IDEA EQUITY

            In any group you're in, what's the most important equity in that group?

             It's not money.  It's not fashion.  It's not leisure.  It's not soil, water, or air.

            In short, it's ideas.

             Whether your group is a Thanksgiving dinner with family, a political/legislative body, a non-profit, or a business team, the most important equity in any group, large or small--extending even to nations--is IDEAS.

             Peter Bane in his wonderful book THE PERMACULTURE HANDBOOK has this statement:  "In times of epochal change, the most important thing to preserve is the ability to share ideas." 

             What can possibly be wrong with sharing ideas?  If you disagree with them, then it's good for the world to hear what the nutcases have to say.  If you like them, it's good to expose them to people who disagree, who can audit and vet the ideas.

             When ideas get censored or labeled misinformation or controversial speakers get canceled, what good can this kind of thinking possibly engender?  What it does is impoverish the nation by denying it the wealth of new and different ideas.

             Hooting down and shutting up ideas is like a 2 year old temper tantrum.  Adults and civilized people enjoy ideas of all types.  Every nation that limits ideas gradually sinks into totalitarianism, moral corruption and eventually economic destruction.

             Unfortunately Wall Street does not have an IDEA FREEDOM index.  I wish you could put money in an IDEA FREEDOM fund.  We have countless business books about innovation and proving beyond doubt that answers to problems always come from the lunatic fringe.  They don't come from the middle muddle. 

             Suffocating censorship impoverishes us all, so as my contribution to our national wealth, I want to open this post up to the fringiest helpful idea you can imagine.  For example, when media folks ask me "if you were king for a day, what would  you do to change the food/farming system?" my answer is always simple and succinct:  "I would declare that every person has a right to the food of their choice from the source of their choice."  I call it the FOOD EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.

  That's mine.  What is yours?

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