Tony,
"Hi I appreciate your courage to be different and to
fight for that."
I identify with you while
you identify with your system. It cost you blood to build it, and if it is
attacked, it is your blood that is being shed. I also believe
in using weapons to fight,
when there is no choice, with a calm, still mind -- since enjoying their use, and their killing of
people, is to lose one’s share in the common good.
"The number of parameters with which I am struggling
now make
responding positively to you into an increase in the instability of a
system that already has its instabilities."
If a system is unstable I try to stabilize.
If a system is stable I try to destabilize.
I will now attempt to stabilize as a strange attractor by
addressing
each of your well made points.
"I would be much concerned at having to worry about
the logistics of
your stay and the dynamics of your interface with the rest of the
operation -- at a time when there are some specific concrete, fund-
generating priorities on which we need to toil."
1. Perhaps now is only a good time to begin the conversation,
but not a
good time to rush a decision.
2. What logistical concerns can I shoulder so as to ease
your burden.
(Housing, Travel, independent funding resources,etc)
3. I have been fortunate to have had an opportunity to deeply
and
concretely explore dialogue and group dynamics as both a theory and a
personal practice. It was a major force within my master's thesis,
Private Policy | Public Problems. I take our interactions as a
potential microcosm of my interface with the UIA. Naturally I see both
challenges and opportunities.
4. Considering the current goals (etymology: barrier) you
are toiling
towards I ask if there is anything that I can do to be of service
while here in Boston thereby creating a potential wormhole between the
two places.
"I just cannot afford having to worry about whether
the relation is
working well for you - - or to cut into my own priorities."
I am a hearty plant and I need little to establish roots,
and the
relation has already worked well for me if we consider the relation
between me and your favorite weekend pastime of writing a fruitful
analogy. Anything more should be considered on the merits of its
potential complimentarity measured against the real and psychological
costs of sustainging its development.
This hard to do and considering the complexity and that is
why I ask no
deeper a cut into your priorities at this time than reading through
this page.I can only say that I am sustained by more than this
potential work and that I already have connections in Belgium and the
surrounding EU countryside that help to create the supportive community
I need that the you and the UIA can only and should only be a part of.
"how long should an experiment last?"
I feel six months would be sufficient to constrain a trial
period. In
addition to a possible 6 week and 3 month check in to consider the
results to date with unblinking eyes.
There are many reasons why we should be wary of conceiving
any project
that would ongoing parenting that we may not be ready for.
I leave you with
the following piece that was part of my leadership class's final project:
www.siliconyogi.com/andreas/LeadershipMetaphors
It has been an honor and a privilige to gather with you over this semester. I ask
each group below
to ask yourself what Rabbi Hillel asks all of us?
I wish to thank those of you who had the courage to send me your pieces, it reminds me of the joy,
suffering, truth, and ambiguity of this existence we share and it awes and terrifies me. I ask only
that you find the courage to ask yourself
If I am not for myself who is for me?
I wish to thank those who had the courage not to send their pieces, it reminds me of how,
my fear,
arrogance, and pride has kept me from listening to many who I had much to learn from. I ask only
that you find the courage to ask yourself
and being for my own self what am I?
Finally, I wish to thank those who had no idea that there was a page at all, it reminds
me of how I
might be wasting even more time on this class than I already have. I ask only that you find the
courage to ask
If not now
when?
Web Pages to be
considered:
My Home Page:
along with (starting upper right going clockwise) Harvard Websites, Dialogos, Master
Thesis,
Potential Phd
1. Potential Complimentarities
