Look over the edge
Look over the edge—can you see bottom?
:- Doug.
Hope is an enemy
Dashing us on rocks
Of futures we do not want
Whatever we hope
Will never be
:- Doug.
Make fishing time
Throw a line
Into deep water
Where dwell powers
Unknown and ready
:- Doug.
How would you design a story to teach asking better questions? What if you were not teaching but inviting?
:- Doug.
For dying patients and their families, the same question as for their doctors and nurses: What does that look like? Especially for the patients and families: What do you want it to look like, and not look like? Draw me a picture.
:- Doug.
What needs to be born in us today, in order for something to have permission to die?
:- Doug.
Offerings:
We are always
offering
Everyone offers
their true selves
offering
Are we
noticing
theirs
ours
Hold?
:- Doug.
The machines don’t have conversation. They have exchange of information. They do not have community, nor gathering, nor difference of opinion. They might eventually have these things. But the thinking of their developers so far seems to miss these shining but hidden essentials.
:- Doug.
Differently
we think from how we did
Friends
convivial with German, Aussie,
Nepalese, Haitian
Dreaming
in links, maps, videos,
and machines talking back
Hyperlinkish
already we partly are
maybe always have been
:- Doug.
My purpose in this course we are pursuing is to help the 300 year generation become a better race of human. I don’t know how to do that. You are invited to join the noodle.
:- Doug.
Can humanity get any better than this—in 300 years? Can Open Space Technology help?
:- Doug.