As I was reading about the small activities or routines we should do in order to remind ourselves that we are alive, I kept thinking back to the mantra of Silicon Valley (Maybe the fact that I have been researching their ideology lately keeps bringing them back to mind).
The idea of disrupting everything, of always changing, of trying to alter, to change, to fail, and to try again sounds appealing on paper, but we see how much it detaches us from reality. I read in the comments, I think @Chris La Tray talked about the business opportunity seen by the guy hiking through the lands. Even though that idea might correspond to the mindset of the Valley, to make a business out of everything, to sell, to package good well enough, while pretending to reinvent the wheel, maybe you are doing more bad than good to the environment.
I was out at Council Grove last year and there was a guy I saw out kicking through the underbrush, rolling over logs, etc. I encountered him on the trail and he asked if I come there often and I said yes, and the he said, "Someone told me there are morels out here, have you ever seen any?" to which I said no and he went on about "making some money." For me, that was my final breaking point in really being in any way supportive of the whole concept of "market harvest" on public land. I'm all for people gathering for their own needs, but as soon as it gets monetized it draws the worse elements of humans just tearing through a landscape oblivious and I hate it. But I'm old and sour and against everything so it shouldn't come as any surprise.
As I was reading about the small activities or routines we should do in order to remind ourselves that we are alive, I kept thinking back to the mantra of Silicon Valley (Maybe the fact that I have been researching their ideology lately keeps bringing them back to mind).
The idea of disrupting everything, of always changing, of trying to alter, to change, to fail, and to try again sounds appealing on paper, but we see how much it detaches us from reality. I read in the comments, I think @Chris La Tray talked about the business opportunity seen by the guy hiking through the lands. Even though that idea might correspond to the mindset of the Valley, to make a business out of everything, to sell, to package good well enough, while pretending to reinvent the wheel, maybe you are doing more bad than good to the environment.
Truly not the point, but Tevas Gang 4 Life!
I was out at Council Grove last year and there was a guy I saw out kicking through the underbrush, rolling over logs, etc. I encountered him on the trail and he asked if I come there often and I said yes, and the he said, "Someone told me there are morels out here, have you ever seen any?" to which I said no and he went on about "making some money." For me, that was my final breaking point in really being in any way supportive of the whole concept of "market harvest" on public land. I'm all for people gathering for their own needs, but as soon as it gets monetized it draws the worse elements of humans just tearing through a landscape oblivious and I hate it. But I'm old and sour and against everything so it shouldn't come as any surprise.
I'm glad you found some huckleberries.