True Depressions are so few and far between that there’s a natural, and hence forgivable, tendency to regard them as identical and so fall back upon the strategies of yesteryear in the face of the current year’s calamities. Chicken stealing provides a handy case in point.

In the Depression of yore, rich folks had chickens, and so stealing from them who had too much to maintain them who had too little had a kernel of virtue… not to mention a lovable rustic charm made yet more charming by the hazy glow of memory. Ah… chicken stealing… now them were the days.

Today, though, folks with chickens are as likely to be kind permaculturists just trying to get by in harmony with the Earth. While the theft my appear superficially the same, the essence of the act is quite different… or is, at least, likely to be quite different.

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