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Speed and localism <\/a><\/h3>\n
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This is an extract from Patrick Noble\u2019s new book, Reclaiming Commons, which can be ordered online here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

SPEED<\/p>\n

What of fossil-powered speed \u2013 the borrowed muscular lives of fossilised years? Do we forget ourselves in consequence?<\/p>\n

What of two people walking side by side? They are more or less equal until they step into what money can buy \u2013 a car; an aeroplane\u2026<\/p>\n

What happens when the energy required for cars and aeroplanes exceeds available energy \u2013 that is, exceeds what is possible? Is that a partial recipe for equality?<\/p>\n

But does that speed lead to a forgetting, not only of human speed, but of all human qualities?
\nWhat of the time between destinations \u2013 both the space\/time and the space? Does shrunken time, also shrink space and so the richness of a life?<\/p>\n

What of the purchased fancy of traveling between places, without the revelatory truth of the places in between?<\/p>\n

If the places in between are a nuisance to be transcended by those millions of purchased photosynthetic years, is our knowledge not impoverished and our imagination stunted? Certainly, our chosen purchases must crowd out what is unpredictable, sacramental, revelatory, beautiful and true.
\nListen, as we slow to walking pace, so the great mass of life comes around us in the ways we\u2019ve evolved to live \u2013 in obstacles, delights, gradients, weathers, sights, sounds, scent\u2026 As we slow, revelation accelerates. That is, as we slow, what is human accelerates and swells. Also, what is possible, accelerates and swells.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s something else, as we speed by our purchasing power, so we impoverish the passage of time. That\u2019s as old as the oldest philosopher.<\/p>\n

So, is slower richer in rewards and faster poorer \u2013 even though slower is poorer in money and faster richer? Is unnatural speed, not a perfect parable for folly?<\/p>\n

\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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