RE: Excerpt from Chapter 1 - I'm writing a book!

I read your post this morning, and since then I couldn't stop thinking about it.

I recognized Malthus's name as some 19th century thinker, but if asked regarding to what, I wouldn't have been able to say more than something demography related.

This brief taste of your book, however (which I'm super excited about now), put so many things in perspective. Of course, the ground premise, that humans are essentially good is a basic concept of permaculture. But the idea, that war and epidemics (along with other disasters that cost human lives) can be profited from - and therefor are to be actively instigated - is clearly based on the assumption that humans are bad. In the end, that's also how lots of issues about control and regulation result from such a thinking. Which means, it becomes even more important to place even more emphasis on this idea, that human beings, human cultures, and human behavior are not just neutrally "the way they are", but are indeed positive, enriching, and beneficial, if we let it unleash its full potential. So far I've always considered this so obvious that I never bothered going deeper into it. But now it seems like an important premise to keep in mind to protect us from the craziness unfolding around us.

Thank you for giving me a greater understanding of the meaning of humanism.