tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post1166717095911689861..comments2024-01-10T11:19:56.456-08:00Comments on What Is Sustainable: The Mountain PeopleWhat Is Sustainablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-43396028453479639462017-11-16T18:15:08.194-08:002017-11-16T18:15:08.194-08:00Hi Matt! Thanks for the link. Yes, I think the l...Hi Matt! Thanks for the link. Yes, I think the line about the disorder caused by diversity was my favorite line in Turnbull’s book. While it’s politically incorrect, it feels like a powerful truth. Living in a chaotic mob, year after year, sucks. This was not how almost all of our ancestors lived. It would be a joy to live in an Earth-centered society in which everyone was on the same channel. What Is Sustainablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227382786082159733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4136626590097801169.post-78072976334443248202017-11-16T05:43:49.077-08:002017-11-16T05:43:49.077-08:00“In larger-scale societies we are accustomed to di...“In larger-scale societies we are accustomed to diversity of belief, we even applaud ourselves for our tolerance, not recognizing that a society not bound together by a single powerful belief is not a society at all, but a political association of individuals held together only by the presence of law and force — the existence of which is a violence.”<br /><br />I think about this all the time. Reminded me also of something I just read by a blogger I really like to read, td0s.<br /><br />"Civilization is a collective psychosis. Each human mind perceives its own version of reality. In slow times and small groups this is a far more manageable conundrum. Foundations of understanding can be built from simple observations – rock, tree, fish – and a shared worldview can then take shape. No two identical, but similar enough to agree upon the environment in which they exist and how to go about surviving. Civilization instead defines existence from the top down, and has drawn and quartered any and every faint inkling of the sacred or the mystical. Feelings of interaction with the living world around us have been demoted to the status of juvenile ravings. In the hyper complex modern world, entropy now is fracturing language. Symbols are bled of their meaning only to be recuperated by charlatans leaving the denizens of the national plantation unable to come to terms over how to define their present context, let alone their future. So they check their devices for an update."<br /><br />https://prayforcalamity.com/2017/11/09/through-the-veil/Matt Colombohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00362723804794789171noreply@blogger.com