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Thank you for your lovely compliments! Ah, Sula, I'd love to run for World President, tee-hee, but I am an environmental historian (also an aspirant-midwife) and I therefore would appear to have very dangerous ideas about how we human beings should be conducting ourselves on this planet. At least, dangerous ideas according to 'mainstream politics'... So they'd never let even my whiskers in the door
A friend told me once, I could go into politics and 'change the system from the inside' - well, I feel quite happy trying to change the system in my own small way on the OUTSIDE, thank you, where I don't have to make compromises. What the corporate/institutional/political world wants me to do is the complete opposite of what I want to do. It wants a reliable tool, someone who can think, but not for him/herself: who can think instead for the institution. Only if your own beliefs happen to coincide with the beliefs of politics in general, can you do what you want. I'm amazed how many people’s beliefs just happen to match the demands of institutional/political power, however those demands may twist and turn, after they’ve been on the scene for a year or two. Even intelligent, purposeful people can, almost immediately, lose their way in such worlds... They become so busy meeting the needs of their employers and/or electorates (read: corporate sponsors) and trying to survive in the hostile world that they have no time or energy left to develop their own liberating paradigm. So, that's where this idea gets formulated, mostly by new recruits who are uncomfortable with the choice they have made, that the system can be reformed from within. But how many times have we heard young people, who are just entering politics, claim that they really have a 'new' strategy for uplifting the poor, or saving the trees, or working for both social AND environmental justice? And how many times do you see those same people, a few years later, and discover that they've acquired a lifestyle, a car and a mortgage to match their salary, and that their initial ideals have faded to the haziest of memories, which they now dismiss as 'post-adolescent fantasy'. And it's not just people in politics - people in the corporate world too, who just let their freedom trickle away, down the tubes. Anyway, to me, global politics (especially in the US but increasingly everywhere as the world is 'globalised' economically) is so intimately connected with corporate capitalism that for all this stupid talk about 'social responsibility', politicians respond to the market (indirectly, via their global corporate sponsors) and to the demands of their shareholders (oops... I meant, electorates!), not to their consciences.
Of course, this is not to say that you cannot follow your beliefs within the realm of politics! But in my case, I am a South African national and a caucasian, and our government is focused on black economic empowerment, so there are very few jobs for educated 'white girls' like me, not least educated 'white' girls who are environmentalists and are therefore angry about how Philistine the South African government's environmental policy really is! I mean, we're talking about a country that still runs its cars on LEADED fuel, and lets people use asbestos for home insulation, and doesn't monitor its water properly for heavy metals and oestrogen-mimics! Scary. Now you know why I moved to Scotland! (Not that the environment is being taken all that much more seriously here, mind you...)
Wow, okay, that was another of my marathon-posts. Hope I haven't bored anyone to absolute tears. Huntress, I'm so GLAD you went back to dancing! Hooray! Take it easy, and enjoy your moving, alive, healthy human body! Hey Sula, you wanna write a book about third-wave feminism with me?
) And anyway, how would they pitch this diet, without some publisher grabbing at straws and generating a book that is hardly different from any of the other horrendous diet-plans out there? They would have to go to an 'independent' publisher, which would hardly guarantee a wider readership than the existing and potential readership Wai and RRM already have on the Internet (and besides, they have already proven their sincerity to so many of us here - on this forum and elsewhere - by resisting all of these commercial lures). Okay, perhaps this may restrict the scope of their influence, but then again, perhaps in the end there will be greater numbers of loyal followers of Wai and RRM's thinking than, say, of the South Beach Diet or the Beverley Hills Diet or *insert generic fad diet*... I am guessing that because it takes a little more tenacity and determination to find this diet (and by extension the whole way of thinking associated with it), that is the guarantor in some respects of a small but loyal, interconnected and self-respecting 'band' of Waians that have great power to help other people through their own example. (This tenacity relates to what you said, Sula, about the 'keep-searching-till-satisfied 'gene' we appear to have. Indeed I think we are all born with this 'gene' - ! - just think of any human toddler with his/her constant stream of questions, especially, 'Why, Mommy?' 'Why, Daddy?' But corporate culture slowly erases this tendency to question everything... sometimes I think the worst thing to happen to a child is school. But of course schooling doesn't have to erase this curiosity - just look at Maria Montessori's work, among others.) 
Maybe you can just proofread it as I go along and bring me OJ and egg yolks every hour, eh? 
I've always wanted to make Coconut oil in lieu of OO as my fat source. And like Corrinne, I was also concerned on whether the Coconut oil would mix well with OJ. But after reading your positive post, you've now erased my doubts on Coconut oil. Thank you! 