[ERT: 30 min.] - Simple, Localized Approaches to Food Systems Resilience and Food Security in Southeast Asia --- Part Ten: Cultural shift – Back to the Land!
Agree with much of what you say here, but timing will be critical since projects like these will have to rise in synchrony with the collapse of the old industrial system. Too soon and concentrated power/convenience dominates, too late and chaos limits what is possible. I wish you every success. My old wordpress post on how pre-industrial cities functioned as demographic predators of surplus rural population might be of interest- https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/the-city-is-a-lion/
Thanks, dude! We actually thought about printing a few copies once we finish the whole thing, just to have it in paper as well. Let's see how far we can take this, and how the overall feedback will be.
Wow, that means we have a precedent for the most difficult part of the scheme - financing! How nice things could actually be if we collectively got our shit together, right?
Yeah right! There’s just so much opposition to this good stuff happening though. I think we may have to eat the billionaire classes first and then the magic might start.
I remember my home town back in Western Australia used to offer free land if a person would build a business on it. They also used to give very good offers to school teachers and doctors to practice in the country. A lot end up staying forever because often communities are so much stronger in small country towns compared to cities where you may not even know the people next door
That's a lot of taxes! I agree, once those laws are in place they almost never get cancelled again. Once they got people to pay, they only want more.
Maybe you've heard the following quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.
It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
Agree with much of what you say here, but timing will be critical since projects like these will have to rise in synchrony with the collapse of the old industrial system. Too soon and concentrated power/convenience dominates, too late and chaos limits what is possible. I wish you every success. My old wordpress post on how pre-industrial cities functioned as demographic predators of surplus rural population might be of interest- https://zeroinputagriculture.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/the-city-is-a-lion/
Yes, I definitely agree. Timing is of crucial importance here, and so far I have very little hope that things will happen in time.
I'll check out your post as well, thanks!
This series would make for an awesome book
Thanks, dude! We actually thought about printing a few copies once we finish the whole thing, just to have it in paper as well. Let's see how far we can take this, and how the overall feedback will be.
Good to hear!
This is great and well thought out. I just saw the other day that Japan is offering money to people to leave Tokyo.
Wow, that means we have a precedent for the most difficult part of the scheme - financing! How nice things could actually be if we collectively got our shit together, right?
Yeah right! There’s just so much opposition to this good stuff happening though. I think we may have to eat the billionaire classes first and then the magic might start.
I remember my home town back in Western Australia used to offer free land if a person would build a business on it. They also used to give very good offers to school teachers and doctors to practice in the country. A lot end up staying forever because often communities are so much stronger in small country towns compared to cities where you may not even know the people next door
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/million-yen-per-child-to-leave-tokyo-japans-offer-to-families?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
That's a lot of taxes! I agree, once those laws are in place they almost never get cancelled again. Once they got people to pay, they only want more.
Maybe you've heard the following quote by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon:
“To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished.
It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
On point, if you ask me.