Dear Organlearners,
Greg Haworth <ghaworth@IPINC.NET> writes:
>My name is Greg Haworth. I have been subscribed to this list
>for about nine months. This is the first time I have felt compelled
>to speak out.
Greetings Greg,
Thank you very much for a compelling breaking of your silence. I have
enoyed the depth of your thinking very much.
>In short, I contend that the application of LO technologies to
>improve our organizations, to the degree that they are successful,
>is accelerating the rate of social, cultural, and environmental
>decay.
>To answer one of John's questions; yes we are complicit!
In a few days I will go the deserts of Namibia once again to renew my
spiritual "free energy". So this will be one of my last contributions. In
those deserts at places where few humans seldom set foot, even the desert
life bemoan the terrible pressure which humankind is excerting on our
planet earth. Plants older than 200 years clearly show how humankind had
engineered their immergences since then. If only we want to perceive what
we see.
>That this problem is not a central discussion and ongoing learning
>experience on this list is curious to me. It seems to me that a
>noble position to take in our organizations (although risky, under
>the current paradigm) is to be "missionaries of a new world order".
>On which serves the common good and not corporate expansion.
Greg, in order to change the world order, we have to change ourselves
through changing learning. We each can only change ourselves
spontaneously. To help others to the same in a spontaneous manner, is not
a simple task taking little time. Your future contributions in this
complex task will be most valuable.
Thank you for joining the on going dialogues actively. Your observation
that "It appears our organizations thrive at the expense of the common
good." has to do with the the lost harmony between the "dassein" and
"mitsein" features of our personality. Humankind began to create
excessively on the paradigm of simplicity, believing that all its problems
can solved by the "dassein" creativity of the individual. Even our
erections of international corporations are gigantic monuments reminding
us of this paradigm.
Best wishes
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