<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Fascinating, Jeff.<br>Would be very interesting to hear other perspectives from people who were there. <br><br></div>From the "outside" and in hindsight, it seems to highlight the difficulty of creating hybrid forms of old and new. <br></div>I imagine it would have been VERY different if the whole conference had been held in OS, rather <br>than having three days of programmed activity beforehand.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jeff Aitken via OSList <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oslist@lists.openspacetech.org" target="_blank">oslist@lists.openspacetech.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Charles Eisenstein shares a long reflection on the recent New Story Summit conference. With (it seems) a few days of speakers and two days of Open Space, they danced on the edge of chaos and illuminated for him the reasons that we don't go over that edge in this time of our species.</div><div><br></div><div>Curious your thoughts.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://charleseisenstein.net/we-dont-know-reflections-on-the-new-story-summit/" target="_blank">http://charleseisenstein.net/we-dont-know-reflections-on-the-new-story-summit/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:auto;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:auto;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;width:360px"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:1px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:rgb(254,255,234);background-repeat:initial initial"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:auto;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:auto;padding-top:5px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;zoom:1;max-width:62.5em;width:342px;background-repeat:initial initial"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:20px;margin-left:2.5%;padding-top:0px!important;padding-right:0px!important;padding-bottom:0px!important;padding-left:0px!important;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;zoom:1;width:324px;background-repeat:initial initial"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;zoom:1;width:320px;background-repeat:initial initial"><p>Please don’t take this observation as a castigation of the people at the NSS, whether organizers or participants. My point is not to suggest that anyone should have done better or differently. I see the whole thing as a barometer of our current state of disempowerment, our stuckness. I hope that by making it visible, we can loosen its hold.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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