Small is beautiful was the title of a book by EF (Fritz) Schumacher. It impressed me when I was impressionable and I was involved with the cooperative-commonwealth movement for a while - mostly trying to keep a few jobs afloat. I then read his 'Guide for the Perplexed' - you could almost imagine an Errol Flynn style sword fight amongst us to get to it! It was rubbish.
There is much in the notion of doing things small though, especially now we could globalize on a fair basis. Free markets and such have always been unreal in many senses - almost in the way that epistemology tends to boil down to conditions of existence. Something, frankly, has to protect them from banditry. Ideology always seems to lapse to idiocy at the point we could be doing something - a bit like that point in science when there is a critical experiment that will bring research programmes together. We could be trying all sorts of stuff in a spirit of protected competition. The thinking doesn't have to be small and can range from anything from using satellite photographs to chose plant types, fertiliser amounts - on to the creation of small, metaphorically gated communities to help give us roots and handle policing and so on. Much of my eventual reasoning on this involves insurance agreements amongst communities globally and cutting out the viler forms of bureaucratic waste (like overpaid bwankers and lawyers) - our aims would probably centre on resilience. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
