Comments | sunson: Wisdom of the uncivilized crowds

sunson

Wisdom of the uncivilized crowds

Jan 28, 2010 08:55

Picture this: A remote indian village in the Ganges delta a few hundred years ago. The farmer starts his day by letting his flock of ducks into his irrigated fields. The water from the river brings with it, besides nutrients and alluvium, some unwanted (for the crops) pests too. But that is not a problem - the ducks will keep the pests in control. ( Read more... )

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Comments 17

redslime January 28 2010, 05:23:22 UTC

My god bro' that has to be one of the most powerful posts I've ever read.

I'm going to link to it.

sunson January 28 2010, 05:41:58 UTC

Thanks for offering to boost up the page-rank. Please let me know where you link from :)

redslime January 28 2010, 06:40:45 UTC

My own journal only. Please consider refining it and submitting it for publication in an India newspaper or whatever else will be read by Indian intellectuals.

Can you reference the one quote of the English guy? Wikipedia maybe? Also adding another supporting example of relative wealth and general well being would make the argument stronger in American eyes. If there is one thing hard for an American to believe (can't speak for Western Europe) is that anything other than American capitalism can produce general well being. Yeah, we are that blind -- it is our myth.

sunson January 28 2010, 17:34:10 UTC

I'll try :)

But that "refining" will require removing everything that is politically incorrect including the names that have been mentioned, references to the "merciless, non-existent god" and so on. But I'll definitely give it a try. News paper == more awareness than this puny little blog.

Thanks for all the encouragement :)

mohanvee January 28 2010, 12:44:57 UTC

nice.

Insightful anonymous January 29 2010, 00:29:12 UTC

Very insightful Suraj. Kudos.

kadambarid January 29 2010, 06:54:55 UTC

You might want to check http://restore.org ...
It's run by good friends of mine. They might be interested in buying your rice, etc. too ... :) If you want, I could drop a line.

sunson January 30 2010, 07:47:39 UTC

Its always nice to get to know someone on the same lines of thought! The introduction would definitely help :)

That said, w.r.t. selling the produce, I guess its a matter of supply limitation. The demand is already saturated (ie., I have enough people already willing to buy the produce locally within thanjavur/chennai/bangalore).