Resilience

By Ruben

Resilience: The ability of humans to cope with life's adversities, overcome and even be transformed by them.
Grotberg (1995)

Sounds like a lot of silence said the lizard from the living room wall Mexican ear, hearing that someone asked during a class. Nobody understands anything, he went the lizard, that if the oil peak, if the shekels shattered, not to that brought me to this course of permaculture, a good thing flies are very good functional and leaving the Tea time Bees are my favorite dessert (although sometimes the wins me Susan!). Shut up and quietly told the Mexican.
Resilience refers to the systems capacity to absorb (bear) disturbances, regenerate and even come out stronger. He read the definition, but more than one side to follow did not understand. He spoke the professor: It has to do with systems that are stable in nature, based on infinite relationships, ecosystems are re-established after a hurricane for example, or a simple fall from a tree. "Each item has several functions and each function is performed by multiple elements, that gives resilience"
But until the lizard understood when completed Crazy: It's like putting more legs to a table!
The linear systems are more "efficient" (in terms of the economy badly understood) that in our time by the dominant culture (the single thought) is becoming more efficient and more fragile, when it falls on a bank uses banks fall worldwide.
The lizard recalled his years in southern Mexico and thought of another word: Resistance ... and recalled the struggle of indigenous peoples around the world to not be absorbed by the linear, efficient, resilient little greedy and neoliberal system. There is no act more rebellious and more autonomy to grow our food. For resistance must have resilience and vice versa.

Several days later the ground ensured that we reached an understanding: from dawn to the sound of 8.8 degrees danced all the trees. All human systems have collapsed: no electricity, no phone (any kind) no water, no roads, no gasoline (petrol) ... There, 50 people stayed for a world disconnected but connected to the ground ... and the earth, the Pacha Mama, mother map luuma nanatik he replied. Made sense to have garnered so much potato, made sense the hand pump, dry toilets, natural building (and small), made sense of community, organization, ethics ... A few miles away, while we sang and the earth people kept moving in the city went into shock and did what had never imagined ... the system had collapsed, disappeared ethics and fear and disorder, took their place.

The earth as revealed to us, there is a fragile and unjust system, has accumulated a lot of pressure (hundreds of years of injustice and pressure) this explains why only after fighting someone in the family rice go for a TV!
The lizard did not stop talking about resilience and how fragile is the dominant system. I still sounds like a lot of silence, "again whispered in the ear of the Mexican lizard, because things that work well do not make noise ...

There was a large fire, the moon was in its glory and animals in the distance warned us that the earth was still trembling, in the circle around the fire passed the snuff of the word. And word for word the people did nothing but confirm that he understood the message and that resilience also involves the "relationships" human, spiritual and multiple connectivity we have between us and nature.