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Property rights seem like a good idea but they are rooted in violence

In response to a facebook post about getting back to nature, it went something like this.. The guy: [some hippy shit about how everybody should just get back to nature...] Me: In a capitalist mode of economy (which will arise within any statist system that provides property rights) people inevitably get stuck in cities, then they can't get out So for people to be able to have freedom to even make decisions about their life, the underlying structure of capitalism, rooted in property rights, must first be dismantled The guy: Dismantle property rights? Me: Property rights seem like a good idea but they are rooted in violence, really are a way for the rich to preserve wealth while the poor disproportionately pay for the police and government systems that protect the property

The leverage that is fundamentally rooted in violence is ultimately used to indirectly force people to work with the means of production that slowly but surely always consolidate with the true beneficiaries of the property system

This basic principle, along with authorization to dispense violence directly, is also what makes state socialism dangerous

Property rights will inevitably lead to power structures with physical leverage and the ability to invoke violence

As the structure becomes more and more sophisticated, like what we see with the kind of neo-liberal corporatism that we have today the owners of the property are getting to the point where they can essentially invoke state violence against who they wish, even though it may manifest indirectly

Its like how you build a computer program starting with binary, then programming languages get built on top of that, then frameworks, then you have a mechanism that allows you to carry out extremely complex functions with the press of a button

Rights in general are a legal construct and cannot exist without a form of violent authority, if there is no system of violence there is no reason to declare rights, there is only coordination and cooperation based on participatory methods, like direct democratic consensus

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'But the great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggles in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boys mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness.'

Oh Pioneers! - by Willa Cather

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Book Review: Wendell Berry and the Given Life by Ragan Sutterfield

I will say that I have read much of Wendell Berry’s work. With that said, I was hoping for more than a multitude, wave after wave, of Berry quotes strung together with so much regurgitation it became annoying. I found myself straining to hurry to get to the end of the book, instead of savoring the words and ideas.

Is this a bad book? No.

Why? Because I realize that there is a whole generation or two that maybe have never even heard of Wendell Berry. With this book, perhaps it would spark an interest, wet their appetite or prod them into active thinking and seek out more of Berry’s original works (with all the quotes, there is many pages of footnote references that it should not be hard to access various essays). I did enjoy the ‘afterword’, a conversation with Wendell Berry and the author. I would recommend this book to anyone that has never read or heard of Berry as it would be a good primer in which to put their toes in to test the waters.

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焼餅、美味い。雑煮より焼餅の方が美味い。もち米替えたら、餅も美味くなった。「秋田県井川町産農家直送きぬのはだ 5kg 平成28年産新米」って米。もち米が届いた時には、「これはヤバいかもなあ・・」って思った。だって、米と一緒に、島田陽子が米屋社長にインタビューしてるパンフレットが同封されてたんだもん。秋田の「水菜土農園」って会社。「島田陽子」だもん。それだけで、「ネズミ講か？それとも新興宗教？」って思う。パンフレット読んだら、社長さんは若くして村会議員らしい。いかにも自己啓発本とか書きたそうな青年実業家風。「死ぬ気で働け！私は死ぬ気で年商3億！」とか自慢してそう。「だから偉い。だから成功した。おまえらは俺様を見習え。見習えないのは負け組ダメ人間。俺様勝ち組」系。きっと憂国の志で国政参加も狙ってるに違いない。でも、お米は美味しい。あれだね、アムウェイの商法はネズミ講だし、クラスメイトやら親類やらでハマる奴が出るとウザいけど、販売してる食器類の品質良いのと同じかな？経営者はアレでアレだけど、田んぼの方の生産管理はキチンとやってる有能な人がいて、品質は良いぞ、と。 #餅 #焼餅 #mochi #ricecake #島田陽子 #憂国 #農政が危ない！ #農本主義 #physiocracy #agrarianism #agricultural_fundamentalism #yokoshimada #島田陽子はないだろ (経堂)

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Season 4, Episode 4: Our Trips to Milwaukee, Lancaster and Beyond

Spencer and Laurie discuss what they learned from their recent trips. Laurie went to Milwaukee, WI, to do research on the Peter Maurin papers and to give two talks on Maurin and Day. Spencer and Emily traveled to Pennsylvania and other spots on the East Coast to help move a friend, and along the way visited two Catholic Worker houses, the Rodale Institute, Blue Hill Farm, Dorothy Day’s gravesite…