Replying to LO26815 --
Dear LO'ers, dear Don,
It was some time ago that I wrote the words to which you replied:
> Leo again:
> > Should we concentrate the good and beautiful in a earthly paradise or
> > should we hide these things in between the bad and ugly all over and
> > around the world? Who is the Solomon between us who could give the answer?
>
> I'm hardly Solomon, but I'll hazard an observation: I think the Law of
> Requisite Complexity would lead us to be very careful when trying to draw
> lines between the good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly.
Meanwhile, I have thought on them too. I was glad that Don refreshed my
memory.
The thing is that some people have created a mental model of the Learning
Organization as a earthly paradise. And thinking of the Paradise (with
capital, the religious one), I realy don't get it, and I realy don't want
to be there if only the good and beautyful will be there.
And therefor I am glad with the words of Dwig. I think that there are no
lines between good and bad, between beautyful and ugly. The one cannot
exist without the other. That makes the paradise such a paradox
(paradise-box :-).
However, thinking of Hell, my thoughts are much clearer. If I had the
choice to live in hell or paradise, or in an Ordinary Organization or a
Learning Organization, then I think I know my way.
I have had always great reservations against Utopia and other idealised
situations. And maybe that the dialogues on this list have ripened my
thoughts much more, because I think that I know why I have these
reservations. I think that for life and flow, attractors and rejectors are
prerequisites. Gavin will agree, I suppose, since he has also pointed us
to fear and attraction as the mental forces that drive us to the future.
Maybe Paradise exist, because there is no future behind that.
I hope that I have not offended someone. This contribution was not ment to
be offensive. I was thinking of idealised situations, and my thoughts went
to the extremes.
Best wishes,
dr. Leo D. Minnigh
l.d.minnigh@library.tudelft.nl
Library Technical University Delft
PO BOX 98, 2600 MG Delft, The Netherlands
Tel.: 31 15 2782226
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