Learning&Conversing LO9535

Jim Michmerhuizen (jamzen@world.std.com)
Tue, 27 Aug 1996 21:43:10 -0400 (EDT)

Replying to LO9434 --

Claire

Well, now, if it were up to me alone, I'd ask you to please repost this,
verbatim, whenever you wanted. I might even ask you to monitor MY
postings, and to send me a PRIVATE reminder whenever you felt it
necessary... .

In particular,
> I tend to resist, with all my might, books & courses that attempt to teach
> human beings how to be human beings.

The creation and publication of such books has been the besetting sin of
the 20th century in the West. It's perverse. It's "against nature".

Within a more restricted scope, for example, the management ideas that
engender this list and its threads represent, to me and to many of us,
a kind of return to the proper TAO of human affairs in business and other
institutions.

> My question is not 'how to do it' but when and why did we lose our natural
> capacity for dialogue, relationships, cooperative & creative work? I see
> these arts as something to be rediscovered and reclaimed, not behaviors to be
> learned as if they never existed before.

Which brings up Ursula Le Guin, an author whom I once read for enjoyment,
and now read for her wisdom.

In the context of your remarks, may I recommend her once again to everyone
here? Not long ago I finished her collection "Four Ways to Forgiveness".
Every one of the four related stories there is suffused with the spirit of
your post, Claire, and with the culture of a Learning Organization.

--
Regards
     Jim Michmerhuizen    jamzen@world.std.com
     web residence at     http://world.std.com/~jamzen/
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