Having listened to the other half, three things came up that I can remember. The first is the welcome point Nora makes regarding eugenics, which is at least a nod to the real politic of coercive structures Mary and I have flagged.
The second is the telling example of William when straying into the real politic of the Ukraine war, notes that Russia is acting on the energy rich geology of the region, but oblivious to the fact that America could be doing the same.
The third point was Nora's complete disgust of any intentional community, and any mission based way forward, which some what hamstrings actively creating alternatives. Again, Nora's examples were personal and largely based in California! We're they productive? Did they grow food, make clothes, furniture, housing? It left me with many questions and the sense of a very American centric view that occluded so much of what is going on in the world.
Having heard each of these speakers separately I can attest to the fact that they did not come across well in unison.
As a maker, I am continually struck by the paucity of imagination and the poverty of experience of academics, continually rail roaded by the invisible shackles of university life. There really is only so much you can talk about something to work it out.
Without a robust foundation of land rights all of the carrying capacity and micro relationships and protesting is worth little. This is the basis of your work James, and the idea for your book, I applaud it. Nate needs to be writing with you, and getting a consortium of his old city buddies putting together a plan of how to buy up land to put into trust and regeneratively farm, as an investment. That's good work. Enough chatting!
OK, so I'm about half way through and I'm hearing all about how 'we' as a species are just doing what animals do and we'll get what's coming to us. Without the political acknowledgement that - the majority of people have been subjugated and had their land stolen from them and that the plundering of the world's resources is mostly for profit - your gonna be missing the mark. There are big problems in these positions, I like all the people on the panel and hugely respect their wisdom and research. Let's see what the next half brings.
Having listened to the other half, three things came up that I can remember. The first is the welcome point Nora makes regarding eugenics, which is at least a nod to the real politic of coercive structures Mary and I have flagged.
The second is the telling example of William when straying into the real politic of the Ukraine war, notes that Russia is acting on the energy rich geology of the region, but oblivious to the fact that America could be doing the same.
The third point was Nora's complete disgust of any intentional community, and any mission based way forward, which some what hamstrings actively creating alternatives. Again, Nora's examples were personal and largely based in California! We're they productive? Did they grow food, make clothes, furniture, housing? It left me with many questions and the sense of a very American centric view that occluded so much of what is going on in the world.
Having heard each of these speakers separately I can attest to the fact that they did not come across well in unison.
As a maker, I am continually struck by the paucity of imagination and the poverty of experience of academics, continually rail roaded by the invisible shackles of university life. There really is only so much you can talk about something to work it out.
Without a robust foundation of land rights all of the carrying capacity and micro relationships and protesting is worth little. This is the basis of your work James, and the idea for your book, I applaud it. Nate needs to be writing with you, and getting a consortium of his old city buddies putting together a plan of how to buy up land to put into trust and regeneratively farm, as an investment. That's good work. Enough chatting!
OK, so I'm about half way through and I'm hearing all about how 'we' as a species are just doing what animals do and we'll get what's coming to us. Without the political acknowledgement that - the majority of people have been subjugated and had their land stolen from them and that the plundering of the world's resources is mostly for profit - your gonna be missing the mark. There are big problems in these positions, I like all the people on the panel and hugely respect their wisdom and research. Let's see what the next half brings.