permaculture

["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> I don't know if life was so stable in pre-modern times. There was no
> lack of conflict and displacement of population by immigrating peoples.

Invading, as well as immigrating, and emigrating - constant patterns in
human history.

> There was parochrialism because communities lacked means of mass
> communications and, consequently, suspicion of and hostility to
> outsiders.

I would't put that "because" or "consequently" in the above.

There's no necessary (or even demonstrable) connection between not having
mass communication and being suspicious of and/or hostile to "outsiders."

OTOH there are plenty of counterexamples in the present day of communities
that *do* have means of mass communication and are suspicious of and/or
hostile to "outsiders."



John Schinnerer, MA
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