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  • From: Paul Cereghino <paul.cereghino@comcast.net>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] what is "politics" exactly...?
  • Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:35:27 -0800


"Politics is the process by which the community makes decisions and establishes values that are binding upon its members."

I would suggest that 'binding values' in the form of verbiage are of minor value in the operation of current systems. There are three currencies I see. Memes, Money and Legal Prosecution. The first is the most unpredictable, the second reflects the funneling of collectivized resources through taxation systems, the other reflects control of the state monopoly on violence, not as a system of values, but as an ornate system of arbitrary rules.

Permaculture design (even as applied to politics) should focus on analysis of actual processes and phenomena. Flows, source, sink, etc... If natural systems are are the source of inspiration for ecological design, what is the source of inspiration for political design.

More critically... what is the effective transitional system from current state to target state (least work greatest effect).

Paul Cereghino





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