Dear Organlearners,
Rick wrote:
> As evidence that there really is a problem here, I quote the Dilbert
> cartoon from Sunday Nov. 9...
...snip...
Rick, thank you for the description -it fed the imagination!
But what about the eyes. Is it not possible to make pictures like this one
and Scott's available on the website?
[Host's Note: At, I agree completely. Unfortunately there is a copyright
involved. As web readers may know, I am able to *point* to the daily
Dilbert cartoon on the LO web page, but I would be violating copyright to
place the "Human Resources" cartoon or any other one on the LO web site
without permission of the copyright owner. ...Rick]
Now for some comments on the topic which do not imply Rick in any manner.
A resource is anything owned such that something can be taken from it.
This is a linguistic fact - the meaning of the word resource. If some
humans are a resource, then it means that they are owned so that something
can be taken from them. This is slavery in a clever disguise. I do not
want to own any human, not even in the tiniest part for whatever reason.
Thus I cannot and will not typify any human ever as a resource.
People who exploit humans as resources, want their human resource to be
resourceful. In other words, they want their human resources to be fertile
in expedients which then can be taken from them. Be forwarned, any person
or group who plan to take without giving back at least what has been
taken, will initially reap fertility, but in the end only desolation will
remain.
Humans are not resources, but creative creatures who each has to improve
his/her creativity by learning. When humans do it together in a loving
harmony, they are a Learning Organisation. Thus it is a contradiction to
think of the humans in a LO as resources.
Best wishes
--At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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