Subject: Re: [permaculture] Conservatism revisited, and another try
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:55:00 -0500
Dieter Brand wrote:
Internet access today is worse than usual with a thunderstorm
brewing overhead. I don’t know if this made it to the list and how.´
So here it is again, just in case.
Both your posts made it to the list just fine, Dieter.
Well, I'm glad you didn't have to spend time in East Germany at the hands of
the Rusian
thug fools. There were plenty of radical political movements in the USA at
the same time yours wre active in Europe.
Plenty right here in Chapel Hill NC where I was then, living the alternative lifestyle and occasionally going on the
road. I do not remember much about anyone waving that little red book though. I do remember the terrorist group "The Red
Brigade" and the murders they committed in the name of their ideology back in those times. That alone is enough to drive
the most radical alternative type to the middle ground and stay there. Everything in moderation as the saying goes.
I like your comment about "conservatism" in the classical sense in the context of alternative social and political
movements. I agree with you that some of these are, ideologically (or idioillogically) so far out that they meet their
perceived opposition on the other side, so to speak.
You just can't politically regiment the "permaculture mindset". Just learn it
and practice it and show others. Use it.