<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:24px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_124991"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_124990">BTW, for what it's worth, I checked Google tonight and, last time the Google car drove by, the Iron Man was still standing in 5th City.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_127437"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_127438">The Fifth City Preschool is still up and running in the same building.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126572" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126622">The community center is now listed as 'Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church.' Maybe they're renting part of the building.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126572"><span>The former shopping center building still stands, but has been boarded up for many years.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126572"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_127011">The auto service center had been torn down when last I walked by many years ago.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126572"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126851">The entire block east of the community center on Homan is now fenced in grass.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126572">Lela, Ruth, Verdell, and so many others are now gone.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126572" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126782">But what's important to me is that--surrounded by a great many cleared, empty lots in every direction, poised for redevelopment at some point--</span>the Iron Man is still standing in Fifth City.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126572"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126844">Let's keep him there.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_126572"><span>Marshall</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 24px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, December 18, 2016 3:34 PM, Jack Gilles <jackcgilles@gmail.com> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9109250060"><div>Marshall,<div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">One of the many things I like about you is your willingness to challenge us all to respond, but to do it with an eye to our wisdom (and our failings). We spent so many years together, locked in an embrace of servanthood for the emergence of a world that was unknown to most, but seen as the call to give our lives to that which would enable a new humanness to take form. Now we are scattered, a lot older and less mobile. Like Don Quixote you call for us to rise again and take up the challenge. The fire is not banked, but the role we need to play with our last years is not so clear. We need to hear that and respond from where we are.</div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">We need to start from a Faith stance. Do not despair. It is dark and there is a hell of a storm coming. No illusions, no asking for a miracle on the election of Trump, no placing of hope in technological solutions and no regrets for the passing of that which can no longer sustain the social process. I like the way Larry Ward expressed it to us at a Retreat he led here in Mexico almost a year ago. "The forces of the new have already won." We will not live long enough to see it, but the world is embracing change that is ripping through the status quo and those who defend it are fighting to hold on to that which is already dead. </div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">That said, we owe it to think clearly and creatively about how to enable a new humanness to take form and be empowered. There will be intense damage and suffering in this struggle. Whatever happens, our eyes must see a thousand years. </div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">Now here is my analysis.</div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">The Social Process has shifted. The once collapsed Cultural pole is actually on the move. It certainly isn’t coherent nor in charge, but filled with a vitality that is feeding an amazing creativity. The Political process is where the pain lies, for me, these days. Order rules (defensively), Justice and Welfare are anemic. The Nation State is dying and the new form of collective responsibility hasn’t taken root. Because we are now, and forever more, Global, our SP must be as well. </div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">The Economic process is whistling in the dark. They know that what is happening regarding the dependance on a healthy biosphere is real and is now, and soon will be, dominating all decisions. They aren’t stupid, just greedy. The world is demanding a new Distribution, and response. I take great hope in the sign that Standing Rock is regarding indigenous wisdom. I know there doesn’t seem to be anything concrete to point to in our HDP work there, but damn, it sure is interesting that it has become a place of Hope!</div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">In terms of the New Human Consciousness (what we called the NRM), there is some very exciting work being done to which we can add our wisdom. Speaking personally, the contradiction is the refusal of the scientific community to grasp the meaning of the Other World. They are scared to death of anti-science and fundamentalism as the only option they have encountered. There is deep work to be done here, and we have a lot of wisdom to share.</div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">Finally there is that body of people (we called the P.O.G) who enable, with their lives, to bring forth the new. That is where I am looking. Who are these people today, where do you look and finally, how might we serve them and help sustain them? Surely they will burn out or be killed if they attempt to attack the dark forces directly. We have much to share with them. Besides the definitives of our NRM work, they need to grasp Imaginal Ed, Methods (all kinds, but especially social analysis, model building, indirection, symbol, and motivity) and the depths of corporateness. </div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">Now for any of you who agree with this empowerment of the POGs, we welcome you to help the Archive Team; making it available, understandable and attractive (findable). It is a small team of old farts who think it is worth the effort!</div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">Thanks Marshall.</div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">Grace and Peace,</div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">Jack</div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"><div><blockquote class="yiv9109250060" type="cite"><div class="yiv9109250060yqt7513980637" id="yiv9109250060yqt18419"><div class="yiv9109250060">On Dec 18, 2016, at 16:07, W. J. via OE <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv9109250060" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="yiv9109250060"><div class="yiv9109250060"><div class="yiv9109250060" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:24px;"><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77113">I rarely comment here. BUT I've frankly been devastated by the outcome of the election.</span></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_78179">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.</span></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060">Any takers?</span></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_78180">I am sure that we have the methodological tools to get there, but where's the corporate will and 'wired-together' corporate structure? </span></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_78209">Or have we all effectively 'retired' from the revolution and are now sitting on the sidelines (and hopefully not nodding off)?</span></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_78210">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".</span></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_79930">I was frankly OK with that as long as Hillary was gonna be in the White House.</span></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071">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!).<br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77998">But now? I'm all fired up with nowhere to go (at my advanced age)!</div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_79931">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.</span></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_79932">Let me hear from you. </span></div><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr" id="yiv9109250060yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1482074637502_77071"><span class="yiv9109250060">Marshall</span></div> <div class="yiv9109250060qtdSeparateBR"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060yahoo_quoted" style="display:block;"> <div class="yiv9109250060" style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:24px;"> <div class="yiv9109250060" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"> <div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr"><font class="yiv9109250060" size="2" face="Arial"> On Sunday, December 18, 2016 10:48 AM, Jeanette Stanfield via OE <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv9109250060" ymailto="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></font></div> <br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"> <div class="yiv9109250060y_msg_container"><div class="yiv9109250060" id="yiv9109250060"><div class="yiv9109250060"><div class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr">Thank you George and Stuart for sharing this with us. <div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">Jeanette</div></div><div class="yiv9109250060gmail_extra"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"><div class="yiv9109250060gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:14 PM, George Holcombe via Dialogue <span class="yiv9109250060" dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv9109250060" ymailto="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net">dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"><blockquote class="yiv9109250060gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv9109250060yqt8290810593" id="yiv9109250060yqt92629"><div class="yiv9109250060" style="word-wrap:break-word;"><div class="yiv9109250060">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.</div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" class="yiv9109250060" target="_blank" href="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/</a></div><div class="yiv9109250060"><br clear="none" class="yiv9109250060"></div><div class="yiv9109250060">
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