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Robert H.Little Aug 28/89
935 Middlefield Road
Palo Alto, California 94301-3395
Dear Ron:
I enjoyed our phone conversation. I agree with you
that money means nothing.. We share a mutual dislike of
cities. I admire the HOPI Indians. They do not like
being a master or servant.
Big cities developed because the conquerors needed a place to
protect their loot. They usually did not destroy the
villages but followed a system of divide and rule.
When Rome became an empire, they destroyed countless small
kingdoms and villages. They established a vast
bureaucracy. They destroyed the small farmers. They broke
down the power of the family. The big farms with slave labor
were a failure.
The frightful destruction by the mongol hordes of people and
farm systems, especially the irrigation of Babylon, left
scars still with us. In Afghanistan, they destroyed
fertile farm terraces and made them into barren rocky
hillsides.
The Russians have continued the Mongol tradition by
destroying farming communities in the valleys.
The Russians , under Stalin, murdered about l8 million their
best people. They killed about 2 or 3 million farmers in
the Ukraine, which was their bread basket. Now they are
hungry.
Mao, in China, killed off about 50 or 60 land owners. Big
and small.
If enough people are destroyed, the social fabric may be
destroyed and replaced by the landless masses who can become
ungovernable. Many of our cities are becoming that way.
So it is difficult for the non-millionaire to become an
independent farmer. Military rulers depended on the
farmers to feed their armies but the masses in the cities
have little sympathy for the wicked landowners.
I hesitate to advise anyone about how to run their lives.
Presently, you will have to dance to the tune of the bankers
an unloveable lot. If you miss a payment on your mortgage,
they can take your farm with as little emotion as I have in
killing a fly.
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE MATTER.
l. Become a farm manager for a rich city person.
2. Write to one of the big men who have moved into your
county and say to him. The present food available in
stores and restaurants will not sustain the good life.
I call it the cancer diet. Think of men like Murdock,
who owns a newspaper empire. I believe that he owns a place
near Chatham. I understand that he is a pleasant person. In
the paper today, it says he has taken up jogging, so he must
be health conscious.
I would say to him, If my family and I were allowed to
establish a small farm on your property, and raise an
assortment of plants and animals, your family and mine would
be able enjoy wonderful food and avoid the degeneration so
common today.
It is deep in mans nature to love the land. My uncle
Dr. Robert H. Little, in Palo Alto, Ca, writes Japanese
verses called HAIKU. One of them that we both love is as
follows.
Mother Earth
The Earth sustains.
I will walk respectfully,
Until I return.
Another one.
The Soil
Gently falling leaf.
Joining Earth's black living soil
Part of life again.
If some arrangement can be worked out, it could give everyone
associated with the farm and your family in particular, a
greater sense of worthiness for you would be making your spot
on our endangered planet a place of health and beauty.
Enough to make you very proud.
Yours sincerely.
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Dear Ron:
I am opening my thoughts to you. I greatly admire
what you do. I could write the letters and give you a good
build up. My Irish cousin, Willie Marsden, used to say that
two heads are better than one even if they are only sheep's
heads.
If you and Mary can leave you children good bodies, and good
character with good survival skills, you will have done
plenty.
None of these thoughs may interest you but they will give you
something to think about.
