[OSList] Thoughts for Tomorrow...

Wed Jan 8 02:13:47 PST 2020

Hi Tony,
Thanks for the link and invitation
I still haven't had time to delve into the details, but it sounds
intriguing.
I would mostly love to learn about the transition - as you call it - from
an idea in to action
Thank you so much and all the best,
Sagit

‫בתאריך יום ג׳, 7 בינו׳ 2020 ב-9:56 מאת ‪Tony Budak via OSList‬‏ <‪
oslist at lists.openspacetech.org‬‏>:‬

> Here is an opportunity to use OST for learning together about the Commons
> Transition to describe a series of ongoing actions that reflect the needs
> and creative input of civil society. What are the components of such a
> transition, and how do they turn into concrete actions?
>
> You are invited to attend or host a Time for a Commons Transition study
> group, message me or Click for details;
> https://primer.commonstransition.org/#home
>
> Thanks again for creating our tomorrows,
> Tony Budak, Lead Convener at TimeBank Mahoning Watershed
>
> On 1/6/2020 6:42 PM, Michael M Pannwitz via OSList wrote:
>
> 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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