Designer Ways and Means

Permacultural Designers are taught to multiply the number and networking depth of relationships between species and organisms and systems and cooperative economic networks, rather than the simpler adding functions of traditional agriculture; Where, if you plant eight crops, you get eight maybe interdependent functional relationships, and maybe not so much, especially as we learn to add the evolutionary trajectory for number of functional relationships between interdependently planned species, organisms, etc., across multigenerational time. A's are given out for diversely sustained polycultural outcomes, and F's mean LoseLose failed to sustain a quasi-healthy unbalancing, running too multigenerationally fast out of control, monocultural outcome. There is something different about a third generation poor single Mom, as compared to first generation. The failing number of functional relationships of primary health focus, of nutritionally diverse balance, of color, harmony, seasonal symmetry, mutually cooperative atonement, as compared to a first generation poor single parent whose parents were actually better off in ecopolitically nutritious relationships than the dwindling aspirations horizons landscapes and climates of their own monoculturing children, and their drowning in toxins of despair grandchildren. We have this same multigenerational disparity, at least here in the U.S., between Third Generation plutocratic supremacists, rich in wealth yet poor in mental health, in their dwindling number and depth of functional diverse relationships with other species and organisms and cultures and religions, elite partnerships and competing unto death incorporations and public sector democratically oppressive lack of inclusive health and climate care assurance, As compared to their First Generation of nouveau riche, Horatio Alger stories proving the Original EcoPolitical Principle of interdependent needs and wants make systems grow longer, sustain diverse functional relationships, mutually nurture health which is, after all, a system's only true WinWin polycultural longterm outcome. In this light, I find it fascinating to explore the similarities and differences between a late middle-age denialist Donald Trump, third generation wealthy, and Elder socialist Fidel Castro, from at least three generations of not wealth, just regular folks doing the best they cooperatively could given humble circumstances, and yet great communitarian multiple-functional relationship expectations across subtle nuances of race and religion and culture and multi-sensory color and fragrance and taste and philosophy. I wonder if this has anything to do with why you find cooperatively supported small farm and garden straight to locally driven or bicycled market nutritional economies, and national health care, as a right to cooperative life multigenerational expectation in Cuba, outlasting Castro's own adolescent and young adult violent dictatorial issues, not trusting his own inherited experience as a magnate for permacultural peace of multifunctional-multigenerationally deep and rich healthy relationships. Perhaps if Donald had not been born Third Generation Entitled and if he had another decade or two to grow into more mature healthy adulthood, he could see White House potential as therapeutic for all Earth's interdependently cooperative health functions, rather than his current myopic preoccupation with what a toxic swampy dump it is, with how to sound like his cock looks as big as his militaristic fascist walk. After all, a younger Fidel had similar Trumpian oppositionally disordered issues, counting his number of guns rather than remembering to stay focused on growing the number of multiplying functional nutrients interdependently cooperative relationships across this network we Commonly hold called Earth.