Late night for mushroom tea, eh Neil? I do love the stream of consciousness, and there's a honking huge nugget of gold in here...no need to drain the swamp, when a symbiotic boardwalk from tree to tree will do just fine.
Oh, and you won't be up to your arse in alligators if you bash two of them. Toss one to the rest, and keep one for din-din. Mind if I join you in that tea? I'm logging on to a teleconference, I'm sure they'd appreciate the raw wisdom...or not, by my care-o-meter is fluttering low this morning. On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:27 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > The classic argument from child is in the Emperor's New Clothes - > though we sit as adults nodding like donkeys when he is declared naked > without recognising 'we' are the idiot adults of the story. South > Park does a lot of sociology as 'out of the mouths of babes'. > > My child was impressed by the opening of a B movie vampire saga. The > opening is a memoir of an old vampire fighter, writing-up as they are > about to do for him. Another child was impressed by the guy hanging > on to life in a pulp Western, one bullet left, Indians swarming. He > hangs on long enough to discharge his last bullet in order to warn the > oncoming stagecoach. Existential heroes a-go-go. I don't approve of > Indian-slaying or the myths that hide its reality, but do believe the > Undead are amongst us (as metaphor). > > Over the years it has regularly seemed to me that one emerges from > organisational interventions only with a memoir about the Undead to > write - something that might just help in a more rational future, or > with the one-bullet warning. The old joke is about it being no use > draining the swamp when one is up to one's arse in alligators, yet the > reality is that the alligators would have been no problem in the first > place if we had taken account of them in their own terms. The classic > statement in systems analysis is that you are doing it for the first > time when you first see the world through the eyes of another. The > ghastly truth is that this view will not be very nice, likely a flying > mess of projections. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
