permaculture

[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

I've purposely ignored responding to Harold's condemnation of Lyx's 
writings for a number of reasons.  Primary reason is that she died 
suddenly of pancreatic cancer in Feb of this year & I simply don't have 
the emotional wherewithal to take on defending the ideas of someone I 
worked closely with for more than 20 years.  Then to see the note come 
thru the list a second time feels blatently crass & insensitive.

I will say this much however; never in her life did Lyx think of 
herself as an eco-feminist or a pagan & in fact spent her life trying 
to defy the kind of mentalities that pigeon-hole & reduce ideas to 
generic misunderstanding.  So the notion that posting her writings to 
the list was intended to convert permaculture list member to some kind 
of pagan spirituality is absolutely laughable, besides the fact that 
such a statement makes the assumption that listmembers are not 
intelligent enough to parse for themselves what is useful or not.

mIEKAL


On Saturday, July 3, 2004, at 09:05 AM, lponeill@att.net wrote:

> I must say that I was surprised to see this response to Mikael's 
> posting of links to her writings repeated. Was this necessary? I found 
> its tone to be intolerant and condescending.
>
>  In particular this part:
> "Your suggestion that Permaculture zone zero is defined by 
> eco-feminist pagan spirituality is an attempt to:
>
> a) confuse people about what Permaculture design is and is not
> b) convert members of this list to eco-feminist pagan spirituality 
> religion"
>
> Whatever your views are, I am willing to consider them, including 
> religious ones that pertain to permaculture. However, what I don't 
> need is for you or anyone else to protect me from ideas. I am speaking 
> for myself, but I believe that most of the people on this list are 
> intelligent and can choose for themselves what they would like to read 
> and what they would not.
>
> By the way, I glanced through these writings, but chose not to read 
> them in depth. If they offended you, you have the right to voice your 
> opinion, but you don't have the right to censor them for others. 
> Comment on them, but don't try to repress them. If you don't like it, 
> don't read it. If it bothers you, delete it.
>
> -- Laurie O'Neill