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Interesting, Tom.

I loved Desert Solitaire, and Fear and Loathing in LV is one of the funniest, most amazing, most well written books ever IMHO. Couldn't get into Deep Survival (the writing didn't grab me and it seemed repetitive, like it could have been condensed by 50%), and The Monkey Wrench gang, even though it was a groung breaking (and machine breaking, ha ha) concept, didn't do much for me either.

Anyone ever read The Last American Man?? Interesting and frequently funny book about a modern day mountain man.
 
It's funny Tom, I just read Deep Survival back in January, and I was thinking about posting some quotes from it as it relates to tree work. I thought it was an OKAY read, gonzalez tends to be a bit self-absorbed and rants on and on a bit, but there are some good nuggets laced throughout the book. All and all, it's worth taking a look at IMO.

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FLLV was a rockin good read; even if you can't relate to the ingestion of psychoactive substances it's fun hanging ten on his cosmic surfboard.

Physical risk is exhilirating. Psychological risk==stretching the envelope, working outside the box while keeping one toe inside so you're still credible, pushing the paradigms outward, that is psychedelic i.e. mind-manifesting work.

After the bod passes its peak conditioning, and the reflexes get a little slower, you gotta be ready to play in a new arena. Like entering a freeway, you get up speed on the entrance ramp.

When I climb to the tippytop and tie into the smallest safe branch--you've seen it Tom--then limbwalk over all that air it's still fun, yeah, but the thrill is gone after 4 decades of it. The real risk is now in daring others to break the idea box open--playing chicken with concepts and practices, so to speak.

Yeehah!
 
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The real risk is now in daring others to break the idea box open--playing chicken with concepts and practices, so to speak.


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What, like voting for the Libertarian Party?

Now that really would be a risk not worth taking.

Rabid Free marketeers running round like headless chickens. No thanks.

Its bad enough at the moment, in fact its a joke. American Capitalism has failed its people, and destroyed communities and continues to do so right now as we speak.

Edward Abbey testified to that. So have many others.
 
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Its bad enough at the moment, in fact its a joke. American Capitalism has failed its people, and destroyed communities and continues to do so right now as we speak.

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What country has the best system then? And why?
 
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The real risk is now in daring others to break the idea box open--playing chicken with concepts and practices, so to speak.


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What, like voting for the Libertarian Party?

Now that really would be a risk not worth taking.

Rabid Free marketeers running round like headless chickens. No thanks.

Its bad enough at the moment, in fact its a joke. American Capitalism has failed its people, and destroyed communities and continues to do so right now as we speak.

Edward Abbey testified to that. So have many others.

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Uummmm, What? How did libertarians and capitalism get into this?
 
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Its bad enough at the moment, in fact its a joke. American Capitalism has failed its people, and destroyed communities and continues to do so right now as we speak.

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What country has the best system then? And why?

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Are you suggesting the status quo is alright? All systems can be found to have some fault. It is identifying them and improving the existing system so everyone or at the least the vast majority of citizens benefit from the system.
 
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All systems can be found to have some fault. It is identifying them and improving the existing system so everyone or at the least the vast majority of citizens benefit from the system.

[/ QUOTE ]Sounds like what holds true for tree care systems. that's what I was talking about.
 
The reality is that as a perceived shortage of any commodity or neccessity is announced individuals begin to amass for their own benefit. A survival mentality kicks in and our wish to help others diminishes.
 
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