Lately, young parents and educators in the campaign have been teaching us the difference between two words that sound similar.
People want an authority to tell them how to value things. What’s implied is that they what someone authoritative to tell them how to think, what to say, and how to act.
There’s nothing wrong with this. Who doesn’t go to Consumer Reports to read reviews of the latest models of air conditioners?
A problem occurs when folk choose their authority not based on facts or results but because it seems familiar, comfy, or easy. Too often, this means they’re trusting an authoritarian.
Our campaign is not–and has never been–familiar, comfy, or easy.
If we knew how to lead the everyday people of Cochise County to groundwater security, we wouldn’t do it. Do you know why?
The same people whom we could lead to groundwater security could be led by someone else to groundwater tyranny.
That’s why we insist that the regular-ass people of Cochise County lead the campaign. Sorry, but protecting groundwater to the seventh generation is the work of people living today on land they love–not the job of lawyers, politicians, or experts in Phoenix. And protecting groundwater is certainly not the work of smash-and-grab corporations. That’s a logical contradiction. What are your thoughts?