Jerry of "Ben & Jerry's" & living economy os brochure

[Chris Macrae]

Congratulations, John -wish I was in the vicinty on this date, but sadly not

If you get a chance I would love to know what drives Ben Cohen these days. Can 
we convert him to open space or Gandhi space or social entrepreneurial 
networks or all three?

Incidentally, here's a (to me remarkable) bit of learning from the virginian 
(and world-person, and lawyer!) who has been studying socila entrepreenurs for 
the longest and in the most diverse way:

VALUES: EMPATHY NOT RULES
Gandhi’s greatest insight was recognising early in the twentieth century that 
a new type of ethics was emerging in the world. – an ethics grounded not in 
rules but in empathy. It was a change that was necessary as human society grew 
increasingly complex. In the past, when people lived in homogeneous 
communities and rarely moved far from their birthplaces, rule-based ethics had 
been adequate to govern human relations. But the world has become too fast-
paced and interconnected for rule-based ethics. There were too many 
interactions in which rules were outdated and belief systems clashed. The new 
circumstances demanded that people become more ethically self-guiding: people 
had to be able to put themselves in the shoes of those around them. Those who 
could not navigate situations in which rules were changing or could not master 
the skills of empathetic understanding would find themselves unable to manage 
their behaviour ethically or wisely; increasingly they would (need to) be seen 
as “loose canons”, and marginalised within society

If this stream of consciuousness interests other OS folk, mail me at 
wcbn007 at easynet.co.uk for more conversation notes which I will also try to put 
up at http://clubofdc.blogspot.com as the collection space of East coast 
common sense that I bump into

chris macrae 

 

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