<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body >On reflection, the question is not why we don't go into chaos - it does happen everywhere - but how it can be done skillfully. And folks on this list know something about that.<div><br></div><div>Jeff</div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: Jeff Aitken <r.jeff.aitken@gmail.com> <br>Date:10/16/2014 8:45 AM (GMT-07:00) <br>To: World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br>Subject: Empowerment barometer? <br><br><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>http://charleseisenstein.net/we-dont-know-reflections-on-the-new-story-summit/</div><div><br></div><div><div id="container" 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-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; width: 360px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><div class="wrap" 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-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(254, 255, 234); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div id="main" class="clearfix" 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-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; zoom: 1; max-width: 62.5em; width: 342px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div id="content" class="twoThirds clearfix" 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-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; zoom: 1; width: 324px; position: relative; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div class="post-3438 page type-page status-publish hentry clearfix" 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-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; zoom: 1; width: 320px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; 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-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; em; font-size: 1.1em; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">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></body>