permaculture

["robscott@freeshell.org" <robscott@freeshell.org>]

Thanks for your comments Darren. I appreciate your invitation to differ in
opinion -- that's one thing the current society doesn't do very well, it
sure is refreshing.

Here goes:
I do not want my children to live in a capitalist economic system. I grew
up in New Jersey (USA) and I didn't see a sheep (except in zoos) until I
was 18. New Jersey has been destroyed by our society and I see those
making a profit off of "repairing" New Jersey as perpetuating a
contradiction. You can't repair New Jersey because it works the way it was
designed to. We need a New New Jersey, not repairs for the "flaws".

Our strange language: in the current system we say "making a living" ...
then scoring really big is called "making a killing" !

I think our species ultimately needs another social system, one that
doesn't boot sheep farmers off the land. Like Darren, I want as many
sheep farmers in business on the land as possible for right now. I also
keep an eye on the exploitive society which continues: even
while we succeed in one area, the society is expanding its domain of
exploitation somewhere else.

My fear is that "professional" will always be taken to mean "professional
of the current society" which leaves me wondering, how and when, without
running to the fringes, when does the Permaculture movement organize a
different society? Seriously!

If I haven't mentioned it by now, I teach at the School for Designing a
Society in Urbana, Illinois, USA. In our school, we consider these
legitimate questions, questions which still could use design work applied
to them. These are boiling debates which we hope will become soup!

www.designingsociety.com

A final language note: the word "bureaucracy" will be hard to reconcile
with the notion of "most change for least effort".

Rob
Urbana Permaculture Project