Control

One emergent theme in this new set of positive values is the relinquishing of control. Yes, everything we do implies some degree of control. Even the permaculture techniques that insist on nature taking back control are really using a concentration of organized matter and energy - the individual and tools - to realize a set of conditions favorable to the manipulator, albeit a set of conditions that relegates more controls to living systems outside one's immediate locus of manipulation. Control then is predicated on the fear of destruction. But that fear, as we've learned through studies of paranoia, eventually turns back on itself, and accelerates the destruction of the fearful entity. One must strike a balance, between control and release.