Kevin King 4/16

Fetishers and Managers

I was home in Richmond this past weekend and saw a first hand view of perfect examples for planet fetishers and managers that are discussed in The Ecology of Eden. I live in a developing neighborhood and my mother made me aware of a situation that was taking place with the neighborhood association and zoing for new houses. She really hates these types of associations but told me it was interesting what people had to say about the issue at hand. There was a vote being taken that involved the woods at the beginning of the neighborhood should be made into a small park. I don't even know if this is up to us in the end but they were having the debate regardless. I happened to speak with both of my neighbors because we were all outside discussing this issue. I thought immediately to what I read from Eisenberg and it let me view this from a whole different perpective then I would have in the past. It was interesting to view people as fetishers and managers and to apply what I've learned to real life.