The Owner Built Home & Homestead
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Moreover, the high employment and Social Security benefits
offered by the Great Society of the USA, with its
war-making "power elite," tend to dissuade people from a
life on the land. Government handouts in the city appear to
be easier to accept than living by one's wits in the rural
margins and "cracks of an affluent society."
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But the urban culture of the war-making, land-owning, and
money-owning "power elite" is now riding to a fall, as
anyone who reads the newspapers can see. The overpopulated
sinks of the city's poor naturally spawn riots. There
must come a change. The homestead and
village-community type of life that was disrupted at the
dawn of history by the ravages of hunter-chieftains and
warrior-kings from their city strongholds will have to be
restored- with the addition, of course, of our
present world-wide communication, free peaceful enterprise,
scientific vision and ingenious technology.
The Owner-Built Homestead is intended to be a
how to think it as well as a how to do it
book. In addition, a personalized homestead-layout service
is offered, showing long-range site-development plans to
fit the homesteader's property, soil conditions, regional
climate conditions, and specific personal requirements. It
is hoped that each reader will avail himself of the
opportunity to have a fully detailed home and homestead
plan, designed exclusively to his own site and needs.
THE OWNER-BUILT HOMESTEAD
INTRODUCTION
It has been ten years since I first started writing THE
OWNERBUILT HOME. At the outset of writing this first
book there was some suggestion to expand it to include home
food production along with the central theme of
home shelter production. At that time the "back to
the land" sentiment was all but dead in this country. So I
brushed off the suggestion, and awaited with others an
economic depression to revive the attitude of economic
self-reliance. Theoretically, when great numbers of people
lose their jobs and have only breadlines and welfare
handouts to look to for sustenance, they will then
consider, perhaps, home food-production. So for all these
years I've been waiting for the expected catastrophe: It
would highlight a widespread social need and orient my
research effort toward fulfilling this need.
The kind of economic depression we pictured never, as you
know. came off. On the contrary, purchasing power and
employment in this country reached an all time high. But
something far more serious has occurred; the beginnings of
a world revolution. The past ten years has witnessed a
many-sided challenge to the whole
military-financial-urban-real-estate complex. The student
rebellion, the minority revolts, the breakdown of urban
America, and the mounting concern for the environment have
led to an increasing exodus to the country-side.
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