----- Original Message ----- From: "David Travis" <djtravis@hotmail.com>Perhaps if permaculture had started out as being more >centralized and democratic (as opposed to decentralized and >autocratic a la Mollison), it would have developed the sort of >infrastructure needed to move beyond demo sites and a handful >of NGO projects, but who can say?
The present way that permaculture is "organized" mimics natural systems. Nature is not centralized, nor does it work via a democratic process. Centralization promotes bureaucracy and renders the organization vulnerable to leadership mistakes. Permaculture is not an organization, but it certainly is an organism, or rather, a collection of organisms.
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