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Re: fair play and co-operation
It's not surprising that someone else tries to take over and pretend to
have started it all. That is commonly done in a world that is not based on
the golden rule.
I found the same thing in my efforts. Although all the older folks know
that I started the organic movement in California, tho inadvertently, by
teaching the first course in the world on organic method, now people who
write about teaching organics ignore me. The new young ones, who were
babies when I started, or some not even born then, cannot recall things
done before their time, so they accept the new ones as the "real" ones.
An example is the writing of Dr. Charles Francis in Nebraska. Altho
Nebraska has my Organic Method Primer UPDATE book, and certainly he must
know of my early work started in the 60's, he talks about how such a
course will surely be the regulation as time goes on, etc., etc., but
never mentions that I started it, nor gives me any credit for having
initiated the idea of teaching such a course.
Almost always, people wait for a WOMAN to hack the hard path thru the
jungle. Then when it is easy and smooth, the others follow, and pretend
the path has always been there, nice, clean, neat, smooth, easy, taken for
granted that it is there because it ought to be there.
You are not alone.
B. Rateaver
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