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solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><font
size=3 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>In some
recent conversations with other Co-conveners <i><span style='font-style:italic'>(*</span></i><b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>Verna <span class=GramE>Allee ,</span> *Aimee
Bernstein, *Peter Block, *<span class=SpellE>Dinesh</span> Chandra, <span
class=SpellE>Roosvelt</span> Finlayson, David <span class=SpellE>Gutzwiller</span>,
**Jed Jones, *Michael <span class=SpellE>Lindfield</span>, <span class=SpellE>Sadandand</span>
Ward <span class=SpellE>Mailliard</span>, Gary Merrill, Gary <span
class=SpellE>Musinczky</span>, Bill Tobin, Lauren <span class=SpellE>Vanett</span>,
**Doug Walton, Vivian Wright</span></b><i><span style='font-style:italic'>)</span></i>
the concept of a "Global Open Space" emerged.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Permit
me to play devil’s advocate or at least to question the meaning of this
statement<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am
wondering specifically what emerged in the sense that I thought that in the sense
that Harrison has tirelessly over 25+ years connected alumni round 80 countries
open space is already global. So what extra does this phrase of Global Open
Space mean – it sounds pretty important if there is extra that we all
know about it on this list.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There’s
another problem and I am going to be blunt because 10 non-US people have stated
it to me almost the same way in the last 7 days. Today, we see the United
States as not United but 2 different countries; largely speaking the Red middle
that doesn’t travel abroad and the Blue coasts do; the Red Middle to the
extent that it has ideas of the world beyond America’s borders is largely
conditioned by a <span class=SpellE>tv</span> media that is so local that as
one CNN broadcaster explained our policy is not to announce anything in the
news in a way that might cause a viewer to switch the channel; that is number
one editing criterion – yes thanks for explaining that! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>We ten unrepresentative but international
people would rather the United States really got to know its own identity
(patriotic egotism) problem before it offered us even one more global solution.
For most of my life we have looked up to the US for ideas on global solutions;
at the moment the 10 of us are in no such mood to value a US view just because
it is US more than any other view, in fact perhaps its time for reverse
discrimination. Perhaps ‘ignoring’ US views as if they don’t
exist while they are so often without of our contexts is the only way 5.8 billion
people have left when .2 billion people vote for their own superpower over the
world using the content that American mass media chains.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This isn’t
to say we want any less open space percolated around the world but the name
global open space being launched out of America (if that’s what this
message says) may be the wrong name at the wrong time unless the people I have
been talking with are a very confused international sample – quite possible
I admit because these are possibly the most confusing times on my 50 years on
this planet. Just 90 minutes ago on BBC television I thought I heard </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Britain</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>’s prime minister stake both his reputation and Bush’s
on resolving the </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Palestine</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> conflict over the next 5 years. I believe Blair said many of my
own party are sick of him but they will see <span class=GramE>its</span> all
worth while once we (B&B) turn this round. This is a very peculiar
statement if I heard it right; I’m struggling I think Blair did say it
and believes its what he’s agreed in last 36 hours; I suspect Bush never
meant to have promised any such thing (but then I am struggling – my faith
comes from a different place than where these 2 gent’s faith seems to
have come from month after year; anyhow they have so confused imagery and reality
that I would rather not have to listen to words from either of them as soon as
that becomes a realistic possibility, they have drowned the start of a
millennium in a way that lacks hope, spirit, love, whatever the word I fumble
for) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Or maybe
<span class=GramE>its</span> just a day when I cant read between the lines any
more; in which case apologies for this mail. I’m off for 3 days in </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Spain</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'> at a conference where I hope to talk to people representing cities
from at least 20 countries; maybe I will return with my mind clearer… <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Chris Macrae</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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