[OSList] Opening space when borders are closing

[Harrison Owen via OSList]

The events in Paris have caught our attention. However, with deepest respect
and sympathy for my Parisian friends (Christine in particular), the simple
truth is that the human toll (127 and counting) is only the daily score in
many troubled spots of the world. You can name them as well as I. 

 

And Mr Holland, President of France, declaring, “This is an act of War,” and
“promising” retaliation of whatever sort  -- is quite understandable. Of
course he also (according to the American Press) closed the borders. Again
understandable, but curious.... especially when it appears that some
substantial portion of the combatants (enemy) are French. Somehow the enemy
is us.... This is not your grandfather’s war.

 

Or Something.

 

Any human being who claims to understand what is going on, and feels
competent to prescribe the  specific solution (close the borders, open the
borders, ban the immigrants, welcome the immigrants, shoot them all,
whatever) is, in my humble judgment, quite mad. 

 

I, however, will venture one affirmative (positive) statement. We (That’s
all 7 ½ Billion of us) are in a Transformative Moment. How long it will
last, and what the end result will be, I don’t have a clue. But I do believe
that it will take all 7 ½ billion of us, working together, to solve the
issues at hand. Tall order, to be sure. Then again, we have had some several
hundred thousand years’ practice. And to date – despite all odds – we’re
still here.

 

And the magic sauce?

 

I do know some things it’s (special sauce) NOT: a special program, ideology,
methodology, tool, technique, intervention, practice, discipline...

 

It is.... something that has been around a lot longer, much more basic and
fundamental.

 

You guessed it. Self Organization.

 

We did not invent it. Certainly didn’t create it. But we can help, I do
believe. 

 

Open Space wherever, whenever, however, with whom-so-ever as often as you
can. If nothing else, it will give you something to do during this
Transformative Moment.

 

Harrison  

 

 

 

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