RE: The Latin American Report # 214

I am happy to know better that Cuba is not without information and local experience with aquaponics. It is notable that companies that produce food would universally go bankrupt if everyone were food self sufficient. While that may not be the only reason for the psychological warfare against food self sufficiency and aquaponics specifically, I suspect it is a fundamental basis for it. Government is utterly dependent on dependence, and all institutions are. Those benefiting most from institutional power are likely to realize any challenge to centralization and dependence is contrary to their interests, and little is more productive than mockery when it comes to propaganda.

I think we are strongly conditioned to be dependent on centralized hierarchies, and that few of us can radically become independent and decentralize. I think everyone can do so gradually, generationally, as those that can radically change introduce successive generations to these concepts of independence earlier in life. I hope we can at least have a foot in the door before existential crises make access to requisite supplies of equipment impossible to gain or maintain, as I believe is the case in Haiti today.