Hi folx,
A year ago now I wrote this essay, Permaculture, Participatory Development, and Resilient Governance, which I didn’t know at the time was deeply resonant with DEP and Parecon. I had heard of both, primarily through Hahnel’s books, which I hadn’t read but have been in my “queue” for years.
(Note: Forum limits me to 2 links, so my original essay can be found in either of the links below)
I wrote it to encourage debate, discussion, planning, but, you know, people aren’t inclined to read long ass articles. Anyway, two things things happened recently. Related to Eric’s September post about the use of LLMs, I asked one to apply my framework to the geopolitical issue of the GERD (giant dam in Ethiopia) and it generated a pretty great application.
https://kermito.notion.site/gerd-watershed-council
And then tonight, out of curiosity I asked it to read my article against both of Hahnel’s books, and again, fascinating.
https://kermito.notion.site/permaculture-and-parecon
As Eric suggested, I don’t take these outputs as authoritative or even necessarily valid, but they are interesting and I think worthy of conversation. I’d love to know what people think: of my essay in general if you time, and/or these LLM analyses.
Thanks in advance for any engagement.