Permafraud
Part
2
Permaculture
working with
Government
and Big Business
Gavin
Edwards
Centre
for Community Self-Sufficiency™
Lapoinya,
Tasmania.
10th October 2017
Permaculture,
Government, Big Business
and
the Truth Crisis
I
believe that this permafraud situation has come about because
permaculture works with
governments and big businesses. This is Permaculture's
fundamental strategic mistake. Governments and Big businesses don't
Care for Earth or Care for People - the permaculturists are breaking
their own principles and therefore permaculture becomes unethical and
unsustainable.
If
you are doing permaculture then you should now know that you have
been sucked in and hoodwinked by a "system" that works with
government and big business - including Monsanto, Dow, Syngenta,
Bayer Crop Science, etc. Permaculture is also linked to large media
companies, the universities doing GMO research and the ultra rich
(more on this later). You need to ask yourself if you are doing the
right thing by doing permaculture and reassess your commitment.
Why
the government supports permaculture while trying to exterminate
Self-Sufficiency
Governments
promote permaculture as the answer to a food security crisis but
there is more than one solution to that imagined problem. I find it
hard to believe in a food crisis when I can buy carrots for $25 a
tonne (too big to process) but there is a good, healthy non-sprayed
food crisis and there does seem to be a truth crisis. There really
will be a food crisis if
all our open-pollinated seeds are crossed with agribusiness' GMO
monstrosities.
Governments
promote permaculture because they want their business mates, and in
fact their own businesses (government now operates as businesses) to
take control of the green agenda and the 'alternative' food
production system. They have rushed this takeover through like the
nazi blitzkrieg. The takeover has been swift using
permaculture as a tool and now taking both sides of the food
production network they control the whole way our food is grown. That
is, if it weren't for some pesky smallholders practising
self-sufficiency standing in the way. Virtually no-one in the world
has realised what has really taken place, a lot of people have joined
the permaculturists mistakenly believing they are doing the right
thing but it is not possible to change the system from within. It
must be fought against. It must be brought into the open and
defeated.
The
sons, daughters and grandchildren of the rich are often the ones who
do permaculture; it's expensive. The rich families are usually
heavily tied up with government and big businesses. They can afford
to send their kids to expensive universities where they encounter
permaculture as a 'rebellion' against the system. Wake up fools - it
has joined with the system. You have been deceived. Lacking the
wisdom that (can) come with age - they mistakenly think they are part
of the solution. They are - the final solution. There is no going
back if we pollute our food gene pool. In truth, this is a eugenics
agenda of the ultra rich and the very evil (but you will have to wait
for me to reveal the truths on this as I am still writing it). There
is nothing wrong with wealth (within limits) if it has been gained
ethically.
The
issue is - who defines ethical?
The
governments and big businesses are the masters of spin - it is common
practice to hire large media firms to promote their agenda. These
firms often have an extreme lack of ethics. Governments and big
businesses use them to get elected, cover up chemicals spills, sell
products they know are killing people, promote policies that favour
large corporate interests and silence their competition.
Permaculture
is easily manipulatable
Governments
and NGO's have been infiltrated by vested interests for a very long
time and we can be assured that permaculture is no different. No-one
would suspect a system which on the surface appears to be anti -
establishment and about growing food.
Permaculture
now sides with the same scientists who created poison chemicals and
engineer GMO's. Australia has a track record of relying on these
experts advice. This is what has led to most of Australia's arable
soils being polluted with toxic chemicals - they told the farmers
they were safe. They lied and they are still lying. GMO's will prove,
as they have in other countries, to be a dangerous experiment. There
is no proof that they can produce more food than organic growing and
it is just a gamble to put them into the environment when no long
term studies have been done. Humans should not be the guinea pigs
and the Earth should not be the cage.
Permaculture
has developed a hero mentality that has made potential
permaculturists want to be just like them - to have that look, to be
seen to be one of them. It is ego-glorification gone wrong. It is
recreating a different system but one which retains similar values of
greed and ego. While we're on the topic of the permaculturists
themselves let's talk about drugs. My experience is that I've seen a
lot of permaculturists addicted to pot. They say it's not addictive.
Fine, give it up. They say it does no harm. Not from what I've seen.
Most pothead permies I've met have become nasty, delusional
backstabbers who I wouldn't trust any further than I could kick them.
Someone has to tell it like it is. While they are stoned and the
government doesn't interrupt their pot sideline they are of no threat
to the status quo.
The
ego-greed complex exhibited by permaculturists has it's ultimate
manifestation in the permaculturists that do business. Their
businesses are often funded by government itself, that is, by the
public. They often compete with existing small or local businesses.
This is unfair competition. The solution - work with them. Join them
or be sidelined and out competed. All fine until ethics get in the
way. Take the example of a permaculture run community garden. Most
community gardens in Australia are now controlled by permaculture.
The plan is to find a block of public land in a city or town, get it
for very little or on a peppercorn lease, and then set up a nursery
(which competes with anyone trying to do a small nursery). Then they
put in produce (often selling it cheap or giving away to the “poor”)
which competes with small-scale growers who are generally battling as
it is. Now set up they teach more permaculture and so suck more
people into the system. It's a good marketing strategy especially if
done near or at universities where there are lots of 'intelligent'
and willing suckers waiting to become permies. City people are, of
course, dying to get their hands back in the dirt without the
commitment or risk of having to move to the country. "There's no
jobs in the country", they cry. That's because people like them
have shut them all down. No wonder conventional farmers spray your
food. No wonder there's been rural decline.
A
word about rural decline
This
rural decline has been going on since before the industrial
revolution. The rich (the lords) grabbed the common land (the
commons) which was once owned by all the people. This has continued
and so we have the rich and their governments (show me poor people in
government) owning more and more of what was our common heritage. The
Industrial revolution greatly accelerated the process with tractors
and oil doing the work of thousands. They moved to the cities where
they became trapped in the urban insanity, the concrete and tar
cesspits we call civilization. Trapped and forgetting the hardships
of the land. You know, things like fresh air, green grass, farm
animals, fresh food, flowers, talking to you neighbours - those sort
of horrible things better forgotten to make way for Where is the best
place to eat out?, What's on TV? and What is the quickest way to
central avenue?
Part
of the reason smallholders have moved from the country is that
government and big business have given them a hard time. Smallholders
are made to pay for a great deal of services that they do not
receive, or in many cases, even want. They are on the leading edge of
sustainability but are being made to pay for their lifestyle choices.
For doing the right thing. It's only since governments and big
businesses realised that these people really are sustainable and that
the general public now want to go that way (in other words there's
money in it) that governments, big business and permaculture wants to
mimic it and take it over. To control it.
Smallholders
doing Self-Sufficiency benefit society
These
people should be applauded and they are the real heroes. They live
lightly on the Earth by producing what they need themselves, often
producing most of their own food, providing their own water supply
(and using less), generating their own power and generally being more
self-reliant and less of a burden on society.
There
are enormous savings in energy - food grown by conventional
agriculture is produced at an enormous energy cost. Big Ag relies
completely on fossil fuel to run the tractors and harvesters. The
crops are sprayed with poison chemicals derived from oil. Fertilizers
added are often made or mined using an enormous amount of energy and
trucked to the farm. Then food is trucked to the city. Up to 90% of
that food is wasted in the growing, harvesting, sorting, transport
and distribution. So growing your own food and providing for yourself
in the country is really the most sustainable thing a family
could do. 'Living it' is sustainability.
Is
self-sufficiency good for the economy?
Damn
the economy. The economy as it stands does not benefit smallholders
but only hinders them. Smallholders don't need the type of economy
that governments and big businesses want to impose on them. They
don't need a city persons cage economy. What we need is just for them
to leave us alone so we can live in peace. Local economies form by
themselves and do not need controlling from above. Local economies
are about trade of things that you have not produced yourself or
cannot produce. My hope is that local, community self-sufficiency can
bring down this evil economic system based on greed and lazy bastards
who do not want to grow any of their own food and provide for
themselves. Is there going to be suffering in the 'realignment'
process? Undoubtedly, but tell me there's not suffering being brought
about by wars for oil that the support the current system. Western
people just haven't been the ones paying the hidden costs, unless
that is we talk about the hidden costs of cancer treatment from
chemical pollution in our food and environment and the hidden damage
to the Earth that we need for our collective survival. Those hidden
economic costs don't tend to figure highly in the existing economy.
It's my view that self-sufficiency can lead to new local economies
that are just, rewarding and lead to more community self-reliance and
a better life.
So
let's do urban-farming-permaculture-cohabitation guys? Go milk a
chicken. I'm cranky. I'm standing up for smallholders trying to do
the right thing only to be crapped on by rich uncaring, city
permaculturists trying to take our markets. I'm a country person and
proud of it. I've done it hard, harder than most and I've survived.
Bring on the food crisis.
Why
attack Self-Sufficiency?
Simply,
because self-sufficiency is a threat. If people are more
self-sufficient they buy less and the big businesses, and now
government businesses, make less profit from us. We don't need to
travel as far - using less fuel (oil) and waste less energy. In
short, being self-sufficient threatens the whole system as it is.
People might even move from the cities back to the country and live
real, meaningful lives full of love and laughter, and give a shit
about nature and other people again. It empowers people and then
perhaps they won't need to be governed? Heaven forbid, we could have
a grass roots revolution and they could have no power over us. The
rich and powerful might be displaced, out of a job and might have to
get their hands dirty growing their own food. Sounds very good to me.
Small
businesses and smallholders have always been a problem for the rich,
government and big business needing less as they provide their own
incomes or food or both. The problem is that the government-big
business machine "the thing" has become so powerful it has
crushed most resistance.
Permaculture
has shown itself to now have joined with 'the Thing'. They have
become the Permathing. How many people can stand against them? The
answer - two - YOU and I. I will proudly stand with any man or woman
who has the guts to stand against them and not work with them. Those
who have survived the crushing process are doubly hard to kill.
One
way permaculture has tried to help kill self-sufficiency is by not
mentioning it. There is only permaculture. Everything is
permaculture. Biointensive growing isn't a permaculture technique but
was championed by Alan Chadwick and John Jeavons (and John Seymour
talked about it in The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency
in 1978). It seems
permaculture has tried to take over a lot. Even the name permaculture
comes from 'Permanent Agriculture' a
term coined by J. Russell-Smith for Tree Crops: A
Permanent Agriculture.
In, fact if you have a very close look near the front of The
Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency you
will see a whole lot of the 'permaculture' ideas. Forest
Farming by James
Sholto Douglas and Robert A de J Hart also contains a great deal of
what is permaculture. If you combine these two books with Tree Crops
name you essentially have permaculture. I won't say it's plagiarism
but I do say it's very similar. The reason this is not talked about -
Forest Farming
is not a common book. Bill Mollison being a scientist did read it.
Forest Gardening
was not a permaculture idea but was invented by Robert A. de J. Hart
in the UK. The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency
is hardly referenced in the
permaculture books. What came first? The Fat of the Land
by John and Sally Seymour in 1961.
An
infiltration attack by permaculture is happening at the moment, some
permaculturists are trying to say they are doing self-sufficiency
while in reality all they are trying to do is make money from it
without having done it. John Seymour was the founding father of
self-sufficiency. It was John Seymour who tried to preserve the
'Forgotten Arts and Crafts' which permaculturists now are trying to
take. I'm proud to teach self-sufficiency. I retain my honour.
What's
in it for government?
Everything
is at stake. What governments fear most is independent people. People
who can think for themselves. These people do not need to be
governed. If they are also self-sufficient they do not need anything
else either. Government becomes superfluous, unnecessary and they
know it. The rich run the governments, they risk losing everything
they have. They risk losing power and control. Given that
smallholders like myself aim at self-sufficiency it can be taken that
the rich, and therefore the government and big businesses, see us as
the enemy. By supporting permaculture against us they retain control.
To the permaculturists I would say be careful you don't become the
thing you hate.
What
governments are most afraid of is revolution. The American revolution
was a revolution by a backbone of immigrant Scotch-Irish small
farmers against the British. "If defeated everywhere else... I
will take my last stand for liberty among the Scotch-Irish of my
native Virginia", said George Washington. Although, I'm not sure
the native Americans thought he was native.
If
one, or more, revolutions around the world, were to happen, I
wouldn't know anything about it.
Down
with the Permathing!
Bring
on the Self-Sufficiency Revolution!
References:
Hart,
Robert A. de J. (1991). Forest Gardening. ISBN
1-870098-44-7.
Russell-Smith,
J. (1978). Tree Crops: A Permanent Agriculture. ISBN
0-06-090610-3.
Seymour,
John & Seymour, Sally. (1961). The Fat of the Land.
ISBN 0 571 10532 7.
Seymour,
John. (1978). The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency.
ISBN 0 571 110 95 9.
Sholto
Douglas, J. & Hart, Robert A. de J. (1976). Forest
Farming. Towards a Solution to Problems of World Hunger and
Conservation. ISBN
0-87857-2287.
Gavin
Edwards is The
Self-Sufficient Farmer™.
He
is an independent researcher of Edible Plants and Small-scale
Sustainable Food Production.
Gavin
and his wife, Lisa McAndrew, run
The
Good Heart School of Self-Sufficiency™
, in Lapoinya, Tasmania,
where
they teach aspiring small farmers how to run a Self-Sufficient
Smallholding™
and do Self-Sufficient
Farming™.
They
were the founders of Australia's first Sustainable
Small Farm™.
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