[OSList] Opening space when borders are closing

Sun Nov 15 17:37:17 PST 2015

ho-
you nailed it! 
"something to do during this Transformative Moment" = Open some  Space
Elwin
      From: Harrison Owen via OSList <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org>
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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        Winter Address7808 River Falls DrivePotomac, MD 20854301-365-2093  Summer Address189 Beaucaire Ave.Camden, ME 04843207-763-3261  Websites www.openspaceworld.comwww.ho-image.comOSLIST To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of OSLIST Go to:http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org  
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