[Dialogue] Change of Topic
W. J.
synergi at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 21 14:21:19 EDT 2011
My first take on this essay is that I'm probably more of a whole-on that is part
of a larger hole. Maybe a very big hole. Even an awesome hole. Perhaps we are
all awesome holes. Like, black holes. That would be fairly awesome. Dunno, but
I'll think about it. Please pass the antibiotics. I need them with my cereal.
Marshall
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From: darrell walker <darrell66 at earthlink.net>
To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sun, August 21, 2011 6:25:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Change of Belief [darrell walker]
It has been so long that I have been requested to make a provocative
proposition that I have forgotten what one looks like. But "provocative
proposition" has the ring of rational about it, and what I am suggesting is
"transrational," to use Wilber's term. That gets me out of having to use
rational arguments.
First, it sounds like I need to plug in Wilber's definition of "holon," to
wit, "a holon is a whole that is a part of other wholes. For example, a whole
atom is part of a whole molecule; a whole molecule is part of a whole cell; a
whole cell is part of a whole organism. Or again, a whole letter is part of a
whole word, which is part of a whole sentence, which is part of a whole
paragraph, and so on. Reality is composed of neither wholes nor parts, but of
whole/parts, or holons. Reality in all domains is basically composed of
holons."
Second, we need to get the ego under control. Am I diminished because I am
merely a cell and not the organ? The cell can be well or contaminated by
"evil" bacteria. It may need to be baptized in antibiotic for the salvation of
its sinful soul. Or, the cell can mature to the point of realizing that with
clean living it doesn't need antibiotics. Or looked at another way, can you
imagine a world filled only with uncoordinated kidney cells emitting urine all
over the place to no good purpose. The kidney cells avidly believe they are at
the top of Creation's ladder and refuse to be manipulated into being "merely"
part of a kidney. Who are we humans to put limits on creation?
And finally, there is merely the observation of what is transpiring. It
began with Henry Ford announcing that humans were merely part of an assembly
line. No one person on the assembly line had to understand the process. But
without persons on the assembly line, there would be no process. Without
assembly line paychecks, there would be no customers. Henry never heard
Wilber's fancy term, holon, but he understood the concept well.
For the past thirty years a corporation mentality has been evolving. The
first hint of it that I saw was in 1984 at the annual board meeting of Phillips
Petroleum Company. Carl Icahn appeared at the meeting and announced to the
chairman that the purpose of the company had nothing to do with products or
customers or employees. Rather the sole purpose of the company was
"shareholder value." He then proceeded to force the company to go $8 billion
into debt and distribute it to shareholders. He then liquidated TWA and just
this week was working his magic on Chlorox. Corporations are in creative
flux--merging, spinning off, suing, monopolizing, off shoring, downsizing--all
the while controlling the cultural heat to prevent burning. Lobbyists and
money control Washington while the mythic masses are manipulated to do the
corporate bidding. The creation is in the messy, ugly creative stages and will
not mature for hundreds, even thousands, of years. But we are blessed to have
experienced the ovulation and orgasm of the 1950-60s which resulted in the egg
being fertilized in the 1980s. Cell division is now rapidly underway but
actual organ formation is yet to be defined.
Rational? No, but then creation never is. Why should it have been sinful
to take a bite of apple?
Darrell Walker -- Phoenix
>
>Pondering some more about Darrell's Change of Belief thread which includes
>phrases like:
>-Appropriate function of corporations in culture
>-Ken Wilber's concept of holons
>-Belief that corporations are the next evolving level of spiritual
>development
>-Our role as holons will be participants in the process but we will not be in
>control
>-New being having organs labeled as Google, Apple, and Goldman Sachs
>
>
>Seems like there are several ways to engage this thread
>-point, counterpoint, file in my never find it again inbox or
>-intensify the action-reaction cycle by sharp-shooting a couple Darrell's
>more outrageous points or
>-put in some little snarky cheep shot or
>
>
>invite an appreciative inquiry and some provocative propositions from Darrell
>that actually invite dialog
>
>
>So, I'm wondering, Darrell, if you might have 3 or 4 propositions that invite
>dialog and inquiry
>I'm thinking that my read of your points doesn't do justice to your thinking
>since I'm stuck in a set of
>cynical editorials like
>-lost in Wilbur's abstraction machinery
>-scientific darwinism
>-corporations are evolutionary people
>-apple vs haliburton
>-no social pioneers no freedom no enlightenment just along for the ride in a
>process process paradigm
>-1000 year timelines do what for the civilizing process again?
>
>
>
>
>How about some provocative propositions that generate inquiry, Darrell, got
>any to share?
>
>--
>Steve Harrington
>
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