How can organic agriculture work in cultures that are plagued with unending violence driven by corporate mass production culture seeking resources like oil to feed the bottomline?
When mass production culture meets tribal culture, it seems to filter the crucial elements for civilization from the local. Those who aspire to learning and advancement, the potential successful leaders, leave as soon as they can and join the mass culture.
In closed systems these people are often systematically eliminated, as in the soviet, maoist, and cambodian massacres. And currently in african mass murder events. This warns those who are different to flee before it is too late. The mob driven by mass culture, commercial interests will eliminate those who are different.
So diverse and tolerant mass culture claims the most productive, innovative souls and local tribal culture is left with starving, child armies roaming the earth, killing for the pure effect of mayhem itself. Pure concentrated evil.
Life and death as video game violence.
How do you stop the osmosis of the most successful across the membrane of mass murder? Should it be stopped? Or should the local tribal culture be allowed to wallow in destruction until it dissapears? The cruelty of "sharia law" for instance?
How do you intervene and stop circumcision and sale of girls to the highest bidder, by the mothers of these same girls? Or stoning of rape victims by mobs of women, with the matriarchs literally casting the first stone?
Is it better to wall off this unimaginable cruelty until nature starves it of life itself? And take in those who somehow escape over the wall?
The refugee camps that are established quickly come under the control of local warlords, and the whole viscious culture reanimates itself once again.
In established cultures where the rule of law is designed to prevent these kinds of insanity, tribal religious sects replicate their sadistic traditions with thuggery and use calls for religious tolerance to hide behind.
How do you raise a crop in a culture like this, with roving gangs of mass muderers on the loose? Chemical ag crops have hired armies to protect them. Machetes and guns and a few dollars a day buy a whole cadre of mass muderers.
The profits from local organic ag don't buy enough muscle for protection. So do we send our soldiers in to protect the families who grow those crops and start up civilization again?
It's a conundrum. Unfortunately largely ignored in discussions like this. The darker side of human nature is ugly indeed. Made uglier with corporate efficiency injected into the heart of darkness.