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CONCLUSION
Any community truly dedicated to wholism and sustainability must recognize
the equal importance of the sciences, the trades, and arts of all kinds.
As New Villagers, we must strive to dissolve outdated, dysfunctional hierarchies
among disciplines and encourage creative crosspollination, revering the
arts right along with the sciences. Continued undervaluing of the essential
teachings that the various intuitive practices and arts have for each
of us and our communities would be a Type One error—one which makes
all future endeavors towards sustainability nearly impossible.
Radical experimentation with diversity in movement, story, and song—both
personally and in community—is now especially important in order
to reveal crucial information for how we can heal ourselves from unsustainable
societal patterns. Improvisational and participatory arts as a practice
in the studio, on the stage, and around the campfire better prepares us
to improvise in life. And improvisation is a skill that will become more
and more valuable as the pace of climate, social, and technological change
continues to accelerate. New Villagers must follow precedents already
established by natural law and indigenous peoples, and restore the creative,
immediate arts to a central place in our community designs. Nothing less
than the preservation of the human race is at stake.
"The universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry
spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity—those
who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance
at divinity—those who mold themselves blind masks of Ideas &
thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing
out of dead men’s eyes."
– Hakim Bey
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