[Oe List ...] Salmon: Taking up the challenge

Sun Dec 18 18:17:40 PST 2016

Marshall, et al
    Ul-m-m-m; What an interesting "Subject Line--". . . up the challenge."
    I'll make this quick until someone is interested in the research I've done since retiring from the Order. We are in the midst of a global collapse and rebuilding of our societal WORLDVIEW. 
    Do you remember the illustration of living in a "World of Rounds" until someone opened our eyes that a "Squares" actually existed. 
    "What? There are no such things as Squares. Just show me one."
    "Ok, there is one right behind you."
    "Well, I'll be damned. I've never seen a Square before. Are they dangerous?"
    "No, they are just TWLI--"The Way Life Is."

    Social Scientists note that a societal paradigm shift happens about every 500 to 600 years. When these shifts take  e it was over a period of many years so that the change was little noted and fully accepted. Now, our revolution, our Societal End Times, is turning over very rapidly as represented in the terms Gen X, Y, and Z. Our social scientists note that those born after 1985 are fully wired differently that those of us born prior to this time. Represented in this group are the parents of our highschool students. Does this make it two generations looking at  life through the lens o planing
    Thomas Friedman, the noted Foreign Affairs columnist for the "New York Times," wrote a book published this year is, "Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations." He notes the following:
    "Many of us fdeel even more dislocated to iot, but many of us feel even more dislocated now as the result of the election." 
    "Dislocation," as Froiedman uses the term, "is when the whole environment is being altered so  quickly that everyone starts to feel they can't keep up. That is what is happening now."
    Barbara Wendland, in her monthly newsletter--Connections--reports from Friedman's book, "In Friedman's view, "we are living through one of the greatest inflection pointss in history." Wendland goes on to write, "He thinks it's probably unequaled since Gutenberg, a German blacksmith and printer, launched the printing revolution in Europe, paving the way for the Reformation.
    Friedman observes, "The three largest forces on the planet--technology, globalization, and climate change--are all accelerating at once."
   Wendland goes one to report, "Friedman observes, ". . . and they're all affecting each other, making the total acceleration happen even faster." 
    As a result, he writes, ". . . .so many aspects of our society's workplaces, and geopolitics are being reshaped and need to be reimagined." (emphasis is mine).

    Aren't we in the business of "reimagination?" The trouble is, we is old!"
    The message I get from those representing the post modern generation is, "Get out of the way, old man." My response is, "I'm getting out as fast as I can, and I can see the light at the end of the tunnel getting brighter all of the time!
    The resources mentioned are: 

    Wendland, Barbara, connections, Dec. 2016, Number 266
        This is a powerful lay women who has used this form of communications for at lease 50 years. Marshall, subscribe to it, as it is worthwhile. 

     Frioedman, Thomas, Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Acceleration." 
    I've ordered this book as it is fille with wonderful images to tell our story of reimagening this globe into a more humane existence. We did a fantastic start to tell the world before we die; but then we will be out of this world.

    Another source that I have not yet read is Jimmy Wheeler's paper, "Wheeler's Manifesto." Jim is one of the best theologians we have. He lives in OKC. He will send you a copy. 

        That's all for now!
        Inner Peace,
        Bill Salmon

From: W. J. via OE 
  To: Jeanette Stanfield ; Order Ecumenical Community 
  Sent: Sunday, December 18, 2016 4:07 PM
  Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Article on Classes from ICAsupper meeting

  I rarely comment here. BUT I've frankly been devastated by the outcome of the election.
  I really need to participate in a corporate process of getting to discern and name the deep, underlying global contradiction in the social process dynamic leading up to, and focused by the result of the election.
  Any takers?
  I am sure that we have the methodological tools to get there, but where's the corporate will and 'wired-together' corporate structure? 
  Or have we all effectively 'retired' from the revolution and are now sitting on the sidelines (and hopefully not nodding off)?
  Nodding off on occasion is easy to do as long as we're all just sitting around watching the so-called 'news' in our "little boxes made of ticky-tacky".
  I was frankly OK with that as long as Hillary was gonna be in the White House.
  After the 1968 assassinations I knew what to do. Got up off my butt and got myself to 3444 Congress Parkway (which turned out to be a street address without a physical entrance!).

  But now? I'm all fired up with nowhere to go (at my advanced age)!
  Surely I'm not the only one who's fully awake and deeply challenged by recent developments. And waiting for WAY worse news to come.
  Let me hear from you. 
  Marshall

  On Sunday, December 18, 2016 10:48 AM, Jeanette Stanfield via OE <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

  Thank you George and Stuart for sharing this with us. 

  Jeanette

  On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:14 PM, George Holcombe via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

    Studied this paper introduced by Stuart Hampton in a meeting the other night at our ICA colleagues.  Really insightful about the structure of society these days, especially in reference to opportunities and limitations.  Used to be, I thought of the upper, middle and poor classes, but this casts a new light on it. And provides some helpful categories and framework for grasping what’s going on these days.

    https://www.weforum.org/ agenda/2016/11/precariat- global-class-rise-of-populism/

    George Holcombe
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