[OSList] Emergent Governance

Stanley Park spark.osk at gmail.com
Tue May 22 01:18:50 PDT 2012


It seems that governance of human systems eventually follows the Law that
governs Nature.

And I believe that we are becoming what we were designed to be: Being
Human.^^
2012. 5. 22. 오후 4:04에 "Methorst, Dicky" <dicky.methorst at minbuza.nl>님이 작성:

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>  *Van*: Chris Corrigan [mailto:chris.corrigan at gmail.com]
> *Verzonden*: Monday, May 21, 2012 09:02 PM
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> *Onderwerp*: Re: [OSList] Emergent Governance
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>  The new forms appear all around us all the time.  They bubble in and out
> of existence, and once in a while something takes hold and gets more and
> more concrete.  There is nothing particularly destined about something like
> democracy - it just became the experiment that got a significant boost from
> power and mass at the right times.  And of course it is practiced in many
> forms, none of which should ever be thought of as permanent.
>
>  Open Space (by which I mean the unbounded field of self organizing
> potential that is always around us) is the primordial ooze that provides
> the conditions for the birth of new structures.  The methodology we all
> love so much is a formal expression of this ooze, deployed for useful
> strategic purposes.  But it is only in the Open Space of everyday living
> that the real organizational forms arise and take shape.  And for every
> single one that becomes standard practice, there are millions that die as
> unrealized ideas.  Sometimes these ideas return as the time becomes right,
> sometimes they are lost to human memory.
>
>  All governance is and will continue to be emergent.  We can be fooled by
> the planning that goes into what it takes to concretize a over nance
> system, but we should never forget - with great hope - the kind of dynamics
> that allows such systems o emerge in the first place.
>
>  Yay!
> Chris
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> CHRIS CORRIGAN
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> On 2012-05-19, at 8:46 AM, Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net> wrote:
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>    Several days ago I had the unique pleasure of joining our friends and
> colleagues (by Skype) in the Ukraine for their OSONOS. Given the state of
> the Ukraine, to say nothing of the state of the world, the conversation
> eventually got around to the subject of Leadership and Governance - and how
> could all that work. That conversation seemed to meld seamlessly with one I
> had had with a new friend here in the USA... Leadership and Governance. And
> mixed in was a new thought (for me) all about Emergent Governance. As I
> said to my US friend...
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> You started me thinking - which ordinarily is a dangerous thing. I can't
> quite pin down the logical trail, but that is not surprising because I
> usually find myself thinking in circles. But one point along the way was a
> conversation I was engaged in yesterday. There is an interest group which
> has monthly luncheons at my club with the vaporous name of "The Human
> Values Group." In truth we talk about whatever pleases and may or may not
> have value. Anyhow the conversation yesterday drifted to a consideration of
> various political forms. It seems that some of our members had just
> returned from Cuba, so that was the start. Then we got on to dictatorships
> of various sorts ranging from China to Singapore... and shortly we were
> arguing about the "goods and the bads" - which quickly morphed into
> ideologies/political systems, and you know where that one could go.
>
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> As the folks headed into the stratosphere of abstraction - I found myself
> thinking, wondering might be better - Has anybody ever done a natural
> history of governance? Rousseau pops to mind, but he always seemed to me
> pretty idealistic, and just as doctrinaire as anybody. For sure we have
> certainly done histories of governance, tracing our way back from the
> present to whenever. But how about the reverse? Two folks get together,
> Adam and Eve for example. Relationships form and certain modes of behavior
> seem to work, others don't. It is not a function of laws, and certainly not
> legislation or "idealized models." Just very practical - and more to the
> point a natural expression of that fundamental relationship which to the
> extent that it is ever verbalized might be something like --- the way we do
> things around here. Well that might be the beginning of a story, but before
> I got too far with that one, my mind jumped.
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> To Open Space. Funny thing. We have opened space 100,000's of times in
> multiple cultures, and the behaviors are almost identical (except for
> superficials like language, dress, etc). And nobody ever specified the
> rules. The Principles don't count, and yes we do announce the Law of Two
> Feet - but all of that is simply to acknowledge what will happen anyhow. So
> could we be looking at emergent governance? We are definitely looking at
> the process of self organization (I think). Could that be the root of
> governance?
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>
> Big jump - here's a thought. Rather than thinking about (working on,
> creating) models of governance (autocratic, democratic, plutocratic,
> sociocratic...whatever) which are then promulgated (you wrote a book, so did
> Karl M.), and if implemented are almost inevitably laid on from the top
> (wherever the top isJ)... how about starting at the bottom/beginning and
> see what grows naturally? Emergent Governance!
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> It would perhaps become necessary to clean things up a bit, regularize it,
> so to speak - but that should be done, I suggest, all under the rubric of
> finding the minimal level of structure necessary to sustain life. But all
> that could only be done after the fact...of emergence.
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> Just Thinking...
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> Harrison
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