Who we know
In a dynamic world, who we know has become the key to what we know. Knowledge has always been a function of connection, not position.
Forget your excuses for not getting to know new people. To not expand our connections is to not expand our consciousness. To embrace new connections is to embrace new consciousness.
April 3rd, 2006 11:52
According to my favorite thinkers and writers (including you), this is indeed the new paradigm. That said, I think the new consciousness is a “bleeding edge” technology. It has yet to prove its value to the traditionalists - in fact, they think we’re all crazy, socialists, or worse for the emphasis we’re placing on connecting and collaborating.
I believe in what we’re doing . . . but how do we sell its value? How do we create a market for this new consciousness?
April 3rd, 2006 14:09
Great questions. It starts with the early adoptors - people at the fringes and edges of mainstream traditionalist culture.
The resistance to new consciousness is resistance to new responsibility and loss of separate self. So much of traditional mindsets are based on the projection of responsibility on authority figures and the maintenance of a separate self. As so the resistance.
For that reason, our invitation to the new consciousness must be strong and wide. And as we say in Open Space … the right people always show up.