Jeff:
>The world appears weird at times and with all the world tensions
>and political noise it makes me want to hide in a hole. This
>feeling was re-enforced today when i did a web search on
>the words "self reliance". What i found was several essays
>on why self-reliance is a bad idea. . . . On the other hand, our cultural
>practices are
>a little insane. So.. do we need more self-reliance and
>what is it?
Well, if everyone headed for self-reliance as we think of it--raising one's
own food, being energy self-sufficient--the entire existing system of
production, marketing, distribution/transportation and sales would get a
complete overhaul, which we might individually applaud but it would cause
worldwide trauma, and not only among the power brokers. Fat chance, of
course, in our lifetimes.
The self-reliant lifestyle is a (tiny) threat to the current system. Never
be surprised when prevailing attitudes and mass media seem to ignore,
downplay or squelch "our" program. But one would expect that the Net would
be far more populist.
As for the grass-munching John Yeoman your Search did not find, the
responsibility for publicity is with the purveyor, not the Web. I can tell
you from personal experience that even large publishers expect authors to
do the heavy lifting regarding marketing publicity. Was this a properly
published book, with ISBN and all? Is it listed on Amazon.com? Who was the
publisher?
