Community self-reliance and genuine happiness I Jon Jandai

Jon Jandai is a farmer, seed saver, natural builder, eco-educator, speaker and co-founder of the Pun Pun Center for Self-Reliance, an educational organic farm and earth-building school in Northern Thailand where skills of self-reliance are demonstrated and shared. His TED talk, 'Life is easy. Why do we make it so hard?', has over 15 million views.
In this interview, Jon talks about the links between community self-reliance and deep happiness. He explains how globalization has profoundly undermined this self-reliance, driving masses of people into a kind of urban slavery. It has also undermined the diversity of foods, cultures, and thinking, leaving a physical, mental and spiritual wasteland in its wake. Yet, especially for those people who have experienced both the old world of self-reliant local cultures, as well as industrial-globalized modernity, the pitfalls of the latter have come into sharp focus and sparked a movement to return to the countryside, and to reclaim the deep knowledge and skills of local living.
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My friend, I don't want to envy you but sadly I do. You are incredibly fortunate and I'm grateful you are, because it offers you the very important privilege and responsibility to show the essential respect we all need to have for all life. This is an immense calling to the true work of living. Keep up this vital work. It is our only solution and salvation.