Author Educates About Anarchism in Anarcho Grow, Pura Vida in Costa Rica
Author Educates About Anarchism in Anarcho Grow, Pura Vida in Costa Rica
ANARCHISM STILL ALIVE IN U.S.
At a time when the word “anarchy” causes citizens to tremble, one writer is attempting to advance the idea, or at least teach people what it is. That author is T.A. Sedlak, and the book is Anarcho Grow.
Anarcho Grow, is a fast paced adventure story set in Costa Rica. The protagonist, Ben Starosta, had spent a summer doing community development work in Quebrada Grande, a remote village. After college, he returns, deciding he can help the people more through his own program. He teaches them the way of guerrilla growing, clandestine outdoor marijuana cultivation as practiced in Northern California, and soon the community is prospering. With the influx of U.S. dollars, Ben hopes Quebrada Grande can flower into a community to rival the prosperity of Anarchist Catalonia of the last century. However, the C.I.A. catches wind, and soon they’re on his trail.
T.A. takes the reader down the rough roads between the white sand beaches of the western coast and the steamy rainforests of the lowlands, then continues up the windy mountain roads to the crisp cloud forests, expelling witticisms and suspense at every corner. Throughout the trip he shows a view of the country and its people that few see, their beauty and their ugliness, their true being, which is at the center of all people.
By the end the reader finds out what Anarchism really is and if it is the best path for moving forward. And if it is the best path, T.A. has set up a model for it that’s just as applicable to the United States as it is to Costa Rica. Though readers might take to the political ideas put forth in Anarcho Grow, T.A. shows us that no matter what system is being advocated, not everything can be pura vida.
Source: Anarcho Grow PressKit
