Why does this take so long?

The initial aim of this blog was to attract interest by other teams and collectives to engage in an organized inquiry of how to develop a set of practical solutions material for developing or enhancing an autonomous community anywhere in the world.  But goals sometimes are either set too high to achieve, or take too long to materialize.  In such cases people who may initially share them may loose interest.  The system has altered our internal clocks to work in the rhythms of industrial machinery.  This has been partly our experience here, which we would like to share without the specifics of who, where, when.  Some of us have grown to cleanse our internal clocks and are more patient in watching change take place in human terms, not in capitalistic industrial rhythms.  Some have not been able to do so and are impatient and try to force things.  While doing so what they are forcing are their ideas on other people who are unable to share them or are unable to commit to a process where those ideas can collide, blend, and evolve into a collective product.

Counter-Infrastructure School of Autonomy

In recent weeks we have been discussing and researching ideas on infrastructure as means of dependency and extortion of especially the lowest social strata.  This inquiry begun from questions and suggestions sent by readers of this blog.  What we will attempt here is a brief introduction to the dialog that has started between us and those in contact on the subject and we will gradually incorporate our perspectives into one document that will be the product of this discussion.  We strongly believe that this is the way it should be done.  From the bottom we come into the same level and organize equally amongst us to produce something of value to all.

We don’t want your American dream!

We don’t want your dream, we want ours.  Don’t enforce your dream on us or we will fight you away!

Let’s be frank.  It is your American dream we don’t want,

- we want everyone’s different and self defined dream, the ones you can not sell to us

We don’t want a huge house full of automation,

- we want a little home full of rational simplicity

We don’t want a huge car on a huge highway, over huge bridges and tunnels, for hundreds of miles every day,

- we want simple clean transportation to the few places close by and once in a long while to visit some faraway place of interest, even if it takes too long to get there.

We don’t want huge dams and pipelines, artificial reservoirs, and chemical treatment plants

- we want clean local water from natural resources

We don’t want mass produced industrial food

- we want to locally grow clean, sustainable, organic, authentic, fresh food

We don’t want machines made out of strange dangerous metals from deep inside earth and billions of tons of toxic waste pumped through the fields around your mines,

- we want simple machines made of already plentiful recyclable materials that would last for generations

The Effective Extremist Collective

... they can't be too extreme or else they will be ignored ...

"First, social-psychological studies of small groups show that "moral exemplars" -- those who stand outside the general consensus and at first are labeled as "extremists" -- can often be very effective, but with one important qualification: they can't be too extreme or else they will be ignored. Thus, the trick for any social change agent is to be just extreme enough to be an "effective extremist."

Second, historical case studies of social change show that a very small number of highly organized and disciplined people, drawing great energy from their strong moral beliefs and supreme confidence in their shared theoretical analysis, can have a big impact."

What Social Science Can Tell Us About Social Change
by G. William Domhoff
March 2005

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/change/science.html

What schools will not do for us

- School teachers teach students

- Schools educate the “public” to be students

- Schools even “produce” teachers, that will teach students

But where do we learn how to make a school?  Do they actually teach this anywhere?

What about medical schools, they produce physicians, nurses, biologists, technicians, but nowhere do they ever teach how to make a hospital.  Or even how to organize and create an institution that addresses the health needs of the population.  So would this make it safe to assume that those who set those institutions up did not learn how to do it in any school?  They sure had the authority to do so, and so they did what they wanted to do.