[permaculture] politics and permies
Katey
newtribe at hughes.net
Wed Dec 5 17:34:51 EST 2007
Gee, Scott, since your name isn't even mentioned in the email exchange
below i'm not sure how your ego managed to make it all about you. Go
figure.
~katey
Katey Culver
ecoville architechs
www.earthandstraw.com
Scott Pittman wrote:
> Due to linguistic advantage and some's lack of ability to read without
> reading into, my flummoxedness has reached critical mass and I am retiring
> from the "politics and permies" thread.
>
> I leave with this caveat: None of my communications have been personal
> aside from the fact that I am responding to a person or persons who
> addressed my communications personally. I originally entered this
> "discussion" because the subject interests me and I continued the
> conversation in the vain hope that I could bring clarity to what I consider
> a gross misreading of my written word. I must plead guilty to
> "passionately" pursuing my beliefs regarding this thread. As far as there
> being "cliques" and other pc conspiratorial groups behind my communications
> I can only say, and I mean this in a loving way, Hogwash!
>
> Scott Pittman
> Director
> Permaculture Institute
> www.permaculture.org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Katey [mailto:newtribe at hughes.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 3:42 PM
> To: permaculture
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] politics and permies
>
> Stella wrote:
>
>> given what ONE Ghandi was able to do, or one Martin Luther King, in
>> terms of social change .. I think we should seriously ask ourselves
>> why, with so many permaculturists loose ... we haven´t re-designed
>> society yet.
>>
>> it´s only a revolutionary system of design if some revolution actually
>> happens.
>>
> What did one Gandhi or one MLK Jr do? Got themselves killed for one.
> Revolutions don't change things, not really. They have failed humans
> miserably through the ages as the elite rule of civilization has marched
> steadfastly onward, side stepping here and there, but always
> relentlessly onward.
>
> After the British pulled out Gandhi saw the destruction of the nation he
> was trying to free. And it did not happen through non-violence and
> peaceable means.
>
> MLK Jr, Medgar Evers, and so many others lost their lives for the
> "gains" we made in civil rights (ask the Jena 6 how far we've come).
> Jesse and Al, standing right at King's side, learned quickly not to rock
> the boat too hard. Definitely not hard enough to evoke change, lest you
> be killed.
>
> We will change the paradigm, not through revolution, but through
> evolution. It will take switching the mindset of enough humans to
> create the kind of change we need to see. And i agree that permaculture
> is a great tool for that. It might be way too slow for most of the
> species on the planet currently (including our own), but that shouldn't
> stop us from doing what we know in our hearts, guts and minds is a great
> healing. And do it as a political statement!
>
> ~katey
>
> Katey Culver
> ecoville architechs
> www.earthandstraw.com
>
>
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