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  • From: <pbunch@cox.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Transition Lifestyles: becoming peasants
  • Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:52:26 -0700

Ya. The devil one knows sometimes appears better than the devil one fears.

---- Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>
> But let's look at the way things are today. If you're laid off or suddenly
> unable to work for various reasons, then you may become dependent on
> uncontrollable factors for food (and shelter). Further, safety is a
> nagging fear with food. The high consumption, inactive, drugged,
> malnourished lifestyle ensures the next generation a shorter lifespan.
> Chronic disease only gets treated for the symptoms, not the causes, and
> often goes untreated, in our medical system. Finally, look at the attitude
> of the richest 1% in our society who get much, much richer - while the
> middle class keeps losing income and gets taxed for foreign wars.
>
> Some can work around the system and cope by getting back to the land, some
> can't. In any case the numbers show we're slowly but surely being turned
> into peasants now. I might as well try to get used to it. But realistically
> I'm one of those who won't make it through if worst comes to worst.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********
>
> On 9/6/2010 at 7:00 AM pbunch@cox.net wrote:
>
> >I guess this is what a non-alienated or at least less alienated life
> >would be. We, I, at least have tended to look at the lives of peasants as
> >undesirable in someways. People were dependent on the weather and other
> >uncontrollable factors for food, safety was often a problem, disease, the
> >attitude of the ruling class and taxation all made life difficult at
> >times. Many modern day peasants are doing all they can to escape this
> >lifestyle. There also are country people we know here in Colombia who have
> >absolutely no desire to move to the city. They like the "peasant" life. I
> >use this word with some caution as it has become loaded with negative
> >connotations but it really does describe what we are aiming for fairly
> >well. Perhaps a new kind of peasantry.
> >
> >I wonder if life really was as bad for country folks as it has been
> >portrayed historically. After all it was generally the rich, educated
> >classes of the towns and manors that wrote about them.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >---- Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> Then a more "grounded" lifestyle can mean working to produce the food we
> >eat, procure the clothes we wear, build or rework our shelter and so forth
> >- all work that contributes directly to our own needs and wellbeing -
> >instead of working for just money to pay someone else to provide those
> >things for us. There is such a profound satisfaction to find the
> >confidence to do for ourselves. You folks know this in your very being.
> >>
> >> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
> >>
>
>
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