Day: February 4, 2004

Jon Husband’s Wirearchy is quoting from The Support Economy email group discussion springing from the Shoshana Zuboff and James Maxmin book by same name. This is the first I’ve heard of the phrase, the book or the list. I think I’m going to like all three. Surely this is some of what I’ve been fishing for as the space beyond command-and-control, dominance-seeking hierarchy, local-global and us-them distinctions.

Language like support, mutuality, and changing from the inside out is very much in line with what I’ve been thinking about recently in terms of compassion, bodies, markets and OpenSpaceTech. The notion of corporation and economy as support is totally in line with the SomaticOrganization story we started spinning last year. The first of many connections to be made here.

Quotable

I will act as though what I do makes a difference. –William James

via Wirearchy

Connecting with Truth

My friend and colleague ChrisCorrigan of Bowen Island BC Canada making some nice connections, as usual… this time connecting blogging, community radio and living in truth.

…was reflecting on the fact that my training for this happened in my community radio days at Trent Radio in Peterborough, Ontario. There, when one is putting together a late night improvisational jazz show, one is never sure if there is anyone actually listening to the broadcast. The act of radio then becomes a private performance in a potentially public space, and causes one to think carefully about what is being put out on the airwaves, even if absolutely no one is listening. It can be hairy (not to mention confusing) and was a good training ground for the kind of play between the individual and collective spheres that blogging encourages…

…walked up the street and met Jon “Wirearchy” Husband for sushi. I haven’t seen him in a while and we talked at length about the process of making meaning in the world. It was a beautiful conversation. It made me realize that living in truth is actually an act of courage and it is so hard because we must differentiate ourselves from the culture that tries to interpret the world for us…the news anchors that cry, the pop musicians that embody emotion and trick us into believeing their version of coporate sanctioned dissent, the sports commentators that tell us how it feels to be a fan. All of this stuff is the current we swim against as we head upstream to find our own truth in the world…

Send warm thoughts Chris’ way this week as he’s on the road in the coldest reaches of Saskatchewan… -52C recently, before the wind chill. Brrrr.