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  • From: Pat Meadows <pat AT meadows.pair.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Cell phones and things related
  • Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:56:28 -0400

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004 18:32:17 -0500 (CDT), you wrote:

>
>That was part of my point a coupla weeks ago when Pat Meadows and I were
>having our discussion about "control" and who's got it and who doesn't.
>If Walmart has "taken over" an area and driven everyone else out of
>business, then people who refuse to buy things at Walmart will go through
>some (and maybe a substantial amount of) hardship: they either get their
>stuff at the local Walmart, go somewhere else (which might be difficult or
>impossible), or go without. So have these people lost all control? Not
>at all! If "Mom & Pop Store" in the next town has pretty much the same
>stuff and pretty much the same price, then all we need to figure out is
>how to get to that next town! To me, that solution is pretty easy.
>Bucky Fuller called this "Emergence Through Emergency" and it works! We
>humans can do great things if we have to...

It isn't always that easy. We live in a rural area. There
is no public transport here. We do have a car.

I only drive in emergencies (I have vertigo caused by an
inner ear condition). My husband can drive sometimes and
not others - he is a chronic pain patient. If he needs to
take a heavy-duty painkiller, then he cannot drive.

We can't ask family members to drive us. My only living
family member is one daughter who lives 6 hours away from
us, and works fulltime as well as caring for a chronically
ill husband. My husband's family are all 3500 miles away.

Now just how do you suggest we get to the 'next town over
with a Mom & Pop store'? That town is 35 miles away from
our home.

Pat


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