Pat Black wrote: >I would say that the unstated assumptions of the OS network are the same as any other network that includes living beings and in this case humans and they are: >That humans are self revealing in all their actions and communications. >pat
Thank you Pat, but is that all? The point you make relates to individuals within the OS Network. How about the OS Network itself? For instance, with my long-time employer IBM - with which I worked through its best and worst phases - an unsaid assumption seemed to be "We have got it right so often; as has happened before, we will win in the end". An assumption that Therese stated about our list was "Each person believes we can have a better world." Now that is something that (almost) everyone in the world would believe - the large majority of whom would not be on this list, or other similar lists. How the "better world" comes into being is where differences come in. For instance, I believe the principle "Whoever comes are the right people" has an assumption built in - simply considering the choice of words, which are not neutral. (This has been raised before, and my purpose in bringing it up is not to hammer home the point. This "self-realing" example popped into my head again at this time) So? I am still stuck Masud * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist