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November 10, 2007 at 21:06:12

The Flight From The Cities

by ibrahim turner Page 3 of 3 page(s)

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But no doubt farmers do that all the time, to pump water, to grind grain, etc. There are a lot of skills that will be useless, and a lot that we have forgotten, which will be essential for survival. There was also another book in the 70’s, Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered: by EF Schumacher.

Can you smelt iron to make an axe? Make one out of rusting car parts?

How far down towards the Stone Age do you want to go?

And you wont be reading this on the Internet either.

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A retired Navyman who has ran for 1st. District of Tennessee as a Green with a primary plank of Impeaching Bush/Chaney and a secondary plank of listening to and serving people instead of corporations. He now has accepted the position of FOAVC Coordinater for TN. He also is a direct decendent both on his Mothers and Fathers failies of members of the Seneca Nation.
Robert N SmithA retired Navyman who has ran for 1st. District of Tennessee as a Green with a primary plank of Impeaching Bush/Chaney and a secondary plank of listening to and serving people instead of corporations. He now has accepted the position of FOAVC Coordinater for TN. He also is a direct decendent both on his Mothers and Fathers failies of members of the Seneca Nation.

Other visions.

I was raised by Native Americans. It has always been part of ourvision that the modern way of life was and is unsustainable. I too see every day news and every day views bearing this out. Your article is truer then anything I have encountered in the news in years.

by Robert N Smith (10 articles, 0 quicklinks, 8 diaries, 116 comments) on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 4:29:05 PM

A well traveled and slightly worse for wear 72 year old Englishman; widower, several children and grandchildren and a penchant for wondering 'what is the hidden agenda' in almost everything I read. A keen interest in American culture (an oxymoron?) (JOKE!) and politics and an international world view, except where I haven't got first hand experience of the parts of the world I have not visited. Editor of some books about the Qur'an and Islam. Teacher of English in little known countries like Mau...

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ibrahim turnerA well traveled and slightly worse for wear 72 year old Englishman; widower, several children and grandchildren and a penchant for wondering 'what is the hidden agenda' in almost everything I read. A keen interest in American culture (an oxymoron?) (JOKE!) and politics and an international world view, except where I haven't got first hand experience of the parts of the world I have not visited. Editor of some books about the Qur'an and Islam. Teacher of English in little known countries like Mau...

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Thanks but...

I am a mere student who has been exposed to greater minds than mine. My teacher was J.G.Bennett, who was a pupil of G.I. Gurdjieff who died in 1949, and Bennett in 1974. Basically they advocate that man is asleep, which fits the situation, especially in America, and to a lesser extent, in England.

His predictions (Bennett's) are beginning to come true, but about 10 years later than we thought. The dinosaurs of the corporate world are beginning to implode before our very eyes. I'm too old to move to the country and start a commune, but that's what it necessary to survive the great crash of society that is coming. co-operation between people in groups is the way forward, not individual striving to accumulate.

There is an extensive amount of material on the web concerning these two men (and others who were concerned with Gurdjieff) if you are interested.

Thanks again for your comment, it was published even though the editor's comment was 'a bit apocryphal, but anyway, we are in apocryphal times'.

by ibrahim turner (25 articles, 31 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 177 comments) on Sunday, November 11, 2007 at 5:27:15 PM