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  • From: ziggycatnap@yahoo.com
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Living on this little island
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 09:08:14 -0800

Thank you Dan C. My sentiments exactly!
Diane
Pacific Alpine Gardens

On Jan 19, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com> wrote:

>> "I wanted to physically make the world a better place," Janes said.
>> With his family's help, he bought 40 acres of forested land on Denman
>> Island. It came with two trailers.
> The problem isn't the world, it's the herd. You don't have to
> improve the world, you have to turn the direction of the herd. The point
> of civilization is to isolate and drive the herd into a corral and teach
> them to consume purchased products. The money from those purchases
> constitutes our democratic voting process.
> If you want Change, keep it in your pocket. You don't have to
> isolate yourself from the herd, and in fact doing so is less effective
> than staying in the herd and spreading the consciousness that
> consumerism is killing the future. Nobody is going to listen to a nut
> job on an island, but they will listen to Warren Buffet when he buys a
> used car instead of a new one and lives in a modest home when he doesn't
> have to. They will listen to a neighbor who always seems content with
> life more than one fighting for a rung on a ladder.
> The next step is turning the herd completely around, to where the
> goal of humans is to contribute to the natural world rather than extract
> from it.
>
> The crux of the problem is that Consumerism is THE religious basis
> for our civilization. Capitalism could still take place based on
> generosity to nature instead of extraction, but the opposite end of the
> labor/owner dichotomy would benefit.
>
> Imagine a company where the CEO's job is to serve the employees' needs
> in order to get their work done tending a world for the sake of their
> children. The highest profit would be a permaculture type of place in
> the world where individuals are free to pursue useful interests, rather
> than trying to kill each other for the last dried bean.
>
> What a concept, eh?
>
> Ideologically, it sounds impossible, but logically, we have all of the
> tools and systems in place. We just don't have the awareness or the will
> because people have been kept living in the dark for so long. Many need
> a kick in the pants, but most just need a flashlight to find their own
> keys. The desire for a private island is just another tool used to get
> people to work harder for a weekend off (or a retirement doing anything
> but what they are trained for).
>
> Dan C.
> Belgium, WI
>
>
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