1. Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of
other species
2) Food that liberates
the planet
3) Food that liberates
the human mind &
body
4) How not to be
enslaved by addictions
5) How to free
our meals &
economies from
the
Multinationals
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2. 5) How to free our meals & economies
from the Multinationals
a) What does 'living without money'
mean? Why is this idea so popular?
b) Why is vegetarianism so popular
with alternative cultures? When is it
useful & for whom?
c) How does Oppression work? Why
is it crucial to understand its
mechanics?
d) What Vision are we working
towards? Why it's important to
distinguish Visioning from
Transitioning?
With examples of who is
doing great work, where,
& including how currently
we jeopardise the
optimum intelligence &
fitness needed to design
critical transitions
3. FreeThinkers
are those who are willing
to use their minds without prejudice
& without fearing to understand
things that clash with their own
customs, privileges, or beliefs.
This state of mind is not common,
but it is essential for right thinking;
where it is absent, discussion is apt
to become worse than useless.
Leo Tolstoy
4. DOING Permaculture is easy:
Which way our nose is
pointing = what mental
models we are using (or which
beliefs we are acting on).
so CHANGING
direction = doing a
Paradigm-Change
Nose mis-direction is a major way we are jeopardising the
design critical transitions.
"Start at the end of your nose!"
5. Knowledge is
having the
right answers
Intelligence is ASKING
THE RIGHT QUESTIONS
INTEGRITY is about
looking out for the hidden holy legumes
(information that conflicts with our core belief system)
6. why we use multi-media > > >
we encourage real debate > > >
suggest NEW things to try > >
& support STUDY CIRCLES >
How we
Learn
(& un-learn)
8. We
think
that ...
The most
neglected
direction for
most PC design:
eg. noticing,
questioning &
re-designing the
stories we live
by.
(Alt. CULTURE)
The 'default'
direction for
most PC
design:
eg. my life,
my home,
one piece of
land, one
village, etc.
we need
much more
systemic
thinking
(good teaching
required)
by designers
with a lot
more self-
awareness &
integrity (healthy
community required)
Integral
PC Design
9. 5) How to free our meals & economies
from the Multinationals
a) What does 'living without
money' mean? Why is this idea
so popular?
b) Why is vegetarianism so popular
with alternative cultures? When is it
useful & for whom?
c) How does Oppression work? Why
it is crucial to understand its
mechanics?
d) What Vision are we working
towards? Why it's important to
distinguish Visioning from
Transitioning?
With examples of
who is doing great
work, where,
& including how
currently we
jeopardise the
optimum intelligence
& fitness needed to
design critical
transitions
10. we suggest that "living without money"
is a wrong answer to the wrong question
A more useful question would be
"how can we eliminate oppression"?
(knowing that 'everything affects everything' so we can't do it for ourselves without doing it for everyone else)
but because it's couched in the 'me, me,
me' paradigm (IT quadrant) it ends up as
"how can I have more freedom"
(&, essentially, "stuff everyone else")
11. Work with Nature
> Work increasingly >> against Nature
Learn from Real Life: who is most oppressed by WORK?
Leavers: "Live & Let Live,
Take Just What We Need"
Takers: "Take Control, Struggle to
Keep Wants, Take Drugs to Relax"
"Lifestylism" is usually the right
answer to the wrong question
12. >> Work with the Nature of
the types of money we have:
WHAT do we INVEST our
money IN, & FOR?
& by WHICH TYPE (design) of money? >> WHAT is money anyway?
Learn from Real Life: who is most oppressed by MONEY?
Leavers: "Live & Let Live,
Take Just What We Need"
Takers: "Take Control, Struggle to
Keep Wants, Take Drugs to Relax"
These are different PARADIGMS
There are radical (systemic) &
superficial (linear) ways to look at
the world ...
<<< Radical: function
Liberal: form >>>
Margrit Kennedy: PC
Pioneer who deeply
questioned the DESIGN of
our Economies, & of Money.
It is COMPOUND INTEREST
that is at "the root of all
evil", NOT money.
13. Other Integral Women Pioneers did similar radical work
and are similarly un-celebrated in conventional permaculture teachings
Hazel Henderson Nicole Foss
They all come from a
much more
INTEGRAL
perspective: way
ahead of their times,
we're just now
understanding how
important this
pioneering work is.
How is the 'perfect storm'
forming (economy, peak oil,
politics, climate change, ...)
What can we learn from the
past to predict what's going
to happen?
What can we do to minimize
the damage of capitalism?
We need to change
how we invest
all resources (incl.
money) to build
the alternatives
+ HOW to survive
the coming crisis.
14. Free EcoEconomics
Intro Course
based on the
interviews
www.bit.ly/
EcoEconomy
It is very important now
that we cultivate
basic eco-economics
literacy especially
amongst designers &
social activists.
15. Other Integral Women Pioneers did similar radical work
and are similarly un-celebrated in conventional permaculture teachings
Helena
Norberg-Hodge
Dana Meadows
They all come from a
much more
INTEGRAL
perspective: way
ahead of their times.
Why are traditional
communities happier
than ours?
Why & How do they
change with
"development"?
10 Places to Intervene
in a System
...
3. The power of self-
organization
2. The goals of the system
1. The mindset or
paradigm out of which the
system arises
Change how we see
the world
to change the
direction
we're moving towards.
Learn from Native
Peoples.
16. "Lifestylism" is usually
the right answer to the
wrong (individualistic)
question.
BUT, great for transition IF ...
- I start to question deeply held
entitlement patterns
- I learn to live more simply
- I get to empathise more with
poor world majority
eg. to "Live without Money"
makes sense if ...
- I want to feel good/stay as
comfortable as possible
- I think I can escape 'the
system'
- I feel hopeless at the scale
of the problem
- I don't understand how it
all works on a systems scale
- I only know others in this
'lifestyle' tribe (community),
so this is my 'normal'.
17. Activism is to fight with
integrity for a more radical,
systemic & especially
pragmatic collective action.
eg. to re-direct resources to
co-create a non-oppressive
society for ALL life-forms:
- I vote with all & any money
I can get my hands on
- I value & USE my privilege
to leverage resources
- I feel empowered by seeing
real results for others also
- I have a more holistic,
systemic model to work from
- I work with other activists
(community)
- I get to question entitlement
- I don't romanticize poverty
Some
very
BASIC
positive
attitudes
are
required:
- I realize
resistance
is essential
- I work to
build
alliances
18. Why is this idea so popular?
So ... What does 'living without money' mean?
- essentially very little!
- that we are escaping OR experimenting &
hopefully action-learning
- that we have a superficial money model (confuse
Capitalism/Imperialism with Money, & confusing ends with
means can totally de-rail us)
- that we don't believe we have real power
- & /or we've given up working collectively for
large-scale social change
- it's one of the Weapons of Mass Distraction: popular by
definition as it require very little thought or real effort
- it doesn't threaten anything (our own hopelessness
patterns or the system)
- it helps to keep activists poor! (& to that extent,
inefectual, in a world fuelled by money)
19. How do we REVERSE this process?
(the right question)
1) by CHAMPIONING* Leavers &
other Native Species
2) STOP further invasion & destruction
by Takers
3) = CHANGE Taker Culture (change
OUR paradigms)
This is all STILL
happening today
- spot the pattern -
& 'in front of your nose' is a good place to
start (go where invited)
20. What's it got to do with How to free our
meals & economies
from the Multinationals ??
Lucy Parsons
21. What's it got to do with How to free our
meals & economies
from the Multinationals ??
Multinationals = the
current destructo-
machinery of Taker
Culture
Agriculture > Civilization >
Patriarchy > Taker
Consciousness > Destructo-
Culture > Capitalism >
Imperialism ... call it whatever
you like, ....
> > > this is the general
PATTERN & method > > >
22. 5) How to free our meals & economies
from the Multinationals
a) What does 'living without money'
mean? Why is this idea so popular?
b) Why is vegetarianism so
popular with alternative cultures?
When is it useful & for whom?
c) How does Oppression work? Why
it is crucial to understand its
mechanics?
d) What Vision are we working
towards? Why it's important to
distinguish Visioning from
Transitioning?
With examples of
who is doing great
work, where,
& including how
currently we
jeopardise the
optimum intelligence
& fitness needed to
design critical
transitions
23. A potted history of
vegetarianism
"if we don't understand our history, we are doomed to repeat it"
- inexistent vegetarian Leaver Cultures
- but v. interesting Taker sub-cultures which
have experimented with vegetarianism:
> organized religions: christianism, buddhism...
(function: to lower libido, go more 'spiritual' = anti-body in Taker cultures)
(modern puritanism: Graham crackers, Kellog cereals, Boy Scouts...)
> Wandervogel pre-nazi german youth culture
1896-1933 (function: to be more "pure" and healthier... )
> some modern sub-cultures (function: 'non-violence')
24. "Non-violence" is
usually given today as the
fundamental reason behind
- 'rejecting money'
AS WELL AS
- 'not eating animals'
AND EVEN avoiding debate
(with people with
contrasting models)
But to effectively ELIMINATE violence,
we have to understand where the violence ORIGINATES :
we have to ask the right questions
(nose pointed in useful directions)
25. Is a mother eagle
violent when she
attacks any threat to
her chicks?
We are TAUGHT to confuse
anger with violence - they
are NOT the same thing!
Patriarchy is all ABOUT
violating healthy boundaries.
ANGER is a natural defense
to boundary violation.
26.
27. It's GENOCIDE
& it all
starts with
Agriculture
so WHY
do we
keep
doing
it?
28. The Human Brain designed to work on nutrient-
dense foods (= animal foods)
& if it doesn't
get them, it
makes us seek
substitute "feel
good chemicals"
dopamine, oxytocin, endorphin (& other endogenous opioids), GABA,
serotonin, adrenaline, endocannabinoids ...
CUSTOM creation, processing & elimination (SELF REGULATING)
our natural state is to be HIGH !
FATS
cholesterol
A, D
K2
Mg, I,
Zn, Se
Omega 3
& Omega 6
+ discharge, sleep, nature, love ...
30. When is it useful & for whom?
So ... Why is vegetarianism so popular with
alternative cultures?
- alternatives (green v.meme) is very compassionate
(tries to be INCLUSIVE but often mis-directs to whom as still not
systemic, and anti-levels)
- in a death-phobic culture, 'not killing' is equated
with 'compassionate'
- that we have superficial system models
(eg. confuse civilization with industrialization)
- very useful for de-tox, but longer-term can
become another Weapon of Mass Distraction
- it doesn't threaten anything (our hopelessness
patterns or the system)
- it helps to keep activists unhealthy both physically
& mentally (& therefore inefectual)
31. What's it got to do with How to free our
meals & economies
from the Multinationals ??
Multinationals brain-wash us constantly through
very good designs of the fashion, food, health,
psychiatric, medical & pharmaceutical industries
There are (legal &
illegal) drugs,
'products'
but also
LIFESTYLES
perfectly designed
for each section of
the population.
32. 5) How to free our meals & economies
from the Multinationals
a) What does 'living without money'
mean? Why is this idea so popular?
b) Why is vegetarianism so popular
with alternative cultures? When is it
useful & for whom?
c) How does Oppression work?
Why is it crucial to understand its
mechanics?
d) What Vision are we working
towards? Why it's important to
distinguish Visioning from
Transitioning?
With examples of
who is doing great
work, where,
& including how
currently we
jeopardise the
optimum intelligence
& fitness needed to
design critical
transitions
33. - it works by staying un-conscious
(oppression is totally 'normalized' for civilized people)
"One of the principal means
used by class societies to
maintain their oppression and
exploitation of people has been
to secure the cooperation of
different groups of people in
oppressing each other.
search for
"Oppression" in
PermaCulture
Science.org
Every person in
our societies is
locked into both
oppressed and
oppressor roles."
34. - it confuses us by changing
form, but not function (to keep
us divided, oppressing each other)
eg.
women in
the 'west'
can now
be
executives
but ...
eg. we condemn 'barbaric
practices' like genital
mutilation, but spend millions
on cosmetic surgery in the west
eg. we romanticize &
consume native cultures
instead of learning about &
supporting their current
struggles
35. - it majorly messes up
our priorities
(gives us skewy sense of
proportion > we can't
accurately assess what's really
going on)
36. - it keeps us enslaved, by a miriad 'invisible threads'
"... to secure the
cooperation of different
groups of people in
oppressing each other.
This has been done by
installing and maintaining
attitudes of racism,
prejudice, discrimination,
sexism, and the oppression
of young people between
the different sections of
the oppressed population."
37. A potted history of
prejudice
"if we don't understand our history, we are doomed to repeat it"
- natives are 'primitive'
- witches are 'evil'
- jews are 'greedy'
- commies are 'traitors'
- activists are 'terrorists'
- feminists are 'bitter'
38. - it is the major defense system of the Destructo-
Culture (it kicks in wherever there are effective activists or real
change is about to happen - if we don't understand this ...)
Witch burnings: 40,000 to 60,000
women tortured & murdered in public
between 1480 - 1750
"The witch hunts began a
process of criminalization of
birth control that eventually
led to an enormous increase in
birth rates that is described as
the "population explosion" of
early modern Europe.
This population explosion
produced an enormous youth
bulge which supplied the extra
manpower that would enable
Europe's nations, during the
period of colonialism and
imperialism, to conquer and
colonize 90% of the world"
Silvia Federici "Caliban & the Witch"
39. 6,000,000 Jewish people
- scape-goated for the massive
economic depression after WW1
(predicted by Silvio Gesell)
- typical 'blaming the victim'
mechanisms used
- stigmatized as money-lenders,
from Medioeval times
- prejudice that continues to
this day (& used to confuse people
about the banking system)
- Jews are 'set up' to take the blame
when the system needs a scapegoat
- it is the major defense system of the Destructo-
Culture (it kicks in wherever there are effective activists or real
change is about to happen - if we don't understand this ...)
Rumor & prejudice are used to get
the population to hate the 'different'
ones. A process of objectification
which always precedes ('justifies')
violence against those people.
40. - it silences & makes us dis-respect most those groups
who can more clearly see how the system works (& so
would be our best leaders & teachers)
Karla Mantilla -
"postmodernism came into
vogue in academia just when
the voices of women and
people of color began to
assert a significant presence
there. It seems that when
groups other than those in
power attempt to say things,
suddenly truth dissolves into
meaninglessness."
... not the first time it happened
The 'lower down' in society an oppressed group is ... the more likely
it is to see how things are connected ('under the motherboard')
Sophia Stewart, the Real
Creator of ‘The Matrix'
41. - it is used to justify all of the massively brutal
violence in civilization's history
www.bit.ly/HorizontalHostility
Massive
anger &
frustration
are mis-
directed
42. Why is it crucial to understand its mechanics?
So ... How does Oppression work?
- it works by staying un-conscious (oppression is totally
normalized for civilized people)
- it confuses us by changing form, but not function
- it majorly messes up our priorities
(gives us skewy sense of proportion)
- it keeps us enslaved, by a miriad 'invisible threads'
- it is the major defense system of the Destructo-
Culture (it kicks in wherever there are effective activists or real change
is about to happen - if we don't understand this ...)
- it silences & makes us dis-respect most those groups
who can more clearly see how the system works (& so
would be our best leaders & teachers)
- it is used to justify all of the massively brutal
violence in civilization's history
43. What's it got to do with How to free our
meals & economies
from the Multinationals ??
The 'imaginal cells' of a more
just, progressive, sustainable &
compassionate culture that is
trying to be born ...
have always been under
attack for being 'the different
ones'.
They understand what new
organs we need to create IN
ORDER TO liberate us from
the multinationals.
Oppression is the mechanism
that is used to kill or isolate
them.
44. Marinaleda, a model communty of 2,700 people
in Andalucía
It has a proud working-class culture,
celebrating resistance & solidarity
(very un-postmodernist)
Organized to occupy land during 80s &
90s, then ensured all citizens had work,
affordable housing, child care, medical &
elderly care. Has no municipal police
(saving $350,000 a year)
While in Andalusia 30% of the active
population was without work (crisis 2008 -
2010) in Marinaleda full employment was
achieved.
Why?
Not usually mentioned as a great
example of 'ecovillage' or 'community'.
45. Damanhur, a community of 600 people
in Valchiusella
They have leveraged 'conventional
money' by creating a whole new
system of money, land ownership,
including own currency & own banks.
Like Marinaleda, have taken over the
local council (work at political level)
but also have global ambitions.
Have very unconventional ideas about
spirituality, & humans' role in Creation.
Why?
Not as known as it could be as a
great example of alternative
economics.
46. 5) How to free our meals & economies
from the Multinationals
a) What does 'living without money'
mean? Why is this idea so popular?
b) Why is vegetarianism so popular
with alternative cultures? When is it
useful & for whom?
c) How does Oppression work? Why
is it crucial to understand its
mechanics?
d) What Vision are we working
towards? Why it's important to
distinguish Visioning from
Transitioning?
With examples of
who is doing great
work, where,
& including how
currently we
jeopardise the
optimum intelligence
& fitness needed to
design critical
transitions
47. - we need a VERY CONSCIOUS, informed &
consensual vision (much CHALLENGING DEBATE required)
Do we want
- a living planet
- where there's always more life
- with many human cultures
- evolving with-in their landbase
or do we want to
- 'save' civilization & 'improve' agriculture
- keep our comforts & drugs
- adapt the world to our whims
- rather than adapt our cuture
to Nature?
Each of us needs to DECIDE -& only the first vision has a future:
Totally changing our personal then social paradigm. So that we can do some
serious Global-scale Ecosystem Restoration > applying integral design locally
... that needs to be different for each place (there's no recipes, but there are
Natural Laws + sound Design Principles). Some examples for inspiration ...
49. Dan Barber:
How I fell in love with a fish
Keys: Letting the land be
what it wants to be, allowing
all life to coexist, including
predators!
Wetlands
Veta La
Palma
50. Allan Savory:
How to fight desertification
and reverse climate change
Key: Empowering people
by teaching Holistic Management (Integral design)
using ruminants as technology to fight climate change + hunger and poverty
Grasslands
Holistic Grazing
51. Why is it important to distinguish
Visioning from Transitioning?
So ... What Vision are we working towards?
- firstly a VERY CONSCIOUS, informed & consensual
vision (much CHALLENGING DEBATE required)
- give up the idea of 'civilized' (city-centred) being
more advanced than 'tribal' (community-centred)
- good designers can differentiate between
FUNCTION & CONTEXT (a critical difference)
- experience tells us that the Path of Least Resistance
is never a straight one (nose needs to point in
GENERAL right direction BUT also be flexible, &
respond intelligently to feedback)
52. What's it got to do with How to free our
meals & economies
from the Multinationals ??
Multinationals have designed
their global domination so
well not by agreeing to do
the same things, or
'working together', but by
working diligently, separately,
toward a very clear common
vision & principles (those of
imperialism).
An Integral (inclusive)
framework for creating
sustainable cultures needs to
do the same (BASIC) thing:
INTEGRATE rather than
segregate, value diversity BUT
take only what is really
practical & useful in each.
sustainability
has a scientific
DEFINITION
Transitioning
Visioning
53. Green v.meme
rejects previous
Orange (science-
based) v.meme
instead of
INTEGRATING
it at a higher level
It is not that difficult to
1) INTEGRATE rather than
segregate
2) value diversity
3) BUT take only what is really
practical & useful in each
IF we agree to a scientific (rather
than pseudo-scientific) approach
55. Incredible Edible - Todmorden's Food Revolution
"Our aim is to make our town
entirely self-sufficient in food
production by 2018.
(Pam Warhurst)
Started with the "propaganda
planting" of vegetables around the
town centre.
"The old health centre has plenty
of land in front, so it was ideal.
I didn't ask anyone's permission:
I just went there with my spade
and my seeds and I planted
cabbages and rhubarb."
(Nick Green)
56. The Coconut Revolution
- successful uprising of the
indigenous
peoples of Bougainville Island
- stopped mining plans of the
mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc
(forcibly closed down the mine)
- against a heavily armed
adversary they still managed to
retain control of most of their
island.
- Bougainville Revolutionary Army
overcame marine blockade
by repairing abandoned vehicles,
making fuel from coconut oil,
becoming self-sufficient in food
and building their own weapons
57. Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
- for 50 years oil has been mined
from the Niger Delta, destroying the
ecosystems and poisoning the people.
- MEND started as non-violent,
organized by college-educated people
- all the leaders were hanged.
After that it radicalized.
- they've been very effective in
stopping the oil flow
- with their own training, weapons
and lots of local support
63. FreeThinkers
are those who are willing
to use their minds without prejudice
& without fearing to understand
things that clash with their own
customs, privileges, or beliefs.
This state of mind is not common,
but it is essential for right thinking;
where it is absent, discussion is apt
to become worse than useless.
Leo Tolstoy
64. Presented by
Stella & Jose
Program
1) Food freedom of
other species
2) Food that liberates
the planet
3) Food that liberates
the human mind &
body
4) How not to be
enslaved by addictions
5) How to free
our meals &
economies from
the
Multinationals
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