Factory Farms and Reservations have their place, too.
The factory farmed term, the concept of being put on reservations carries with it resentment, sometimes a powerful resentment. Unmistakably, what is happening today in concern with repression of body freedom is terribly wrong.
There are the perceptions of the reality of our situation to be dealt with. I thought I’d take a stab. We have here in Arizona, the place of Cochise’ Stronghold. It is in the mountains east of here, where Cochise and his band held out, lived, hid and found sanctuary. If the native lifestyle were naturism, it would be a refuge of free range. It is like castles of old, defending themselves from intolerant cultures and greed. It occurred to me that these places were also, places of community, sharing, and freedom. Like Cochise Stronghold, the freedom to roam diminished, but there were places out there of stronghold. There are many places for this as nudists. These may be a living room, a backyard, an enclosed vehicle, a group of friends, swimming, sweating, a pay for resort. Are these ports in a storm, a hole for a rat, or bastions of freedom and truth to protect us, places to live freely with each other, learn and expand from? We know what happened to Cochise and his band, but they did hold off the inevitable as their world shrunk; they did stay as free as they found possible. In other places, castles provided a long lived cultural, but organized situation, yet influence of the various cultures bled out, fertilizing others, while remaining intact. All of these have aspects of attitude and perception.
Free range, stealth naturism in actual nature and other environs, atavism, are in need of understanding and practice, exploration. Since it is a less social endeavor, and splintered, it needs this cyber support group to flourish. Nobody stays in the castle isolated. We are in a better position to promote and gain acceptance of our lifestyle and teach the values it gives us. We are not so locked up in a “them and us”, here online. We are under siege, with every diverse opinion that comes through, but that is discourse and the nature intellectual learning. We also give example, and have new concepts to actively tryout. We share.
How else could this happen?
The factory farms and the reservations have their place. They are schools of social experimentation and practice, they are pretty safe, but just a step along the way. They can be thought of as bastions, or prisons. They can also be similar to the secret spot in the woods, a favorite free hiking trail, or perhaps actually hanging out in Cochise’ actual stronghold, only as a place of safe naturism, this time. It would seem that in any place that we find opportunity for body freedom, it would be this in common, even on the res.
