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[Georg Parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at>]

Lawrence,

I seem to have a history of phrasing my posts in a way that inveites you to 
misunderstand them.

Of course broadscale birthcontrol it is a great idea - but it is an idea, not 
a solution, because the only thing we can actually DO about this is 
refraining from having offspring ourselves (too late for me :-)). How can any 
of us start working on controlling billions of people’s propagation 
behaviour? When I say it is a pipe dream, I mean this is people sitting in a 
room (in front of their computers) talking about ideas they are unable to 
implement.

Same goes for redistribution of wealth - the community or Mondragon idea is 
great, and it is actually a solution because we can actually start doing 
steps in this direction (and are currently doing this). But this is about 
distributed creation of wealth, not about redistribution of (existing) 
wealth. To state that "redistribution of wealth" is "my starting point 
priority" is BS, unless I move my ass and actually start executing my 
priority - which is when it becomes obvious that I cannot do that. So it is a 
pipedream once again. Hot air about what others should do. 

> Am 04.08.2016 um 17:58 schrieb Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Georg Parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at> wrote:
> M.E. writes:
> 
>>> That scenario makes real solutions easier to see. More acceptance of the
>> need for birth control, and greater redistribution of concentrated wealth.
>> Those would be my own starting priorities.
>> 
>> GP writes:
> 
>> Correct me if I am wrong, but in my eyes these are not "real solutions",
>> but just pipe dreams once again. Or else - how actually DO you start on
>> these?
> 
> 
> Without birth cntrol the Earth would be overrun with people in numbers well
> beyond the carrying capacity of Earth. When that happens and noone is
> willing to feed, house and take care of the excess population enter the
> fascists and we know what their methods of population control are.
> 
> "Greater distribution of concentrated wealth" is easily accomplished with
> self-starters, motivated people who take responsibility for their well
> being by establishing Mondragon format production cooperatives, intentional
> communities with shared basic resources and on and on and on. I have posted
> my ideas about this a hundred times in this list, even a special version
> for you, Georg, for your community work in Austria. I like the idea of a
> services and production networking, marketing and distribution system with
> nodes all across a country, connected by the Internet using free, easy to
> set up and maintain resources.
> 
> LL
> 
> 
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