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Paolo Soleri's Glossary of Terms |
Stewardship
Stewardship is the caring for those
things which are the responsibility of the steward. He keeps
them in top form. It is said, man must be the active , involved
keeper of nature. So far, so good, under the assumption that the keeper
has knowledge and wisdom sufficient for the task. A conservative
task, by definition.
A strict adherence to this model can
be immediately faulted: evolution is not (only) conservation,
evolution is transformation, metamorphosis indeed.
A single-minded preservation of the
present (the past) is an automatic dismissal of the "future" ( the invention of more past ). Thus a stewardship
that is not bigoted is a stewardship that clearly is, lets
say, half of that which is going on and which is in need of
understanding and participation. This continent eons ago,
or the planet itself, had no biomass of any sort. Fortunately,
"stewardship" was not around then. The same can be observed
for the 3.5 eons ever since. The biomass has now a mind,
us. Such mind, the latest invention of the biomass, has to
be part of the stewardship conservation drive as it has to
be the spearhead of metamorphosis, the other half. |
