Phil Henshaw Hath Spoken Thus:
==>Look, I know this audience is not made of fools, and not deaf and dumb, and probably not disinterested in change, so I have to figure your inability to connect with my approach to constructing a science of change for natural complex systems must be that you find no door between your methods and mine. <==
Phil,
Nick Thompson hath replied:
I have struggled to understand you over the years and just .... can't. Others have said the same of me.
Perhaps "connection" is too high a standard. Certainly "AUDIENCE" is too high a standard. We are not all here, quietly attentive, waiting for ANYbody's message. There is no "we" here.
The older I get, the rarer communication between actual human beings seems to be. We talk to our gods; we talk to our college mentors; we talk to our long dead parents, we reproduce the values of those who have tortured us in our past. However, talking to EACH OTHER is pretty unusual. And hearing one another is rarer still.
Take care,
nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College