Comments on: The gift economy

By: Joybells

Joybells — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:48:47 +0000

"Here's what I'm thinking, honey" made me laugh out loud. This is brilliant, the two of you are brilliant, and the rest of us are so lucky that you're part of our gift economy of friendship.

By the way, I saw some of your unicorns in my front yard this morning. I told them to head west, and then south.

By: Brad Kik

Brad Kik — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:58:49 +0000

Again! You guys are at the forefront of connecting art and ecology; these posts are an incredible gift to the rest of us working out these relationships.

By: Tinky

Tinky — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:08:24 +0000

Simple Gifts is one of my favorite songs!

Actually, although I haven't read the book I'm going to hop in and say that I think Harlequin romances may indeed be part of the gift community. People are good at subverting the market, as you know, and what people bring to these books and the way they share them (not to mention the very real intentions to create art by some [I know, not all] of the authors) let the books cross over, at least from time to time.......

By: kevin J Barry

kevin J Barry — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 14:03:30 +0000

Heather: No, you do not live in a bubble with unicorns, and we should al have been stunned at the injunction. Certainly there will be the ultimate "audit", but even a contemporary, pragmatic audit would show that there are thousands more unemployed right now as a result of the spill than of the suspension of drilling on 33 rigs our of the nearly 4,000 still producing. And if ALL the resources for reacting to such a spill are clearly inadequate to deal with the problem, what would the judge propose as the enlightened course of action to react to a second such failure in a process proven to be flawed…
Unfortunately, there seems to be little conversation about the "gift economy" so thank you for raising your voice in this cacophonous discourse of our market economy.
Stay the course!