{"id":36958,"date":"2018-08-23T07:05:49","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T12:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36958"},"modified":"2018-08-23T07:05:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T12:05:49","slug":"the-vaishya-gambit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=36958","title":{"rendered":"The vaishya gambit"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/2018\/08\/the-vaishya-gambit\/\">The vaishya gambit<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>I have some good news and some bad news. The good news, at least for anyone who\u2019s drawn to read this little Small Farm Future corner of the internet, is that I\u2019ve just signed a contract with the publishers Chelsea Green to write a book, provisionally entitled <em>Small Farm Future<\/em> (sometimes I surprise even myself with my creative originality\u2026) So you\u2019ll soon be able to gorge yourself on a book-length version of my bloggerly musings. The bad news is that, starting now and for the next year or so, I\u2019m going to have to prioritize the book-writing over the blog-writing. But I\u2019m reluctant to abandon the blog altogether, so my plan is to write shorter, more knockabout pieces (if that\u2019s even possible\u2026) and most likely to turn the blog for the time being into something like a journal of the book writing process \u2013 not to give too much of my pearly wisdom away ahead of time, but perhaps to share a few of the knottier issues I\u2019m working on as I go along, in the hope that I\u2019ll get some comments back that will help me unravel them, as I\u2019ve often found in the past.<\/p>\n<p>So welcome, then, to Small Farm Future Mk II \u2013 my journal of a book year. But left hanging from my last post is the issue of transactional strategies in pre-capitalist, capitalist and potentially post-capitalist societies that I promised to address. Well, let me get the new style rolling with an experimental crack at dispatching the issue in a briefer, more rough-and-ready and much less thought-through way than I\u2019d have previously entertained.<\/p>\n<p>Most pre-modern societies found a place for asceticism (what I <a href=\"https:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/2018\/08\/the-transition-from-capitalism-to-feudalism\/\">previously called<\/a> the brahmanic or vaishya strategies) as a social and status role \u2013 conveniently, you might say, since there was less stuff to go around. Nevertheless, it was a potential route to high status \u2013 monasticism, anchorism etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vaishya gambit I have some good news and some bad news. The good news, at least for anyone who\u2019s drawn to read this little Small Farm Future corner of the internet, is that I\u2019ve just signed a contract with the publishers Chelsea Green to write a book, provisionally entitled Small Farm Future (sometimes I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15683,9738,21364],"class_list":["post-36958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-chris-smaje","tag-small-farm-future","tag-vaishya-gambit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36959,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36958\/revisions\/36959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}