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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Experiment in Country Living<Goodchild
  • Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:20:28 -0600


Understood. Your meaning of overhead would be the external costs of a
lifestyle, like the overhead of industrial farming would include soil
depletion. I didn't know "groundedness" was a word but looking it up it gets
a lot of use.

But as Mitch said the sort of lifestyle we're advocating should not be
evaluated in monetary terms. I agree it shouldn't be dismissed because it's
not good income. Yet local growers need to find ways to at least make growing
supplement whatever income they have. We know the personal benefits.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 8/31/2010 at 11:29 PM Pego Rice wrote:

>"Like master, like man"  Our polity is arrainged so that only money
>really talks, these days.  I certainly have the personal theory that this
>is part of why we always look at the money and not the small print and
>people with low wage, no matter how happy a life and decent, intelegent,
>creative and critical to the functioning of society, kinda written off
>because of lack of political representation.    When things in the nation
>suck, they suddenly get some modicum of the respect they've earned but,
>when the money is rolling around people forget what the money cost.
> 
>That is a pretty shallow thing, but it is certainly a reality.  Just like
>it is hard to keep people from buying at Wally, even when you tell them
>that every buck they pay a bog corporation gets sucked out of town and
>causes the town to blead jobs, including their own.  The same business
>goes on here.  Frank and Sally Dirtfarmer get dissed and the Menendez's
>are rolling in wealth, fame and power...well, until their alientated,
>money-grubbing kids kill them in the middle of the night. 
> 
>Groundedness is not the same as "Overhead"  Overhead is the cost of the
>life you are living, groundedness is what lets you see the cost before it
>kills you and destroys your family.
> 
>Yours, Pego
> 
> 
><<Well, Pego, that puts the issue in a new light, doesn't it. I'd call
>overhead "groundedness" Tradingpost Paul>>
>
><<I think we need to emphasize that the sort of lifestyle we're advocating
>should not be evaluated in monetary terms.  That would be the same trap
>we're trying to escape.  ...we should not expect, or desire, the money
>associated with cubicle life.E. E. "Mitch" > >





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