@jasonwblakely 3/ The Upanishads named it with characteristic precision: all is food. Not a dietary observation. A cosmological declaration. Reality is the mutual consumption and gift of all things to all things—the generative ground beneath every system we subsequently build upon it.
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We can go further. All of us are made to live in societies that have a beneficial effect on body, mind and soul. The character of food systems defines whether societies' root, animating, infinitely penetrating patterns, forces and principles are therapeutic or not. #WorldFoodDay We can have agriculture only within nature, and culture only within agriculture, Wendell Berry says: “At certain points these systems have to conform with one another or destroy one another...You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.” Subtweet: 6/ 25 years on, Sages now aver that authentic food culture - a truly, functional relationship with what symbiotically nourishes ourselves and our world - defines a primary regenerative pathway coherently and, yes, peacefully addressing the totality of what ails us as a species.
Open original document@Bert_Carr @jeffreyatucker @brownstoneinst The polis is as bound to natural law as the forest. Democracy is not built upon agrarianism as much as inseparable from it. No constitution can save a people estranged from right relationship with the daily referendum sovereignty roots in. Democracy is inhabited through eating.
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Copy of tweet here: 3/ A defining cultural challenge is how to learn/teach the democratic foundations of robust food systems and, in the same breath, resilient food systems as robust foundations of democracy. Wendell Berry: "At some point these issues catch up to you." We can have agriculture only within nature, and culture only within agriculture, Wendell Berry says: “At certain points these systems have to conform with one another or destroy one another...You cannot save the land apart from the people, or the people apart from the land.”