The Businessman and the Forest Gardener

I was having some food one evening a few weeks ago, in Porto, with the crew from Free and Real from IMF-bailed-out Greece, who have been organising Freeconomy Athens and related things over there. After dinner, putting the world to right, and some Greek Tsikoudia, one of their crew, Panos, began sharing a couple of little parables with me, both of which described the insanity of modern human culture - this modern delusional story that now masquerades as no-less-than human nature - much better than I ever could. One of them was a fantastic little story: The Businessman and the Forest Gardener.

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