The
Folk Traditions Store
In Savannah's Historic District
12 Price Street (1/2 block south of Bay Street). Phone: 912-341-8898.
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In Savannah's Historic District 12 Price Street (1/2 block south of Bay Street). Phone: 912-341-8898.
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What resources does a traditional activity need? Who is needed to do the activity? How much of a person's time, effort and money are required? What objects have people made to support the activity? Succeeding in business, from small to mammoth, requires the proper anticipation of the resources required. This truism holds not just for business, but for all human traditions. Most folk traditions remaining in the modern world are niche activities. They survive because they have found modest but valuable places in the lives of users. Doing them requires a modest number of people. Most people involved in them need to invest only a modest amount of time, effort and money. Fast growing activities relentlessly consume resources until the user is left isolated, worn out and impoverished. This happens in the biological world too. A species, which adapts in a location where there are many predators, must acquire the ability to expand its population faster than predators can consume them. If the species discovers an environment where the predators are absent, their rapid growth rate can cause an over-consumption of resources that leads to extinction. How like drug use or the quest for power, sex, violence and excitement is this scenario? Such activities are best controlled when there is a more prized activity standing in their way. Click on balance to learn more. Healthy activities often involve cooperative efforts. People choose different roles and create more through their interaction than any could create by themselves. One singer can make a soulful melody, but never harmony. Add more singers, some players and listeners for a result that energizes and uplifts all. The result is the same for a barn raising, quilting bee or a folk dance. On a grand scale, the same land supports a thousand times more civilized people than uncivilized people. Therefore, 99.9% of our resources come from civilization. To learn more about harmony within a tradition, find books and videos that focus on cooperative activities, organizations, groups and teachers. |
Preserve a tradition. Grow roots, significance, harmony and balance.
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The Folk Traditions Store, David Dirlam, Webmaster
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