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Entertaining Malthusian Thoughts… | anarchafairy
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The tortured thoughts of a revolutionary anarchist. Entertaining Malthusian Thoughts…. January 22, 2008 in intermission. I’ve been enjoying watching the New Zealand stock market fall over the last two weeks. It’s been really quite a pleasure to watch the NZX50. Drop just a bit more every day, refreshing my browser every so often. And today I had the pleasure to watch the sharemarket plummet by as much as 4% at one point. These are my musings, take them as they are. And also the irregular anarchist journal.
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Mis-spent Youth | Villageblog
https://villageblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/mis-spent-youth
Where's the Village. Laquo; Whole Foods. I’m so right and you’re all wrong etc. April 6, 2010. I’ve been reading some of John Holt’s early. I realise that by saying this I’m probably insulting most of the people who are likely to read this (as well as myself) but really are we intellectuals as smart as we think we are? The people who fail to operate in the world of symbols from an early enough age tend to conclude (well, they get told) that they must be stupid and give up thinking altogether so it’...
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Disciplined Minds | Villageblog
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Where's the Village. Laquo; More Alice Miller. January 13, 2006. NOTE: this was published in Uncensored Magazine. 8211; At least I’m told it was – I never saw the actual issue it was in (issue 4 I think). A critical Look at the Salaried Professionals and the Soul-battering System That Shapes Their Lives. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. Disciplined Minds also deconstructs professional training by explaining that the main purpose of the training is to produce people that will take on their employer’s id...
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Whole Foods | Villageblog
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Where's the Village. October 31, 2008. Added to this we have a copy of Nourishing Traditions. In the house now and Karen, who is a keen cook (just as well because I’m not) has been dipping into it on a daily basis. We’ve been eating broths and a variety of fermented foods, including a crazy relish thing I like, which seems to have two quite different tastes within it. We’ve also been eating sourdough bread regularly and using unprocessed sea salt and sugar substitute rapadura. Has to say about the issue*.
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Socialisation | Villageblog
https://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/socialisation
Where's the Village. October 24, 2008. I just wanted to pick up on the comments on Ran’s blog about schooling and socialisation because ever since we started telling people we were unschooling our children (often we just say homeschooling so as not to frighten them) the single most common objection we receive is;. 8220;But what about you’re child’s socialistion? After several irritating years of this it suddenly dawned on me that no one had ever said;. Also: Ran ended his piece with this comment;. 8230;i...
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Suburbia DOA | Villageblog
https://villageblog.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/suburbia-doa
Where's the Village. Laquo; We’ll all be driving one soon. Doom, Gloom and Ka-boom! May 17, 2008. I see a lot of people gleefully predicting the demise of suburbia – dependant as it is on the car for it’s full functioning, but I wonder where do we think all these people are going to go? Which is the effect of a lot of the doom – it reduces us to numb spectators. How often do doom-bloggers wonder aloud about why people don’t follow their advice, all the time unware that it’s the cons...And YES I realise t...
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1 gone, 1 back and 1 idle | Villageblog
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Where's the Village. Laquo; Free Will. 1 gone, 1 back and 1 idle. September 16, 2008. I’m the idle one, if you haven’t guessed. The gone one is Ted from Free Range Organic Human who left this parting message. UPDATE: I just checked back and Ted has made another posting. 8211; from what he says leaving the net behind is obviously not easy. This could be interesting. The back one is Dan, with a personal rebirth. About his recent personal changes and also a new essay. October 25, 2008 at 3:16 pm. You are co...
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Unconditional Parenting DVD | Villageblog
https://villageblog.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/unconditional-parenting-dvd
Where's the Village. Hold on to Your Kids. July 27, 2007. We just got a copy of the Alfie Kohn DVD ‘ Unconditional Parenting. There’s a book by the same name but we got the DVD because we like the idea that we can easily hand it to other people and they won’t need to worry about wading through a heavy tome (I haven’t seen the actual book) and especially we can give it to people who are suspicious of our approach to parenting. Karen has given it a friend already. More importantly though he says that shift...
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a bit of own-trumpet blowing | Villageblog
https://villageblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/a-bit-of-own-trumpet-blowing
Where's the Village. Laquo; Still Going On About Parenting. A bit of own-trumpet blowing. November 9, 2010. I know I rarely post now but I just had to put up a note about a post I wrote over two years ago, Suburbia DOA. There’s been a bit of noise about Jeff Vail’s article Rescuing Suburbia. In which he says much the same things I said in the aforementioned posting (from two years ago, did I say that yet? Albeit with much more detail and a lot less ranting. My posting descended into a bitter rant about t...
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I’m so right and you’re all wrong etc. | Villageblog
https://villageblog.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/im-so-right-and-youre-all-wrong-etc
Where's the Village. Laquo; Mis-spent Youth. I’m so right and you’re all wrong etc. April 27, 2010. I talked about John Holt in my last post and I’ve just been reading a couple of brilliant little books by him; How Children Fail. I was very surprised to be this gripped by a book again. It’s been 5 years since I last felt like this about a book (when I read my first anti-civ writing) and since then I’ve got so overloaded with. Then there was yesterday’s experience, after reading this Noam Chomsky article.