[OSList] Opening space when borders are closing

[Arno Baltin via OSList]

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Arno




2015-11-15 23:57 GMT+02:00 Harrison Owen via OSList <
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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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> And the magic sauce?
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> I do know some things it’s (special sauce) NOT: a special program,
> ideology, methodology, tool, technique, intervention, practice,
> discipline...
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> It is.... something that has been around a lot longer, much more basic and
> fundamental.
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> You guessed it. Self Organization.
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> We did not invent it. Certainly didn’t create it. But we can help, I do
> believe.
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> 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.
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