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Comment on The Intercession of a Thousand Small Sanities by Rexeldedyhjq

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Comment on How Do We Build Local Social Capital? by Transition: Building community resilience to cope with collapse… « UKIAH BLOG

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Comment on The Intercession of a Thousand Small Sanities by ares

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Comment on How Do We Build Local Social Capital? by Mike Marinos

Mike Marinos — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:42:11 +0000

Great post. I can count on one finger the number of people in my area interested in the big issues of energy descent and transition but just about everyone is concerned about the price of power and food. Its where we are starting, a small local food co-op, doing whats possible, aiming for tangible successes to hopefully “build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete” as Bucky Fuller said.

Comment on How Do We Build Local Social Capital? by Patricia Dodd Racher

Patricia Dodd Racher — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:05:44 +0000

There are many of us thinking along the same lines but we are scattered, rarely with critical mass. I will put a link to your site from my blog http://www.ecopoliticstoday.wordpress.com (which has a small readership!)and will try to keep up to date with your thoughtful views.

Comment on Group Works Card Deck – A Joyful Announcement by Solitude | Yes and Space

Solitude | Yes and Space — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:49:29 +0000

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Comment on The Cost of Seeking Invulnerability to Pain by Dave Pollard

Dave Pollard — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:48:39 +0000

Thanks for catching the typo, Paul. Yes, I guess I was positing it as a thought experiment,a prompt for imagining ourselves as we really are. My first real memories of ‘self’ are when I was 5 years old. I was terribly open and believed that all creatures were generous, honest, wonderful (it took me a decade to recover from the pain that occurred when I ‘learned’ otherwise).

I remember laughing a lot more. Singing a lot more. Exploring and finding everything fascinating from aphids to lilacs to polar bears. Even then I felt sad for the bears in the zoo. I was very sensuously tuned in, and found wonder (and eroticism) in many things. I remember my eyes being always more open than they are now. I remember not liking wearing clothes. And I remember a lot of smells, that even now, buried under everything my culture has made me, instantly bring back feral memories and spark movement in my emotions and body when I smell them now. Every place had a different smell, and I knew each smell. And I remember smiling at bird songs. And my bed was a space ship, with one button that I could push that would connect me to everything and everywhere, bring anyone or anything to me, or me to any place or time (almost a decade before Star Trek). We got our first B&W TV in 1958 when I was 7 and I was entranced — this US grid was pretty much what we got in Canada as well: http://tviv.org/Fall_1958_Grid_%28USA%29

I think the double-whammy of TV and elementary school spelled the end of nobody-but-myself.

Comment on Rescuing the Economy: Austerity vs Stimulus vs Plan C by Paul Heft

Paul Heft — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:06:01 +0000

Your “Plan C” seems quite reasonable to me, but can it become public policy? Will the major political parties, the ones that have a chance of gaining office, be willing to accept such a plan? Will the large corporations, their politicians, and their mass media decide that they might benefit in the long term from such a policy? (Actually some will benefit, and many others will lose their dearly bought privileges.) I’m pessimistic about that.

Here’s a rhetorical question: If the “99%” were able to make policy decisions instead of the ruling class’ politicians, would they adopt “Plan C”?

Comment on Rescuing the Economy: Austerity vs Stimulus vs Plan C by Dale Asberry

Dale Asberry — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:10:51 +0000

The purpose of austerity is not to reduce government debt levels… it is to pay off debt holders at the expense of government services to tax-paying citizens. Considering that most debt in most countries is held by foreign interests, these parasites are leeching the life out of those nations. They are right to riot – the foreign debt should be defaulted on and the population should adjust to the lower ‘wealth’ levels.