Reply #33: The good mind

[Tsiyu]

is what the Peacemaker called it: when humans work together for the benefit of all.

Thanks for another healthy read. The Code of Handsome Lake would trouble some people, with its admonitions against "witchcraft" and abortion, but it is dead on as concerns the environment, greed and violence.

I try not to judge Americans who never want to get the tiniest bit dirty, or who try to erase all traces of the natural world from their surroundings. But I wonder how much they will miss the trees and the fruits and the clean water they take for granted.

When I was in Atlanta, it was illegal to hang clothes on the line in the community where I last lived. Over our roofs was a blazing sun, offering to dry the wash for free, but people had to use $$$ to dry their clothes inside their homes (on hot summer days) or at the laundromat. And humans wonder why there are blackouts of electricity at peak times?

People need to start using their "good minds" to figure out how to make their own communities less dependent on dwindling, more costly resources.

Drying your clothes outside in Atlanta in the summer is a no-brainer, but is nonetheless forbidden, and that's just the result of too many people not using their own intellectual resources very efficiently.

IMHO, of course.