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23rd March 2008 | Uncompleted

Enactivating a Global Metaphor Simulation

Learn from the Process while You Can

collective impotence in the face of imminent catastrophe

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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

 

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