You've misunderstood my question. I'm not looking for land for myself. I have access to land. My family offered to buy me land, but I'm not attracted to an individual solution. I want a collective solution that functions for all people equally.
Therefore we are talking about improving the way our civilisation functions.
In particular, the effective use of our Earth, the two dimensional area through which we move. Currently, these resources are being used inefficiently, to the detriment of our country, people and environment.
The Russian government and people understand this, which is why Putin has started talking the Duma about seizing land from "unscrupulous" land-owners, i.e. those whose land sits idle. At the same time, there are idle people who want to grow food and develop economy on lands such as these. I follow his thought exactly.
It makes no sense that there are people in the cities, itching to grow food, build their own houses, and create sustainable communities, local economies, and high-value local industries in education, healthcare, food production, medicinal plants, manufacturing, publishing and tourism, while there also are people with hundreds of acres of empty space, complaining because they can't make enough money or are too lonely and want youthful energy around.
There is a cognitive gap here, a misinformation emanating from a harmful notion of individualism.
The free market is a con. It encourages inefficiency, extorts public money through government subsidies, and breeds huge inefficiency in our economy and society, not even to mention the egregious environmental cost of this obsession with accumulating personal wealth.
If we pretend that we are unrelated to other people, that there is no connection between us, it doesn't make it true. We build larger walls, go to exclusive clubs, but still that moment of eye-contact with someone who's down and out... you can't avoid the feelings that come with that.
This isolation creates an artificial scarcity. Among normal people, the consequences are fear, insecurity, crime, depression, resentment, conflict, and the general degradation of our society.
I am suggesting that we think about improving this situation by using our resources more intelligently. Flourishing rural communities, villages, towns, and settlements benefit all people, and huge gratitude flows towards those who make it possible.
Enormous, eternal gratitude and love. These feelings are better than that cold, stiff feeling of pride.Pride is a negative and harmful emotion which is preventing our country from prospering. Many aspects go into wealth accumulation, including social position, education, and willingness to behave selfishly in the "free" market. Practically every industry in Australia relies upon unskilled, uneducated workers in other countries in some way or another.
This is OK, but when people in other countries start to ask for better working conditions, as they do, and when they start to ask us to make less fossil fuel pollution, which they do, and when they ask us to please share around the wealth a bit more, which they do... we have a responsibility to respond. It's impossible to ignore this forever.
This is not a personal attack, it's just an unsustainable situation which we must improve if we are to embark on a permanently sustainable, environmentally friendly way of life.
Since we are doing that, let's think together about how we can use our resources efficiently and improve the prosperity of our country together.