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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
The processes of the development of intelligent ecotourism in communities
One of the major problems with sustainable development is the methodologies that are used. In the occidental society they have developed criteria for work in functions of money, time, and space that respond to the Euro-North American vision, where they successfully invented and applied these three elements as a measurement of actual reality.
THE CONTRADICTION BETWEEN THE CONCEPTS OF TIME, SPACE, AND MONEY OF THE ANDEAN WORLD AND OF THE URBAN OCCIDENTAL CULTURE
Time (hours, minutes, & seconds) is an English invention, the meter is a French invention, and money is an invention of urban Euro-Asia. These concepts are not comprehensible in the Andean world, where they have to see the value of something, or the aging and passing of time, and sense the distance in this latitude of the planet.
Money is what determines the price of something; in the Andean world it is a relation between the necessity and the opportunity of the things they value because what they need in a given moment is not established by price or by the use of money.
Time, in the Andean world, relates to the energy that they dispose of; time does not respond to what a clock or calendar says. Therefore it is confusing when a tourist asks what time they should arrive someplace and the person’s answer does not comply with the tourist’s conception of time.
Distance is the physical space of a dimension, not a meter or a kilometer; in a way it is how big or small something is, or how near or far from the center of capacity it is, it does not come from a measurement.
We are able to confirm where the money is most needed before we start a given project. Also, time drags on when there is little enthusiasm, so a determined project should have lots of energy generated from the idea and the plan and should not be determined or constrained by an abstract time frame such as a year, etc.
The procuress of a project is determined by the ability of individual and collective force to occupy a space.
MONEY AS A MOTIVE FOR THE PROJECT AND FOR THE NECESSITIES OF THE PEOPLE
In the urban society, developed by the occidental culture, money is so necessary that without it, people cannot eat. They may suffer from horrible situations, such as life-threatening diseases, due to lack of money when they are not able to pay for hygienic water services.
The projects that normally respond to the comprehension of reality from the urban world vision view money as a point of departure and arrival for everything.
Normally, when money arrives to a community, it distracts them from their objective and they produce what could be called waste. People that live in rural communities do not want to spend all of the project money on a project when they do not even have all of their vital necessities. Furthermore, the project money creates necessities, or better yet, illusions, that cause anxiety and disorders the reality of rural people. Thus, if the project is created by outsiders, then the sites first decide what their priorities are, not the priorities of the project, and they use the money for other things. Another element to consider is that people of a community can come into conflict and dispute for a share of the money and the things that it can provide for the accountant of a project. The money appears to be a gift that he has access to; and the people that borrow this money are ungrateful as it seems he has an unlimited amount. When the accountant reclaims the money, he then becomes an enemy and if some pay and others do not, then those that don’t pay are considered to be traitors to the group that complied with the obligations.
Oppositely, to be the holder of philosophies for a project takes personal strength and ability; the most valuable projects should be the creation of learning structures that, furthermore, permit the acknowledgement of the people. But right now this is distorted into those that take courses have the right to travel and to enjoy special treatment, which creates a dangerous and harmful situation.
TIME WITHIN THE PROJECTS
The events of the Andean world do not follow a horizontal line as they do in the urban world. The events follow imprecise forms, like a spiral staircase; the energies put toward something live in moments of hard work and moments of depression. The projects in the Andean world function like systems of rituals, without definable time; the people of the communities learn to understand and to manage their environment and their behavior. It is necessary to decide what the indications are to continue or to end the project. So we, for example, stop a project when the community encounters help other than us, or when we see that the collective enthusiasm disappears or does not come at all, or when they produce an irreversible disorder. The ability to enter and leave a community project is important in order to not exhaust forces and resources. This is one of the fundamental differences between us and the models of the projects that are financed by international organizations, governments, or urban societies. They firmly believe that something must begin and conclude with an obligatory time in a specific place and that it is not admissible to withdraw from the place if it was not in the previous plan. They will not admit to the spontaneity of the process.
RELATIONS BETWEEN THE SOCIAL MOTIVES OF A PROJECT, THE PEOPLE AFECTED BY THE PROJECT, AND THE INTERESTS OF THE PROJECT
The process depends on a relation between the motive of a project, the activity proposed, and the community.
The relation between the motive of a project and the proposed activity (tourism in our case) depends on the results obtained, which, for the most part, is translated into money, products, or thoughts to maintain the process.
The relation between the motive of the project and the people of the community depends on the energies generated and the job they do together. It is the sensation of life together that maintains this relation.
And the relation between the proposed activity (tourism) and the people of the community depend on the duration of the activity. People of a community can stay in the activity even though the results are not encouraging if they feel the illusion of life.
For the urban vision, the community would appear as a homogenous body, but in reality, the Andean communities are conflicted groupings of people with characters, temperaments, necessities, and their own selfish thoughts that make the structure conflictive. This is the automatic trigger that historically exists from the independence of
You could say that the key element of a community project is the person that acts as a social motive of change. This person can bring about more than all of the rest of the community put together. He represents what we could call the point of the sword, or the edge of a knife, without which the weapon is inefficient. Furthermore, he signifies the thought that moves the hand. This person can attract renegades and, with them, can generate a great change.
The people of the community signify the energy that nourishes the enthusiasm of the social motive of change, but are not the social motive of change itself. The people are only contributors.
THE GOALS OF THE PROJECTS
The difference between the projects generated by the occidental conception (or the urban world) and the Andean world is that in the urban society, they base their success in the fulfillment of goals for stages that are artificially planted, that are brought from a point of departure to a point of arrival; while the projects planted by the societies of resistance to occidental culture, especially the Andean society, create what cannot be periods or goals, but casual processes in which favorable winds move the vessel along and create a direction to follow, recognizing in this path necessary resources, with their attention set to opportunities that make them permanently alert to make use of the winds and the facilities.
CASUALTY AS A DETERMINANT FACTOR
The occidental society emerged from the agricultural-farming society into the industrial-commercial society and developed the system of organization for the exercise of routines as basic resources. For the societies of resistance to occidental culture, the societies of hunters and gatherers or merchants, improvisation, opportunity, adaptability and resistance are the key results to obtain.
The moment in which thoughts, information, and modes of communication and production leave those who hold it exclusively and are permitted in the development of personal abilities over the group abilities, and when the possibilities of the people emerge as an alternative to industrial control or great businesses, the conduct of the societies of resistance to the occidental culture are under the control of political parties and the transnationals. They encounter niches in which to prosper, like societies of thought, in which democracy gives everybody a say; in a place that is a representative of the decisions of everybody, micro businesses emerge. But to close this option, the commercial and industrial occidental culture tries to finance and popularize conducts according to their model of how to proceed, which is based on the notion of production in masses, in place of personalized production, which has no control over supply and demand. This is how they finance the collective production of coco, but not of chocolates.
CLIMATE CHANGE AS AN ACCELERATING FACTOR FOR THE CHANGES AND DETERIORATION OF THE MODERN COMMERCIAL INDUSTRY OF THE OCCIDENT
Nature is greatly influenced by the contamination and alterations created from the voracity of the cities that break the environmental equilibrium and generate unprecedented conditions. The marginalized society of the planet lives like this as a daily routine without long-term perspective, as they can adapt more easily with their versatility. The occidental society, which achieved to have climate and environmental factors under control, see within the alterations of external order, a situation from which their machinery can either help them to escape from or can bring their dependency to accelerate the collapse. This fracture of the standardized conditions of the occidental society creates a new model of social conduct between the vigilantes and those that form plans in universities and urban centers.
Many of the criteria that the planners and professionals formed within the schemes of the society of domination of the masses by means of political parties, which achieved control of the countries, especially the developed countries with one party systems (communism) or multiple party systems (capitalists), now confront the reaction of societies under the religious domination of the Christians, Islamic, Hindus, or Buddhists, or the domination of military force and nationalism such as the nationalistic ethnic societies of Africa, or political party crisis, such as in the Andean world.
THE SOCIETY OF THOUGHT AND THE DOMINION OF TIME AND SPACE AS A NEW AGENT OF CHANGE
In the society of thought that we now live in, every person has a different philosophy that determines a particular conduct and their own necessities; they pretend to unify all the common conducts of the imaginative capacity of creativity under the philosophy unified by standards given by intimidation, fear, or seduction of money. Conducts appear with an identity that opposes the model force.
The development of the Internet, satellite communication, and interactive communication, fractures the power of newspapers, TV, and the traditional radio, which are the center of power in cities and their political parties, and generate the conduct of the masses, such as consuming and group submission.
Many of the projects with an urban, occidental world vision procure that things change because the community operates like a human mass, dealt or driven by a leader that may use methods of consensus or methods without consensus to attain something.
THE NEW SOCIAL CONDUCT
Community action responds better every day to the collective identification of necessary conditions so that every one will be a leader and at the same time compliment the work of others.
The role of the social motive of change operates like a flame, as a reactor that alters the evolved course of the problem and generates a personal, and then collective, reaction before an adverse common element.
Many of the projects that were proposed by cities or centers of global decisions in developed countries failed because they pretend that the human masses are all producing the same activity or that they are all subjected to a massive necessity- to create a volume of supply and demand, which makes the system of production and consumption on a large scale possible.
The sacrifice of natural resources kills the biodiversity of the planet, generates contamination, and creates catastrophic effects such as climate change, the grave disappearance of glaciers and species, the destruction of forests and oceans, and the loss of cultural identities.
But perhaps the biggest problem is that the projects are created to satisfy foreign demands and they introduce necessities to create markets instead of understanding local values. So, for example, the people would rather drink Coca Cola than a good fruit juice.
Finally, the projects with an urban, occidental vision offer what exists in a given place to the highest bidder.
By Dr. Maximiliano Moreno
Translated by Margaret Novak
Spanish Version
martes 5 de junio de 2007
Los procesos de desarrollo del ecoturismo inteligente en comunidades
Uno de los grandes problemas en el desarrollo sustentable son las metodologías que se aplican. En la sociedad occidental se ha desarrollado el criterio de trabajo en función del dinero, tiempo y espacio que responden a la visión Europea-norteamericana, que fue el lugar donde se inventó y aplicó exitosamente como medida estos tres elementos de la realidad actual.
LAS CONTRADICCIONES ENTRE EL LOS CONCEPTOS DE TIEMPO, ESPACIO Y DINERO DEL EL MUNDO ANDINO Y
El tiempo un invento inglés (hora, minutos y segundos) y el metro un invento francés, y las monedas, un invento urbano euro-asiático, no se compaginan con la comprensión de esto en el mundo andino, que tiene que ver con el valor de algo, el envejecimiento o paso
El dinero y que determinan el precio de algo, en el mundo andino es una relación entre la necesidad y la oportunidad, las cosas valen porque se las necesita en el momento apropiado no por el precio establecido por el uso de las monedas.
El tiempo tiene una relación con la energía que se dispone de manera que el tiempo no responde a los que dice el reloj o el calendario. Por eso no es comprensible cuando un turista de un país pregunta cuanto tarda una persona en llegar y la gente le contesta con un tiempo que no se cumple.
Y la distancia el espacio físico, desde la dimension
Podaríamos afirmar que es más importante el dinero para lo más necesario en el momento oportuno antes que la cantidad de dinero para un proyecto.
De igual manera se puede decir que el tiempo, es mas largo cuando menos entusiasmo y atención despiertan en la población, por lo que el tiempo que debe durar un proyecto esta determinado por la energía que la idea y el plan generan no por un plazo abstracto
Y la cobertura de un proyecto esta determinado por la capacidad de esfuerzo individual y colectivo para ocupar un espacio.
EL DINERO
En la sociedad
Los proyectos que normalmente responden a la comprensión de la realidad desde la cosmovisión
Pero cuando llega el dinero a la comunidad normalmente este se distrae de su objetivo y se produce lo que se podría llamar despilfarro. Esto se debe a que las personas de una comunidad no
Otro elemento a considerar es que en la mayor parte de los personas de una comunidad entran en conflicto y disputa por dinero y cosas que pueden proveer un proveedor o financista de proyectos. Esto se debe a que si lo que se da es una cosa, esta parece un regalo al que tiene acceso, los escogidos por el dueño
Pasa lo contrario respecto a lo que puede ser el obtener conocimientos en un proyecto, ya que esto depende
EL TIEMPO EN LOS PROYECTOS
Los eventos en el mundo andino no siguen una linea horizontal,
Los proyectos en el mundo andino funcionan
RELACIONES ENTRE LOS MOTORES SOCIALES DEL PROYECTO, LAS PERSONAS AFECTADAS POR EL PROYECTO Y LOS INTERESES DEL PROYECTO
El proceso depende de una relación entre la motor
La relación entre el motor
La relación entre los motores
Y la relación entre la actividad propuesta ( turismo ) y las perosnas comunidad dependen de la duración de la actividad. De manera que las personas de una comunidad puede permanecer en la actividad aunque los resultados no sean alentadores, si se siente con la ilusión viva.
Para la vision urbana la comunidad pareciera como un cuerpo homogeneo, pero en la realidad comunitaria andina, la comunidad es una agrupación conflictiva en que existen personas y como tales con caracter, temperamento, necesidades y sobre todo pensamientos propios, que hacen que esta estructura sea conflictiva, sobre todo cuando se la quiere someter al patron de conducta masiva. A esto se debe la atomización que históricamente existe desde la independencia en América Latina.
Es por eso que preferimos apoyar a las personas que actúan
Se puede decir que el elemento clave de un proyecto comunitario es la persona que va a desempeñarse
Las personas de la comunidad significan la energía, que alimentan el entusiasmo
LAS METAS DE LOS PROYECTOS
La diferencia entre los proyectos generados por la concepción occidental o urbana del mundo fundan su éxito en el cumplimiento de metas por etapas artificiosamente planteadas, que llevan de un punto de partida a un punto de llagada; mientras los proyectos planteados por las sociedades de resistencia a la cultura occidental en especial la sociedad andina, plantean que no puede haber ni períodos ni metas, sino procesos casuales en las que los vientos propicios mueven la nave y solo se plantea la dirección a seguir, recogiendo en el camino los recursos necesarios y con la atención puesta en el sentido de la oportunidad que nos pone en alerta permanentemente para aprovechar los vientos y facilidades que nos puede dar el lugar, el momento y la casualidad.
Para la sociedad occidental que emergió de la sociedad agrícola-ganadera y de la sociedad industrial-comercial y desarrollo la sistematización y la organización para el ejercicio de rutinas son su recursos básico, en tanto las sociedades de resistencia a la cultura occidental, de la sociedad de cazadores y recolectores o comerciantes, improvisación, la oportunidad, adaptabilidad y la resistencia son la clave de los resutados a obtenerse.
Al momento actual en que los conocimientos, la información, los medios de comunicación y producción van dejando de se los ser exclusivos y permiten el desarrollo de habilidades personales sobre las habilidades grupales, y donde las posibilidades de las personas emergen como alternativa al control industrial o gran empresarial, la conducta de las sociedades de resistencia a la cultura occidental bajo el control de partidos políticos y las transnacionales, van encontrando nichos para prosperar como sociedadaes del conocimiento en que la democracia es decir el derecho a decidir en todo por uno mismo, en lugar de que un representantae tome las deciciones por todos, va emergiendo a partir del florecimiento de microempresas.
Pero para cerrar esta opción la cultura occidental comercial e industrial trata de financiar y popularizar conductas acordes a su modelo de proceder, que se basa en la de crear la produccion en masa de cualquier cosa, en lugar de la produccion personalizada, de manera que ellos puedan tener el control de la oferta y la demanda. Es asi
EL CAMBIO CLIMATICO
A esto se suma la influencia de la naturaleza alterada por la contaminación y alteraciones creadas desde la voracidad de las ciudades que rompen del equilibrio ambiental y generan condiciones impredecibles, para las cuales la sociedad marginada del planeta vivió como rutina cotidiana sin perspectivas a largo plazo pueden adaptarse más facimente por su versatilidad, en tanto la sociedad occidental que logró mantener bajo control el clima y los factores de su entorno, ven en las alteraciones del orden externo o natural una situación crítica de la que su maquinaria puede ayudarle a escapar o llevarla o su dependencia acelerar el colapso.
Esa fractura de las condiciones estandarizadas de la sociedad occidental hacen de terreno fértil para que un nuevo modelo de conducta social entre en vigencia y rompan con los esquemas que plantean los planificadores formados en las universidades y centros urbanos.
Muchos de los criterios de los planificadores y profesionales formados en los esquemas de la sociedad de dominación de masas por medio de partidos políticos, que lograron el control de los países especialmente los desarrollados sea como partido unico (comunismo) o multiples (capitalistas) enfrentan ahora la reacción de las sociedades bajo la dominación religiosa cristiana, islamicia, induista o buidsta o bajo la dominación de la fuerza militrares y nacionalismo como las sociedades nacionalistas étnicas de África, y hasta del mundo andino en la que los partidos están en crisis.
En la sociedad
Bajo el pensamiento unificado por pautas dadas por la intimidación, el temor o la seducción
El desarrollo de la internet de la comunicacion saltelital, de la comunicacion interactiva, fracturan el poder de los periódicos, la television y la radio tradicional que son el centro del poder de las ciudades y de sus partidos politicos y que generaron las conductas masivas como el consumo y el sometimiento grupal.
Gran parte de los proyectos con la cosmovisión urbano occidental procuran que las cosas cambien porque la comunidad opera
La acción comunitaria cada día responde mejor de la identificacción colectiva de las condiciones necesarias para que cada uno sea el señor y dueño de si mismo y al mismo tiempo el complemento de los otros.
El papel
Mucho del fracaso de los proyectos propuestos o dinamizados desde las ciudades y los centros de decisión global en países desarrollados, es que pretenden masas humanas haciendo una misma actividad productiva y de servicios o sometidas a una masiva necesidad, a estándares, para crear un volumen de oferta y demanda, que haga factible una capacidad interesante para sistema de producción y consumo a gran escala que ellos manejan.
Pero esto sacrifica recursos naturales, mata la biodiversidad, genera contaminación, conductas consumistas irreflexivas con en un efecto catastrófico
Pero quizás el mayor problema es que los proyectos se hacen para satisfacer demandas ajenas o necesidades introducidas para crear mercados en lugar de entender lo valioso que cada persona tiene. Asi por ejemplo la gente valora tomar cocacola que un buen jugo de frutas.
Finalmente los proyectos con vision urbano occidental procuran ofrecer lo que existe en un lugar al mejor postor.
By Dr. Maximiliano Moreno
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