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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Chris,<br>
<br>
Thanks for mentioning M*A*S*H. It's an acronym that stands for
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. It represented indeed an "agile"
military medical unit because it was mobile and had to adapt to
emergent situations, and frequently had to break from procedure to
save lives. Great example!<br>
<br>
For another popular culture movie - try watching the new Lego
Movie. I had not been attracted to it because it sounded like a
product placement movie. But on hearing a high praise for it from
someone at a conference, it's actually perhaps the best movie
about business ever! I'd love to talk about this more on the OS
Hotline or with others that have seen it already as to what it
reflects in a possible shift in our culture.<br>
<br>
If you want to be fully surprised by the movie - please read no
further.<br>
<br>
!!!!! S P O I L E R ***** A L E R T !!!!!!!<br>
<br>
The Lego Movie is a wonderful mythical story about a regular man,
a construction worker, who is anything but special and in fact
delights in all the vapid controlled media promoted by the
authorities very transparently in control of his world, and even
loves his job singing "Everything is Awesome, Everything's a Dream
if you're part of a Team" as he goes about destroying older
neighborhoods to make way for new construction. He's a Lego toy,
like all the characters are and all the sets. But quickly he
becomes tagged as a fulfillment of prophecy to resist the evil
KRAGLE which "Lord Business", the main heavy, plans to deploy to
"destroy the world". But destroying the world is actually freezing
it, as KRAGLE you soon learn is in fact Krazy Glue. The main hero
has many supports along the way - but eventually you learn (and
this is the big spoiler) that the whole lego world was created by
a father. The father's son, a young boy, has been building inside
his dad's very complex series of lego worlds, but the boy
interferes with his father's vision and the father wants to Krazy
Glue it all down to prevent it from being changed. The movie is
full of laughter, poignant criticism of popular culture, and even
our emerging police state that is attempting to control the
growing unrest (and anomalies). I'm not even going to try to list
everything delightful and relevant to self-organizing in the film
in this email. But I do recommend it!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Harold<br>
<br>
<br>
On 7/19/14 11:40 AM, Chris Kloth wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:20140719134057.163758sgulonx4tl@tcsso-mail2.inetuhosted.net"
type="cite">Not quite on point, but over the years the M*A*S*H
television show depicted many marvelous examples of
self-organization, as well as other examples of healthy
interventions in a perpetually unhealthy setting - the Korean War.
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
Harold Shinsato<br>
<a href="mailto:harold@shinsato.com">harold@shinsato.com</a><br>
<a href="http://shinsato.com">http://shinsato.com</a><br>
twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/hajush">@hajush</a></div>
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