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Good post Ed.
I'm off to the Cherokee New Year and can't reply but thanks for the
pleasure.
Talk to you tomorrow.
REH
Edward R Weick wrote:
REH:
You're thinking in dualities.
I'm thinking in a time cycle. One side is finishing while the other
is learning the same lessons in a new cycle and context.
Both have the responsibility to balance the circle by being either 1. the
enlightenment of the child's learning, or 2. the warlike drive to deconstruct
their rote knowledge and reconstruct it in a masterful skill or 3. being
an absolute artist virtuoso at their job and finallly 4. An old hand filled
with reflection and awareness of the meaning of it all.
I'm a teacher in one of my jobs and that is the learning cycle that fills
all professions including the government.
You are right. I was thinking in dualities: two contending sides
- e.g. young idealists versus corporate capitalism or Native Americans
versus land-grabbers. I will try to think time cycle: 1) child-like
idealism; 2) deconstruction and learning of a masterful skill (e.g. former
young idealist stops shooting from the hip and becomes a masterful writer;
3) becomes a widely published author or columnist; 4) becomes recognized
and revered as something of a senior guru. Do I have any of this right?
If I do, it seems to me that it is a process of absorption into an establishment.
Initially, the individual is on the outside, kicking and screaming.
Then through a series of steps, he moves to the inside, then the center,
and in fact becomes the establishment. Except perhaps in fashion
and appearances, the establishment itself does not change much. It
remains the definer of legitimacy, appropriateness and reward.
As you know, Canada is mourning a former Prime Minister who, it would
seem to me, went through the above stages. He was certainly a young
idealist and then a leading intellectual. He was then brought into
the political center and became the establishment, so much so that his
attitude toward idealists or anyone else who challenged his vision was
little short of contempt. He died a revered establishment guru. Ed Weick
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