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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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