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  • From: "Vital Scherrer" <vital233@hotmail.com>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] [ Fwd: Can You See This [Revolution] Coming?
  • Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2007 15:49:57 +0000

...that itÂ’s in our genes to grow food and
provide for ourselves. This is the way it was a couple of hundred
years ago and further back for ten thousand years.

Ten thousand years of agri-culture is not likely to be enough, that "to grow food" becomes part of our genes. If anything, it is more likely that hunting and gathering is in our genes. Would people not be drawn more towards becoming gardeners, rather than finding it boring and appraise it as an inferior occupation. Probably most find hunting and gathering a lot more exciting - hence the shopping mania, which is nothing but a modern day compensation to satisfy these needs. For me permaculture is in its best, the best short- and medium-term step towards a mostly free nomadic way of life, where the preposterous and unjust distribution of property is eliminated, as well as the habit of living mostly in the same place, which is mind narrowing, a source of discontent and unrest, as well as the base for (past "hunter and gatherer") diseases; not to mention the cancer-like growth of the cities and its pollutions; a fact on which most will agree. It is our appointment to restore the archaic paradise, which was destroyed by the practices of agriculture, or rather, to create the best possible replacement of such an elusive environment. As agriculture is in its principle an act against nature and the "civilization" is based on it, we should abandon these practices and try to figure out, how a balanced and (more) nomadic way of life can be achieved, which will certainly be different in many ways from the primal nomadism, and which may even include most of our positive more modern achievements.

A merry and happy...whatever...life!
Vital

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