On 26 January 2017 at 14:16, Bob Este <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> [...]
> Instead, GIbson was talking about "collaborative alignments" among
> people's moral compasses (internal and unique to each individual, but
> contextually and carefully shared, as in a web), predicated on loosely
> coupled but more or less common understandings linked through
> communications that are kept relatively clear. Such conditions of
> "collaborative alignment" allow all social members to "police" (govern)
> themselves in accord with overarching principles and actions that everyone
> collectively determines are, over time, in the best interests of all, given
> evolving circumstances. Such an approach to governance both allows and
> expects all members, again over time and especially with careful
> deliberation, to continuously examine and re-examine those principles and
> their decision consequences, and gradually and reflectively (not
> reflexively) adjust them as they see fit. We have many examples both
> historically and currently of "collaborative alignment governance" that, it
> seems, large numbers of people strongly prefer and rationally work towards
> as their "world framework".
> [...]
This whole post - but this paragraph in particular - is IMHO brilliant. Ima
gonna print this and hang it on my office wall. :-)
One small comment. I think that in most organizations (communities, and
otherwise), the members don't actually *know* that this is what's
happening; that is, this kind of behaviour is emergent rather than
directed. I think this is a bit of a shortcoming because being aware of it
would allow the community to tend to it, nurture it, and help perpetuate it
better.
That said, I think this list is one instance of such an organization where
we (probably) *are* aware that it's happening. And if we weren't before, I
hope that Bob's post makes it that much more obvious. So I continue to be
optimistic that we will be able to nurture this phenomenon, for the benefit
of all its members.
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*Prof. Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.*
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