There are many languages
taught within the intellectual disciplines and in order to become fluent
in them I must move beyond the mere repetition of vocabulary and mindless obedience to
grammar. Yet each of these is the foundation upon which fluency is built, and it is built through
use. In building this fluency I will use
Anthony Judge's Hazard's
of System Building to temper my fervor and zealotry:
1. 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.
2. You cannot tolerate tentativeness,
suspension of judgment, or anything that does not fit the
system.
3. You cannot apprehend anyone
else's system unless it supports yours.
4. You believe that other
systems are based on selected data.
5. Commitment to systems
other than your own is fanaticism.
6. You come to believe that
your system entitles you to proprietorship of the entities within it.
7. Since humor involves incongruity,
and your system explains all seeming incongruities, you
lose your sense of humor.
8. You lose you humility.
9. You accept all those points
- insofar as they apply to builders of other systems.
10. So do 1. (P.S. I hope
I believe in the cult of fallibility)
1. Constraints
