrangement, and can cooperate and have
>specialization
>  of labor. That will be needed far more in the future.
>
>  paul tradingpost@lobo.net