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  • From: Cory <cory8570@yahoo.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Internet communication using Permaculture
  • Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:00:06 -0700 (PDT)

Reading over the communication on this list over the past weeks I've been
struck with how insidiously cultural paradigms can be grooved in on even very
conscious people.
In a competitive paradigm rather than a cooperative one, people communicate
in order to convince others that they are right, that they have a correct
viewpoint. Because competition operates on win-lose dichotomies, rather than
win-win, that means the other person must be wrong in order for you to be
right.

This is linked closely with the concept of survival- if you are too wrong,
you are dead.

In a cooperative paradigm, people communicate in order to establish
beneficial connection. In fact, one could say that communication IS the
establishment of beneficial connection.

In a cooperative paradigm you become more right (more survival potential) by
helping others survive and be "right" too.

I've realized that my own communication style sometimes reflects the
competitive, win-lose paradigm, and that viewpoint shift on this one aspect
alone can shift the entire flavor of communication and increase yield
dramatically.

There is a place for competition in the system but this realization has just
helped me be more conscious of how I choose to manifest it, and helped me to
see some cultural-social patterns I had not viewed with such clarity
previously. Hmm, having more realizations, i am now going off to explore the
patterns that arise from this more thoroughly.....

Love, Cory









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