"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative" - Oscar Wilde reads a friend's fb status... & ive been thinking of the same. I'm reading the Organic Farming Reader - a collection of articles on organic farming. It leads me to a conclusion that I have repeated arrived on previous readings & thinking : globalization is stupidity! I am not against the availability of all things everywhere on earth, the whole point of localization is not closing oneself, but to have something unique - something that suits the local environment, culture, climate, etc etc etc...
Talking about farming, experiments & hereditary knowledge proves that each region has a unique environment (composed of climate, soil, geology, ....) and hence needs a native plant variety to survive. Bring in plants from elsewhere & either they die or kill... The authors say we have gone down from about 10,000 varieties of wheat in India to just a few hundred in less than a century! Each of these varieties have come down through generations and are suited to their specific local environment. Each variety gives not just optimal harvest & protection against local pests, but also proves more digestion friendly & nutritive for the local environment!!
Now combine this train of thought with Robert Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle maintenance: we are talking about quality of a material that is marketable only in a certain region. The quality is dynamic for the same material based on geographical location!! & this is just agriculture! Why are we buying polyester clothing in India, which is not at all friendly in the hot & humid weather, or using agricultural methods more suited to temperate soils, where organic matter is in mineral form, whereas it is stored in plant life in the tropic & the soil is mineral poor..
Why do we take shelter in aping western systems when our own are as efficient? Why should an imported item be more valuable than local one of the same quality? Is it just globalization or our mentality?
& finally, freedom is not in globalization, stupid! Thats just a marketing strategy!!! LOCAL IS THE NEW GLOBAL!! albeit a few years hence, & that i can predict with confidence!
ps: im trying to shorten my posts after an avalanche of complaints against my ramblings!
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"hear hear" to your post... and keep em long.!!!!.... tell em that the stand up comedy show is on star world at 11pm
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