On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:08:34 -0400
Sebastian Benthall wrote:
> Taking that as a model, maybe rather the right way to think about it
> is: how to build an alternative distributed economy for food and
> shelter that is not tied to centralized power structures.
That actually sounds a lot like what
I recommend reading Fred Turner's *From Counterculture to Cyberculture* for
interesting context on the ideological connection between sustainable
independent communities and tech culture.
Long story short, in the 70's the Whole Earth Catalog connected
back-to-land communes with recent tech researc
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:40:23 -0400
Bruce Potter at IRF wrote:
> in a nation of 300 million, and a global system heading for 10
> billion, I don't see it.
I didn't mean decoupling everybody at once. I am talking about
loosening our dependance on them by introducing systems by the people
for the p
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:40:23 -0400
Bruce Potter at IRF wrote:
> in a nation of 300 million, and a global system heading for 10
> billion, I don't see it.
I didn't mean decoupling everybody at once. I am talking about
loosening our dependance on them by introducing systems by the people
for the p
I am pretty sure that I am not the only one thinking that we
(colloquially known as "we, the people") need to make ourselves
independent from current power structures ie. governments and
corporations.
Even if you are not an anarchist or similiar you will have to
acknowledge that a centralized gove
Decoupling might have been a feasible option in Thomas Jefferson's time
(although they DID create the UNITED States after experimenting with the more
decoupled "Articles of Confederation), but somehow in a nation of 300 million,
and a global system heading for 10 billion, I don't see it. At lea
I am pretty sure that I am not the only one thinking that we
(colloquially known as "we, the people") need to make ourselves
independent from current power structures ie. governments and
corporations.
Even if you are not an anarchist or similiar you will have to
acknowledge that a centralized gove
