Last week I posted an article about how Hungary had thrown Monsanto and the IMF out of the country. Today a post appeared and it is a more detailed treatment of the story, honest and forthright. To do this on a national level is profound, indeed. Imagine a country that was under Soviet control for so long until the wall came down, only to find itself colonized once again, this time by banks, multinationals and seed companies. What a momentous decision!
What if we were to take this resistance down to a personal level in a country (the US) dominated by banks, multinationals and seed companies, conglomerates that take license to do what they please and control the “status quo” through consumer propagandizing and marketing deployment that is as powerful as the most powerful standing army in the world?
Rather than being dumbed down into the quicksand of consumerism, imagine if we personally resist the seed company and grow our own food and save the seeds harvested from the nutritious plants grown at the back door. Imagine if we became the bank, the ones that bank seeds, foods, medicines, fibers, oils and the like. Imagine that the resistance becomes so local, hand to hand, seed to seed, that neighbors exchange those seeds, stories, information, and the whole neighborhood becomes an Eden and this mushrooms out to town, city, county, state, country.
How often we hear that there is no known panacea, no cure for all the world’s problems, constraints, issues. Really now? When was the last time we picked the juicy tomato that we planted this spring? When was the last time we sat down in the backyard (or the front) and simply, quietly observed all the “wild” life, vibrant and sonorous, colorful and resilient against the backdrop of vegetables, fruits, herbs, chickens, rabbits, what have you?
We would become the individual Hungary, the neighborhood Hungary. Monsanto? IMF? World Bank? What appears so overwhelmingly large and foreboding would shrink to insignificance less than the size of a mosquito.