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“if youre not that smart, which i am not, you have to spend a lot of
time asking a lot of questions to try and figure it out” -S. Dubner
dear stephin�merritt,
thanks for skipping ohio on your upcoming tour. i dont know what i
would do with myself if you actually came to columbus to a venue i
could actually afford. i might begin having problems with
incontinence, and so i thank you for not making me piss myself. good
thing i dont [inhabit/plan on visiting March 5 2010] Bloomington,
Indiana (pop. 183k metro + surrounding) rather than columbus (pop.
754k metro only). then again, your show here last time sold out of $60
tickets in about three hours, so maybe its just that you like the
drama of /watching, wondering/�if your show will sell out, despite
cumbersome ticket prices.
truly, your devoted fan (who is so glad his pants arent full of urine),
mfg
ps. ive been having an affair with micah p. hinson.
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your wave invite is on its way jess, welcome to the chaos!
There is a disconcerting flaw in the modus operandi of (vegan) sustainable farming. A central tenet involves not only purchasing and consuming food that is produced in a sustainable way, but also actively boycotting the purchase of products made by companies that do not promote sustainable practices. The idea being that if the sustainable companies have a market swell, the non-sustainable companies will move to protect their profit margins and change their practices.
The inherent flaw to this is that once the non-sustainable companies corner the sustainable market, they will crowd out the smaller companies and eliminate competition. To sum up, sustainable farming has no end game, probably no middle game. Granted, I am not a member of any strategy committee (thank god, it’d be awful); I do not immerse myself in their literature. It just appears to be a major flaw from the outset based on the board and the pieces.
The idea that we would just buy local, buy no meat supporting products, buy only things in season leaves me wondering; is there sufficient attention being paid to what happens if the boycott succeeds? Inevitably, the big boys swoop in and choke the channel for the boycott.
Right now there does appear to be a corollary dilemma in the Open Source community regarding Microsoft’s CodePlex Foundation. What happens when you allow a company that is fundamentally opposed to Open Source development contribute and take from the Open Source community? OSS is a type of boycott, and a type of functional, evolutionary modus operandi. OSS is a true competitor against Proprietary systems.
The parallel I hope to evoke is that of the conscientiousness that the OSS community as it moves forward in tandem with Microsoft involvement in OSS. It does not appear as though sustainable farming literature has formulated itself sufficiently to compete against fundamentally opposed economic forces if their boycott works and the non-sustainable sources slice and dice the parts of sustainability that allow them to crowd the market.
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