Kallis and Backsourcing

 As I was reading the short excerpt from chapter two from Sharon Kallis' book "Common Threads", I found myself thinking about another book I had read a bit of. Sharon Kallis mentions the divestment of the responsibility of taking care of oneself. This notion reminded me of something I had read in Gai Eaton's "King of the Castle: Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World"; in it he mentions that at the beginning of the twentieth century over (I think) ninety percent of people were responsible for their own income and the remaining worked for someone else. Due to industrialization (among other things), by (I think) the eighties, those proportions were reversed with a large percentage of the population now working for someone or some company. My memory eludes me however to my faint recollection, he discusses the profound impact on man's inability to sustain his livelihood with his own two hands (going against man's predisposition). There is a sense of unmatched fulfillment in sustaining oneself with their own two hands and Kallis is correct in pointing this out. As I was reading, I was thinking that her idea requires a complete alteration of the current construction of society and she made mention of that (consumerism). 

I go home to visit my family in December, God-willing I'm going to make my niece a scarf using the Turkish lace method.