Page 6 RAIN November/December 1984 there. You know; they don't. Write a guidebook to networking or bartering, the magic processes of the alternative culture-but don't acknowledge the networks and barters used by the rest of the world. Your folkways, too, ·are superior. To enhance communication, invite Them to your saunas and hot tubs-don't even think of visiting their t>ridle trails and tennis courts, or, among the masses, their corner bars and bowling alleys. (5) Promote Your Own Dialect. Tired of pedantic jargon? Create your own hip language. Turn nouns to verbs . such as "peacing" and "futuring." Use.adjectives such as "incredible" to.describe every experience. Blows the mind, but who needs it? Use positive words such as "network," "caring," "holistic," "creativity," "synergy," "foresight," "cooperation," "transcendence," "win/ win," "human scale," and "human values." Dori't use negative words like "competition," "corporations," "com'nmnism," or "crime.''. Maybe they'll'go away. (6) Extol the Informal and the Nonacademic. Your intuition· is a safe guide, as is the common sense of the people. Ignore the elitist academics, with their ponderous footnotes and inter!TI.inable data. Accordingly, the academic journals and commercial publishers should also be dismissed, in favor of small book publishers and honest, alternative periodicals. (7) Get the Holistic Picture. You can acquire instant wisdom by taking the general systems point of view, or viewing whole systems. When you have the Big Picture· of Humanity, nature, and society, you know it all, and there is no need to learn any more. A historical perspective isn't needed because these ideas are obviously new. Two Paths to Transformation -1 . Progress 2. Results 3. Supporters 4. Opponents 5. Language 6. Information 7. Truth 8. Power I UTOPIAN/PUERILE (The prcvaili11g Way of the Sandbox) The Transformation is happening Goals are outcomes Be supportive and don't criticize; all efforts are good; no sense of evil or excellence Ignore or vilify; you are superior Create your own; ignore official definitions of reality Favor intuition and the nonacademic Perfected wisdom through instant holism Ignore it . PE.AGMATIC/MATURE (A possible pattern of the future) Weigh both successes and fai!t1res Outcomes not necessarily in accord with goals Constructive criticism; back yvinners and drop losers; evil and failure are possible Seek to debate opponents and learn from them; invite hard questions Use common language to communicate broadly; challenge ideas in power _ Seek the best in formal and nonformal, scholarly and popular Holism c.is a learning tool and unrealized ideal Ackno~-vledge it-and its very unequal distribution L~Self~-------------Yo_· u-a-re-~ntr~l; change sOlf to ch•:_w_o_r-ld_ _ __ Y_o_t~-ic_1~_=_~1a-gc_;_w-it_h_1_1a-tu_r_e_a_n_d_s_~_ci-e-ty;__n_1a_n_y_p_a_t_h_s~
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