13091 You can do this!
Those who believe they can do something and those who believe they can’t are both right. — Henry Ford
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. — Helen Keller
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Here you are. You have read through all 388,000 words of iPermie Your mind is packed with new concepts and ideas. No doubt a couple of hundred thousand words ago you began to think . . . “This is too much information!”
That little devil sitting on your shoulder, representing the Excess Consumption System Design urgently whispers in your ear.
This is bogus to the max! No one could ever do this! You could break your brain trying to understand this stuff. There’s no emergency! You have plenty of time! Climate change and peak oil are like Y2k, all hype, no reality. You should go shopping, buy some great stuff, and then go out with your friends and get so wasted you have to be carried home. That’s the life!
All systems defend themselves and the Excess Consumption System Design is no different. You have been programmed from birth to be an unquestioning part of that design. You’re supposed to be an obedient little worker bee, your lifetime productivity indentured to the parasitic international finance system, guaranteed to consume and excrete and consume more on a regular schedule.
But the call of permaculture is to rise up and come out of that Babylon of degradation and destruction before it collapses around and on you in an orgy of ecological devastation.
You can be part of the solution, or you will be part of the problem.
Those are the only choices. Everyone takes the red pill or the blue pill.
If you think you can refuse to choose, you get the blue pill by default.
The journey itself — how you get there — is as important as your ultimate goals.
iPermie is not the only way out of the problem and into the solution, but it is an effective way. Like all permaculture strategies, it has the advantage of being comprehensive and holistic, helping you to observe and understand the patterns that govern and direct the energies of our lives.
The iPermie project is best approached in company with others, as part of a learning community. If you skipped over the call to community, now would be a good time to revisit that decision. Getting out of the problem and into the solution is much more fun, exciting, and productive in company with others.
While permaculture is a holistic design approach, it can — and certainly should — be approached one thing at a time. It’s like the tired old joke, “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”
So there is nothing wrong with deciding to concentrate on one aspect of iPermie for a period of time. With 13 sections, you and your learning community could work on one section a month and be done in 13 months. Or y’all may decide you need two or three months per section, and then you finish in two to three years. That is not too short of a time to devote to planning your entire life.-
If you can summon belief and confidence in yourself, you can do iPermie
- Procrastination is your enemy.
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
So don’t delay, start today! All that you love and that care for you, the planet and all of its wild menagerie of life, depend upon you to do the right thing for yourself, the planet, and the future.
Remember: each one tells two is the way to start a viral movement for compassionate, humane, and just social change to build a society that cares for people, cares for the planet, and has a care for the future.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. — Marie Curie
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. — Lee Ann Womack
It is never too late to be what you might have been. — George Eliot.