Talking to the Gods

"Back to Eden" is a detailed documentary about gardening with mulch. It centers on the gardener and arborist Paul Gautschi who discovered a permaculture method of gardening that builds the soil year after year in a cumulative manner. It's a remarkable, and remarkably simple idea. Gautschi's method of inquiry is very old. He talked directly to the gods, though his experience is filtered through Christian mythology and terms, he's like a shaman from antiquity.

Compare the idea of returning to Eden and the idea of The City on a Hill. The city, civilization, is pretty close to diametrically opposed to Eden. The city on the hill conjures images of self satisfied, parasitic assholes in meetings, or giving speeches from a podium about their moral superiority.

Even Hillary Clinton has used the "City on a Hill" Phrase

I think what my blog is evolving into is an exploration of how a society of yeomanry could exist. Is it possible to just dump layer after layer of bureaucracy, managers, and various hangers on and just live free? Return to Eden rather than living in the world of man and the world of liars?