How then, do we move backwards? How does a society, with most of the people having no clue of future events, move from being dependent on a vast and intertwined network of goods and services produced by the indigenous people of whereever, to a local resource and renewable energy based society, and do so in the timeframe available (20-30 years using the most liberal extimates, 10-20 with resonable estimates, 5-10 with worst case scenarios), all the while prices on everything increasing, world politics getting more militaristic, governments continuously reducing civil liberties, shortages of goods on the market and weather patterns resembling bad Hollywood movies?
Joined: Aug 17, 2004 Posts: 3541 Location: 39° 39' N 77° 77' W or thereabouts
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 7:23 am Post subject: "Total Loss Farm: ..." Raymond Mungo
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It's called Total Loss Farm because it produces nothing visible to the mature eye--all the livestock, machinery, seeds, and such tools and not even one peach or can of maple syrup makes it as far as the market.
I'm wondering if this is worth reading. I have a copy that I inherited. The back cover says:
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Ray Mungo, founded the radical Liberation News Service and split in 1968 when he was 22 "because the movement had become my enemy; the movement was not flowers and doves and spontaneity, but another vicous system, the seed of a heartless beureaucracy, a minority Party vying for power rather than peace." He went to Vermont for a year to live on an old farm with some friends. Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life is about the truth of that year.
Seems it might have some insight into what goes on when naive people try to live on the land.
Anybody read this one already and have anything to share?
Joined: Aug 18, 2004 Posts: 694 Location: SF Bay Area, Calif
Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject:
Raymond Mungo was one of the founders of the Liberation News Service back in the 60s -- a pioneer in the underground press (these days he would have a blog and a news portal).
He recounted the story of LNS in "Famous Long Ago," describing the excitement and cameraderie of the early days, and the political disputes that finally ripped the movement apart. If I recall, he retired to the country (to Total Loss Farm, I assume).
He's a good writer, a lot of fun to read. I wonder what's happened to him lately?
There's a lot of stuff written in the 60s and 70s that is relevant again. Counter-culture, political movements, back-to-the-land and ecology. You'd be surprised how contemporary it sounds.
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