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Speed and localism

Speed and localism This is an extract from Patrick Noble’s new book, Reclaiming Commons, which can be ordered online here. SPEED What of fossil-powered speed – the borrowed muscular lives of fossilised years? Do we forget ourselves in consequence? What of two people walking side by side? They are more or less equal until they […]

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The tales of history are a dead-end road

The tales of history are a dead-end road Culture is what people do. It decays when people stop culturing. Changing a culture means changing what we do. Often, that will need a step by step transition as we negotiate obstacles. Even though we follow some backward meanders, the river may flow on. But there are […]

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The ninety percent and the tithe

The ninety percent and the tithe I think it likely that 90% of our working time creates what we don’t need and also damages work to preserve what we do need. That is: most of our time is not only wasted but destructive. Of course, I’m speaking of the so-called First World and of the […]

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The great agricultural resettlement or the next chapter of the fall

The great agricultural resettlement or the next chapter of the fall Here’s my own picture. I am a farmer and that is where my world begins. What is an agriculture? I say it is a culture of cities, towns and villages, bridges, roads, canals, harbours – of trades’ people and the trades, which have been […]

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How destructive is the middle class?

How destructive is the middle class? Firstly, I’ve no wish to define people by accidents of birth and then condemn them for the effects of those accidents – by accent, dress, or other filial habits. Whichever class we’ve been born into remains as our original soil. Parenthood, love, loyalty and some behavioural codes, grow from […]

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