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A technologically stagnant agricultural society is bound to be an extremely unequal one: by force and fraud, the upper class push the peasants’ standards of living down to subsistence and take the surplus as the rent on the land they control.

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Reservations are cut up into 160-acre sections, and distributed to individual Indians with the surplus disposed of.

Most of the surplus land and many of the plots within reservation boundaries are now in the hands of white ranchers.

I moved there primarily to be part of a learning environment that validated the way that I knew that kids learned, and that really wanted to investigate what was possible when you are willing to let go of some of the paradigms of the past, of information scarcity when my grandmother was in school and when my father was in school and even when I was in school, and to a moment when we have information surplus.

Our cities, I would put to you, are stockpiles of these surplus capacities.

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