Dear LO
(There is an image that goes with this. It is a 'maze' fit for a new
century in which no amount of 'string' will serve the 'no simple' purpose.
I created it for one of the interviews at the dialogonleadership.org site.
If anyone is interested in seeing the image I will post them a copy, if a
few people are interested in seeing it we can ask Rick to put it up into
the LO archive, if that is ok with Rick)
Most quasi science, like the social sciences seem to me to share a common
trait, a component or object(ive) a standard called a primary goal. Let us
say the primary goal is profitability- to keep gurus old and new experts
and their publishers happy;-)... the profitability is then the standard
primary goal . Many experiments are designed for rats, as well as men;-)
and feature something called a maze. The maze is (often) a secondary
feature to the 'primary' one, the profitability-goal. When though
researchers leave out their;-) primary goal of profitability then the maze
assumes a 'primary goal' value and status in and of itself, even more than
did the imposed (profitability) one. What rats and people share - so it is
argued is something that is called a preference and it is a 'preference'
for both perceptual and behavioural complexity. Evidently;-) then living
things on the whole, require to fulfil a 'primary' need greater than, say
profitability. They in all 'probability';-) and all 'indeterminacy' ;-)
need to behave and follow routes that are more complex. 'Asymmetry
enacted' as choosing more complexity is a primary driver of living as
learning behaviours, both single and group wise;-).
My view about this is that the lower in the organizational hierarchy one
is [perceived to be] (one org. that is based 'primarily' and 'formally' on
profit), then the more one, as any-one of these (their?) workers know,
this... that< the reason for working at a living (for them) is not about (
the company's) profitability at 'all', but is 'all' about maintaining
sufficiently high (personal tacitly held-withheld;-) levels of creativity,
attained by inducing complexity and asymmetry such that they stay sane;-)
- in the system (company-business) gone insane. Ref. Leyton -Bexton, Heron
and Scott (1954) (Campbell 2003;-)
Let some others here write about the 'clinamen'. Let some others here talk
about the 'tipping point'...the 'slipping-glimpse'...I increasingly find
sanity in the opened ground, where the seed sits, a-waiting.
This story is one I appended to another painting, invisibly. I will keep
that painting invisible but make the story visible, here. Then I will sit
and type out a poem.
The background and story is from Goleman's latest book. Destructive
Emotions.
Matthieu Ricard spoke up. " -We know that emotions last seconds, moods
last for, say, a day, and than temperament is forged over the years. So if
we want to change, we need first to act on the emotions, this will help to
change our moods and this will stabilise our temperaments. In other words
we must start working with the instantaneous events that take place in our
mind. As we say, if we take care of the minutes, the hours will take care
of themselves." To illustrate the story is told of the Pigeon Warriors.
(Hanching, my friend, you will like this I think.) - "A story about a
former warrior chief in eastern Tibet who had forsaken all his martial and
worldly activities and gone to a cave to meditate. He stayed there for a
few years. (Leo, remember the man in a cave, who I met in Toby's shop, the
one who'd suffered the stroke;-)...One day a lot of pigeons alighted in
front of his cave and he gave them some of his grain, but as he was
watching the host of pigeons reminded him of the legions of warriors he
had had under his command, and that thought made him remember his
expeditions - and he became angry thinking about his former enemies. These
recollections soon invaded his mind, and he went down into the valley,
found his former companions, and went to war again." -" That exemplifies
how small thoughts can grow into a full-fledged obsession, like a tiny
white cloud that swells into a mighty dark cloud criss-crossed with
lightening."
The Poem
In Memoriam (Easter 1915)
The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood
This Eastertide call into mind the men,
Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should
Have gathered them and will do never again.
Philip Edward Thomas
(Thomas was killed at Arras on the 9th April 1917, on Easter Monday, five
days after reading his poems had been published to enthusiastic reviews.)
Thomas noted that 'literature' was derived from the same root as the word
'litter'. His homelife was described by his wife, upon learning she was
pregnant..."Even now poverty, anxiety, physical weakness, disappointments and
discouragements are making him bitter, hard and inpatient, quick to violent
anger, and subject to long fits of depression..."
Put out the light, and then put out the light. Othello
Andrew Campbell
Oxford
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