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  • From: Scott & Arina Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
  • To: permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu, owner-permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu, permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: International Amenesty Week for Political Correctness, Flights of Fancy, ad infinitum
  • Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:29:30 -0800 (PST)

At 10:16 AM 11/6/98 EST, Elfpermacl@aol.com wrote:
>Heads of state are doing it all the time. This will be pickled pork pus
>week.
>The next is national afterbirth week. And so forth.
>
>In an unwonted (or is that unwanted) flush of egalitarian zeal, I have
>decided
>that an utter nobody, the virtual Grinch Who Stole Permaculture, Mr. Warty-
>all-over-to-a-degree-that-scares-frogs, should also be able to declare a
>week.
>So the very next week, Starting Saturdy, Nov.7, local time, is International
>Politically Correct Week on the permaculture listserve. Get it out there.
>Congratualte everyone for everything. Nothing is wrong. Everything is
>perfect. go for it. It should be an interesting week of expression.
>
-snip-
Thought I would sneak this in while wonder wart hog was out terrifying other
listserves and neophytes.

Shhh! not a word about this to anyone, he has spys everywhere!

Has to do with respecting our elders or the ones who have earned the right
to gritch and groan and be sharp to beginners. I know, I've read Dr. Spock
and we should always use a gentle hand when correcting the young and errant
but some of us, (I won't name any names) havn't read Spock so don't believe
in the school of gentle breaking.

The long and the short is that if you peel away the grump and
curmudgeonliness their is a wealth of knowledge and experience underneath it
all that makes it very worth while. I admire the old coot for his tenacity
and integrity in holding the line on any attempts to co-op permaculture into
something it was never intended to be - a new slant on new age political
correctness. I am particularly glad that I'm not the one doing it for a
change.

So a tip of the hat to another ally with his finger in the dike, (can I say
that?), you know what I mean.
Scott Pittman

Permaculture Institute
PO Box 3702, Pojoaque, NM 87501 US
*********
Ingenio Patet Campus




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