Been away, apologies if this seems scattered...
Paul wrote:
I vote for San Francisco.
Closer to Ghiradelli.
I'm up with that, and it's another city with direct links to the TTB story.
Linda wrote:
Now I see with your help and your association with Mr. Twigsnapper that perhaps we have moved into a different phase here ... One that I had not even considered before. This huge freighter is not meant to pull into one port .... she is meant to off load her cargo into smaller ships and they are meant to go where that ship could not go herself. Shallow draft boats.
SF, also a port city!
One wonders what kind of small ships we might eventually be talking about.
And AM, regarding your link to the article on managed Consumerism, just the other evening I heard a present-day captain of industry equating greater consumer choice with "democracy." It really grated on me and at least now after having read the article I know the roots of that Gospel. As if choice that did not involve people exercising their civic muscles had anything to do with democracy. So now even the political landscape is obscured (and I'm certainly not the first to say this) the populace has acceded that they are no longer citizens, but consumers, and that nothing has been lost in that transition. As long as they have "choice" they should be happy. This includes chasing the ghost of "higher productivity"... with little true "solace to our souls.”
Good book ref on the topic if folks aren't familiar with it is called _Your Money or Your Life_.
I have always admired the work of the Kellogg foundation, now after reading the article, I realize the roots of its motivating spirit go back many years.
This bit is worth highlighting:
This was the stuff of a human ecology in which thousands of small, almost invisible, interactions between family members, friends, and neighbors create an intricate structure that supports social life in much the same way as topsoil supports our biological existence. When we allow either one to become impoverished, whether out of greed or intemperance, we put our long-term survival at risk.
R.
