LS Martin has it!


Murdock, Mark (Mark.Murdock@Unisys.Com)
Sun, 7 Dec 1997 06:58:15 +0100


>>Martin wrote
> But as far as we are concerned, do you actually think we've figured
> out our value-based metaphysics completely?  No.  If you write a
> principia, don't expect me to follow it, expect me to break it down
> over time and improve it. And again. And again. :-)
Yes, and you have just described the art of storytelling. Exactly the
method of drawing meaning from experience that the forerunners of the
Greeks subscribed. Think about that. They could have written down
their stories, they had language. There was a reason, a motivation for
not writing it down.

Writing or recording experience objectifies it. The narrator is
figuratively killed, and only a ghost speaks (sound familiar?) Quality
is best communicated through experience, not intellectual constructs
like FAQs and books. So if you want to communicate ideas about Quality,
why not choose the structure of the narrative best suited for it?

Writing MoQ down is really an SOM idea. Our metaphysics lives and
breathes. The story content is a static value, but it is the live
telling of it that maximizes the dynamic influence. If we want to start
to propagate these ideas, we should seriously consider breaking all SOM
convention. Devote the site to the rebirth of the art of storytelling.
Read stories, retell them. Remember that the story is not an objective
thing, it has no owner, it is subject to your quality event while
telling it, play with it, change it to suit your audience, only remember
the "moral" of the story. Meaning will be conveyed. These oral
traditions are at the heart of ancient civilizations that didn't drive
to the brink of global thermonuclear destruction. This is the legacy of
a Truth-based metaphysics.

Something magical does happen when we start communicating this way,
folks. We start seeing each other as humans again. We feel for each
other, and develop compassion for one another. That's good.

>  
> Many truths to you,
> Martin 
>  
> P.S. I'll be taking a class on genetics next semester. It should be
> interesting.
>

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