This is a great blog entry by George Monbiot, whos blog I just recently found.
Growing My Own: “Boycotting the superstores means taking on five allotments
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 1st October 2005
It was the onions that did it. I was already having doubts about the Co-op, but this was beyond parody. Onions from New Zealand? In late summer, while our own crop was being lifted? …”
(Via Monbiot.com.)
I am very happy to have found George’s blog too. I like his writing and what he has to say about everything I’ve read so far. There’s some great articles that shed light on a lot of current situations. Articles that go back to before I started really paying attention to the current situation in Iraq and the Middle East.
Speaking of growing your own, I really enjoyed his “Careers Advice” entry – Choose Life.
I have grown tired of my life. The life that I have chosen, that is. Not of living .. jeez! It is not what I would have grown for myself if I had to do it over again. Its not that it is altogether bad or anything. George, I think, pretty much sums up the corporate world in the best way I’ve ever read:
“What the corporate or institutional world wants you to do is the complete opposite of what you want to do. It wants a reliable tool, someone who can think, but not for herself: who can think instead for the institution.”
It is never too late though, and I need to seriously start thinking of my freedom and what I want to do. I need to grow my own life.
He gives a lot to think about in his writing. I like blogs like that.