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Re: [pf] from the ... (or at least philosophical) to the ridiculous.
by Nan Hildreth
02 December 2000 08:28 UTC

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We're on a roller coaster of change says Dee Hock in Birth of the Chaordic Age. 
  And it's an opportunity because the old ways were inefficient, no fun. 

Nan

At 05:23 PM 12/1/00 -0800, David MacClement wrote:

>· So if you want or need predictability, as I think traditionalists do,
>things have to be decided in advance, you "know what's right", and change
>causes upset, ruckshuns.
>  But if you choose to aim at being more flexible when changes, shocks come
>along, you should design your actions in the knowledge that the unexpected
>/will/ happen (at least some of the time); and you should re-examine the
>"hard parts" in your mind, the fossilized "this is how it is" bits of your
>thinking, adding the thought: "maybe that's not all there is to it; maybe
>that's not totally right" to each of them.


Nan Hildreth    Nan.Hildreth@Pdq.net  (713) 864-7108

We are in the middle of a titanic clash between two ways of seeing the world. 
One assumes that technology and maximum economic growth will resolve the 
problems of the world, that continuation of twentieth-century emphases is 
viable.

The other believes that we need new goals. It argues that only a concentration 
on social cohesion, ecological integrity, effective decision-making, and the 
quality of life can prevent massive disasters.

-- Robert Theobald Turning the Century