permaculture

[georg parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at>]

> I totally agree about the need for strong community.  But communtiy
> without members having self-reliance is in serious trouble.  Uh, like
> the situation we are in now, for instance.  You have to start
> somewhere.  Why not your own backyard?.

i agree with the idea, that community need self-reliant members. but  
self-reliance is a mindset, not an occupation. from my point of view  
it doesnt make sense, to be i-do-it-all homesteader next to other i-do- 
it-all homesteaders, and we have no time to talk or share, because we  
work our butts off each growing all our own food and fuel and fiber  
etc. and bottling our juice, canning our whatever etc sewing our  
clothes, etc. etc. if you want to exaggerate that even mor, why dont  
you have your own full self-reliant i-grow-all-my-own-food, and your  
most significant other does the same? if you think this is  crazy -  
why do you stop at the nucleus family? why not apply the concept of  
sensible cooperation to community? and i certainly see this as a  
delicate matter - because we have to find the optimum balance between  
the extreme specialization and thus alienation we have now in our  
societies, and the one-man one-gun one-garden approach you seem to  
advocate here.


Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Georg Parlow
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