<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Harrison:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><br><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Your post resonates, in part, with things that I am working with right now but are not yet in writeable
form...</span><br></span></div>
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Anyhow, The first thing that came to my mind is that you need to read the book
from Francesco Alberoni (</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Alberoni"><span lang="EN-US">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Alberoni</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">),
"Genesis" (<i>Genisi</i>, in Italian), that describes in detail the <b>processes
of emergence </b>(or metanoia) <b>of movements</b> <b>that have transformed the governance of
society</b>, from the French or American revolutions, to the primitive
Christians or the Reformation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; "> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">Indeed this may
apply to an individual (Paul's metanoia), to the creation of a "society of
two" (as in love, treated in his book “<i>Innamoramento e amore</i>")
or to the "collective metanoia" (emergence) of social forms of
governance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; ">I don't know if
there are English versions; check it out. <o:p></o:p></span></div></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>Abraços</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>Artur</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Harrison Owen <hhowen@verizon.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> 'World wide Open
Space Technology email list' <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, May 19, 2012 4:46 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [OSList] Emergent Governance<br> </font> </div> <br>
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1579119713WordSection1"><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">Several days ago I had the unique pleasure of joining our friends and colleagues (by Skype) in the Ukraine for their OSONOS. Given the state of the Ukraine, to say nothing of the state of the world, the conversation eventually got around to the subject of Leadership and Governance – and how could all that work. That conversation seemed to meld seamlessly with one I had had with a new friend here in the USA… Leadership and Governance. And mixed in was a new thought (for me) all about Emergent Governance. As I said to my US friend…</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">You started me thinking – which ordinarily is a dangerous thing. I can’t quite pin down the logical trail, but that is not surprising because I usually find myself thinking in circles. But one point along the way was a conversation I was
engaged in yesterday. There is an interest group which has monthly luncheons at my club with the vaporous name of “The Human Values Group.” In truth we talk about whatever pleases and may or may not have value. Anyhow the conversation yesterday drifted to a consideration of various political forms. It seems that some of our members had just returned from Cuba, so that was the start. Then we got on to dictatorships of various sorts ranging from China to Singapore… and shortly we were arguing about the “goods and the bads” – which quickly morphed into ideologies/political systems, and you know where that one could go.</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">As the folks headed into the stratosphere of abstraction – I found myself thinking, wondering might be better – Has anybody ever done a natural history of governance? Rousseau pops to mind, but he always seemed to me pretty idealistic,
and just as doctrinaire as anybody. For sure we have certainly done histories of governance, tracing our way back from the present to whenever. But how about the reverse? Two folks get together, Adam and Eve for example. Relationships form and certain modes of behavior seem to work, others don’t. It is not a function of laws, and certainly not legislation or “idealized models.” Just very practical – and more to the point a natural expression of that fundamental relationship which to the extent that it is ever verbalized might be something like --- the way we do things around here. Well that might be the beginning of a story, but before I got too far with that one, my mind jumped.</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">To Open Space. Funny thing. We have opened space 100,000’s of times in multiple cultures, and the behaviors are almost identical (except for superficials like language, dress,
etc). And nobody ever specified the rules. The Principles don’t count, and yes we do announce the Law of Two Feet – but all of that is simply to acknowledge what will happen anyhow. So could we be looking at emergent governance? We are definitely looking at the process of self organization (I think). Could that be the root of governance?</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">Big jump – here’s a thought. Rather than thinking about (working on, creating) models of governance (autocratic, democratic, plutocratic, sociocratic…whatever) which are then promulgated (you wrote a book, so did Karl M.), and if implemented are almost inevitably laid on from the top (wherever the top is<span style="font-family: Wingdings; ">J</span>)… how about starting at the bottom/beginning and see what grows naturally? Emergent Governance!</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div
class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">It would perhaps become necessary to clean things up a bit, regularize it, so to speak – but that should be done, I suggest, all under the rubric of finding the minimal level of structure necessary to sustain life. But all that could only be done after the fact…of emergence.</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">Just Thinking… </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">Harrison</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">Harrison Owen</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">7808 River Falls Dr.</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">Potomac, MD 20854</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal">USA</div><div class="yiv1579119713MsoNormal"> </div><div
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