Dear Open Space friends,
Maybe some of you still remember, two years ago 'OpenSpace-Online' was among
the "Top 10 World Changer 2006" winners. Oh my god, what an exciting voting
process this was - over weeks - and many of you voted for me. Exciting memories
:-)
During the last days I was readi
Overheard:
"Barack Obama was the greatest Republican president we ever had."
-- Clo Zd. Heart, paraphrasing Michael Moore, a great American documentary
filmmaker, specializing in retelling the great, historical contributions of
very real and effective living, fictitious presidents...in a conversa
Thanks Peter. Very elegant. And noted.
Jack
2008/8/14 Peter Emerson
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> They key, then, is to ask these folks, do they believe in democracy? Yes?
> Oh jolly good. And do they believe democracy is for everybody, or just a
> majority? And if they agree to the former, away you
(francais en desous)
Friends and colleagues;
Here, downloadable, is the version of "Circles of Change: a quiet
revolution in Haiti" with French subtitles.
https://rcpt.yousendit.com/597461491/76ddf496236d33d106ddfabd167c4201
It's 19 minutes long and in very good resolution. It's a large fil
I appreciate your keeping our eye on the magic of emergent systems,
Harrison, where things continuously seek pattern and differentiation
simultaneously. This invites the frame of consensus as both seeking sameness
within uniqueness and uniqueness within sameness. The tension energizes, as
you remin
Dear Jack,
They key, then, is to ask these folks, do they believe in democracy? Yes?
Oh jolly good. And do they believe democracy is for everybody, or just a
majority? And if they agree to the former, away you go.
Mediation works only when the parties to the dispute agree to it. Democr
i'm with harrison on the 'tyranny of concensus'. concensus usually drives
me nuts. i appreciate that there is also a possibility of a tyranny of the
majority. but the common element in the tyranny scenarios seems to be
"yes/no".
much as i prefer decisions to seemingly endless rounds of concens
Peter,
Thanks for taking the trouble to explain the method in so much detail. I've
turned your post into a Word document and filed it under Decision Making
Methods for future reference.
The challenge is getting people's agreement to use the method.
Catch-22!
Warm wishes,
Jack
Jack Martin Leit
Peter - Tyranny by the majority is certainly a downside of Democracy as
practiced in my country (USA). That said, it seems to me that there are
circumstances where it is the preferable alternative. The passage of the
Civil Rights Act here in the US was vociferously and often violently opposed
by a
