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Yeah, I don't know what to say anymore. Keep moving, I guess, except when you need to stop and rest.

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Aug 9, 2021Liked by Antonia Malchik

Wonderful post, Antonia! My grandmother used to say that we should do everything we can for ourselves, but we also had responsibilities to contribute to the health of our community. We seem to have lost the part about working together for the common good.

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I would love for Zach D. Carter to be right, but "proven false" is a far cry from extinct, unfortunately.

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Aug 7, 2021Liked by Antonia Malchik

As a landowner and mask-wearing communist I say, "Well put." With land ownership and the right to move about in public spaces come much responsibility.

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Aug 6, 2021Liked by Antonia Malchik

As the daughter of a farmer, descended from generations of farmers, I periodically go down a spiral about land ownership and water rights and mineral rights and all the ways in which we've stripped and destroyed our world. I love the comment from Mike about "stewardship."

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Aug 6, 2021Liked by Antonia Malchik

Get me started some time on "the customer is always right." I ran a winery tasting room for several years. I had a LOT of practical philosophical interaction (much of it argument) with this concept.

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Good thoughts. I've been pondering similarly (partly triggered by "The Book Of Tresspass" as well)...

It's striking how, since abou 2016, the word "freedom" has become such a hot topic and a rallying cry for all sorts of...nope, I'm going to say it, *idiocy*. Brexit was about "freedom from Europe", for example, and now my country is starting to see what that actually means. And with the anti-vax, anti-science pushbacks, it's about "infringing our freedoms". It strike me that "freedom" is really another way of saying "mine". As in, You're Trying To Take My Stuff Which I Have A [something]-Given Right To Own.

It's like...I don't know, a hyper-individualistic denial of the idea of the society equivalent of common land? And it's so important we all find a new way to think about this, because when something "belongs" to someone else, we stop treating it as our concern or problem - with terrible implications for environmentalism.

I like the idea of changing "ownership" to "stewardship" - where it's not ours, we're just looking after it. Maybe as a concept to help bridge Freedom with Responsibility, which could then be expanded until the stewardship is of the welfare of our surroundings, and the people within it...

Hm. Fascinating topic. I may be rambling, sorry.

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