I just can't decide whether people are too lazy or too hyper active.
Certainly the easiest farm practice for lazy people would be Natural
Farming (a la Masanoba Fukuoka). Also, lazy people wouldn't have
deforested most of the planet and filled or drained most of its
wetlands. Seems to me, lazy people would rather put their animals on
pasture and let them lead a more natural life that wouldn't make them
as sick as they can get all cooped up together. Seems to me lazy
people wouldn't waste so much valuable energy looking for a zillion
technological solutions to problems half of which didnt' even exist
before the advent of technology! I'm not saying that technology is
bad or that it is inherently the opposite of time and labor saving,
but I think it would have developed much differently in the hands of
truly lazy people! What I'm suggesting is that maybe we are all
just too hyper, hands-on, invasive busy-bodies who want to prove that
we can manage the world better than God and can't stand still long
enough to even distinguish the baby from the bathwater.
This is just a bunch of philosophical babble, but there you have it.
Anita
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