I don't think I quite understand your comment other than that you seem concerned. I'll just say more about mine, I guess.
Maybe twenty years ago I read a New Age book, not a very good one, that was talking about the collapse of the current paradigm. The author was writing that when this happens the people who have done the work to create alternative community will be able to go on with their lives, and she was asking her mentor about what would happen to the rest of the people. Her mentor said that those people would have their stuff - possessions - and they'd learn they couldn't eat money. I thought that was incredibly harsh and lacking in compassion.
Of course I support sharing as possible. With that being said, the people I know and know of in Boston who grow their own food would not be enough to keep the whole city going (at least, I don't think so) if food stopped being trucked in from elsewhere. So I guess I just wonder where the responsibility ends, and imagine there could be some difficult choices ahead.
For instance, would you give your kid subsistence-level amounts of food so you can give other kids the same amount your kid is getting? Or do you give your kid regular, thrive-y amounts of food and share what's left over after that? That's the kind of thing I'm thinking about.
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Date: 2012-08-22 11:34 am (UTC)Maybe twenty years ago I read a New Age book, not a very good one, that was talking about the collapse of the current paradigm. The author was writing that when this happens the people who have done the work to create alternative community will be able to go on with their lives, and she was asking her mentor about what would happen to the rest of the people. Her mentor said that those people would have their stuff - possessions - and they'd learn they couldn't eat money. I thought that was incredibly harsh and lacking in compassion.
Of course I support sharing as possible. With that being said, the people I know and know of in Boston who grow their own food would not be enough to keep the whole city going (at least, I don't think so) if food stopped being trucked in from elsewhere. So I guess I just wonder where the responsibility ends, and imagine there could be some difficult choices ahead.
For instance, would you give your kid subsistence-level amounts of food so you can give other kids the same amount your kid is getting? Or do you give your kid regular, thrive-y amounts of food and share what's left over after that? That's the kind of thing I'm thinking about.