[OSList] Opening space when borders are closing

[Daniel Mezick via OSList]

A related link, perhaps: http://www.amerikanexpose.com/hegel/

On 11/15/15 4:57 PM, Harrison Owen via OSList wrote:
>
> 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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