Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Dan Conine <dconine@bertramwireless.com>]

Thanks for the replies, John and Diane.

    As for the religion aspect, John: I agree. The tangent I think we 
should follow though, is that religion is the marketing department for 
the Town Meeting. In other words, the trick to getting people to meet is 
to find something that will keep them coming to the meetings. Churches 
use donuts and pies. Municipalities have often used blue laws to get 
people to use their day of rest (hopefully by participating in communal 
activities). Going to the meetings to worship God is like going to the 
Super Bowl to watch the advertisements (in U.S. vernacular).
    I think the rest is a matter of doing what people do best: 
establishing habits that they will follow. As the old saying goes, If 
you want to get people to do the right things, then the right things 
have to be easier to do than the wrong things. The guilt and fear of 
churches is supposed to make the wrong things harder, but I think most 
places and people have lost the ability to determine what the right 
things are, or even to bother themselves with questioning. The glossies 
and TV make it seem that anything making money must be right.

The Invisible Hand is my White Whale. People do stuff. They have reasons 
for doing stuff. In that order.


Dan C
Belgium, WI USA

On 1/21/2014 11:00 AM, livingontheland-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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> I like your ideas very much Dan but I see a few problems in trying to
> realise them.
>
> The herd are not just consumers, they are also television watchers and I
> don't think they ever show on television how many people here in West Cork
> or in most parts of the world live. The interiors of all the houses in
> glossy magazines don't look a bit to what I am used to and people here on
> these muddy farms don't dress like what they are told to aspire for.
> Maybe we could start with publishing something that gives a different view
> of reality?
>
> Let us also not forget that religions are not at all forgiving for those who
> think or do their own thing. Danger here!