The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 2
The bottom line is this: anything you grow now is something you no longer have to buy or worry about finding in a food store. Things are not going to get better, no matter what the ads say.
self-provisioning
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food: An Introduction
Last year, when things really got dodgy and this year looked to be the start of things becoming terrible for the near future, I bit the bullet. I stayed home to raise the food we would eat.
Just Peachy!
I have a strong inclination toward hygge culture. This is not merely that I like being comfortable and among friends… or maybe it is… because those are far more profound than our mainstream EuroWestern culture allows… but I tend to think of it in more philosophical terms.
A Neo-Distributist Proposal
It certainly feels as though some new ideas are needed to overcome the ecological, political and socioeconomic troubles of present times. There is a way to address these troubles, not so much through an old book as through an old political movement, namely distributism.
The Work of Radical Frugality
But with time, our lives as consumers in the capitalist economy will appear frail when compared to a life in the home economy. And eventually, we’ll come to understand that this is about more than making cupcakes. A lot more.
Time Dis-ordered
We are kept busy doing things that are harmful to ourselves and to this planet specifically to keep our attention divided enough that we do not have time to notice that we are busy doing things that are harmful to ourselves and to this planet.
Bean Week
And that was bean week. All in all, there are worse ways to spend your days!
Stone Age Economics
By examining the lives of ancient peoples, Stone Age Economics questions the Western paradigm of ‘economic progress’ because, in terms of the individual, things may not have improved so radically after all.
The Future Is…
So where people are going to live is probably going to sort itself out. Just like it always has. Still… it’s probably a good idea to get started. We have an awful lot of work to do…
The Great Coffee Economy Con
Coffee, the addictive obsession of the affluent class, can tell us more about modern society than just retail trends; it is an indicator for how the modern neoliberal system operates, and its current shift toward new economic extremes.
Unnecessary Work
So I suspect that soon the lure of fulfillment will eclipse profitability — particularly because we all can meet our own needs, while only a few of us have ever profited from this disaster.
On the Existence of A Man and Further Exegesis of A Man
Philosophers and mystics throughout time have been showing us that everything is connected, that humans are part of that everything, that unity is fundamental — and sacred.