tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956385625063996616.post4303021230403199619..comments2023-06-29T08:48:51.859-07:00Comments on Unconventional Folly: Our sick economym.t. handhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08830760641799093539noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956385625063996616.post-56189664240232459172009-07-22T23:16:38.518-07:002009-07-22T23:16:38.518-07:00Great comment. Seems as if a lot of us are living ...Great comment. Seems as if a lot of us are living under the Joneses these days, especially in SE PDX, and doing just fine with small and overlapping social and economic networks.<br /><br />At some point I'm going to take on a serious look at how a craft economy would work--or if it would work at all. By a craft economy, I mean one in which people buy (and thus own) fewer things, but those things are well made by people they probably know.m.t. handhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08830760641799093539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-956385625063996616.post-30194677294194229822009-07-19T14:01:13.499-07:002009-07-19T14:01:13.499-07:00Kitchen table school pencils out. $100 for workbo...Kitchen table school pencils out. $100 for workbooks and supplies from the teachers' store, research visits to the library, two years of public school education covered in six months, in just over three hours a day. <br /><br />Backyard gardens pencil out. Seed, straw, scrap wood, chicken wire, home grown compost, recycled glass jars, back-breaking labor (kids available, as school only lasts til lunchtime.) Chickens double as pets, replace themselves on demand. Freeze well. <br /><br />Living below the Joneses pencils out. Second-hand, used, found, re-imagined. But you *have* to buy new shoes.<br /><br />There's not a damn thing we can do to stop the gallop to doom in which our civilization, and the global economy, is engaged. We can vote out, vote in, wave banners, stand in front of tanks, expose the theocratic 12-step plans of C-Street's ego-mad denizens... we're still dealing with selfish human nature. Not one of our leaders will put aside the banquet of today (or yesterday) for the good of next week. That includes Gore, and his huge carbon footprint. Idealogue poseur.<br /><br />Pencil me in for the End Days as cannon fodder. In the meantime, I'll blast the kids out of bed with surf music, bitch about Amazon's shadowy presence and interference in the Kindle owner's e-books, keep an eye on Palin, and hope I'm still on the planet when the plug gets pulled. Because leaving before the credits roll is rude.<br /><br />It's everyone for themselves!<br /><br />oregonbirdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com