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  • From: "Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] The Fed
  • Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 02:04:38 -0500

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






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