Antonia Malchik on On the Commons

This is such a beautiful essay all on its own that I hope you consider copying it and sending it somewhere even more public, even an editorial somewhere. So many people out here in this world feel the same and think they're alone. Including with needing a radical transformation in how most humans see ourselves and our place in the cosmos. Not everyone needs this, but the dominant culture certainly does, even if just to make itself stop being dominant. And I *entirely* agree with this: "So too is the public consciousness an easy prey for capture." The one thing that makes me more pessimistic than almost anything else is the mass lack of imagination for believing that the can do things differently. The way worldviews and perceptions have been, and continue to be, captured feels like a tsunami that makes it impossible to build and imagine pretty much anything else. I'm glad both those books have had something for you! Actually, both of them were long-ago recommendations -- from a friend of mine who's an environmental lawyer -- when I first started writing about ownership. I miss having her in town to chew over ideas with (she worked for Montana's Department of Environmental Quality in Helena for a while and is in Hood River now). She actually just did a further law certification through Lewis & Clark College and I think said that Mary Wood was one of the teachers she worked with, though only briefly. And Freyfogle has a lot of presentations online. I have to stop myself going to browse for them because I lose a lot of time in that fascinating rabbit hole!