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updated posting on
farming as retro-tech
All sorts of news in the zeitgeist about how young folks my age and younger want to go back to nature. Not because of some mystical
hippy connection with the backwoods, but out of a sort of Long-Now perspective on the world. Basically, they don't think that the
planet -- or their kids -- will survive without knowing about how food works, and how to be farmers. It's an interesting
juxtaposition of farming-in-the-backyards, coverage in the NY Times, an emphasis on last-days Peak Oil scenarios,
and a feeling that all too soon we'll all be living with horses and cows again (a trend? Maybe, maybe not....)
there's actually useful information about this.
To cite just a few examples, see No Impact Man, a crazy stunt that thus far seems to be really working for the guy who is doing it (not so sure about his family and all though). There are opposing voices, of course. But on the other hand, Sam's Farm looks like fun. And I like the practicality of this article on Ten Things You Can Do, and the guy who is Biking to Brazil.
we're never going to marsCross-Posted to Post-Human Progress: Charles Stross on the fact that we'll probably never get there -- we'll never colonize Mars, etc. here's stross's original post that started the whole "we'll never get to Mars" thing. He ends with "Colonize the Gobi desert, colonise the North Atlantic in winter — then get back to me about the rest of the solar system!"
religion: everything old is newReligion, seeing an Easter service, thinking back to how these ideas were first pagan & mythic, and are now "standard".
Gnostic ideas about the body and death and all.... when did these become standard? And how? (Judeo-Christian ideas about the body are very different than the Gnostic ideas... this is why we support the disabled and the retarded) What do I want my kids to know about Judeo-Christian ideas?
Or, to ask the same question another way: What do I want my kids to know about ancient Roman pagan ideas of justice, the after-life,
and personal salvation?
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