That Seventies Storm: Chasing Tornadoes Through Time by Ron Fent — Kickstarter

Check out this page for more information on how to be a part of this historic tornado documentary.
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Just Nod If You Can Hear Me... The New Quiet

     This blog thing is like a whisper in a hurricane.  Really, anything online is like a hotdog down a hallway.  Everybody is online, everything is online and attention spans are dangerously low because of the internet.  Even smart people are finding it difficult to read a book now.  I once protested in favor of the internet, that what difference is it to look at a paper screen or an electonic screen.  Well, now I see that it makes a lot of difference since the effects are now apparent.  Not just because of the screen, but because of the SIZE of the delivery system. Click. Around the world. Click. Around the universe. Click. See some sex. Click. Shop shop shop and... Click. Buy. All the while, the really big players who own much of the web technology and access want to privatize the web and do what big corporations have always done: invade and enslave.  This must never happen.  But the best way to avoid such tyranny is to use the web less than we do now. Internet addiction is very real and barely understood... and it serves to enable many other addictions. Gambling, sex, shopping and any number of anti-social tendancies made easier by anonymous communication.
     One benefit of the coming famines and Peak Everything is that we will have to become more human in order to survive. Community will be of greater importance and immediacy again, and computers will die.  Getting there will be UGLY.  People will die.  Nightmarish days must be endured, but once the economic collapse reaches a baseline, life will be charged with a new profundity.  I even suspect that strong deja vu will become common as our cellular memories awaken and our ancestors whisper loudly in the New Quiet.

Socially Progressive Farmpunks ?

There seems to be a missing link in Kansas agriculture research these days:  Workers who know farm equipment who are also on board with sustainable perennial polycultures AND are socially progressive.  It doesn't take alot to appear socially progressive in Kansas.  This is the state that keeps electing republicans.  If farmpunks would move here, one day we would see a change in that tide.  For now, it would be nice to see some young, open-minded field hands around the old research facility.  There are places to live which are owned by TLI, and of course the scientists are progressive in most if  not all areas of interaction.  I like my seasonal work at The Land, and I would sure like to do more with the right crew.  I like the intelligence and forward-thinking writing I have found on the farmpunk blog.  The people behind the words could be, or probably know someone who would be an excellent candidate for research facility staff.  I am a man of many talents, however I am not a scientist.  Rather I am one who knows the founder pretty well and we share a concern for this issue.  Resilience depends on cooperation at ALL levels of understanding, not just how to drive a tractor...  Any takers?