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Jose Garcia
9 years ago

Feats of engineering that are not natural? Is the TSP delving into alien theories? Interesting.

Jose Garcia
9 years ago
Reply to  Jose Garcia

Mayan Common Sense vs Modern Day Common Core.

Richard Hauser
Richard Hauser
9 years ago
Reply to  Jose Garcia

In my view, nature never does anything unsustainable and even if it did, I would consider that unnatural. So humans do do several unnatural things.

Alex Shrugged
Alex Shrugged
9 years ago

Great response to the history segment, Jack. I’m often torn on what to call “natural” since man is part of nature. Thus what the Indians did in the 17th century allowed the natural systems to work in balance. When the Indians stopped doing it due to disease and war, the natural balance broke down and everything went to … well… it spun out of control.

BTW, I loved your point about “savages” and the 30 Years’ War, 80 Years’ War, fill-in-the-blank war. It is all so relentlessly savage and pointless.

Alex Shrugged

Richard Hauser
Richard Hauser
9 years ago
Reply to  Alex Shrugged

I’d consider controlled burns to be completely natural. There are western forests that have natural cycles of burns.

Robert Middleswarth
Robert Middleswarth
9 years ago

You never included the link to the movie?

Thanks
Robert

Marcus Greybeard
Marcus Greybeard
9 years ago

Link to the Sir Mashalot 6 song country mix and to the later one he added a 7th track to.

6 song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8SwIvxj8o
7 Song – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0VXubTsAoE

Jay Weston
Jay Weston
9 years ago

Selecting the President and Vice President at random from the phone book might not be that bad of an idea.

Richard Hauser
Richard Hauser
9 years ago
Reply to  Jay Weston

I was thinking that too. In a properly constrained government then random appointments make perfect sense. Properly defined so that no one should want to be President or Congressman. Just obligations with few benefits, like a Scoutmaster.

Richard Hauser
Richard Hauser
9 years ago

And on the theme of 1000 things everyone should know, I’ll throw in a quote I love: “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

Matt Powers
9 years ago

“Damn the torpedoes! Full Speed Ahead!” – David Farragut
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut

Joined the navy age 9…

sorry I butchered the quote!!! 🙂 I come from a navy family so I should have done better!

MB
MB
9 years ago

Read John Taylor Gatto books on education.
Second Chance by Robert Kiosaki

Ben R
Ben R
9 years ago

I’ve been listening to every episode for the past three years or so. This is one of my favorite episodes. A great guest, a great topic and Jack is getting to be a much better interviewer.

Keep up the good work! I talk about your ideas so much to my friends and coworkers that they know you on a first name basis.

Heather D
Heather D
9 years ago

I’m thrilled to hear about this new permaculture school. I homeschool my 6 year old, and this is exactly what I want to teach her. But I’m still not completely sure what the site will end up doing. Is this a full, ongoing 12 year program? Or do I sign up for the 3 month class & use that as a basis for her full education? I’m just not sure how the 3 month class translates into the upcoming years. I looked on his site, and listened to the episode, but I’m not clear about how to proceed after the first 3 months. It seems that each 3 month period will be a different class. I understand this is a new project, just trying to plan how I would use this for years to come. Excellent show. I can’t wait to see what this becomes.

Gerhard
Gerhard
9 years ago

Is the September 15 cut off the only time this will be offered? I am interested but dropping 500+ on the course is going to be rough right now. I just dropped 1k on a soil course from another permaculturist.