From: ml (mbtlehn@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue Jul 20 2004 - 22:11:27 BST
David M:
A teacher of mine once said that the problem
in trying to think of an alternative to what one
knows is the inability to forget what what one
knows.
This is a manifold difficulty in a situation like
we have in this MoQ discussion group. You
have your assumptions and implicit values
that are attributes of those assumptions. I
do as well and just the act of trying to agree,
let alone debate, is fraught with a minefield
of hidden ideological, political, academic,
and other unidentified deadfalls. Any of us
by ourselves is apt to not recognize these in
our own thinking. Between any two this effect
is multiplied. (This is why many threads seem
to degenerate into ideological debates that
depart from a more seemly and pure MoQ
discussion.)
In many ways, the MoQ is in its infancy and
is far less compelling for the lack of rigor and
depth/length of debate that it will have to show
as its experience in say 20 years. We are just
getting familiar with each other's terminology
and misreading meaning and intent is a very
turbulent loss of efficiency.
Specifically, David, in our small exchange I
have only one point to make which is that in
the actions of the individual is the very most
significant and moral choice to be made.
To put it another way. My choices carry moral
responsibility regardless of what organization
I find myself working with and within.
Otherwise, I acted unwisely in addressing what
I believed were implicit value laden attitudes
and terms in your posts without my making the
differences in our respective uses EXPLICIT.
My apologies for so doing.
As to you statement that I "...have no idea what
sort of limited life/society [I am] currently living
in...[and I ] ...appear to have no idea of the scale
of things [you are] talking about or what the difference
between the current world, utterly grounded in
SOM, could be compaed [sic] to another grounded in
MOQ and open to a whole new level of freedom.
Well that is obviously true, but then I believe that is
true for nearly everyone. We've had little more than
a teasing glimpse and we are playing with it every day.
Read everything for several meanings...
thanks--mel
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