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Greetings,
land, and the ability to determine how and when you produce theresources necessary for your life are what it is all about. Not being stuck in a grind that forces you to work ridiculously long hours just to survive, and convinces you that salvation will come from the ownership of ever more abstracted commodities.
And it is possible, even right in the belly of the beast to practice even very radicaly different approaches to questions of land and production. While it is entirely possible to take issue with the Amish for a lot of their social attitudes, they have managed to thumb their noses at 'conventional' capitalist practice for the better part of four hundred years, right in the heart of babylon itself.
right, i'll stop ranting now...
love and life
paul
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