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  • From: Woody Wodraska <wodraska@mac.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] S&M Eisen / Nicholas permaculture generation gap
  • Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:02:44 -0700

Hi Daniel,
Glad you are on the list , a little explanation of the word 'meek'. Like so many other words in the English language it has been co-opted and eclipsed. It does not mean the weak more to the point it means the gentle and the kind, the non violent communicators. My feeling is that it really does apply because when we work with the earth it is important to be gentle. Gaia has given so much and still does pour out unconditional love and my experience now is that we are living on the New Earth in so many ways. I know that there is all kinds of crap happening but we do not hear about the good news at all and there is lots of great work happening in quiet places.
Regarding the culture, the old culture which has never been our friend but with our work and love for our home we can put the culture back into agriculture, it is already happening in so many places.
If you are around money which in so many ways is a virtual reality then maybe start a little garden or commune with the trees as the spirits in the garden and in the community of beings surrounding every tree have stories to tell you and they might even ask for help.
If your own family cannot understand what you are trying to do know that you have a community of light wherever you are.
Bright Blessings,
Barbara
Woody Wodraska
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On Aug 26, 2010, at 8:28 PM, Daniel Mazen Kablaoui wrote:

What is this meek shall inherit the earth business? That's never been the case, and never will. The meek?

I don't even really know what boomers are - my personal family history skipped all that - parents in the late sixties of depression babies.

I do know that the culture I'm from is pretty ignorant of the work you elders done did. Defensive, bitter, and more ignant still of this platform you built. Looking at me like I'm some kind of crazy person trying to climb up to that stage.

In every real sense I know that I have to build my own, but y'all laid down some amazing blueprints. Thank you, thanks be to the G's.

Every day I learn something done by this generation we're talking about, and immediately have more new ideas about what I'm trying to do - lightyears ahead of where I would have gotten to on my own. Thank you! To the G's.

Permaculture is big big. I mean what Killian meant, that there are as many permacultures as their are permaculturalists. That's the truth right now anyhow.

So I've been looking in the wrong place for my own circuit cipher circle - so I've bitched a lot about the way this Pc thing is structured. I am sorry to all those I've blamed - if it's not in the cards why am I cryin?

Holding down my own fort and family is the only way forward... It's just that they're blind, deaf, dumb to what y'all are trying to do. My own struggle, not the fault of anybody on this list.

But see that's where I'm coming from with a voice as good as yours when you tell me why you did and deserve I want to laugh as often as I want to scream but less than I'd like to applaud.

Applause.

Yearg I want to argue with y'all. Damn I want to try knock people off their horses! But I've not even got a horse, or any land, or any accomplishments, so who the am I?

I am a young man with more than a few chips on my shoulder, angry, with more than a few bones to pick, quick, with words that just don't stick to anybody too concerned with themselves to see where the young are at.

I am lazy! And so are most and many of my youngs, sames, and olds. But we are rich. And so are the counted members of my family who know on me they can count. Rich rich richer than you are with a bigger burden to carry.

Too much searching the Internet, not enough busting of heads and writing on the walls of the place I live. Not enough practice, not enough patience, not enough!

But Killian's words were most right - until that time comes and somebody can make it clear - we live in fear that we're not giving enough light, that we don't actually have support, that.... Blah!

It IS possible for an articulator to build a narrative that captivates and moves like this Pc does not... An articulator to help us explain this game and frame our work in a way that's not full of murk - or maybe not the work that we do, but the reason I listen to you, and you, and Lawrence - whose last posting to this discussion made me feel like crushin all the negativity that's been bothering me, as I read these feeds from the crevices of PC.

Boomers!? Uh, thank you! An articulator not for you, or really for me anymore - but for kids and babies about to be washing onshore. More and more and more all the time asking with no answers to help them see out some grime.

Pc teaches and many of us have heard, but this is still just a text until it gets turned into word.

Culture! How does that get built? So far we're just adding stacking more on these non load bearing stilts!

Open question: is my PDC worth anything beyond those magical two weeks? Will anyone be able to understand what I seek?

But back on topic - uh.. the meek. The Meek are guaranteed sure to miss out on their share no matter how much anyone cares. I thought I learned that from y'all. Or from that big book and the PDC. Ya'see? Everything still means something differently - Killian's rules.

But this disagree/relativity cannot be. To a culture? That's not the way, and as designers we should teach that opinions hold no sway because at the end of the day grav still holds us no matter what we say. Answers!

The shall inherit the Earth.

On Aug 26, 2010, at 9:04 PM, Linda Ray <lindaray@att.net> wrote:

I don't think we sold out. I think we built the platform you're standing on :-).

Not to worry. I know you're younger. I know that doesn't make you one of the
ones who were too busy playing around to listen...

Couldn't resist. Ya have to admit, you asked for that..

Linda :-)
One of those awful Boomers :-)

Boomers, the first cut-and-come-again crop.
The Meek shall inherit the Earth.



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From: Steven & Margaret Eisenhauer <eisenhauerdesign@earthlink.net>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, August 25, 2010 5:11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Nicholas permaculture generation gap


Boomers sold out. They did not demand the kind of change they really wanted
and settled for the status Que. As a reward they have been ripped off and
side lined, ultimately settling for rank materialism and prescription feel
good drugs. The boomers should get off the couch, get their heads out of
their behinds and work for the values they espoused as young people. Or
perhaps they can't remember what it was they wanted. Or have the real
visionaries been liquidated? Have the rats ate the grain and all that is
left is the chaff?


-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Rain Tenaqiya
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 2:15 PM
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [permaculture] Nicholas permaculture generation gap

Thanks, Nicholas, for one of the more thoughtful and solution-focused
messages of late. I have been thinking about the generational differences
between Boomers and younger folks, especially as they relate to permaculture
efforts, and I do feel they are significant. I largely agree with your
analysis, however I feel there is one important aspect that you left out.
Boomers may have had it easier in some ways, but many were truly
hard-working pioneers in other ways, creating options for later
generations. We now have easy access to vegetarian and vegan food,
renewable energy, ecobuilding techniques, community land ownership models,
permaculture design, etc. Many also worked harder than I think most younger
folks are willing to work. The stories I have read and listened to about
the original back-to-the-landers make me feel like a wimp. The current
generation has a sense of entitlement and an expectation that things should
be easy. They are
also even more alienated from physical labor. I speak from personal
experience. Younger people also have more educational, entertainment, and
other opportunities and the society is more mobile, so it is hard to get
younger folks to commit to a place or project. Whole segments of society
seem adrift.

Your comment about rent-seeking retirees seems right on, however. I feel
too many otherwise progressive folks too easily accept the idea that it is
okay to take money you didn't earn yourself. The lack of questioning of the
capitalist, class-based system makes me squirm. On the other hand, I cringe
when I see how few of my well-intentioned friends have means to create
sustainable systems without using the property they have access to to
generate money through renting it out. We need to come up with more ways to
raise immediate funds while still giving equity to those paying "rent."


Rain



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