I also remember an interview with Meg Wheatley talking about her discussions with military students/leaders, and how similar in feel her conversations seemed with what I was learning about open space.
I remember Jim Channon's idea of the First Earth Battalion in which (my paraphrase) all the armies of the world would learn to collaborate against our common opponents: poverty, mass extinctions, etc. Jim thinks this idea still lives in military leaders around the world. I know that Open Space enables us to get down to the level of assumptions and our true purpose -- I dream that Open Space in the military might lead to a First Earth Battalion -- However, I believe the North needs the military to enforce a First World of 23 nations free to consume all we want, and a Third World of all the rest of the nations, which are net exporters of protein and net importers of guns to keep the system in place. (I believe they will never join the First World because they do not have their own Third World to exploit - we would need another five earths if everyone consumes as the US does.) So I suggest we must also Open Space about whether we in the North are free to consume all we want. Jeff * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu, Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
