a question looking for an answer...
Elsewhere in this blog, Kent posed this question: "There is an overwhelming amount of evidence that modern capitalist life ruins everything: the environment, the lives of others, etc, I admit. But it's more overwhelming to try and live any other way. How do you do it? How can you do it?"
That's a killer question, Kent. It's still got me stumped.
I'd really love some input from readers on this one...
In the meantime, Kent, I'm still grappling with it.
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That's a killer question, Kent. It's still got me stumped.
I'd really love some input from readers on this one...
In the meantime, Kent, I'm still grappling with it.
..
posted by The Editor at
11:57 PM
4 Comments:
With great bloody difficulty I think. That's not to say it can't be done, but it probably involves cutting yourself off from a lot of society.
If you've got some friends who think the same way that would probably make things slightly easier.
Guy, yes, by going feral one can do it. And a few are. But I'm not talking about a few "outsiders" making futile gestures, I'm asking the whole of the developed world to question their capitalist ethics and to alter their lifestyle to something less selfish and mores sustainable. And pigs will fly no doubt.
BigBob, sorry for the delay. I took my eye off the ball.
Now, about that book - my partner is interested in permaculture, I'll alert her to that title.
Have you seen the documentary "The End Of Suburbia"?
Bigbob, the doco is a DVD put out by a Canadian mob. I saw it at a Blue Mountains Conservation Society evening.
You can read a review of it [here]
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