permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

Marimike6@cs.com wrote:

> Yet another example of how the presumptuous Westerner cleared his fields of 
> perfectly good crop materials, to replace the hardy local vegetables with 
> exotics that may or may not acclimate as well to local conditions.
>
> When the Boers came to South Africa they went to quite a lot of trouble to 
> clear the land of antelope, creating mountains of useless carcasses where there 
> used to be a stable ecology of eight or nine endemic species-- now, I believe, 
> all extinct. In their place they introduced European cattle, which promptly 
> caught the rinderpest, and died from it.
>
> There's a lesson here, somewhere.

in the effects of greed, shortsightedness, fear, hysteria, instant 
gratification, compulsiveness,
hyperactivity, lack of attention and focus, lack of discipline, deliberate 
abuse,
no real drive toward self-fulfillment, realization and enlightenment

what happens when these traits are allowed to dominate individual or group 
behavior, through peer pressure
or outright manipulation, the effects of alcohol and tobacco abuse or nutritional deficiencies and chronic malabsorption 
of nutrients often resulting in crippling psychochemical changes in brain function

IOW poor pilgrims waylaid on a path to righteousness, fame, glory and fortune