23rd March 2008 | Uncompleted
Enactivating a Global Metaphor Simulation
Learn from the Process
while You Can
collective impotence in the face of imminent catastrophe
- / -
Recognizing the Global Management Strategy of Gaia
stella?
pattern language of metaphors
meetings are simulations -- constantly rerun
"agri-culture" -- cultivating fields of knowledge
generic simulation problem about exchange of ideas / possibilities / potentia
- on stony ground
- isolates / orphans
use:
- weather models
- meteorological models
- existing metaphors to structure / pattern / design the model
taking it seriously vs as if
jig-saw puzzle of metaphors
reframe current "crisis" as a cognitive crisis of which the material version
is but a mundane and consequential echo
pattern "re-cognition"
reconstitutuing the system that is intuitively undersood in a framented manner
vs global manipulation / United Fruit
fusion framing
Garden of Eden / Tree of Knowledge
phenomena / templates:
- emotion / empathetic
- rivers
- streams
- aridity / arid zones -- irrigation / sparseness
- plants / biodiversity
- soils
techniques
- formation / growth of knowledge structures
- training / schooling -- creepers?
- increase / reduction of complexity
- styles of garden
- crop rotation
- genetic / memetic enginerring
- grafts / replanting
- instroduction of species
- cattle herding
- interplanting
- permaculture
wine >>> cultivation ? wisdom
fruit / veg / animals
Lovelock
critical number of counter productive factors?
synthesis
pass on message -- why -- what does that mean?
songlines -- wrap up
distinguishing postures of inappropriate response / impotence / stuckness
/ failure to learn
- as "species" / worlds with their own role
- levels
- binary
- counter-intuitive
- levels of complexity
- mono-factor
- bi-factor
- etc
learning on the adaptive cycle
focus on:
- narrow issues
- surrogate problems
manipulative implementation of processes
- blackmail by niceness
- fascist exploitation
complexity preferences
- simple comfortable solutions
- motherhood projects
"proposals" made without any consideration of their "conposals"
- best thing since "sliced bread"
- like inter-faith dialogue: Catholics, Muslims, etc
we are our own metaphor / self-reflexivity correspondence between:
- shortage of time to implement strategies
-- time shortage claimed in meeting to discuss strategies
- loss of languages -- reduction of number of "voices" / different "languages"
- inadequate interpretation
- loss of species -- biodiversity loss -- variety reduction
- shortage of energy -- sapping participant vital energy resources
- waste
- overpopulation
- unemployment
- education -- ignorance
- nourishment
- blame processes
- interpersonal power manipulation / misgovernance
- health -- vision, hearing, smell, etc (physical parallels), incapacity
- smoking -- co2 emissions
- exploitation of non-renewable resources
- misuse of resources
- "democratic deficit" -- failure to listen
- dependency on legacy behaviour
- boundaries / category gerrymandering / context
- calls for new thinking --
eliciting creativity:
- risk level / craziness index
riding the tiger -- take people thru the (catastrophic) transformation
what are the issues / options:
- that are being designed off the table
- "orphaned"
- mis-connected
proximate solutions / problems
claiming ignorance or failure to understand