i think it's a great idea, and when i said 'no-one's going to go there', i meant that that is so different a reality that the one we have now, few have the imagination to even conceive it, and it's sounds so utopian on its face, no politician is going to risk touting it for votes.

kucinich isn't going a hundreth of the distance to that vision, and look how he fares.

an economy we at ET would willingly subscribe to, how do you envision it?

what image can we conceptualise as a step towards the blessed state it would be, to have a guaranteed living as a baseline from which to ascend?

i have some ideas, and they honour work that feels ennobling, be it helping make compost, getting the slurry out of the digester, learning to take care of animals, working on sustainable mechanical and electronic devices in clean, healthy environments. helping the aged, child care, teaching and learning making our own media etc. even chores commonly thought boring because of their low intellectual content become fun if shared, and stress levels are low.

fast forwarding to an even more benign ecorelationship than that, where solar and windpowered robots harvest our greenmanured soya fields and make milk and tofu for the masses, who loll around blissfully in between bouts of doing only and exactly what they please...sure, lol, all it takes is a little courage to dream, faith, and a million more years evolution. snarque

of course this syllabus will be considerably foreshortened if we don't take more preventative action yesterday, as thankfully more and more people are...

meanwhile, back at the coalmine...

maybe you should run for office migeru!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~