[OSList] Inviting non-invitation

[Harold Shinsato via OSList]

Thanks, Harrison! Your insight about invitation (how forced "invites" 
don't work in the long run) seems the same paradigm shift you have been 
teaching us for years - as you wrote about in your beautiful post 
yesterday: all systems are open and self-organizing.

It reminds me, and seems in the same spirit of another Paradigm Shifter 
- the founder of Aikido Morihei Ueshiba. I recall someone paraphrasing 
his teaching that the moment someone attempts to attack, or oppose, 
they're already defeated. I dug up the following quotes.

"To attack means that the spirit has already lost. We adhere to the 
principle of absolute nonresistance, that is to say, we do not oppose 
the attacker. Thus, there is no opponent in Aikido."
- Morihei Ueshiba (from an interview - )

"The Art of Peace is the principle of nonresistance. Because it is 
nonresistant, it is victorious from the beginning. Those with evil 
intentions or contentious thoughts are instantly vanquished. The Art of 
Peace is invincible because it contends with nothing."
     - Morihei Ueshiba (from his book, "The Art of Peace")


     Harold


On 8/31/15 3:38 PM, Harrison via OSList wrote:
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> Actually, Dan/Lucas – I think it is a lot weirder than that... All 
> them Dictators are trying to “force the system.” Seems to work for a 
> bit, but that is definitely illusory. Eventually it all blows up in 
> their face. Good Old SO (self organization) has been around a lot 
> longer than the current “ruler of the world,” and will be around long 
> after they are back to cosmic dust. Remember that character named 
> “Julius?” Or was it Napoleon, Attila, or Adolph?
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> *From:*OSList [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Daniel Mezick via OSList
> *Sent:* Monday, August 31, 2015 4:41 PM
> *To:* oslist at lists.openspacetech.org
> *Subject:* [OSList] Inviting non-invitation
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> "Is it accurate to say that some self organizing happens by invitation 
> and some happens by coercion/force? "
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>
> Great question Lucas!
>
> The [invitation] wall-poster you suggest feels wall-worthy to me, so 
> long as no one is obligated to examine it... or even look at it.
>
> My turn to ask a question: What might a world "void of manipulation" 
> and "replete with invitation" actually look like?
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> Daniel
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> On 8/31/15 9:57 AM, Lucas Cioffi via OSList wrote:
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>     Hi All,
>
>     Is it accurate to say that some self organizing happens by
>     invitation and some happens by coercion/force?
>
>     For example, from the perspective of someone who lives outside of
>     Iraq, the way the Ba'ath Party took charge of Iraq through a coup
>     seems like an example of self-organizing by force to us, because
>     we're outside the system of Iraq.  I welcome some thoughts on this.
>
>     Over the past few months (and working with Michael Herman for
>     VOSonOS) I've seen that the spirit of invitation shouldn't end
>     with the writing of the invitation, and instead it should be
>     present throughout the open space.  When someone posts a topic on
>     the marketplace wall, they are inviting others to a conversation,
>     not taking over a time slot (like having a coup and taking over a
>     small country).
>
>     When someone wants to be a "dictator" of their open space session,
>     yes others can use their two feet and walk out, but that comes at
>     a cost to the social fabric of the organization.  A better outcome
>     would be that the would-be dictator holds a welcoming space from
>     the start.  So I'd recommend that another sign worth posting on
>     the wall near "Law of Two Feet" would be "Spirit of Invitation". 
>     I think it's wall-worthy, do you?
>
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>     Lucas Cioffi
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