Community Reformation Re: financial diversity (WAS Development Phase) | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Wayne Tyson (landrestcox.net) | |
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:01:31 -0700 (PDT) |
CoHo: "'Tis friction's brisk, rough rub, that provides the vital spark!" --Alexander Reid Martin Cultures, tending toward concentration of power and hierarchy tend to be self-defining in terms of conflict, simply because the rules they have worked out RULE! The social impulses that drive experimentation with community reformation, that preserve social mores rather than cultural rules and laws, are, by definition, going to be in conflict with the forces of authoritarianism, even at microscopic scales, as it were. Conflict resolution is a process, not a product, and requires an investment in TIME. "They tell us we are wasting time, but we are wasting our lives!" --Eric Hoffer Experiments in community reformation like co-housing have a Herculean climb upon their shoulders, with much of the world in opposition, so the inevitable conflict comes with the territory. Such experiments are not doomed as a category, but the transition to a more interdependent, truly integrated whole requires patience, perhaps above all. Humility, even, but certainly an openness of mind to concepts corrupted by thousands of years of cultural formation. I see very encouraging signs in these exchanges, and opportunities for finding the sweet-spot on the stress curve that is enough to avoid atrophy but not so much as to cause disintegration. The heroic is not so much a flashy single act of courage/love, but persistence instead of stubbornness, and the development of personal values that recognize virtue as its own reward. WT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com> To: <eris [at] erisweaver.info>; "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [C-L]_ financial diversity (WAS Development Phase) > > > On 23 Sep 2011, at 12:30 PM, Eris Weaver wrote: > >> Greater diversity = greater opportunity for conflict! > > > And what the idealistic cohousers that we are all, we come right up against > this soon after move-in, if our diversity allows us to move in at all. > > I wonder what people think diversity is? We've talked before about how many > different kinds of diversity there are - not just ethnic or financial, but we > forget that with skin color, social class, and income levels come values. God > forbid we would have a Republican (did anyone ever locate one?). > > Liberals seem to assume that we differ in ways that bring richness to our > lives, and forget that those differences result in or are the result of > fundamentally different lifestyles and values. When you are trying to make > decisions together differing values = conflict. People have different aims. > When people have different aims, consensus is not always possible. > > When it comes to yes, no, and maybe, diversity = conflict. Unfortunately, we > aren't so patient with working through conflict to find mutually satisfying > solutions. And sometimes it isn't possible when we live in such close > quarters and are so interdepedent. > > Sharon > ---- > Sharon Villines > Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC > http://www.takomavillage.org > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > > > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1410 / Virus Database: 1520/3916 - Release Date: 09/24/11 >
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financial diversity (WAS Development Phase) Eris Weaver, September 23 2011
- Re: financial diversity (WAS Development Phase) Diane, September 24 2011
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Re: financial diversity (WAS Development Phase) Sharon Villines, September 24 2011
- Re: financial diversity (WAS Development Phase) Richard L. Kohlhaas, September 24 2011
- Community Reformation Re: financial diversity (WAS Development Phase) Wayne Tyson, September 25 2011
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