When Our Neighbors Wish Us Dead or Broke, We're in Trouble with More Than Our Health Care System

[DonCoquixote]

137. Sorry to sound brusque

If I could,let me tell you where my remarks came from.

I am in Dixie, where, for all the strip malls and Walmarts, you have a lot of people who really were not that far removed from Rural life. I remember myself when some people literally rode horses to the local wal-mart. That is one of the more vivid memories, because you had the cowtown aspects of my town run right into the changes occurring.

The odd thing is, many of the people you knew rural life, who could indeed hunt for game, knew which wild plants to eat, etc, turned out to be the HARD right, and my that, I mean people who would explain that Slavery was the best thing that ever happened to black people. They were the ones that said union people needed to be shot, and they used their link with nature to justify this, as if they were one Neitzche-style supermen. After all, people like us don't need no gubbamint.

On the other hand, read people like Derrick Jensen. http://endgamethebook.org/

Some of these folks who believe they are going "back to nature" will blithely put off the fact that their world would starve many, and mean death fro many that need modern medicine. They use a anarchist bent (note I say bent, you can tell half of these idiots misread Kropotkin at best) to again, destroy the idea of government, as well as what Jensen calls the "religion of science", hated because it destroys the "spiritual".

Now, I think we need to preserve nature, and not just because it will preserve us. Even the sci-fi writers realize you need green spaces to heal and preserve the mind/soul. I just get very wary when people point to the past, as many time, it is a reference to a time that never was. I love the fields and churned butter, but I am also glad we have dentists and eye doctors.