[permaculture] politics and permies

Tommy Tolson healinghawk at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 3 02:08:10 EST 2007


The ecological consciousness may be a stretch, but the free market part is
not.  

80% of the US people think the country is going in the wrong direction.
Hillary is a free marketeer, but she's lost her lead in Iowa to Obama, who
is not.  

In my opinion, the US system was designed to change at a glacial pace so the
"rich and well-born," as Alexander Hamilton called US economic lords in _The
Federalist Papers_, had a chance to remain parasitically astride the people,
honoring the lord's belief in their God-given right to exercise dominion
over the world.

Dominion is a supremacy in determining and directing the actions of others
or in governing politically, socially, or personally: acknowledged
ascendancy over human or nonhuman forces such as assures cogency in command
or restraining and being obeyed.

White male supremacy, upper class privilege, and economic oppression are
legitimated by dominion.  Free marketeers are dominion's poster people.
Folks get it.    

Tommy Tolson
Austin, TX

-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Bob Waldrop
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:03 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] politics and permies

I haven't been paying much attention to the 2008 elections, but even so I am

startled to hear that an "ecologically conscious" government is likely to be

elected in the US in 2008.  I thought it was pretty much a foregone 
conclusion that either a Democrat or a Republican would be elected 
president, and either the Democratic or Republican parties would control 
Congress.  Has something new happened that I haven't heard about?

Bob Waldrop, Oklahoma City





More information about the permaculture mailing list