Good old whiskey river: As we are already that which we seek, all that is needed is a 180 degree turn to look one’s self in the eye. But the courage needed to turn to face the Void or the ‘Faceless’ is far more than most of us possess. So we manufacture fantasy worlds of power, magic and the paranormal, and blissful flights to describe what we think enlightenment might be rather than truly facing its shattering nature. It’s another way to talk about what happened to my friend Doug. When I think about Emergent Democracy, and I confess that …
Over at the comments to this post at Wealth Bondage, The Happy Tutor issues an invitation to me, and it’s one I am thrilled to accept: Waiting for Democracy to Emerge is very depressing, can you help us think how we might be more enaged? What line of thought led you to your own choices? Today’s post, inspired as it is from The Unconquerable World by Jonathan Schell will deal with the thought of Vaclav Havel, Alexis de Tocqueville and Hannah Arendt, and will end with a nice story about a Mohawk student at the University of British Columbia who …
Jonathan Schell is turning my crank these days. His latest book, The Unconquerable World is a stunning survey of the efficacy of non-violent action as it tore down the institutions of British and Soviet Imperialism in the 20th century. What I’ve been getting out of the book is a bunch of springboards for my current thinking on freedom, decolonization, and organizational and community life. Starting today you’ll read a series of posts here inspired by Schell’s writing, and more often by the writing of his sources. I’ll start here with a quote from Schell, which begins with four lines of …
Linkage: I just got invited to a meeting using Meeting Wizard. Dave Pollard muses on birds and the stories we carry about nature A list of models of change at Incipent Thoughts Credit Suisse Thought leader Forum on self-organization, via JOHO. Check out especially the paper by Steven Strogatz on “Sync” which is also the title of his new book. Email is where knowledge goes to die. So start asking questions in public. Feel free to use my comments boxes! Bernie DeKoeven on playing games intergenerationally: “…whatever it is that you�re playing, there are two things you have to take …