[Springboard] Book after next?
Lawrence Philbrook
icalarry at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 23:07:22 EDT 2009
I just finished reading Georges book it is great and just as Marianna
suggested a rehearsing/remembering/ adding to and projecting forward
dialogue would be great.
I would love to participate in a study of it but probably not as the
next book since I will be hard to connect with until mid-July.
With respect, Larry
Marianna Bailey wrote:
> We definitely want to get a copy of his book. That would be different
> kind of study, like rehearsing/remembering and projecting forward?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* James Wiegel <mailto:jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Springboard Dialogue <mailto:springboard at wedgeblade.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 28, 2009 10:30 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [Springboard] Outliers study session 3. Great
> study,see you next time -- What about a next book?
>
> Also, I ran across George West's book on creating community.
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> If anyone tells you something strange about the world, something
> you had never heard before, do not laugh but listen attentively;
> make him repeat it, make him explain it; no doubt there is
> something there worth taking hold of. -- Georges Duhamel.
>
> 401 North Beverly Way
> Tolleson, Arizona 85353-2401
> +1 623-936-8671
> +1 623-363-3277
> jfwiegel at yahoo.com
> www.partnersinparticipation.com
>
> --- On *Thu, 5/28/09, Marianna Bailey /<wmbailey at charter.net>/* wrote:
>
>
> From: Marianna Bailey <wmbailey at charter.net>
> Subject: Re: [Springboard] Outliers study session 3. Great
> study, see you next time -- What about a next book?
> To: "Springboard Dialogue" <springboard at wedgeblade.net>
> Date: Thursday, May 28, 2009, 7:23 AM
>
>
> This looks like a very interesting book. We are interested.
>
> Marianna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* James Wiegel </mc/compose?to=jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
> *To:* Springboard Dialogue
> </mc/compose?to=springboard at wedgeblade.net>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:36 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Springboard] Outliers study session 3.
> Great study,see you next time -- What about a next book?
>
> Anyone interested in studying THE BIG SORT?
>
>
>
> */THE BIG SORT/* (Houghton Mifflin, May 7, 2008) is the
> landmark story of how America came to be a country of
> swelling cultural division, economic separation, and
> political polarization.
>
> Going far beyond the simplistic red state/blue state
> divide, journalist *Bill Bishop* (in collaboration with
> sociologist and statistician Robert Cushing) marshals
> original data and incisive reporting to show how Americans
> have sorted themselves geographically, economically, and
> politically into like-minded communities over the last
> three decades.
>
> Homogeneity may be a perk of the unprecedented choice our
> society offers—but it also breeds economic inequality,
> cultural misunderstanding, political extremism, and
> legislative gridlock. This is the story of our times, and
> its reality poses a profound threat to democracy, but no
> one before now has seemed to notice, let alone been able
> to describe, its causes and consequences.
>
> The nation we live in—our culture, economy, neighborhoods,
> and churches—has been sculpted by the Big Sort over the
> past thirty years:
>
>
>
> How did zip codes become as useful to political activists
> as to mail carriers? In the relatively new cultural
> dynamics of political segregation, Bishop discerns a
> troubling transformation of American life. Complex and
> surprising, the story of that transformation will confound
> readers who suppose that recent decades have made American
> society both more diverse and more tolerant. Pinpointing
> 1965 as the year when events in Vietnam, Washington, and
> Watts delivered body blows to traditional social
> institutions, Bishop recounts how Americans who had
> severed ties to community, faith, and family forged new
> affiliations based on lifestyle preferences. The resulting
> social realignment has segmented the nation into
> groupthink communities, fostering political smugness and
> polarization. The much-noted cartography of Red and Blue
> states, as Bishop shows, actually distorts the reality of
> a deeply Blue archipelago of urban islands surrounded by a
> starkly Red rural sea. Bishop worries about the future of
> democratic discourse as more and more Americans live,
> work, and worship surrounded by people who echo their own
> views. A raft of social-science research underscores the
> growing difficulty of bipartisan compromise in a
> balkanized country where politicians win office by
> satisfying their most radical constituents. A book posing
> hard questions for readers across the political spectrum.
>
> Bryce Christensen
>
>
> Jim Wiegel
>
> If anyone tells you something strange about the world,
> something you had never heard before, do not laugh but
> listen attentively; make him repeat it, make him explain
> it; no doubt there is something there worth taking hold
> of. -- Georges Duhamel.
>
> 401 North Beverly Way
> Tolleson, Arizona 85353-2401
> +1 623-936-8671
> +1 623-363-3277
> jfwiegel at yahoo.com
> www.partnersinparticipation.com
>
> --- On *Wed, 5/27/09, Robert Rafos /<rafos at sympatico.ca>/*
> wrote:
>
>
> From: Robert Rafos <rafos at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: [Springboard] Outliers study session 3.
> To: "Springboard Dialogue" <springboard at wedgeblade.net>
> Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 12:24 PM
>
> Tonight at 6:00 P.M. Mountain time continues the study
> of Outliers, Chapters 6 and 7.
>
> Dial in Number is: 269-320-8400
>
> Access code is: 881373#
>
> Chart attached
>
> Bob Rafos
>
>
> /"Remember the trail, for if you don't know the way
> you have come, you will be lost." - Grandfather
> Albert, a Sicangu Lakota./
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