[Springboard] Book after next?
James Wiegel
jfwiegel at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 2 14:57:26 EDT 2009
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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.
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--- On Tue, 6/2/09, Nancy Lanphear <nancy at songaia.com> wrote:
From: Nancy Lanphear <nancy at songaia.com>
Subject: Re: [Springboard] Book after next?
To: "Springboard Dialogue" <springboard at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Tuesday, June 2, 2009, 10:21 AM
How do we get a copy of George West's book?
Nancy
2009/6/1 Lawrence Philbrook <icalarry at gmail.com>
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?
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James Wiegel
To:
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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
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James Wiegel
To:
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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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