the relationship between capitalism and socialism.

There are two main options in lawns: natural or artificial.

The natural option is to grow the lawn without chemicals, fertilizers, or irrigation. This requires planning, discipline, and patience to nurture the lawn through phases of increasing diversity in successive layers.

The artificial option is to grow the lawn with chemicals, fertilizer, and irrigation. This requires money to buy the materials and install the irrigation system.

• The first is labor intensive. The second is capital intensive.
• The first creates great diversity in both flora and fauna. The second has only one or two species of grass and no critters.
• The first is resilient to drought and scarcity. The second will quickly die if the right conditions – chemicals, fertilizer, and water – are not perfectly maintained.
• It takes a few years to get a natural lawn fully established, but an artificial lawn can be installed quickly.

Thus, to prevent a natural lawn from becoming established simply mow it short once every three years or so. This will send it back to square one. And, the effort to protect a natural lawn from sabotage forces people to spend capital in ways that would remove it from its natural state.

The weakness of any economic or political theory is that to defend them from outside interference will always pressure them towards a fascist capitalism.