What I see are lots of dreamers subsidizing a fantasy with income made some other way. We are trying to change the world for the better, and I can't think of anything more important than that, but we still have to eke out a living in the meantime.
Perhaps my problem is letting the naysayers get to me.
I, too, am sorting out the mind set of the different systems. What you are use to is the Master/slave system wherein you carry out one function and that supplies you with the necessary credit to purchase the product of other people's functions. Permaculture requires that one take on 'individual responsibility' and perform many functions. That is a wide psychological swing that one has to work hard to wrap your mind around. It is a fearful thing. Those working in the information end of permaculture are having to work blind while trying to discover what works. In any new or reclaimed system it takes a massive amount of trial and error. Thankfully there are people who are trying and failing and tellingthe world how they failed. The mega farm didn't spring up over night. The giant corporate farms took a century to evolve to the point where they became the norm. In the thirty years since, they have successfully murdered millions of acres of land that will grow nothing.Permaculture Is a means to repair that land and also to set people free from the Master/slave system but it will be hard. You are standing in the midst of pioneers and it seems they are going nowhere, but each failure leads to success. It is harder to grow your own food that it is to go to the supermarket, until the supermarket closes or the supply system breaks down. It's like a lake in a drought. As the water level drops, the fish die off. Our land space is diminishing we can either rejuvenate the murdered land or be prepared for Soylent Green because we can't keep doing the same thing and expect it to fix itself. The point is that each person is going to have to take responsibility for themselves and their own and stop accepting the concept of their own expandability. That is what all of these DVD's and books are about. It isn't up to "them" to save the world. It is up to "you".
