Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Pets in Community Guest Room with Meat Eating Visitors

[Charles Nuckolls (administrator]

Zev and Sharon,

I agree with both of you.  But perhaps it is our frustration as a society that 
leads us to concentrate on relatively trivial issues, like pets, instead of the 
larger concerns that Zev mentions.  Call it a kind of "displacement:"  we shift 
the emotional valence to the mundane in order to avoid attention to questions 
that often seem to have no solution.  America is a deeply frustrated culture; 
we are constantly looking for screens onto which to project our anxieties.  We 
can then pretend that the problem is "out there" instead of within, and this 
gives us license to engage in all kinds of petty nonsense, from inexplicable 
adventures overseas to mind-numbing debates over Obama's birth certificate. 

Cohousing, to me, is what's real:  it's about sustaining ourselves 
environmenally and socially.  It is the profound seriousness of cohousing that 
I find most attractive.

With Regards,

Charles W. Nuckolls
Utah Valley Commons
www.utahvalleycommons.com

--- On Thu, 6/30/11, Zev Paiss <zpaiss [at] comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Zev Paiss <zpaiss [at] comcast.net>
> Subject: [C-L]_ Pets in Community Guest Room with Meat Eating Visitors
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Date: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 1:33 PM
> 
> Friends,
> 
> With the issues of economic stagnation, climate change,
> resource  
> depletion I am blown away by the topics I see in this
> Listserv. Have  
> we come to the point that we banter back and forth about
> the crumbs  
> while the house burns down.
> 
> How can the cohousing concept be part of the transformation
> of our  
> current society that is still mired in deep do do. What do
> we have to  
> offer the country and to our communities? That is what I
> think we  
> should be going back and for about.
> 
> Zev
> 
> 
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