Rural America has been declining over the past few decades. Small family farms were crushed by corporate farms and poor policies that favor corporate elite (btw...I'm not knocking corporate elite.) When the government policies changed and globalization took hold the small business owner, small farmer, and small community industries either folded or were incorporated. To save our rural towns we should do two things....
1. Hedge our Internet and virtual workplaces to bring people back to rural locations.
2. Ensure businesses are willing to start building and selling products from these small towns.
Where communities once had an anchor or two we found that they are now gone. I drove from Dearborn MI down to Louisville KY and changed my Google maps so that I avoided highways. I got to see a lot of the countryside as I drove through farm fields and small towns.
What I did see is lots of small towns looking old. When I stopped at gas stations I asked what the main industries were. Some still had a company but many said they closed up a decade or so ago. Leading one to believe that there needs to be some method of rejuvenating.
I'm working on a cluster theory and applying that to Delta County Michigan in an attempt to make a more comprehensive national model that will help understand restore our American communities. Not really for political purposes...but more along the lines of if I have the ability to help I should probably contribute to the benefit of the nation (even if only a couple of people read it.) See Transactional Cluster Theory.
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Kind of a side note here.....
I've spent time living with Arabs and Muslims and have adopted many of their beneficial beliefs. I consider myself more of Muslim-Catholic in terms of how I view religion. I'm culturally a Catholic but sort of blended these ideas into a more spiritual value system. While I'm also Republican in political orientation I am also very Democratic leaning on social issues such as diversity and inclusion (..from a human capital perspective). Take note in how I can't seem to say I'm neither all this or all that! (Sorry its hard to stereotype effectively all people because none of us are truly all this or all that. It doesn't mean I'm confused....🙊😅 but perhaps the viewers inability to truly understand a level of ambiguity.). Thus its a little like understanding how and why people believe the things they do and at what point do they become aware of their limited perspective on important topics of the day (i.e. the need for educational reform and enhancement in the Digital Age.). You can get an understanding of what the World-Knot is and its philosophical implications.
I used to to do some photography so hopefully some of the artistic ones came out well.
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