permaculture

["Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>]

From: "Patrick McKown" <identi1956@yahoo.com>
> I have read many things about this as being a 
> fact of sorts. So how do you remedy it? If >you> 
> accept this as a truth and find it intolerable, 
> what should be done to change it?
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You promote permaculture.  That's a major part of 
the answer to all these big invisible stucture 
problems.  They are the result of large numbers of 
people making lots of bad decisions.  Instead of 
creating synergy, a "dysergy" comes into being. 
People are always wanting to tinker with the big 
structures and reform them and vote for somebody 
who is going to Do Something about them, but it's 
like bindweed, cut off the top and it comes back 
even stronger and smothers everything.

The roots of these big structural issues are in 
myriads of personal decisions.

If we want better, more just, most sustainable Big 
Invisible Structures, then we're only going to get 
there by growing them from the grassroots.  As we 
do this, we cut off the nourishment and thus the 
growth and eventually even the existence of the 
bad Big Invisible Structures that seem so terribly 
powerful.  I tend to think that focusing on the 
Big Invisible Structures is part of the process of 
giving them nourishment and thus power and growth.

How we spend are our money is much more 
influential than any political vote we will ever 
cast.  Indeed, often it happens that the way we 
spend our money completely cancels out our vote.

The big news about the fed is that it is a 
financial conspiracy that transfers wealth from 
the entire population to the elite. Is this really 
a surprise? People knew that it was a scam when it 
was established.  It's not news.

What's news is permaculture.

It's news because it is accessble to everyone.  It 
is empowering.  It protects the dignity of all 
beings.  It is practical. It is successional (that 
is, you don't have to get it right the first 
time).  It stacks functions and has a diversity of 
elements supporting important functions.  It is 
site and client specific.  It tears down barriers 
and weaves new connections.  It humbles the rich 
and exalts the poor and saves the middle class 
from its own contradictions.

As we move towards the goal of a permaculture 
design for every human habitation and place of 
enterprise and zone of community, we will one day 
be able to do permaculture designs to guide the 
cultivation of a Big Invisible Financial Structure 
that will replace the Fed with something much more 
just and sustainable.

Imagine a Congress full of people who had all 
completed permaculture design courses, and had 
integrated that knowledge into their lives.

Bob Waldrop
tadpole in training with Barking Frogs 
Permaculture
www.barkingfrogspermaculture.org