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> On 15/11/2015, at 22:57, Harrison Owen via OSList 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> The events in Paris have caught our attention. However, with deepest respect 
> and sympathy for my Parisian friends (Christine in particular), the simple 
> truth is that the human toll (127 and counting) is only the daily score in 
> many troubled spots of the world. You can name them as well as I.
>  
> And Mr Holland, President of France, declaring, “This is an act of War,” and 
> “promising” retaliation of whatever sort  -- is quite understandable. Of 
> course he also (according to the American Press) closed the borders. Again 
> understandable, but curious.... especially when it appears that some 
> substantial portion of the combatants (enemy) are French. Somehow the enemy 
> is us.... This is not your grandfather’s war.
>  
> Or Something.
>  
> Any human being who claims to understand what is going on, and feels 
> competent to prescribe the  specific solution (close the borders, open the 
> borders, ban the immigrants, welcome the immigrants, shoot them all, 
> whatever) is, in my humble judgment, quite mad.
>  
> I, however, will venture one affirmative (positive) statement. We (That’s all 
> 7 ½ Billion of us) are in a Transformative Moment. How long it will last, and 
> what the end result will be, I don’t have a clue. But I do believe that it 
> will take all 7 ½ billion of us, working together, to solve the issues at 
> hand. Tall order, to be sure. Then again, we have had some several hundred 
> thousand years’ practice. And to date – despite all odds – we’re still here.
>  
> And the magic sauce?
>  
> I do know some things it’s (special sauce) NOT: a special program, ideology, 
> methodology, tool, technique, intervention, practice, discipline...
>  
> It is.... something that has been around a lot longer, much more basic and 
> fundamental.
>  
> You guessed it. Self Organization.
>  
> We did not invent it. Certainly didn’t create it. But we can help, I do 
> believe.
>  
> Open Space wherever, whenever, however, with whom-so-ever as often as you 
> can. If nothing else, it will give you something to do during this 
> Transformative Moment.
>  
> Harrison  
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