tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post458598021392394676..comments2024-03-28T22:15:25.617-07:00Comments on RAWIllumination.net: Private currency in Yellow Springs, OhioCleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-44503737279237813652012-09-17T22:41:49.056-07:002012-09-17T22:41:49.056-07:003rd paragraph:
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/...3rd paragraph:<br />http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/gou0bio-1<br /><br />But I read more info on Gould/Antioch/civil rights in one of the books on him that I've since returned to the library. When I get one or more of those books back, I'll give you title and page numbers if you want?michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-30912533630694823322012-09-15T10:20:35.297-07:002012-09-15T10:20:35.297-07:00Let's not forget the currency issued by His Im...Let's not forget the currency issued by His Imperial Majesty Norton I.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-67087324214386900762012-09-15T06:38:04.361-07:002012-09-15T06:38:04.361-07:00Michael,
Can you please give a citation for where...Michael, <br />Can you please give a citation for where you read about Stephen Jay Gould's civil rights activity in Antioch?<br /><br />Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-8742615589656453932012-09-14T10:50:36.437-07:002012-09-14T10:50:36.437-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02170325333135933149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-41119967275198670722012-09-14T10:50:35.269-07:002012-09-14T10:50:35.269-07:00Long ago I wrote something in the L.A. Weekly abou...Long ago I wrote something in the L.A. Weekly about a private currency in Kansas that had pictures of William Burroughs on the bills.Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02170325333135933149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-71495214530974425942012-09-14T06:12:47.963-07:002012-09-14T06:12:47.963-07:00In Ireland too, after the Bubble burst, In Kilkeen...In Ireland too, after the Bubble burst, In Kilkeeny I think, possibly elsewhere.tony smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17771763749137149585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-38926853078840826502012-09-14T02:29:30.182-07:002012-09-14T02:29:30.182-07:00There's a lot of these local currencies spring...There's a lot of these local currencies springing up here in England at the moment. There's one near me in Sussex called the Lewes Pound (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_Pound) that's been going for a few years now and seems to be really successful. <br /><br />The notes have Thomas Paine on them, as he started his political writing in Lewes, but local currencies here are more of an environmental/peak oil thing than a political or anti-federalist thing.John Higgshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00646513595673689415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5887440039323868659.post-75743475884891728762012-09-14T01:49:08.220-07:002012-09-14T01:49:08.220-07:00Very cool link to Walker's work on Yellow Spri...Very cool link to Walker's work on Yellow Springs money.<br /><br />Recently I was researching Stephen Jay Gould's use of pot for his cancer and found out he was at Antioch in the early 1960s and demonstrated for civil rights causes. He was 9 yrs younger than RAW and a college student, while RAW was raising his family in the woods and editing Way Out and reading in that Borsodi (or was it Loomis?) anarchist library. <br /><br />I wonder if they ever ran into each other? Neither guy was the Famous Writer we now know them to be. Maybe only a coincidance?<br /><br />Given RAW's penchant for speculative ideas in the hard sciences, I had always wondered why he didn't seem to mention Eldredge and Gould's idea of "punctuated equilibrium." RAW did have doubts about the total materialistic neo-Darwinian model (and he's probably prescient, with the recent rise of epigenetics, not to mention that "junk DNA" turns out to be not so junky); I wonder if RAW disliked something about Gould (maybe his East Coast-y-ness?). Gould did seem more Marxist while RAW was becoming more anarchistic around 1962. Maybe RAW thought punk-eek wasn't interesting enough?<br /><br />Sorry to have rambled off in another direction. Suffice: Yellow Springs seems like one the most interesting "little" places to study in US history.<br /><br />Sorry about Duckworth.michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.com