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  • From: Killian O'Brien <admin@pri-de.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Nicholas permaculture generation gap
  • Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:01:30 -0400

Given I am a boomer, by some counts, at least, and probably in the last .0001
percentile being born at the tail end of '64, I hardly feel like a sellout!
I'm a right proper
liberal/never-done-drugs-but-come-from-a-drug-usin'-brood/stuck in 60's-70's
rock/sometime longhair/A-B student/geek/teacher/entrepreneur/hate
abortion-but-support-the-right/climate activist/doomer/see a pinprick of
light down the tunnel/flat broke product of the Boomer Gen.

And I think the idea that permaculture can be a movement or should be defined
or governed or suffers some generational failings to be silly. Let it be what
it is, people, which is different for us all. Fighting that is like fighting
the tide. I've had conversations with Geoff Lawton and Bill Mollison (very
short, via e-mail, and probably actually Lisa doing the typing, and perhaps
the responding), and both were amazed and appalled (my specific words) at the
false division between the practically minded and the more, shall we say,
spiritually-minded, as well as the ultra-competitiveness, in the US.

These conversations are interesting in the way a good dorm lobby debate was
interesting in college: they help individuals hone their self-concept,
beliefs, whathaveyou, but don't change much. I fall back to the obvious: a
million permaculturists will result in a million permacultures. Just let it
be, eh? What we share is what is important. The ethics and principles, as
they are, with or without extension, are mind-bogglingly powerful. It's
enough. We need not cram it into a form or stretch it to fit some ideal or
ideology.

Let those that wish to get rich doing this do so. Let those, that give it
away, like me so far, do so. Don't work with them if you don't want to. God
knows there are "permaculturists" that flat refuse to work with me. While it
hurts, at the end of the day it can't matter. The work is the thing. Are
there selfish, perhaps "bad" people doing PM? Undoubtedly. So? You gonna tie
'em down? Decertify them?

We have powerful tools at our disposal and powerful knowledge. What divides
us is so much esoterica.

Just my 99 cents.

Cheers,

Killian O'Brien
PRI-De
admin@pri-de.org
(313) 647-4015

killiankob@yahoo.com
(760) 617-4693

-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jacque Greenleaf
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 11:14 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Nicholas permaculture generation gap

Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as sour and judgmental. I am genuinely
curious - what experience(s) led the OP to the conclusion that boomers have
all sold out? I mean, if there is nuance in that post or room for a gray
area, I fail to see it.


On Aug 25, 2010, at 7:36 PM, Woody Wodraska wrote:

> Now Jacque who is it that is being sour and judgmental? It seems this list
> is one attack after another I have watched this for sometime now.
> "Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there's a field, I'll meet
> you there" Rumi
>
> what the hell is the good of this list if all you do is fight and not be
> able to have any dialog or discussion at all?
> bb
> Woody Wodraska
> wodraska@mac.com
> http://www.soulmedicinejourney.com
> Deep Gardening: Soul Lessons from 17 Gardens, Biodynamic Memories now
> available at
> http://www.trafford.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000138866
>
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2010, at 6:24 PM, Jacque Greenleaf wrote:
>
>> I'm really curious, what experience have you had with people my age that
>> has led you to be so sour and judgmental?
>
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