Our society, in a capitalist form, makes men and women live in ways that are unnatural: getting up to clocks, being humiliated by inferior people, eating poison, sending children away, being with strangers, doing things only for money, not because the activity makes sense. All these can be dealt with because they are what affect all of us, as we are human and from a relatively common culture. Finding the way is merely a matter of details.

“Buy Local” and “No Farms No Food” are the slogans of private life, and they don’t work. The rich and groovy are a minority, and we speak of no aristocracy. So local business must push beyond. But where are they? Instead of waiting for anyone to come along with the thing you need, demonstrate local demand. Let it precede supply.

Eminent domain has two sides. On the one hand it is oppression, on the other hand power. If it means taking what you have, it should be minimized. If it means taking what the developers have, maximized.