Ian and Craig, It seemed to me that Craig was seeking more than mere intellectual confirmation of which values to support. While I agree with Ian that such a thorough analysis would be intellectually stimulating - "the essence of a good debate" - that analysis wouldn't alone satisfy Craig's problem with "just railing about economic 'systems' seems unproductive."
Concrete proposals for implementation ought to be considered and here we come to the crux of the matter. For according to my analysis, many of our problems are caused by giantism - that is, we have vast, monolithic economic systems which are adopted nationwide, and even world-wide as corporate globalism marches proudly on, and often the same values that work in one place, do not apply in others. This is why I advocate regionalism, trying different systems in different places. We need experimentation and cross-pollination of fruitful methods along with our intellectual analysis. This would require more local self-reliance and self-governance, values which have been lost to modernity, but if we don't recapture some of that spirit then I'm afraid our overall economic systems are going to remain unproductive indeed. Bioregional John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
