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- It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.
The catchphrase ‘It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature’ was a hit marketing campaign for margarine in the 1970s. The phrase really stuck in people’s minds, kind of like how margarine globs onto English muffins, or crackers, or any of the thousands of ultraprocessed items available in the miles of grocery aisles manufactured by a handful of multinational conglomerates under the guise of a plethora of brands. Of course, it also resonated because it’s so obvious, or at least it should be. Oren Lyons* often used a similar and more meaningful version of this phrase, even before the margarine commercials….
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Chiapas, Mexico – 1997
Some pictures from a trip to a Zapatista community center in Chiapas. In the 1990’s the Zapatistas began helping groups set up community centers in central locations to nearby villages. The centers offered education, programming and other services for Mayan villages in Chiapas, where no government services existed. No electricity, running water, and hardly any roads, which were mostly serviced by trucks that would drive around helping people get from place to place. Many of the houses in this area at the time consisted of grass huts, and people grew their own food and kept livestock. Money was only scarcely used when traveling to the nearest cities, where one could buy clothes and other supplies. The presence of a nearby military base would often be felt with helicopters passing by and trucks filled with soldiers roaming the area.