Comments on: Organized Chaos http://rogerdhansen.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/organized-chaos/ Mon, 28 May 2012 21:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Roger http://rogerdhansen.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/organized-chaos/#comment-256 Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:09:11 +0000 http://www.rogerhansen.org/?p=728#comment-256 On a recent trip to Colombia (South America), I spent several days in the company of Paolo Lugari, legendary inspiration behind the successful eco-development at Gaviotas. Among other things, Paolo is an impassioned crusader against centralized planning, a bit of an anarchist.

He emphasized that he felt that the moment that Gaviotas needed a Master Plan was the moment the community would die. One visitor to Colombia stated: “It became clear to us that most of the successes at Gaviotas were not a result of brilliant planning but of a trial and error process, replete with wrong turns and detours.”

Paolo emphasized that everyone is different. (One size doesn’t fit all.) This philosophy resulted in Gaviotas having few laws; but it did have laws against violence.

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