Comment, 8 Jun 11:
Social diversity is foolish when it is forced upon any singular nation (Nimrod's tower), but food diversity is wise for the world (biodiversity). Recall the potato famine in Irelandduring the 1800's and its outcome.
When agriculture was mechanized during WWI, America was foist upon the burden as the 'breadbasket to the world'. In the 30's, 90% of the population inhabited on farms. Roosevelt's burgeoning government and his short-sighted agricultural policies caused the dust bowl (excessive tilling and rich topsoil was blown to to the Atlantic). The 'Okie' migration inspired Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath'. The next migration will be in reverse. About 5 years ago, I jested that the next tome about this could be entitled, 'Judgment in the Barren Garden of Good and Evil'.
WWII further stressed the once-fertile land and fed the world AGAIN. Since farmland was overly cultivated, seeded, and harvested by machines, the diversity of crops was discarded in favor of Henry Ford's paradigm--one identical species in lieu of a diverse varieties.
After the second war, Levitt towns sprouted up around the outskirts of metropolitan centers. Cropland was devoured further by the yuppies of the suburbs in the 70's, and Monsanto burst into the arena of the megafarm-pharma combines of ordered annihilation. And so it goes, and to where it takes us, I ask.
When a teen, I was nauseated with GE's motto: 'Progress is our most important product.' For an unknown reason, I liked the old ways of our fathers.
Our most important product is not progress. It is the welfare of our children—not our quest for the auric band. Unfortunately, we of the United States of Amnesia, thought we would never endure another great depression, let alone, its great spiritual revival. The message from my father was heeded only half of what he tried to teach. All I heard was the admonishment to 'do better' than than his generation. I (we) forgot the better half: 'in God we trust'. Will there be a third great awakening in America? Will subversive 'multi-culturism' dilute the faith of our fathers? I pray not.
awl
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