Im glad to make your acquaintance. I felt you in the shadows and now I am happy to read your thoughts.
As to your questions about what weve been discussing. There is a tool the brain uses for filling the holes that ones perceptions do not recognize. We recognize the patterns have already and fill the holes in with what we want to hear. Daniel Levitin compared hearing to having colored ping pong balls fired at a sheet hung from the ceiling with the listener on the other side. From that information the listener would decide who had said it. What they were saying and what the color of the ping pong balls were. The term he used for that was inference. How much more is inferred with no context, no gesture, no melody to the sentence and the hopeless generalities of the English language. Face to face visual context is the assumed mode for filling in the dearth information apart from inference. This is just writing, we arent people, we dont exist outside each others life experience. Futurework is between our ears. (Another Native American saying.) When I came to the list the first time, I was on a search for answers to two problems. One was the reason for the failure of the economics of the Arts in a capitalist venue and the other was the reason for the disappearance of my people in almost anything that we set out to do in the dominant society. That list was filled with assumptions about both areas and it was useful for me to knock heads with opinions of members of the group. I obtained a lot of factual and cultural material as a result of that first time but eventually I had to move on. The result of that work was The American Masters Arts Festival in New York City with ten concerts and a symposium on the Arts in the Nations capital. With the concerts and the symposium it was a year long event celebrating composer Ned Rorems 80th birthday. I always was grateful to the list and to Arthur and Sally in particular for the shepherding of the whole thing that led up to that. REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stephen Markan Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2010 10:46 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION Subject: Re: [Futurework] Lets get back to the future of work and away from pushing and shoving There is an old saying that goes: "When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing". Native Americans might say: "Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf" And from Proverbs we get: Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise. (Prov. 19:20.) I lurk on this list finding hidden pearls in the broken shells of the threads as they fill up my inbox. Lately the pearls have been of low quality. And the broken shells unusually sharp and cutting. And it seems now the shells are being thrown wildly about. Which reminds me of what my mother might say: "It is a lot of fun until somebody loses an eye." And finally my magyar side of the family might say: "Okos enged, szamár szenved." Loosely translated as "The wise yield - the ass suffers." As you can see I have only borrowed wisdom. I hope the wisdom FW has been lending me causes no lasting harm. cheers Stephen
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