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Sadpanic's avatar

When "democracy" can no longer in principle degenerate into a food fight, something is terribly wrong. The rebirth-struggle of death defying renewal is a composting process: rot serves to fertilize the inspired life-force powerfully motivated to get some distance on the persistent flies and bad smells. The urge to live is often too focused on running toward, and not enough on the often more credible running from.

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Ellie Kona's avatar

HCR Reader Matthew Goulet offered us the concept of "deep gardening" to keep our democratic process.

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Cara Sadownick's avatar

pls repost that analogy?

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Ellie Kona's avatar

With our limited searchability on Substack, we're lucky I remembered Matthew Goulet's name! "Deep gardening" builds on Sadpanic's metaphor about composting to fertilize democracy.

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Dave Conant - MO's avatar

Accepting the truth of that statement, the next upsurge of democratic activism will be powerful indeed because the layer of fertilizer runs very deep right now.

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