tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post527441973453272078..comments2024-03-27T20:37:09.185-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: The DIY urge, Satan's sin and PelagianismAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-29531247814803059492016-10-05T16:39:58.079-05:002016-10-05T16:39:58.079-05:00And even if there is no swapping of labor, there i...And even if there is no swapping of labor, there is sharing of methods, and that's big in the DIY community.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-23282268554963609042016-10-05T16:24:04.858-05:002016-10-05T16:24:04.858-05:00Alex, I suspect that a community of subsistence fa...Alex, I suspect that a community of subsistence farmers would include a great deal more genuine back and forth than our highly impersonal commerce system does. Most particularly at haymaking time. Barn building time. And many other major tasks that require the cooperation of neighbors. Really, modern tractor farming has come awfully close to denying our social nature at least in its operation, which is largely solitary. Think of the large tractor, driven by one farmer, performing the haying operations that used to take a dozen people to do. We can think this "labor saving" is a good thing (though Wendell Berry points out that it "saves labor" by driving 11 of the twelve families off their farms while the remaining farmer takes them over), but we can't think it's more communal. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00342328040330975162noreply@blogger.com