Actually they usually got in trouble because they were run by "experts"...
John Francis wrote:
I think the lesson we could best learn here is that slavish belief
in any given doctrine can be hazardous to your health ...
What saved the colonists is that they gave up their preconceived
ideas that they knew "the one true way", and actually listened
to the advice they got from experts.
Unfortunately it's a lesson that seems to be lost on most.
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 08:52:23PM -0000, Bob W wrote:
I think it's true that most of the early colonies had difficulties feeding
themselves, however they organised their societies.
There are plenty of examples of native people all over the world who have a
very different concept of property to ours, yet who are perfectly capable of
surviving in places where we would fail, however we organised ourselves,
simply because we don't know how to exploit the available resources, and
they do. The same applies vice versa, of course. I'm sure a native of the
Irian Jaya rainforest, left overnight in Fortnum and Mason, would probably
go hungry, even if he was a member of the Republican Party.
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Cheers,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: P. J. Alling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 January 2006 20:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: OT: Capa Doc
You should read the history of the colony, all food
production was owned common, all food distribution was by
need, everyone explored or searched for gold, no one produced
food... Everyone starved. The creed that saved them was
each got a plot and ate what they grew.
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When you're worried or in doubt,
Run in circles, (scream and shout).
