> I related strongly to your post on Theobald/Hutchinson and MD
> Miller. I feel that the agriculture material relates because the
> hierarchy of consciousness, so much a part of Western thought
> as well as Patriarchy and Monotheism, ignores the success of
> other species in their environments (one might even call it
> 'consciousness') and our total inability to do the same. Consider
> how inept we are at being fish in the water or carrots in the soil.
> Within their hierarchy we would rate next to zero.
>
How successful the aformentioned people would have been
sustaining the same human-densities as what the "west"
attempted past/present to support? What is the point of
digging up old recepees that sufficed the requirments
of past communities? We have to solve todays problems,
with todays technology and today's scientific and ethical
awareness of the importance of the environment.
We have to respond to our reality, not to a virtual
world - whether past or imaginary.
We need to develop the social structure that is able
and motivated to be longsighted, coherent,
consistent, integrated/cooperative for planning
to cater for the present populations with the
projected (hoped for?) levelling out of populations.
Eva
> a digging stick rather than the deep or shallow plow. We might
> also consider why the Incas developed and used so many different
> varieties of potatoes or why the buffalo were so important to the
> plains as well as the cholesterol and and fat in the diet of the
> Cheyenne.
>
> After that, one might reflect on the meaning of art and culture
> and why John Fire Lame Deer claimed that the only Europeans
> capable of understanding the way Indians perceived(in developing
> that 70% of the world's foodstuffs) were the European souls
> found in the throes of artistic talent.
>
> Yes Susan, the ground is alive and when we dance in the Spring
> we must walk lightly for all of the babies who are being born
> and grown that we might also live. And when you kill to eat, always
> sacrifice a part of your meat and drink to the spirit of life and all
> who now will live through you.
>
> REh
>
