Subject: [permaculture] 'control', this list, communication, and community
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 09:21:13 -0400
hey folks,
i just want to say that i appreciate this listsevre, and the
opportunities it offers us all to connect with permaculture ideas and
individuals around the world
it is a wonderful resource
in the most ideal world, this list could act as a way of connecting
people in all sorts of practical, (political, cultural, social,
emotional etc) ways. another important forum of our community
as a forum, then, it also serves as a 'commons', it is an open
conversation. a room full of friends (or colleagues, or aquaintances)
i also have a personal resistance to any 'rules' or authority in such
a 'gathering', and hope for people to just behave with each other
with compassion, common sense, respect etc
the point of all of this commentary;
as a solution to the problems on the list- perhaps people can try to
limit themselves to perhaps three or four (much fewer than currently
anyway) posts per week? please? and see how that works for awhile?
maybe take a minute and reflect on if you really really must comment
on whatever was just said?
it seems that it is the same few people (the same few men) making the
vast majority of posts to this list , sometimes several per day, and
i feel this behaviour is in effect silencing others. this phenomenon
is, it seems to me, the largest factor of 'oppression' on this list.
i hope that all of us can refrain from (compulsively?) posting our
comments to every single idea generated here, so that we can take the
time to listen to what others may have to say, to give them 'space'
to 'speak'
so, i humbly propose, and earnestly request, that the small number of
people (men) dominating this conversation, (this commons, and this
room of friends) try, please, to limit your postings, and your
commentary. this agreed upon "rule" is something that is common on
other high traffic lists, and works well when one voice or another
starts to become the "annoying loud guy" in the room
with respect,
kevin
[permaculture] 'control', this list, communication, and community,
kevin s, 06/18/2007