[lbo-talk] socially irresponsible investment

[John Adams]

On Apr 16, 2005, at 9:19 AM, tully wrote:

 > On Friday 15 April 2005 06:08 pm, John Adams wrote:

>> It was the theory of the late seventies and early eighties that we'd
>> be able to build the new society within the shell of the old, blah
>> blah blah, by building co-ops. Turned out people liked their
>> organically certified food more than they liked their democracy and
>> their worker-controlled businesses.
>
> It was the theory of us hippies in the 60s and 70s that a self
> sufficient lifestyle on the land would help contribute to peace and
> social equality in the world.  These theories are right.  Our
> approach to it was lacking.  We homesteaders found out that it was
> too hard for small families to make it on the land.  But there were
> larger communities that did succeed and are succeeding like Twin Oaks
> in Virginia and other communities around the country and the world.

Yes--there are tiny communities in scattered locations representing a 
fraction of a percent of the people who tried this. They are little 
blemishes on an otherwise unbroken record of heartbreak, misery, and 
human waste from the mass delusions of the back-to-the-land movement. 
Typical hippie narcissistic stupidity of the anti-humane sort.

> What I see as neccessary is for all of us who have tried these
> alternatives of various forms to get together, discuss what we found
> to work and what didn't work and come up with new approaches.

I have some thoughts on this, beginning with: What do you do with 
people for whom four walls are four too many?

	John A