Indeed, Harrison, I was quite amused, quite tickled by the piece. I am very grateful that your muse was able to amuse. And we being human we all have our tickle bone in different places...Some may re-fuse to appreciate it...
Your piece (re-?)starts a number of important conversations. One conversation I would like to be part of *live* some day is to hear more of the questions about whether "self-organization rules," as your November 2005 Practice of Peace workshop announcement in Berlin put it. My understanding from my very superficial knowledge of the topic is that there are a number of questions about your proposition and I don't know if that conversation has ever fully played itself out. It is hard to have a complete conversation about this onlist because of the sheer two dimensionality of this space. And curiously, I find that in some ways an OSonOS also has elements of a two dimensional space, a space where I wonder if we as participants feel we can easily choose to be ourselves. (An excellent book describing what I mean by living in two dimensional space is "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television) I think something that happens quite naturally when we have reached a certain level of renown in a field is we acquire a reputation, maybe at times fall into an image. I wonder if what happens in an OSonOS is that when in a space where literally anyone can participate that it is not easy to let go of our image fully, to fully bring ourselves to any and all conversations. The two OSonOS'es I have participated in have given me a little bit of this sense...and I enjoyed them immensely. Is it possible to park the ego in the disabled parking zone before an OSonOS? Don't know. It's a tall order. quizzically and in anticipation, raffi * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
