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Disobedience the true foundation of liberty

By Guy McPherson | July 29, 2013

life is struggle

As if he could peer into the future, Henry David Thoreau is credited with the expression: "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves." Herein I present a few recent examples of obedience at home. This essay is hardly comprehensive, and the hits keep coming, so this essay represents a minor start to a major issue. I'm certain many more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Henry David Thoreau, National Security Agency

In the low-tech future, looking sharp, or not

By Staff Reports | November 23, 2012

manakins in window

With a sufficient supply of water and food secured, the next item on the list of basic material needs is clothing. The primary function of clothing is to keep us warm, and its secondary function, at least in our state of society, is to cover nakedness. However, those functions are all but forgotten in consumer societies today, where clothing's purpose has evolved to become … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Arts, Transition Tagged With: clothing, fashion, Henry David Thoreau

Voluntary poverty — it could save your life, but what a hard sell

By Erik Curren | July 8, 2011

Children and mom from the Depression

Poverty is finding middle class families these days these days through unemployment, bankruptcy and home foreclosure, whether they like it or not. And mostly, they don't like it. But John Michael Greer, author of this year's The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if Survival Mattered and several previous books on surviving peak oil, suggests that those who haven't found poverty … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Spirit, Transition Tagged With: Diogenes, Epicurus, Henry David Thoreau, John Michael Greer, poverty, simple living, slow food, St Francis of Assisi

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