The latest issue of "Orion" magazine looked at the
environmental movement and had a collection of essays
with different viewpoints. For me the essay by Wendell was
the most interesting. The title was "in distrust of Movements".
He lists all the problems with movements including, lack
of holistic focus, not radical enough, easily diverted by
language changes or spin artists, and they get stuck inside
the world they are trying to change. He then goes on to
suggest a new way of approaching change (movements), and
this i found very interesting:
1. Give up belief in piecemeal solutions. A thousand
academic or bureucratic specialists create a chaos
of special interests and foucus. We need to build
a whole.
2. Each individual take responsiblity for their
economic actions. We need to know what we should
do and how to change before making suggestions
to others. In other words, "be the economy"
we want to live in.
3. The movement should content itself to be poor.
We need to find cheap solutions not endless
fundraising campaigns. Money attracts admisistrators
and this leads to buracuracy which struggles
with other buracuracy and goes nowhere.
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Anone can stop something
Building someting is more difficult
- Rick Bass
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Jeff Owens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Zone 7, http://www.teleport.com/~kowens
Underground house, solar energy, reduced consumption, no TV
