In the original format while I lived and worked in Hana, the concept
was to create a sense of abundance. Abundance is not same as having
more than you need. It is about feeling safety in our daily lives in
a larger society that is barely comprehensible to most.
Maslow, the famous Psychology 101 theorist, made his hiearchy of
needs known to all who studied in college. At the base of our existence
is the need to have basic survival resources: food, drinkable water and
a place to live. In modern society, this includes feeling relatively safe
from physical assault/harm in daily activities with access to public
health/hygiene facilities. Simple enough.
Americans do not have this security. Imagine that. Other industrialized
nations wonder about America this way. Anyway, my internet site then
became The Compost Pile since it was necessary to produce living soil
and land mass from refuse in order to feel any kind of life source. As
a victim in a small place like Maui, my own basic needs were deliberately
withheld for the sake of malicious abuse of power.
Maui will have to live with this reality. So will Hawaii, since we have
now divided those who see Maui as nothing more than a commodity for
the State of Hawaii with those who see that Maui has a clear possibility
for its own purpose. This topic is for governance specialists, not me.
Hunger, the lack of food, is an economic problem. Obesity/overweight
issues a behavioral problem, like addiction even tho' it can be related to
economic issues. Malnutrition is an educational problem. We do not
need gobs of money to research the answer to why some eat too much
nor to prove that problems actually exist. It's the economy, stupid.
Transnationals do not have vested interest in small economies, never
have, never will. Who sold out on Maui? The ones who smile and pat
you on your back about what a great job you are doing to tow-the-line.
It has been proven that the international trend is to regionalize growth
through open, transparent policies and practices.
No secrets allowed.
