permaculture

[seaseal <seaseal@got.net>]

I did research on the issues of centralization and distribution-- 
these two opposite forces are natural when looking at the big picture.

We will see in real life what we see in Permaculture: increasing the  
edge will increase diversity. Decreasing diversity weakens the core.

As the large supermarkets folded in my town (Albertsons, Lucky),  
small, Mexican specialty stores opened up--some for fresh fruits and  
vegetables, others for breads and pastries, a new one for dried  
vegetables and fruits, and another that's only a meat market.

Next, a Wal-Mart SuperStore made inroads for a proposed 200,000  
square foot store. This would, of course, put all the smaller guys  
out of business. Then, who knows.

We saw this centralization and distribution with banks. Once upon a  
time, banks opened late and closed early to the extent the term  
*Bankers' Hours* had meaning. Now, one can bank whenever, distributed  
in time and space via the internet or an ATM (a telling term if I  
ever heard one).

I'm not afraid of this process and only hope I'm able to learn enough  
to survive the centralization periods. The power resides in those of  
us who recognize the processes and use them to strengthen our lives.

RE: have posted below about the media ecology die-off... what we will  
be left
with, like in finance, will be a few very large corporations, almost  
nothing
in between, and many, many tiny micro media enterprises

advertisers will have increased power in this new media landscape, with
increased product placements and effect over programming... the public
relations industry will become even more of a dominant force


Cecile
seaseal@got.net

"Life is a hard battle anyway, and if we laugh
  and sing a little as we fight the good fight of
  freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not
  allow my life's light to be determined by the
  darkness around me!"
  --Sojourner Truth