tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184539467031647989.post3479651173898862124..comments2023-10-07T02:42:10.642-07:00Comments on Coalition for Kid-Friendly Schools: Dickon Among the LenapesFedUpMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00951858601020687242noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184539467031647989.post-49866217141953937512020-06-07T21:33:31.601-07:002020-06-07T21:33:31.601-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07606615749487225560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184539467031647989.post-73756185343098553292015-07-25T15:09:38.936-07:002015-07-25T15:09:38.936-07:00It's the inverse coin of today...it's the ...It's the inverse coin of today...it's the mind set of an aristocrat. One has so much, one can give freely . It's still status seeking , but a kind that will sustain a society,, .rather than loot it down . They were looking at the woods and the sea , not just their personal horde , and indeed felt endlessly rich <br /><br />Look at the author's wikipedia page. This book is a sort of autobiography <br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Raymond_Harrington Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184539467031647989.post-53313076558253713032015-07-25T07:12:58.284-07:002015-07-25T07:12:58.284-07:00Apparently in Lenape society you could actually ga...Apparently in Lenape society you could actually gain status by giving things away and helping other people. The mind is blown.FedUpMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00951858601020687242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4184539467031647989.post-47465558532027971062015-07-24T10:15:57.173-07:002015-07-24T10:15:57.173-07:00.... "The woman really owns her house, though...<i>.... "The woman really owns her house, though, and its furnishings. She owns the crops which she raises in her garden and even the meat and the skins which the man brings in after they have been turned over to her." </i><br /><br />The laborer owns the fruit of their labor?? Well it sure ain't late stage capitalism This book sounds great. It's well you can look back to such books as I'm sure it would not be published today . The social / economy ideas are too dangerous and off message . How can you maintain and build a respectable oligarchy that way? <br /><br /><i>"What, then, does a man own?" I demanded.<br /><br />"Hoh! A man needs little. Just his clothes, his weapons, his fishing gear, his tools, and his medicines -- maybe also a bed mat!"<br /><br />This all seemed to me very strange, for in England the man owns everything, the woman usually next to nothing. </i><br /><br />What Dickon misses here is the freedom the men have . They can come and go as they will . <br /><br />There is <i>pride </i>in sharing one's bounty , like a first kill . This is a system that works with Nature and could go on forever ...in fact had <br />until the island Manhattan was deemed worth 24 dollars in beads <br /><br />Love the illustration too! <br />Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05033117202223821117noreply@blogger.com