--- Larry Peterson <[email protected]> escribió: > Self-organization -- it happened at Abu Grade Prison in Iraq with the > help of the conditions being created by the system and the culture of > an army and country.
http://www.prisonexp.org gives information about an experiment where a group of students were recruited, then grouped as prisioners and guards, then watched 24 hours a day with cameras. With a few rules, it looks like the rest just followed - very much like what has happened in Iraq and elsewhere. In a few days, even the psychologists were "into it" and thought the prisioners were trying to escape and wouldn't let them. I found the whole description quite disturbing. It looks like we humans are quite, er, flexible. So changing "the rules of the game" a meeting at a time might work. I guess formal, big, numerous gatherings are more powerful and make more waves. Small meetings are not so powerful but, on the other hand, they are much more frequent. Could small meetings be powerfully "opened"? I have one question related to the "systemic" evolution of OST. Epidemics grow when the "infectable" are "infected", and not everyone is equally prone to become "infected". Epidemics tend to grow slowly at the beginning, then faster, then slower again. Do you think OST has a ceiling in this regard? Why? Thanks! Lucas ______________________________________________________________________ Correo Yahoo! - 6MB, más protección contra el spam ¡Gratis! http://correo.yahoo.es * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected]: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
