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Originally Posted by d. macaluso
renouncing circulatory, digestive, central nervous also? please. humanity's constructs are the outcroppings of Universe's expression via biological systems. humankind's world is the world of nature. like a leaf is an extension of a branch and a branch an extension of a trunk.
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And to carry that analogy one step further, a trunk is an extension of something I haven't had in the last 20 years.
But, seriously, think back over mankind's history to before the "Industrial Revolution" in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. There were supposedly only two classes of society - upper and lower. Thanks to that revolution, a middle class was developed. In a nutshell, before that revolution, the lower classes worked and struggled to earn enough to clothe and feed themselves while the upper classes lived the high life on the backs of their hard working and underpaid slaves.
Someone asked how we are going to live in a world without electrical services. It won't be easy, but mankind had done it for thousands of years. This is a wake-up call. Go to your library, get out books on self sufficiency - how to prepare the land for planting, how to tend the crops, how to use nature to find water - the list of possibilities is almost endless.
If you can find a copy, John Seymour's "The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency" is a good start. It was first published in Great Britain by Faber and Faber in 1976. ISBN 0 571 11095 9. It is truely a wonderful book and a
"MUST HAVE" for any group who wishes to be independent of bureaucracy.
BUT, like that old advertisement for a brand of hair conditioner,
"It won't happen over night, but it will happen." So go look for that book now and start to practise what it says. It will help to keep you busy and focused while the rest of the world is running around like a chook with its head cut off.
