EH - 60 : agrikulture

Kevin at the Mutualist blog started a thread on agriculture myths - my comment didn't seem to take in the system, so i will reproduce it whole here.

The rural/urban divide seems to have a gush in the urban direction and a trickle back into rural spheres after one has made a life and wishes to set back and enjoy the spoils. Closed minds gradually are opened with persistence, but most rural children never really make a mark that allows them to move back home.

The lack of a rural paper economy means that people cannot find work sitting at a desk shuffling paper - those jobs are filled by older people that can't afford to give up the domain they have built. Individual fifedoms protect people from real work - only force gets people off their butts to do in urban america - but even doing is defined differently.

Meanwhile - those lazy urban sit on your butt types, that immegrate daily between cubicle and tv screen with a fast food diet supplemented from an aluminum can, where will there food come from when the trucks no longer stream down the freeway? Voting to take more, i suppose.

See - rural amerika can stereotype mean narrowness just like urbana. fact is, a lot of intelligence here is anecdotal, and thus discounted by the education elite who feel that only a paper trail establishes the validity of an idea. reality based observation and thinking go a long way at every level of intelligence, in every situation.

Wisdom carries a different weight from intelligence, use it when you find it - it will save you a lot of pain (or a lot of work, tho work is not something that can be saved - we don't store work, we only store the potential for work. Somebody still has to actuall do something to get something done.