permaculture

["Graham Burnett" <grahamburnett@blueyonder.co.uk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Lively" <clively2@earthlink.net>
To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 12:28 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] For the survival thread...


> > I agree with Mark that new age flakiness should be viewed with
skepticism-
>
> New age flakiness?
>
> What an incredible disappointment to find this kind of thing
> even here in Permie World.
>
> It is ever the way of mankind to make fun of, to scorn,
> reject, dismiss that which they don't understand, of that
> which doesn't fit into their own little paradigm of "the way
> things be" and "the way things not be."
>
> At some point in your life, you began to "get it," didn't
> you?  You began to understand that there was a better way of
> interacting with the earth; this way that was given the name
> of Permaculture, and you probably got your nose right out of
> joint whenever those who weren't "getting it" scoffed at you
> and your flaky, wacko ideas.
>
> What went through your mind as you sat there all indignant
> and disgusted with those who were making fun of something
> that they didn't understand - something that isn't at all
> flaky or wacko, except to those with limited abilities of
> perception.
>
> I can tell you what's going through my mind, as I sit here
> indignant and disgusted, trying to digest the thoughts of
> those who are proving that their little box is just only
> slighter larger than the box that "Hey, Bubba, let's go and
> poison dem dere bugs today!" resides in:
>
> FIE!
>
> Bah Humbug.
>
> What a disappointment.
>
> The box is bigger, boys.  It's way bigger.  Good luck.
>
> Carol Lively
> Fort Worth, Texas

Well done for jumping to a whole bunch of conclusions about somebody you
know nothing about, Carol.

Anybody want to buy some snake oil?

Graham ;-)