Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

On 11/20/2012 11:00 AM, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> From: "Tradingpost"<tradingpost@lobo.net>
> Subject: [Livingontheland] interesting & disturbing
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> This is a bit different. And disturbing.
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> http://www.seattleorganicrestaurants.com/vegan-whole-foods/organic-choices-affect-quaility-life/
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> The human consciousness is becoming more and more aware that everything in 
> the current political, social, economical and food system is rigged, 
> manipulated and designed for distraction and suppressing your humanity and 
> true desire to simply love and be loved.
This article has pretty good economic advice, but as with all 'new'-age 
-ish premises, it misses the point to "love" and "consciousness".
These are simply tools in the toolbox of a species.
The real fundamental path of a species is to survive, which means being 
useful to its own future (and that of its environment, which IS its 
future). If love and consciousness help, then great, but if they simply 
enable marketing and consumption to manipulate us and consume the 
environment, they can as well be abandoned in favor of a sensible 
reality.... (tooth and claw).
Our consciousness has to do more than be awakened: it has to, in the 
end, be useful. An imaginary world in the brain of every individual is 
where we live. That's what consciousness really is: the ability to make 
a model of the universe and move into it. Civilization is the collective 
isolation of the group from the risks of reality (to a point). Very 
rarely are humans intentional within that scope: we are mostly 
conditioned like trained chickens, but we BELIEVE we are doing things on 
our own cognizance and making 'Coke vs. Pepsi' choices. That's why 
marketing has so much power over consumers: we are trained from the 
get-go to be consumers, not conscious animals. The religions train us to 
not believe we are animals, and the marketers train us to not be 
conscious, while teachers train us to believe we are, even when we can't 
understand basic cause and effect.
Embrace your animal nature: BE the two-legged raccoon you were meant to be.
Love and Consciousness are not why we learned to grow gardens. Survival is.
;-)

Dan C.
Belgium, WI
P.S.  some references:
"Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Taleb
"Coercion" by Douglas Rushkoff
"Stumbling on Happiness" by Dan Gilbert