On the surface, it may appear that to be anti-farming is to be crazy or misanthropic and this is commonly the initial defensive reaction of people looking through the thick, bottle-top glasses of civilisation. Yet we only have to take these vision-narrowing glasses off, look at the state of eco-systems and the health of the human race, psychologically and physically, to see that it is farming which is anti-life. It is farming which causes the spread of deserts and dead-zones in the seas and in our hearts. It is farming which turns the planet into something to be consumed. It is farming which destroys variety and symbiosis and actively promotes mono-culture and creates competition. The path of progress that the civilised have been on since its inception is leading (has led?) to our demise. This is becoming clearer every day and more difficult to deny.
To be anti-farming, therefore, is to be pro-life, to want something other than this post-dead culture of drugs and destruction. It could be said that we are addicted to farming (maybe grains are the original addiction which sped up our disconnection and imbalance) and we seek comfort in our control of the planet. Yet this attempt to control quite blatantly leads nowhere other than extinction. The world is not ours to control and dominate (to multiply over) and we will learn this the hard way if we will learn it at all.
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i would say it is civilisation and not simply farming that causes all the greif but i take your point – burn all farmers!
Comment by rolf harris March 23, 2009 @ 4:40 pm