[OSList] Thoughts for Tomorrow...

[Michael M Pannwitz]

Dear ho,

the cybergremlins did not interfere.
I received your message twice via OSLIST.
Stuff still seems to work.

Have a great day
mmp


Am 06.01.2020 um 23:21 schrieb Harrison Owen via OSList:
> I tried this as a response… the cybergremlins intervened, so here goes 
> another!
> 
> ho
> 
> Sagit … I confess that my response to your note was equally, or perhaps 
> mostly… a response to the present moment. This is not the first time 
> that Planet Earth in general and/or your particular part of the world 
> has hovered on the edge of serious chaos. Each of us may hold whatever 
> opinion(s) we wish, and I certainly have mine – but several facts are 
> indisputable: Nobody really understands what’s going on, even less do we 
> understand where it might be headed, and most of all -- nobody has the 
> exit plan. Under these circumstances, and while we hold our breath, a 
> little conversation with our fellows might be in order. But how?
> 
> There are some 8 billion of us on the planet, divided at least 8 billion 
> ways … not all of them happy. Having a useful conversation under the 
> circumstances seems rather impossible. Doubtless there have been 
> processes, procedures and structures developed for human beings to 
> pursue their issues by less than violent means. But all of them seem 
> rather inadequate right now. We do not have sufficient facilitators, 
> interveners, therapists, parliamentarians, process re-engineers, 
> conflict resolvers, etc… for the job, and even if we did have the 
> number, the necessary time for positioning and preparation doesn’t exist.
> 
> Are we out of options? Maybe --- or then again there may be an option 
> we’ve had all along and never quite took seriously.
> 
> Some people call it Open Space, which could make it sound like a novel 
> procedure or process to be applied immediately and globally. In my 
> experience those words sound nice, maybe even comforting, but do not 
> describe reality. Open Space is nothing new, strange or different – it 
> is precisely what we have been doing for the past million years, or 
> however long it is that /Homo sapiens/ has been doing whatever it does. 
>  From the very beginning we sat in a circle, posted our wishes and 
> dreams (sometime on the wall of a cave), opened a market place to trade 
> and share our ideas…  and then we went to work. Sometimes these circles 
> formed on a more or less regular basis (weekly market sort of thing) but 
> the really critical and important ones happened when they happened … but 
> always when there was an issue that grabbed peoples’ attention, that was 
> so complex that nobody could figure it, involved so many different sorts 
> of folks that nobody could count their kind, stirred great passion and 
> usually conflict, and had to be dealt with NOW.
> 
> Over time there was a move to institutionalize this primal circle and 
> give it a name like Senate or Parliament. And it didn’t take long for 
> some to think they were in charge. Often this worked rather well and it 
> seemed like the established order was maintained. Every so often, 
> however, A BIG one would come along and suddenly we were back to basics. 
> Even in the 21^st century that can happen.
> 
> So how do you have a meaningful conversation with 8 billion people? We 
> have the means, and it comes with our genes. I suppose the issue of the 
> moment is to get out of the way, and let it happen. Doing that may well 
> open the door to a whole new understanding of who and what we are, where 
> we are going and how to get there. We even have an electronic assist 
> that our precursors could never have dreamed of. To all of this I can 
> add my own personal experience – that never in 30+ years, often in 
> extreme conflict situations have I seen any sort of physical violence 
> and ALWAYS witnessed the previous combatants in respectful relations 
> with each other… sometimes surprisingly so. They shed common tears, 
> danced together, laughed and even hugged each other. They did it all by 
> themselves with no prompting and no assists. Wonderful!
> 
> But what about now? How to get the ball rolling, so to speak? 
> Truthfully, I really don’t know. I can also imagine that it will happen, 
> if only because it has happened before. If anybody out there is 
> searching for a mission, something useful to do with their life and 
> talent … opening this door might well be a good place to start. Or there 
> are other possibilities I would really rather not think about.
> 
> Harrison
> 
> 
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Michael M Pannwitz
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