permaculture

["Lee Flier" <lflier@mindspring.com>]

Judith wrote:

>So far, no one seems to have worked out how an action that calls openly for
>participation and support can prevent troublemakers leaping aboard.

This and your other points are good ones... but maybe the question we need
to ask, in the interest of people care, is what motivates the troublemakers?
What is it that frustrates them so much and how can we give them a role that
will help further our common goals?  We can think of them the way gardeners
think of a "weed" - something that needs to be eradicated - or we can think
of "troublemakers" as being the first, aggressive wave of succession that is
necessary to rebuild a damaged system, such as many "weeds" are.  I'm not
saying I have all the details in mind how this would work, but at least
maybe if we think of it in that light we will come up with more constructive
and realistic ideas.  Clearly the rabble-rousers aren't going away until the
planet has returned to balance, and meanwhile the harder we try to stop them
doing damage, the more angry they will get and the more damage they will do.

--Lee

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