Tagari Update

You may recall that back in December I wrote to Tagari publishing, asking about their motive for closing down some youtube videos of a Permaculture Design Course from Melbourne Uni that was made a few years ago.

I got a response, which in itself was pleasant.  Basically, they said they can't be responsible for the world not always reaching up to my expectations (I'd said I'd thought that PC was about more than eliminating all competition - afterall my watching the videos was leading me towards paying for a PDC irl, so we'd all gain by their loss - but that I couldn't think of another relevant motivation for what appeared to be 'cornering' behaviour (to use marketingspeak)).  Which is true, as far as it goes.  The answer was a pithy little number, with a subtext of cuting me down to size with its wit (or maybe the author is just a witty person).  So, after I'd absorbed the lesson and seeing Tagari's behaviour as the epitomy of its own truth, I fired back a response saying how disappointed I was in them.  lol

And in my reactive spitefulness decided not to go to a PDC that was being held at a not too far distant working PC farm which I'd first went to in about 1990 just after it'd started up (back when PC was a movement that seemed to be full of idealists).  Which was lucky because the large amount of money this would have cost turned out to be necessary for more immediate needs in the months following.

The PDC was scheduled to start in less than a month from now.  So it would have been cancelled out by the Koalavirus.  And if I had paid for my spot, I would have been loathe to ask for my money back as the conveners probably rely on such payments, and waited the requisite time before attending at some time in post-covid reality.  And would have felt guilty if I'd asked for my money back, but as it would have been my last likely available capital for many months I would have likely done so.

So ironically, I can say Tagari saved me either a small fortune or a lot of grief with their small mindedness.  Which is kinda nice.  So far I've resisted the urge to email them and say thankyou.

Lucky the spirit of Bill is bigger than all of that, so I've continued my own adventures on the path.  More on that later...