Exactly! How do you suggest we avoid that? The farm I work at sold the farm land's development rights to a land-preservation nonprofit, so it will always be farmed. However, other New England farms are being turned into developments, which is why there is an effort underway to counter that by promoting alternatives as well as ways to dev…
Exactly! How do you suggest we avoid that? The farm I work at sold the farm land's development rights to a land-preservation nonprofit, so it will always be farmed. However, other New England farms are being turned into developments, which is why there is an effort underway to counter that by promoting alternatives as well as ways to develop part of the land and keep the rest in farming. What helps is if folks buy the farms' products! (Much gift economy at our farm. The owner is famous for it.)
Oligarchy or crony-capitalist plutarchy, call it what you will, will eventually collapse civilization if humans cannot or will not wrap their heads around/figure out forms of anarchy and gift economies, and why their 'plutarchy ways' keep collapsing civilizations time and time again.
It may be that 'our lot in life' until we go extinct may simply be, build-up, collapse, build-up, collapse, build-up, collapse, and so on.
As this is happening, however, there may be offshoots of our species that manage to buck that trend. I discussed it a little with elysianfield and Jarek (Lugh) et al on JHK's old homesite.
The problem is that the globe is currently covered in a State monoculture patchwork, therefore it is generally resistant to alternative forms of human social organization. But collapse can open up opportunities in that regard as it levels the playing-field yet again and creates a vacuum for alternative social structures to enter.
Exactly! How do you suggest we avoid that? The farm I work at sold the farm land's development rights to a land-preservation nonprofit, so it will always be farmed. However, other New England farms are being turned into developments, which is why there is an effort underway to counter that by promoting alternatives as well as ways to develop part of the land and keep the rest in farming. What helps is if folks buy the farms' products! (Much gift economy at our farm. The owner is famous for it.)
Oligarchy or crony-capitalist plutarchy, call it what you will, will eventually collapse civilization if humans cannot or will not wrap their heads around/figure out forms of anarchy and gift economies, and why their 'plutarchy ways' keep collapsing civilizations time and time again.
It may be that 'our lot in life' until we go extinct may simply be, build-up, collapse, build-up, collapse, build-up, collapse, and so on.
As this is happening, however, there may be offshoots of our species that manage to buck that trend. I discussed it a little with elysianfield and Jarek (Lugh) et al on JHK's old homesite.
The problem is that the globe is currently covered in a State monoculture patchwork, therefore it is generally resistant to alternative forms of human social organization. But collapse can open up opportunities in that regard as it levels the playing-field yet again and creates a vacuum for alternative social structures to enter.