Jay Hanson wrote:
>
> >I just cannot see how a dictatorship would lessen the complexity
> >of solutions.
>
> The human mind is like a Swiss Army knife. Every time I point out that what
> passes for democracy will end, everyone starts pulling mental blades out to
> see if they can find one that will fix the problem.
Well, they don't want to admit how badly they've
been "had".
>
> This dead-end thinking is encountered by retrieving packaged solutions from
> in the past. Let's face it folks, we find ourselves in our present crisis
> BECAUSE everything we have thought of before has failed.
>
> If there is a solution, it is in a new system that has never been see
> before. Invoking labels such as "dictatorship", "democracy", or any of the
> old "isms" does nothing to advance our thinking into new systems design.
This is a really important point: Solutions are often not part
of the problem space. The solution to a problem
is often none of the imaginable responses to it (in other words:
the person asking the problem "draws a blank"), because
all of them attribute different attributes to "it", whereas
what's happening is "something different" (a la the Monty
Python boot that keeps stepping down on the world...).
(One of the basic facts of attention is that
if you focus on something hard enough, you
cease to see it....)
--
But "newism" is not quite right, because, as Marx
said: "Man makes himself on the basis of conditions he
has not made." We can never *replace* the underlying
conditions we face in life. At most
we can act into those conditions to change them more to
our liking. Thus a more correct word is something
like:
re-new-ism.
\brad mccormick
>
> We need to describe our new system by its attributes and give it a new name.
> Perhaps if we call out new system "Newism", we can move our thinking into
> the future.
>
> Jay
--
Mankind is not the master of all the stuff that exists, but
Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
914.238.0788 / 27 Poillon Rd, Chappaqua, NY 10514-3403 USA
-------------------------------------------------------
<![%THINK;[SGML]]> Visit my website: http://www.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/
