In my previous email I was trying to suggest that the
experience of Frank was not abnormal: here you have a man who is resolute
about Pc principles but unable to achieve them in the real world. Frank is
not 'industrial agriculture' to use your terminology. It is for this reason
that I'm not quite sure to what you were responding.
I certainly agree that 'industrial agriculture...is anathema to
permaculture' but does that also hold true of all large farms? Should larger
farms be broken up so Pc principles can be applied? What I'm after is a
similarly coherent Pc strategy on the large scale (within the resources of
current large farm owners) to that many of us practice on a small scale. If
we could come up with such a coherent structure we could then keep these
farmers away from the 'machine and influence peddling...corporations.'
"Perhaps the only change we should be worried about is taking care of
ourselves." Perhaps. But then again perhaps not, I tend toward the Great
Vehicle - and Pc somewhere makes reference to care for others.
I'd like to bring a point you made in another email (28th to Mark);
>It's possible that one can have too much education to ever unlearn what
>they've picked up, hence the 72 hours of class time in a Pc course is meant
>to literally swamp one's boat, and rock one's world. You're not supposed
to
>be able to take it all in, but it is supposed to make you look differently
>at the world.
Interesting analysis of a PDC, from what I understand sounds like a
classical form of brainwashing and the 72 hours would be about right too
<g>.
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