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By Kiely (registered) | Posted April 20, 2011 at 19:39:57 in reply to Comment 62455

Nice link mystoneycreek. I liked this:

In the past, it may have been enough to get by on personal intelligence alone. But it's no longer enough to be brilliant on our own (if such a thing is even possible). Our pressing problems today require that we be smart together, that we harness our best collective thinking and put it to work in the world.

But I'm left with a similar feeling that the MJ article left me with. In general I agree with both of them, but something is missing. Sure appealing to values may be an approach (if we share similar values) and yes dialogue is what is needed. But HOW do we make these things work? Why don't they work?

I feel there is something deeper down preventing us from engaging the way we should. As Undustrial said "It's fractal." We're being pulled apart, segregated, insulated from dissenting opinions and our narcissism reinforced. Yes we need to reverse our direction and start working on dialogue but I think we may need to stop the forward momentum of our current prominent value system first.

I have had some true dialogue as explained by Scott London. A brilliant discussion with Chinese "Party" members in a hotel in Anshan, an impromptu philosophy session at a beach side restaurant in Balikpapan with Indonesian Muslims and a Japanese friend and the creation of a beer-soaked sustainable-future-manifesto by a bunch of mining professionals in Amsterdam. They were wonderful moments indeed!

Is it coincidence they all occurred outside North America with non-North Americans?

Comment edited by Kiely on 2011-04-20 19:42:02

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