Edited: ...or not, BUT my care-o-meter is fluttering a bit low... On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >> >
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