In light of the recent question asked about Kinist reading material, I started browsing the Wiki here on Kinism.net. Its a great resource, I think, and with new members joining, perhaps we could point them in the direction of our wiki to help answer their questions.
For example, I created a very brief page for Agrarianism...if y"all would, check it out and make changes that you believe are necessary.
Agrarianism: I was trying to explain to my son this morning about stewarding land and milking our own goats, instead of “just earning the money and buying goat milk from our neighbors.” He just wanted to reduce it to the surface “dollars per hour” value. He doesn’t yet consider that someone has to EARN two or three (or four) dollars to pay taxes, “rent” to the government for our land and animals in the form of property taxes, inflation, licenses, insurance, fees, registration, fuel, working wardrobe, etc. to have A DOLLAR LEFT in the end to spend, thanks to the Federal Reserve, Big Government, etc. And due to the industrialization mindset ("If it doesn’t pay minimum wage, then why bother doing it? Just hire someone else to do it."), laziness plagues even lesser brainwashed, homeschooled children (and their parents who were raised “in the system").
Kinswoman--I got tired just reading your post! Either way it would seem the individual is falling farther and farther behind; those who are young (or at very least not old) and strong can manage farming tasks; those who are young and strong (or otherwise) can work outside the home and have all their earnings sucked away. Gah.
Explaining philosophy to the young is difficult many times, especially to our own young adult children. I seem to recall having a lot of resistance to my own mother’s well-intentioned advice, much of which wisdom (but not all) has proven to be true. I think it’s part of the pulling away tendency kids have at that age.
Not everyone is like our resident Kinist young folks. Not even our own children, much as we might wish them to be. But that is no reason to give up on teaching them Kinist ways. Me, I am learning to stop just short of nagging…
KW--thanks for calling attention to the Wiki. You are an awesome example of the youth of today.
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The word that jumped out of your comment, Laurel, was “INDIVIDUAL.” Your observation that the individual is falling farther and farther behind is precisely right, as agrarianism cannot succeed when we are all individualized, corporate-fascist industrialization-style, and think and act accordingly. If even only in defiance to the nebulous social powers behind the scenes that control our lives we try to learn some back-to-the-land skill, we may inspire a younger brave, free-thinking soul to take it to the next level in their lives or in our little community…
The word that jumped out of your comment, Laurel, was “INDIVIDUAL.” Your observation that the individual is falling farther and farther behind is precisely right, as agrarianism cannot succeed when we are all individualized, corporate-fascist industrialization-style, and think and act accordingly. If even only in defiance to the nebulous social powers behind the scenes that control our lives we try to learn some back-to-the-land skill, we may inspire a younger brave, free-thinking soul to take it to the next level in their lives or in our little community…
Kinswoman, since I am stuck being solo, or individual, for who knows how long, my wording was probably just an outpouring of my own self-interest, a result of my situation.
Personally, my situation is that of an upside-down pyramid. With elders long beyond the productive stage of life (not without wisdom to share, however), and me doing all the support stuff down here at the point, I sometimes feel as if all the stone in the pyramid is weighing down upon me.
I hope and pray that the young of our little group grab the baton and carry Kinism/Agrarianism to the next level, and create real, workable, community.
Sorry, I’ll clarify: by “individual,” I did not mean a family status, necessarily; most of us ARE “individuals” in the sense that we are disconnected enough to hinder agrarianism in practice - we have fractured, or isolated, or truncated families and communities compared to America of 100-150 years ago. A woman in your circumstances in an 1850’s community would probably have more tight-knit community help, support, and friends than our modern mobile disjointed society can imagine the government providing…
Sorry, I’ll clarify: by “individual,” I did not mean a family status, necessarily; most of us ARE “individuals” in the sense that we are disconnected enough to hinder agrarianism in practice - we have fractured, or isolated, or truncated families and communities compared to America of 100-150 years ago.
ah, understood…
At this point, agrarianism looks at me and has a good laugh…
