In a message dated 5/29/00 12:48:15 PM Central Daylight Time, phol...@msn.com writes:
<< For me, voting is a reductionist approach that throws people back into a mode of win-lose. I see the end of the day work as a time for synthesis, where the passions that have surfaced can come together in new ways that perhaps didn't exist before. >> Peg and Jimbo, This is great stuff. I too feel that we have to be careful with convergence. Sometimes our minds seem to naturally want to re-establish a sense of order (and control) as we leave OS. Perhaps the real challenge is to allow chaos to flourish at the end, causing us to really see things differently. Peg, I like the approaches that you have outlined, especially the idea of having convergence be another OS. I will give this a try. Thanks, Dave Koehler