Message from @Sriadobada
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in the US there is a federally enumerated and guaranteed RIGHT to travel
which I think was an error
Communities, as with households, as with individuals are not locally reliant. Adults are specialized in a single trade, households do not produce a variety of goods or services for both the family and the community. Local communities depend on larger entities for their infrastructure.
local-ism is still possible
has to be identified as a worthwhile goal
in itself
PROGRESSIVE AGENDAS ARE FORCED UPON SMALLER COUNTRIES. THE GLOBALISTS PLAY A GAME CALLED SOCIAL ENGINEERING. LIKE GREECE, WHICH HAS THE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH FURIOUS OVER ITS SPREADING. THEY WANT THE MASSES FOCUSED ON CHEESEBURGERS AND GENDER FLUIDITY.
Yes localism is possible but you have to understand that doing so will impart considerable hardship, not the least of which is owed to the fact that most people have lost the skills necessary to maintain community. What is absent, in my observation, is a coherent and compelling narrative which one the one hand gives purpose behind necessary suffering but also a light at the end.
LOOK AT THE BRAVE BRUCE JENNER, AS WE ENSLAVE YOUR FUTURE GENERATION TO MORE QE AND NAT DEBT.
excuse the poor wording of the final sentence.
I deal with this all the time in energy, which has a similar problem: How to get people to give up convenience for a principled existence? In the energy field, it's conservation and renewables at issue, but the problem is basically the same. Nobody really wants to internalize the costs of a better long-term praxis.
Most people are dirty peasants and can't actually afford the imported beers kept artificially "cheap" by an economic structure that makes up for the real cost (and then some) in harder to notice and quantify ways
I agree.
The expectation most have is that by 2200 the world should look science fiction-y operating upon good clean energy and efficient flying cars.
holding this carrot in front of communities may have gotten most to feel content slogging through factory work whilst being poisoned by industrial byproduct/externality. This dovetails however with what I had said earlier about needing another carrot which would make expensive beer and groceries palatable.
Well the carrot or narrative that motivates me to move incrementally in that direction is my recognition of the importance of local dependence, meaningful human relationships, a community with a healthy sense of identity, good food, family around, etc
but that carrot is weirdly popular in theory but unpopular in application it seems
like nobody would really disagree with me, but once I start talking about what it takes to make that happen, people push back and seem to believe it just happens ex nihilo
It could be that it is less a narrative than a description of parts. In some sense what is needed is a "corny" pulp fiction in which a whole world is constructed complete with characters that is more than the sum of the items you listed.
My wife is playing this videogame "Stardew Valley" that is sort of like what you suggesting I think
It's a remake of the old Nintendo "Harvest Moon"
basically you inherit an old farm and iteratively immerse yourself in the local community over the seasons. The game rewards patient cultivation of a variety of skills; farming, ranching, foraging, etc
I like that concept.
it's nice. explicitly condemns its perception of modern dissociative lifestyle and also presents corporate "JoJaMart" as the villain
boycott Walmart and tag it under #profli-gate
I've completed my first cup of coffee
I ended up finishing my third.
I am going to try tea tomorrow morning alongside music after my sit.
I'm going to smoke a pipe and rake up leaves all evening and probably rant at my dogs about bugman politics
I love putting money in tax sheltered accounts
fuck
Holy fuck there is the worst looking crossdresser i have ever seen at my campus right now. Saw it at coffee break, looks like the one that wanted to snap Shapiro's neck.
Just arrived this week training. I would take a picture but i would get fired.
@Parasite JUST TAKE A PICTURE AND SAY WITH A SINCERE FACE "TO SHOW THE WORLD YOUR BRAVERY"
HAHAHA
Well said
Get a selfie perhaps? Thumbs up for diversity
The most uncomfortable i've ever been at work has been sitting in on a meeting where some attorney was either trans or just cross-dressing but either way was demonstrating a high degree of disagreeable and aggressive behavior toward the state agency people for no reason at all, shot itself in the foot and lost its own case
AYY