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Greetings LAEVers!
I started a master’s thesis on LAEV years ago and ran into some conceptual speedbumps. I found the literature on globalization so top-heavy with postmodern rhetoric that I simply couldn’t bring myself to slog through it any longer. So, in my longing to give birth to something new, I decided to bring my love of Buddhism into the picture and came up with the idea of a Buddhist deconstruction of consumerism in LA-the prototypical city of consumerism. Seemed simple enough… that is, until I actually attempted it. Part I is finished – an historical geography of LA in light of the Three Poisons of Buddhism – Greed, ill-will, and delusion. Part II will confront the transformation of the three poisons into their opposites – generosity, compassion, and wisdom, using LAEV as the model of transformation. Cool, eh? I’ll make a collective analysis of this transformation, but I thought it would be great to invite all LAEV members to share their individual visions of how ecovillage life gives meaning to living an ecologically sustainable withing the three qualities – “How do you manifest generosity, compassion, wisdom in your EV daily life, choices, decisions?”
I guess I’ll write a book on procrastination, as I will be well qualified on the subject, but sometimes good things take a while.
Regards,
Scott
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