Bureaucrats would need more than mushroom tea to shift them towards reality.
On 25 Feb, 02:54, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll be looking forward to it...nice change of pace from the cocktails > they force on me here. You know in the US it's all anxiety and > depression...we have to take a step sideways from time to time. > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 9:46 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've always been practically more successful abroad Gabbers, > > particularly Copenhagen and North. There and in Germany there is much > > quicker focus on practical resourcing and how we might change systems > > to match what we intend to try. Flask of the tea on its way Chris. > > > On 24 Feb, 23:11, gabbydott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The Danish disease, yeah. Nothing you can do about this twisted vanity > >> thing. > > >> On 24 Feb., 14:27, 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
