Over the years, many Auroville projects and initiatives have
been still-born or have failed to fulfil their promise. These include early
attempts at an ‘all from one pot’ economy and a more recent attempt to improve
our decision-making through the Integral Sustainability Platform. There may be
many reasons for these failures. Lack of resources (human, financial), wrong
timing, an unwillingness to embrace change, are just a few of them. But there
is one reason I seldom see mentioned.
And that is the Aurovilian propensity to aim very high while neglecting
the intermediate steps.
Perhaps a falling Icarus would be the appropriate logo for
such failed attempts. Icarus, in Greek myth, was the boy who, along with his
father, Daedalus, attempted to escape from Crete using wings made of feathers
and wax. When he disregarded his father’s instructions and flew too close to
the sun, the sun melted the wax and he plummeted into the sea.
In some ways, of course, to aim high i...
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