Critical Thinking?
I get a bit,..okay,..A LOT of criticism for this "Village Idea".
And, rightfully so,..for a Million different reasons,..and a Trillion items I may not have thought of yet,..or at the very least, not had the opportunity to detail.;)
Somehow,..this makes me think that I must be going the right way...or no-one would follow what I am saying at ALL!
What might a Village offer the Outside World?
With this said,.. I would like to speak today a bit about what Village Life might offer,..daily, on Week-ends, during Festivals, Harvesting Times, Seasonal Conferences,..etc..
What I am getting at is an extra option to the ones we currently are offered on this Planet...i.e..(Town, City, Metropolis, Megalopolis,..etc..for meeting, doing, being, learning, growing,sharing..)
A simple place to be if you want to be. Or an easygoing place to visit when you'd like to. A publicly accessible Social Location,..just smaller than a town,..and bigger than an encampment. ;)
Complete with a Mercantile, Clinic, School, Post-Office, Cafe, Library,Recording Studios, Art Museum, Museum of Local History, Amphitheater, etc,..(except for on a smaller scale,..to more efficiently serve both the People that inhabit the space,..and the space itself.)
And,...though I DO believe that the current cities in decay will eventually fail due to structural short-sights and simple-shelf-life-tendencies..I also realize that may not happen even in my lifetime.
I am convinced, regardless, that in order to bridge the gap between living as we are now(un-sustainably)into living in harmony with the Earth ,..these Local Villages must be created! Afterward, they can and will prove to play a vital role in furnishing larger Communities with many of their needs without these Communities having to use fossil-fuels to obtain their items from a-far.
( Reducing what we import,..even from the next state over,..maintains a semi-closed financial-loop and also a chance to re-enliven and re-introduce local, organic, heirloom, boutique, and small, family-farming!)
At a Local Village,..these independent providers of Foods and Home-made and Hand-produces products would find an outlet and way to sell and share their wares, talents, and crops.
Yurts(my structure of choice), could be rented or checked out for Workshops, Performances, Special Sales and Art Events,..amongst other things...like Vacationing in for a Weekend or maybe a Fortnight!:)
No,..everyone doesn't HAVE to live in a Village.And no,..every Village doesn't HAVE to be made of Yurts!ha! But if we build a bunch of them..that ARE,..it will be both economical, and sensible. And I am betting many will be VERY glad we have done so,when we DO!( Thankful even.)
A Local Village: To visit, make use of, and just to know of ,to offer up as an answer for others that could benefit from it's offerings and simplicity of life.
Not for everyone,..but everyone is Welcome! :)
I get a bit,..okay,..A LOT of criticism for this "Village Idea".
And, rightfully so,..for a Million different reasons,..and a Trillion items I may not have thought of yet,..or at the very least, not had the opportunity to detail.;)
Somehow,..this makes me think that I must be going the right way...or no-one would follow what I am saying at ALL!
What might a Village offer the Outside World?
With this said,.. I would like to speak today a bit about what Village Life might offer,..daily, on Week-ends, during Festivals, Harvesting Times, Seasonal Conferences,..etc..
What I am getting at is an extra option to the ones we currently are offered on this Planet...i.e..(Town, City, Metropolis, Megalopolis,..etc..for meeting, doing, being, learning, growing,sharing..)
A simple place to be if you want to be. Or an easygoing place to visit when you'd like to. A publicly accessible Social Location,..just smaller than a town,..and bigger than an encampment. ;)
Complete with a Mercantile, Clinic, School, Post-Office, Cafe, Library,Recording Studios, Art Museum, Museum of Local History, Amphitheater, etc,..(except for on a smaller scale,..to more efficiently serve both the People that inhabit the space,..and the space itself.)
And,...though I DO believe that the current cities in decay will eventually fail due to structural short-sights and simple-shelf-life-tendencies..I also realize that may not happen even in my lifetime.
I am convinced, regardless, that in order to bridge the gap between living as we are now(un-sustainably)into living in harmony with the Earth ,..these Local Villages must be created! Afterward, they can and will prove to play a vital role in furnishing larger Communities with many of their needs without these Communities having to use fossil-fuels to obtain their items from a-far.
( Reducing what we import,..even from the next state over,..maintains a semi-closed financial-loop and also a chance to re-enliven and re-introduce local, organic, heirloom, boutique, and small, family-farming!)
At a Local Village,..these independent providers of Foods and Home-made and Hand-produces products would find an outlet and way to sell and share their wares, talents, and crops.
Yurts(my structure of choice), could be rented or checked out for Workshops, Performances, Special Sales and Art Events,..amongst other things...like Vacationing in for a Weekend or maybe a Fortnight!:)
No,..everyone doesn't HAVE to live in a Village.And no,..every Village doesn't HAVE to be made of Yurts!ha! But if we build a bunch of them..that ARE,..it will be both economical, and sensible. And I am betting many will be VERY glad we have done so,when we DO!( Thankful even.)
A Local Village: To visit, make use of, and just to know of ,to offer up as an answer for others that could benefit from it's offerings and simplicity of life.
Not for everyone,..but everyone is Welcome! :)
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