I think the truth of it is that when you get down to actually having to do the things on the ground, there is only one way to do it, and that's in cooperation with the communities.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In a region with a growing population, if you're doing nothing, you're losing ground.
It is always pleasant to be urged to do something on the ground that one can do it well.
We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are.
Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
We've got to figure out a way to cause communities to also want them, the political, organized bodies.
Anytime there's an actual grassroots movement that isn't funded by people trying to create a grassroots movement, I find that interesting.
I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.
Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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