[Oe List ...] Salmon: Taking up the challenge
A.M. Noel via OE
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net
Mon Dec 19 06:26:14 PST 2016
I am willing to accept Trump as our president,
. Is there any other country in the world that owes more than 19 trillion
other than us?
Is any one who has been poorer than our president elect in the world ?
A.M. Noel
On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 9:17 PM, William Salmon via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 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 <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
>
> *To:* Jeanette Stanfield <jstanfield at ica-associates.ca> ; Order
> Ecumenical Community <oe at lists.wedgeblade.net>
> *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/
> <https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/11/precariat-global-class-rise-of-populism/>
>
> George Holcombe
> 14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
> Austin, TX 78728
> Mobile 512/252-2756
> geowanda1 at me.com
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> than a community discovering what it cares about." Margaret Wheatley
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