From: Bala Pillai [mailto:bala@apic.net]
Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2005 3:08 PM
To: 'malaysiaindians@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: Teleworkers & Blended-Media Training Biz in Indonesia via Indonesia.Net: Partners Wanted

 

Dear all,

 

I’m looking for an entrepreneurial partner from Malaysia Indians, to attend this meeting on behalf of you/us (see http://www.indonesia.net ).

 

Objective: Find an Indonesian Knowledge Economy partner who partners us in apprenticing folks for jobs of the current and future. Benefit to them: we are doing this for Malaysians, Tamils, India and Singapore so 1) have a R&D lead and 2) can share development costs with other countries, which Indonesians can benefit from.

 

Cheers../bala

bala@apic.net

 

From: MAICCI [mailto:info@maicci.org.my]
Sent: Thursday, 19 May 2005 2:35 PM
To: Bala Pillai
Subject:

 

INVITATION  "FORUM PERNIAGAAN INDONESIA-MALAYSIA"
	Dear Sir/Madam MAICCI wish to inform that Dewan Perniagaan Melayu Malaysia (DPMM) together with Indonesia-Malaysia Business Council (IMBC) is organizing a forum called “FORUM PERNIAGAAN INDONESIA-MALAYSIA” on 9th to 10th Jun 2005 at Dewan Tun Hussein Onn, Pusat Perniagaan Dunia Putra, Kuala Lumpur. The objective of this Business Forum is to open up the business opportunity and the market to all the EKS businessman in Malaysia or within Asia Pacific to invest in Indonesia. The organizer has estimated that about 300 businessman will attend this two days forum. The admission is free and kindly contact En. Fazil Bin Bahari at 03 4041 8522/ 7664 for further information. Thank you.

 

 

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Towards the increase of Flexibility in people's minds
(and Primary Prevention of Drugs Addiction)

"The main topic today could said to be the increase of flexibility in people's brains and the paradigm for change - "flexibility" here being meant as the opposite of fundamentalism.
How may the family pattern of educative communication be influential in improving open-mindedness and flexibility from childhood onwards? The proper know-how might be obvious enough to You. But to most families, it isn't.
I explain it as a new knowledge of the language problems which are faced by the people of today.

According to Bertrand Russell's "Theory of the Logical Levels", many Social Problems with hard solution [1]- from drug addiction to the ecological crisis, to politics, to the cultural standards - might be better and sooner solved if they were faced not only in the Up level of the Authorities, but also in the Down logical level of the common people's open-mindedness. Students should keep in mind that the Effectiveness of Communication depends on the listener's flexibility [2], rather than on the speaker's power.
This new view of communication opens up the concept of the Negative Language [3].
The stakes are high, because each lack in flexibility is a source of sicknesses: according to Hippocrates' teachings, a subsequent "Lessened Flexibility Syndrome" [4] can be prevented by increasing the flexibility of people's minds. Moreover, the first educative communication pattern for flexibility - opening children's minds towards autonomy and self-realization - is most effective in avoiding discomfort in the Youth of today and their eventual transgression towards drug addiction [5].
Flexibility in mind should be a basic tool for everybody all over the world who wishes to overcome fundamentalism and perform changes. I have succeeded in rationalizing the Role of the Family communication patterning in building Flexibility in People's minds [6]. Parents are not yet aware of this know-how as an opportunity for children and the growing human society they contribute to. Parents must be informed [7], of course, and I am working toward this goal with an "Objective Project" [8]:
would you like to partecipate?

Because in a world that changes more and more rapidly,
it is not so important to start the journey on the right foot,
from the positive more than from the negative side of words.
The best way is to be flexible as we move forwards".

Dr. Rossin has ultimately developed his educative proposal in order to give it the utmost propagation through the internet, aiming at addressing the parents all over the world. Along the way, he has become a founding member of WDDM, Worldwide Direct Democracy Movement.
"Participatory Democracy requires people's flexibility, as their bottom-up attitude to take upon themselves the conscious responsibility for any policy change " he says [11, 12]. In the course of this, dr.R. has naturally come to cooperate with ISPO, the International Simultaneous Policy Organization (http://www.simpol.org), as John Bunzl, ISPO's founder, said:
"…top-down policies with bottom-up origins are the only ones that function effectively".

Antonio Rossin's writings are:

1. Logical Levels and social problems with hard solution
2. Communication effectiveness depends on the listener's flexibility
3. Truth, belief and the Negative Language
4. The Lessened Flexibility Syndrome, LFS
5. Drugs: what has to be said to Peter?
6. The role of family language patterns in building flexibility in people's minds
7. The Word and the Health
8. The Objective Flexibility
9. Pragmatic Cybernetics
10. Psychoanalysis and Educative Research
11. Advancing Democracy from grassroots bottom-up
12. The Grassroot Bottom-up Approach to Democracy
13. Triadic Communication
14. The Fascist Side of the Golden Rule
15. "Presentation" - by Kerry Miller [**]
16. The Damaging Role of Psychotherapists in Undermining Democracy
17. From Einstein's Relativity to Family's Dialectics

and, in Italian language:

18. "Droga&Famiglia", Zielo ed, Padova 199O (book) ISBN 88.85689.13.2
19. "L'Anapesto - elementi di Linguaggio Negativo", Ed Paideia Florence, 2000, ISBN 88.87410.10.0

[**]
The "Presentation" of the book "L'Anapesto" has been originally written into English by Kerry Miller.

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Signs of High and Low EQ

http://www.voctech.org.bn/Virtual_lib/Programme/Regular/Emerging99/EQ%20Vs%20IQ.htm

Steve Hein (1999) suggest the general characteristics of people of high and low EQ as guidelines.

Signs of High EQ

A person with high EQ:

• Expresses his feelings clearly and directly with three word sentences 'beginning with "I feel..."
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Does not diguise thoughts as feeling by the use of "I feel like...... and "I feel that...... sentences.,

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Is not afraid to express her feelings.

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Is not dominated by negative emotions such as:

• Fear, Worry, Guilt, Shame, Embarrassment, Obligation, Disappointment, 
• Hopelessness,
• Powerlessness, Dependency, Victimization, Discouragement

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Is able to read non-verbal communication.

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Lets his feelings guide him through life.

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Balances feelings with reason, logic, and reality.

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Acts out of desire, not because of duty, guilt, force or obligation.

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Is independent, self-reliant and morally autonomous.

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Is intrinsically motivated.

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Is not motivated by power, wealth, status, fame, or approval.

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Is emotionally resilient.

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Is optimistic; Does not internalize failure.

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Is interested in other people's feelings.

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Is comfortable talking about feelings.

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Is not immobilized by fear or worry.

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Is able to identify. multiple concurrent feelings.

Signs of Low EQ

A person with low EQ :

• Doesn't take responsibilities for his feelings; but blames you or others for them.
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Can't put together three word sentences starting with "I feel..."

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Can't tell you why she feels the way she does, or can't do it without blaming someone else.

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Attacks, blames, commands, criticized, interrupts, invalidates, lectures, advises and judges you and others.

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Tries to analyze you, for example when You express your feelings.

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Often begins sentences with "I think you..."

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Sends "You messages" disgused as "I feel messages" For example, "I feel like you......"

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Lays guilt trips on you.

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Withholds information about or lies about his feelings. (Emotional dishonesty)

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Exaggerates or minimizes her feelings.

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Lets things build up, then they blow up, or react strongly to something relatively minor.

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Lacks integrity and a sense of conscience.

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Carries grudges; is unforgiving.

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Doesn’t tell you where you really stand with her.

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Is uncomfortable to be around.

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Acts out his feelings, rather than talking them out.

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Plays games; is indirect or evasive.

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Is insensitive to your feelings.

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Has no empathy, no compassion.

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Is rigid, inflexible; needs rules and structure to feel secure.

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Is not emotionally available; offers little chance of emotional intimacy.

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Does not consider your feelings before acting.

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Does not consider their own future feelings before acting.

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Is insecure and defensive and finds it hard to admit mistakes, express remorse, or apologize sincerely.

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Avoids responsibility by saying things like: "What was I supposed to do? I had no choice!

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Is pessimistic and often believes the world is unfair.

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Frequently feels inadequate, disappointed, resentful, bitter or victimized.

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Locks himself into courses of action against common sense, or jumps ship at the first sight of trouble.

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Avoids connections with people and seeks substitute relationships with everything from pets and plants to imaginary beings.

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Rigidly clings to his beliefs because he is too insecure to be open to new facts.

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Can tell you the details of an event, and what they think about it, but can't tell you how she feels about it.

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Uses his intellect to judge and criticize others without realizing he is feeling superior, judgmental, critical, and without awareness of how his actions impact others' feelings.

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Is a poor listener. Interrupts. Invalidates. Misses the emotions being communicated. Focusses on "facts" rather than feelings.

 

 

Dear all,

 

Re: below -- philosophy had become more bad than a good label because of its association with those in ivory towers who are out of touch with ground realities. However, I sense that the pendulum is shifting back to greater grasp of the relationships between philosophy, common sense, knowledge and our “connecting-the-dots” faculty. There is less popular disdain for philosophy than there was, even though there still is significant disdain for it.

 

We can say that the very fact that we have such a field  as “Knowledge Management” is a) us admitting that we did not emphasise cross-silo Knowledge Management as much as we could have, previously and b) that “Knowledge Management” is rather synonymous with “Applied Philosophy” sans the negative associations that academic Philosophy had gathered. That the fruits of Knowledge Management would include i) repairing the negative associations and ii) patching the epistemological gaps between and fusing together Knowledge Management, Philosophy, Common Sense & Sense-Making and their over-arching role in applied fields together. Or to put it simply: make common sense more common.

 

What’s your essencing of the over-arching state of play?

 

Cheers../bala

 

Philosophy and Common Sense

by Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D.

http://radicalacademy.com/studentrefphil6.htm

As with the term "philosophy" itself, we can assign both a broad general meaning and a strict technical meaning to the expression "common sense."

In its wide, popular meaning "common sense" is simply the conglomeration of generally held opinions and beliefs, more or less well founded, more or less mixed up with error and prejudice, which make up the voice of the community -- "what everybody knows." It may also refer in this broad usage to good practical sense in everyday affairs -- to "good horse sense."

In a philosophical context the expression has had a number of meanings. For the Romans, common sense meant the vulgar opinions of mankind. For Thomas Aquinas it was a technical expression for the unifying sense ("central" sense). For certain modern philosophers it has meant a kind of "instinct" or "special feeling" for the truth (this seems to be the doctrine held by Thomas Reid and the "Common Sense" Scottish School of thought).

None of these usages square with the strict interpretation that modern-day classical philosophic realists (including the school of "Contextual Realism") have given to the expression "common sense" above. It is important, therefore, to realize the exact sense in which it is used.

Common sense refers to the spontaneous activity of the intellect, the way in which it operates of its own native vigor before it has been given any special training. It implies man's native capacity to know the most fundamental aspects of reality, in particular, the existence of things (including our own existence), the first principles of being (identity, noncontradiction, and excluded middle), and secondary principles which flow immediately from the self-evident principles (causality, sufficient reason, etc.).

One of the points that links philosophy and common sense is that they both use these principles. They differ however in the way they use them. Common sense uses them unconsciously, unreflectively, uncritically. They can be obscured or deformed for common sense by faulty education, by cultural prejudices, by deceptive sense imagery. Philosophy, on the contrary, uses these principles critically, consciously, scientifically. Philosophy can therefore defend and communicate its knowledge.

The certainties of common sense, the insights of a reasoning which is implicit rather than explicit, are just as well founded as the certainties of philosophy, for the light of common sense is fundamentally the same as that of philosophy: the natural light of the intellect. But in common sense this light does not return upon itself by critical reflection, is not perfected by scientific reasoning. Philosophy, therefore, as contrasted with common sense is scientific knowledge; knowledge, that is, through causes.

A second point which links philosophy and common sense is that they take all of reality for their province -- common sense blindly, in a kind of instinctive response of the individual to the totality of experience; philosophy consciously, in the endeavor to give every aspect of reality its due.

This claim of philosophy to know the whole reality does not mean that the philosopher makes pretense of knowing everything -- the human intellect cannot exhaust the mystery of the smallest being in the universe, let alone everything. It remains true, nevertheless, that all things are the subject matter of philosophy, in the sense that the philosopher takes as his angle of vision or point of view the highest principles, the ultimate causes, of all reality. Along with common sense, then, philosophy seeks the comprehensive, all-inclusive view of reality; it is the knowledge of all things.

Philosophy is thus close to common sense and at the same time different from it. It differs from common sense because it holds its conclusions scientifically (that is, intellectually, rationally, and through causes), with a clarity and depth inaccessible to common sense. It is close to common sense because it shares the universality of common sense and a common insight into the fundamental structure of reality.

We might even say that philosophy grows out of common sense, and that common sense taken in its strict meaning is a kind of foreshadowing, a dim silhouette, of philosophy proper. Any philosophy, therefore, that strays very far from common sense is suspect. If it goes so far as to contradict the basic certitudes of common sense, then it is guilty of denying reality itself, and on this point common sense can pass judgment on it.

Keep in mind this point which is clearly stated on our homepage regarding the position of classical philosophic realism as interpreted by The Radical Academy:

"The Radical Academy is an analysis of the human condition as seen through the eyes of an authentic philosophical realism fundamentally grounded on the judgments of common sense, critically examined and expanded."

Notice the phrase "common sense, critically examined and expanded." This means that our common sense judgments must be subjected to a critical examination; sometimes our common sense beliefs are wrong and can be corrected by reflection upon them. (The exceptions here, of course, are the spontaneous convictions regarding the existence of objects -- including ourselves -- and the truth of the self-evident principles.)

Furthermore, the "Contextual Realist" adds the addendum "and expanded," because Contextual Realism supports the "possibility" of multiple universes, parallel universes, a multidimensional reality, extrasensory perception, and so on, speculations that go beyond common sense and may, in fact, contradict common sense beliefs. This is one reason why Contextual Realism as a philosophy is very comfortable with the findings and speculations of modern quantum physics, many of whose propositions are obviously contrary to common sense, and also with the findings and speculations of parapsychology, many of whose propositions are contrary to the "conventional wisdom."

 

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)

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Inventions themselves are not revolutions; neither are they the cause of revolutions. Their powers for change lie in the hands of those who have the imagination and insight to see that the new invention has offered them new liberties of action, that old constraints have been removed, that their political will, or their sheer greed, are no longer frustrated, and that they can act in new ways. New social behaviour patterns and new social institutions are created which in turn become the commonplace experience of future generations.

 

Colin Cherry, "The Telephone System: Creator of Mobility and Social Change", in Ithiel de Sola Pool, The Social Impact of the Telephone (Cambridge MA, 1977): 112-26.

 

 

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Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)

Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bala Pillai [mailto:bala@apic.net]
Sent: Friday, 27 May 2005 9:30 PM
To: 'India_Vision_2020@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: Re: Eradication of corruption - What is my contribution? - Not mere suggestions

Lavanya,

>within few hours of writing against corruption

>got replies n i was happy >to get such fast

> response.......Anel had asked me wat i'm gonna

> do against >corruption....it would have been

> nice if he had asked wat we are gonna do

>about it.....nyways we must do something about it.....

Is it possible that prevalent corruption might be as much a symptom of a root cause, imagination-retardness, as it is a cause by itself?

Consider "What Is Knowledge?" at http://www.tamil.net/whatisknowledge in view of :-

a) Why Has India Not Produced A Single Quantum Invention in 1000 Years when before that it together with China was responsible for the majority of them.

and

b) All else being equal, the poorer a society, the greater the need to resort to dishonesty and to rationalise and disguise dishonesty. Might corruption be the corollary of poverty-entrenching imagination-retardedness?

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai bala@apic.net

 

-----Original Message-----

From: Bala Pillai [mailto:bala@apic.net]

Sent: Monday, 30 May 2005 6:39 PM

To: 'TheSupportEconomy@yahoogroups.com'

Subject: Re: And In Europe..

 

Brian,

 

>From: Brian J Moore

 

>These are powerfull paragraphs.  However, what is missing from them is the

>rather obvious, if impolitic, observation that the void being described

>maps rather well to the void caused by Christianity's demise in Europe.

 

Odd that you say this. My hunch is you are wrong and your conflating correlation with causality weakens your argument, I am afraid. But let that be -- the Europe battle is one I'd choose to stay out of so that I can fight ones closer to my heart.

 

One thing I can say with much greater certainty is that simplistic Abrahamic traditions ("God Vs Devil" Christianity & Islam and their flow-ons in particular) is the main cause of Asia minus Japan not producing a single quantum invention since the times of Admiral Zheng He in 1400 AD when before that it was responsible for the majority of them.

 

[Quantum invention = significant leaps in order of problem-solving from cave man days up to now eg taming of fire, invention of language, urban structures, discovery of zero, paper, intercontinental vessels, printing press, cars, computers etc]

 

How so? The shift from more objective perception of reality to more subjective perception of reality. The shift from perceiving reality as roses, thorns and in-betweens to expecting roses thus trained to see thorns. And the huge consequences upon consequences of that. Especially the destruction of imagination, an essential ingredient of many near-quantum inventions that lead up to quantum inventions. But please, if I may ask, see the expansion, "What Is Knowledge?" at http://www.tamil.net/whatisknowledge before you comment. This is necessarily a prickly issue to essence for the 5 seconds of CNN attention most of us have today, so the need for this one page URL.

 

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

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   Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 18:35:39 -0500

   From: Brian J Moore

Subject: Re: And In Europe....

 

>From the Guardian article

...

What is missing from the lives of so many people today is a sense of purpose, of meaning, of achieving something worthwhile, for others as well as themselves, for the future as well as the present. Boredom is the most widespread of our chronic diseases. A more personal vision of Europe will allow us to value ourselves by what we give others, rather than simply by what we accumulate for ourselves.

 

So at the same time as we make the big plans about how power is shared among nations, and who makes directives about what, we need to think also about each one of the 456 million Europeans (and the other inhabitants of the world, too) as individuals, and as couples, and as small groups of friends. It was never possible before. That should be our originality.

...

 

These are powerfull paragraphs.  However, what is missing from them is the rather obvious, if impolitic, oberservation that the void being described maps rather well to the void caused by Christianity's demise in Europe.

 

With apologies for the non-modern interjection,

 

Brian

 

 

 

                                                                          

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"The European dream needs to bring these personal values into work, where most people are part-time slaves doing boring jobs. France's experiment with shorter hours has not changed this. I have been inviting people from many occupations in both France and Britain to collaborate in designing new kinds of businesses and organisations that give equal importance to profits and to expanding the intellectual and cultural horizons of their staff.

 

The next generation will not want to work for cold bureaucracies; they will need to feel that work is making them into better human beings and that what they do is valued. Most professions are demoralised or in crisis. In France, even magistrates and doctors demonstrate angrily in the streets."

 

 

The Observer, London

 

Comment

 

A constitution penned by lawyers, not poets

 

An influential historian urges a radical new approach to France's political relationships

 

Theodore Zeldin

Sunday May 29, 2005

The Observer

 

We need to learn from the hesitations of the French over the European constitution, because these go deeper than a judgment on how power should be distributed in Europe. Europe is a fact. But it still needs to become a dream. The US flourished less because of its constitution than because its people invented the 'American dream', which gave hope to all who wanted to escape from poverty and oppression. A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful. We, the people of Europe, are being called on to imagine an even more ambitious dream for this century.

 

But the French campaign has shown that the European constitution, written by lawyers focusing on rules and regulations, rather than by poets expressing new emotions, allows old emotions to prevail. How can we widen our debate to take account of our own dreams and those of our neighbours?

 

The French, having attained a minimum of comfort, yearn for what money cannot buy, as most of us do. This means first of all good personal relationships. Making family and friends the top priority is not the sign of collapsing civic spirit, but of a new vision of what should hold society together. Private life used to imitate public

life: the father wanted to be a monarch at home, and to have children to work obediently for him.

 

Today, parents want warm mutual understanding. Families have become models for public life, constructing friendships between individuals of different temperaments, ambitions and ages, even if they are often unsuccessful. People now want, above all, appreciation of their uniqueness. Political rights alone can no longer give them that.

 

In Europe, we need additional, less-impersonal arrangements to make us believe that our hopes can become realities. When we so often do not know our neighbours, and a member of the European parliament represents a population of 600,000, how can individuals feel personally recognised and appreciated? Where can each say what they want the world to know about them, and be understood, and have their words remembered and used as a basis for interactions that are personally relevant? Freedom of expression is not enough if nobody listens.

 

The new European dream must give each one of us the chance of making our dream known. That is beginning to happen. One example is provided by the Oxford Muse, a foundation developing new methods of improving personal, professional and cultural relationships. It invites you to a tete-a-tete dinner with a stranger or a person you barely know, with a 'menu of conversation' that encourages you to focus on what is important to you, instead of gossip and chit-chat.

 

These dinners are being held, with astonishing results, by people who seldom speak frankly to one another, in France itself, and at the World Economic Forum at Davos, but also in Britain by local government leaders, management teams and people of different social and ethnic origins. The goal is to extend this throughout Europe (and

beyond) so that we can get to know the maximum number of people as individuals, not as stereotypes, clarifying their and our priorities.

 

The Oxford Muse helps people to write their own passports, describing themselves as whole persons. Every human being becomes interesting and exchanging passports diminishes prejudice. The Oxford Muse publishes and puts these self-portraits on the web. With modern technology, we can do more than count votes; we can exchange thoughts. Muse passports written by sixth-formers and students in France show a strong shift in focus away from public confrontation.

 

The European dream needs to bring these personal values into work, where most people are part-time slaves doing boring jobs. France's experiment with shorter hours has not changed this. I have been inviting people from many occupations in both France and Britain to collaborate in designing new kinds of businesses and organisations that give equal importance to profits and to expanding the intellectual and cultural horizons of their staff.

 

The next generation will not want to work for cold bureaucracies; they will need to feel that work is making them into better human beings and that what they do is valued. Most professions are demoralised or in crisis. In France, even magistrates and doctors demonstrate angrily in the streets.

 

The next ambition is to improve the way we deal with our differences.

We are now divided as much by our education, which makes us into narrow specialists with different mentalities, as by our unequal wealth. The USA has more than one million lawyers to resolve its disputes and misunderstandings. I am receiving a lot of encouragement in developing a new generalist postgraduate education, in both France and England, to enable the specialists that we have all become to understand the attitudes and approach to problems of different occupations and disciplines.

 

We need this not only for the young, who choose a career without knowing much about the options, but also for our managers, who need not just the technical skills of the MBA, but also the capacity to think more imaginatively.

 

The message of France's and our own Enlightenment was that happiness was the natural consequence of liberty - the right to do what one pleased without being controlled by others - and that prosperity was the path to both. But we find we cannot be happy if others are unhappy. We have discovered complexity and unpredictability and developed a taste for diversity and for transgressing boundaries.

Medicine, despite all its triumphs, is now confronted by the problem of individual variability. The simple formulae we have inherited can no longer work for everyone.

 

So the European dream must go beyond freedom, security and economic prosperity. What is missing from the lives of so many people today is a sense of purpose, of meaning, of achieving something worthwhile, for others as well as themselves, for the future as well as the present. Boredom is the most widespread of our chronic diseases. A more personal vision of Europe will allow us to value ourselves by what we give others, rather than simply by what we accumulate for ourselves.

 

So at the same time as we make the big plans about how power is shared among nations, and who makes directives about what, we need to think also about each one of the 456 million Europeans (and the other inhabitants of the world, too) as individuals, and as couples, and as small groups of friends. It was never possible before. That should be our originality.

 

The French debate has been at once serious, complicated and incomplete. They are inviting us to think harder.

 

C Theodore Zeldin 2005.

. Theodore Zeldin is the author of numerous books on France. His latest book is An Intimate History of Humanity.

 

Guardian Unlimited C Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005

 

 

A tale of two wolves

An elder Cherokee Native American was teaching his grandchildren about life.

He said to them, " A  fight is going on inside me....it is a terrible fight and it is

between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed,

arrogance, selft-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.

The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, truth, friendship, empathy, generosity,

faith and compassion. The same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person too.

They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grand-father, "which wolf

will win?"

The old Cherokee simply replied..."The one you feed."

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995) Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency See http://www.malaysia.net/bala-interview

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Some people make the world happen, more watch the world happen, most wonder what happened.

 

http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=1800

1001 Teleentrepreneurs on IM

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Here's forming a federation of teleentrepreneurs who are power Instant Messaging conversant. The largest teleworker market in the world with a turnover of US$3 trillion a day is the foreign exchange market that brings dealers together. They buy and sell their views on where a currency is headed. This is made possible because the service, their views, is packaged and specified precisely - a spot US$ is well understood by all. And because the counterparty risk is underwritten by intermediaries. Social networks of complementing free agents can enable lots more services to be specified, packaged and traded with free agents selling the required ingredients themselves as specified services. Instant messaging is essential to reduce space between complementers, just as the telephone was essential to foreign exchange dealers. Instant Messaging provides the required sense of presence and spontaneity to enable trust to form. Pls introduce yourself with your IM.

 

 

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)

Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency

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Dear all,

Groups investigating homeschooling, unschooling, and hybrids are beginning to emerge in Malaysia and the phenomena is way ahead elsewhere. Why? Why learn rubbish and brain-deadness when young, and suffer at unlearning it as an adult when you can experientially reinforce what you are born with in first place? Why kill the curiousity, fascination, imagination, creativity and risk-taking inclinations we are born with?  

If you have the interest and more importantly the will,  contact me.

Cheers../bala

http://www.texasunschoolers.com/articles/lavonne.html

It Started as an Idea

by LaVonne Parker

I liked thinking about a homeschool co-op - having a place where home/unschool families come together to share interest and expertise. Having a scheduled weekly meeting to gather for socializing and community is something that highly appeals to me. The home/unschool co-op program my family was attending for a short while turned out to be larger and more structured than my family's unschooling taste cared for. For a while I was torn between enduring a group that was homeschooly and looking elsewhere to fulfill our social and support needs. The problem was that there were no other choices available. I did not want to start a new co-op group based on unschooling ideas because I knew nothing about starting a group.

When I first began attending the Unitarian Universalist Church of Oak Cliff in the Fall of 2003 I was amazed by the sprawling, natural grounds. The labyrinth is located at the entrance of the forested area. There are a great many walking trails throughout its acreage. The children have plenty of room to play fairies and elves in its little nooks and crannies. The HOPE building, where the children have their classes, is a separate building from the chapel and has its own bathrooms and complete kitchen. I thought to myself, right from the beginning, this would be a great place to have a co-op group meet. But, of course, *I* could never start a homeschool group.

I dreamt of a group where children were free, not confined to a room for short periods then rushed off to another room always keeping to the rigid schedule. I envisioned a group where everyone was a vital part of the community, where we all enjoyed a small and personable group. The children, in this small community vision of mine, had time and opportunity to follow their own ideas and create their own learning environments and the possibility to be exposed to new ideas and chances to try new things. All of this was something I felt was missing from our then-current situation. I wanted the children to feel free to pick and choose what they did on a daily basis rather than be committed all Spring or Fall to a situation. My heart was joyful at the thought of seeing children working together to resolve problems and support one another. "Wow!" I thought, "What a dreamer I am. It is really too bad there are no groups around here like that. Besides, I have no idea what that would even look like on a practical level." But I started talking about these ideas nonetheless.

"You can do it, LaVonne", were the encouraging words I heard from an unschooling ally. I wasn't so sure. I have organized many things in my day but I wasn't so sure I wanted to run a homeschool group. That sounded like a lot of work. I didn't even know where to start. But, as each day went by I became more and more unhappy with our then-current group. I kept dreaming more and more about the things I would love to see done differently. My current group made it very clear to me that they liked their group just the way it was. When I found several websites that taught me how to start a group, I realized it did not have to be any harder than I wanted it to be. I continued talking to others I know who have started groups--asking about their experiences. Slowly, I began to see that it could be done.

The first step was getting the church to agree to let us use its building. I wrote up a brief explanation of what, when, where, how and so on. The board was thrilled with the idea. They love having children at the church. They quoted me a very reasonable rate for the building. Once this was done I published my ideas and intentions as much as I possibly could.. I then set up a meeting at the church for those with ideas similar to mine. We developed a group name and a mission statement. At the next couple of meetings we wrote by-laws and discussed various roles participants could play in the management of this group. However, I was not getting the type of response I had hoped for and became discouraged.

Not all who said they were interested in the group and in helping were following through. I was not motivating anyone to be committed to the process. All of those who were very supportive of what I was trying to do were having various situations arise in their lives to take away the focus on the co-op. However, I was determined to make this group happen one way or another.

Gathering Motivation & Strength

It was about this time that I attended the local annual Unschoolers Conference in the DFW area. This was just the medicine I needed. After spending some time processing the huge amount of information I harvested there, I began to rethink my approach. I realized I was copying the co-op program I was trying to get away from. It was the only visual I had of a co-op program. I could not picture in my head what my co-op dream ideas would look like in the physical realm. Thank goodness the church minister, out of true desire to see our group succeed, volunteered to teach theater. Hooray! I constructed a schedule of classes so I could tell him what time to show up at the church to teach. Right about then, I started receiving participant applications for the group and many people joining the YaHoo message board I started. Things were finally rolling but something was still not quite right.

We named the group Whole Alternative Community Education (WACE). We pronounced it like "wake," but people called us "wace" (rhyming with face). Gradually it dawned on me to change the "C" in Community to "K". Making this change not only corrected the pronunciation problem but also made a statement about our attitude as a group. Misspelling the word intentionally, tells the world that we are open to creativity and originality (It was also at this time that I decided to stop calling it a co-op. I decided "Tuesday Gathering" more appropriately describes what we are doing. At the beginning of the Spring session, we created the motto, "Home of the Free-Range Children" because that is really how we have evolved.).

The little voice inside my head kept telling me not to worry about obtaining members, they will come. Once I formalized the planned activities, made up registration forms, info packets, set the calendar and came up with fair payments, I again published my information to all interested parties by web, flyers, and word of mouth. And sure enough, the voice in my head was right on target. A group of Unschoolers sharing my vision showed up for registration/orientation day.

Registration/Orientation Day

This day provided the perfect chance for everyone to meet each other without rigid activities, and to explore the wonderful grounds at our disposal. We played games and enjoyed a community lunch. Most of all, the children enjoyed running through and playing in the wooded area. It appears now that the natural forested area is our best asset. The kids love hanging out and making it theirs (A beautiful aside is church's delight at freedom the children enjoy to explore and stake their claim on the grounds.). At that time I had no idea that my well-organized plans for the Fall would be overshadowed by the "fun forest". Every time Mark Walz, the church minister and our theater director, would show up to direct our play we would have to go out to the forest to collect the children. He was very patient with our laid-back approach to child management. Others, however, were less impressed.

The Drummers

I had scheduled a wonderful variety of drummers to visit and host a drumming session each Tuesday morning. They too would have to wait until the children were collected from the forest before we could start. I could tell some of them were not so patient but others were very intrigued with the children's freedom. Needless to say, I could only reschedule one drummer to return for the Spring session, but he was the kids' favorite drummer anyway, and he supports what we're doing. Torin Wolf, has been scheduled for eight sessions this Spring.

Since Torin works in Emergency care with children who have been brain damaged or serious skull fractures there have been several times he could not make his appointment. But he always insisted we keep any money we offered him and use it to buy drums. We have recently purchased three djembe drums, two rain sticks and a basket of various rattling instruments. The interest in drumming has waned with the older children but the younger ones seem to really enjoy it. I am hoping with new instruments we can gain new interest.

Getting Comfortable -Evolving

During the Fall there were many days when we did not follow the scheduled activities because the kids were having so much fun doing their own thing. Believe it or not, the kids were coming up with their own rules of conduct, dress codes and governing system. Even now, halfway through our first Spring session, they are developing their own activities. My daughters are on the phone each week talking to their WAKE buddies and making plans for next Tuesday Gathering. For the Spring, I created a schedule for a program called "Kids Do It" where the kids sign up for a scheduled date to present something of their own interest. We have just kicked off this program. The kids seem to really like showing off their own interest and abilities. As a result, at our last gathering we had 5 chickens and a goat in the playground area the entire day. We all learned how chickens make eggs and how a goat digests its food. Some of them are now begging to sign up for a second session to lead.

When I realized that the kids were not interested in a lot of the activities I had scheduled, I began to talk to the what the parents interests are. Each Tuesday, in the Fall, I would bring a new craft for the kids to try, which seemed to be what they enjoyed most. I'll never forget the Gingerbread house disaster. It was a perfect plan but the house was too heavy and it collapsed. All of that candy, gingerbread, and frosting went straight into the trash. We talked about why it did not work and how we could improve the design. Some of the kids went home and tried it again. The kids and parents alike had a blast giving it a good try.

My youngest daughter (4 yr.) kept asking me for a cooking class so I asked one of the moms if she would like to lead a simple cooking class. When she brought her pasta machine we immediately realized the kids love to cook. Right away we made plans to do more cooking and now we have started a session called Lunch Around the World. So far, we have made tamales and pizza is next. There are plans to make a bulletin board to correspond with Lunch Around the World. One of our members is Vietnamese so she has been asked to teach us about her country of origin's food. Many of the kids are active in the local Roots and Shoots homeschooling group. This group is writing penpal letters to children in Uganda. The kids all agreed it would be fun to know what kind of food the Uganda children eat so we are planning Kabobs and rice. Lunch Around the World has been both intesting and fulfilling to parents and children alike.

Where the Parents Are

We parents have found the kitchen to be the best conference room. We have a schedule for families to sign up to bring breakfast because we feel that having a communal breakfast gives us more time to sleep in the morning, less rushing around and we all get to experience what other families eat. As the adults are hanging out in the kitchen the kids reappear from time to time to refuel. And as one parent put it "I loved the opportunity to cook some of the things I like that no one else in my home eats". In the kitchen is where we discuss parenting and unschooling issues, plan activities and catch up with everyones lives.

Until recently we had no real reasons to inflict rules and regulations on the kids' specific behaviors. In the kitchen is where the discussion began. The kids seemed to be arguing about what behaviors are acceptable in their clubhouse. They could not solve it so they brought the parents into it. One thing led to another so we scheduled a meeting for the whole group. Many of us are reading Sumerhill by A. S. Neill so we are tying to use so of his ideas with our group. When we tried to have a discussion in the next room we drowned out the kids. Finally, the kids said they already worked it out, that they are bored and want to go play. We let them go and we all headed back to the kitchen where we seem to do better. It seems we are learning a lot from our children. They are busy making a new clubhouse to house a boys and a girls clubhouse.

The Clubhouse

The thing I love to tell people the most when they ask about how our group is going is about the clubhouse. The church was going to clear out the forest earlier this year and make it more "park-like". When the kids heard about this they rushed the church minister with letters, emails and phone calls to please not let them tear down their forest. Mark was very moved by their requests. Without hesitation he revoked the decision to clear out the forest. He said that if it means that much to them then it is theirs to do with as they please. The kids have hauled wood, nails, bricks, swings, fencing, ornaments, paint and much more out there and have created their own space. I am very impressed with how they have set up a treasury and a rotation system so everyone gets a turn to be treasurer. They have set up bake sales and other fund raisers to collect money to buy their needed materials. The funny part is the kids raise money at the co-op we left to spend money for their project on our Tuesday Gathering program.

Truly Using the Unschooling Philosophy

By allowing this group to take on a life of its own and being receptive to what the children are interested in, our group is becoming a place where the children are begging to return again and again. Home of the Free-Range Children means being open to allowing the children to explore what they want and in the amounts they want. Our kids are exposed to a variety of children of all ages and a variety families with varied backgrounds. Our free-range children are teaching us about what they want as we are learning to listen to their needs. We rarely have compatibility problems and when they do they are resolved very quickly.

My intentions when starting this group was to form a small community of like-minded families. We have ten families involved in our group at this time and we have room for a total of fifteen. Even though I started out not knowing how to make my vision materialize, it seems that it has evolved on its own. I see my vision living around me as each gathering goes by.

Interested?

If you are interested in joining in the fun or learning more about WAKE please join our YaHoo Message Board http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WAKEHomeUnschoolers/ or email me, LaVonne, at lavonne@graffiti.net . We support only current scientific research and sign no statements of religious commitments. Most of our members do, however, strongly support natural parenting techniques such as attachment parenting.

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Sydney, Australia

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)

Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency

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Some people make the world happen, more watch the world happen, most wonder what happened.

 

Dear all,

From fragmented factoids to more sense-making?

Cheers../bala

http://www.carnegie.org/reporter/10/news/

What's the future of the news business? This report to Carnegie Corporation of New York offers some provocative ideas.

There's a dramatic revolution taking place in the news business today and it isn't about TV anchor changes, scandals at storied newspapers or embedded reporters. The future course of the news, including the basic assumptions about how we consume news and information and make decisions in a democratic society are being altered by technology-savvy young people no longer wedded to traditional news outlets or even accessing news in traditional ways.

In short, the future of the U.S. news industry is seriously threatened by the seemingly irrevocable move by young people away from traditional sources of news.

Through Internet portal sites, handheld devices, blogs and instant messaging, we are accessing and processing information in ways that challenge the historic function of the news business and raise fundamental questions about the future of the news field. Meanwhile, new forms of newsgathering and distribution, grassroots or citizen journalism and blogging sites are changing the very nature of who produces news. With these elemental shifts in mind, Carnegie Corporation of New York has launched a major initiative on the future of news and commissioned this report, based on a survey of 18-to-34-year-olds carried out by Frank N. Magid Associates in May 2004. (A set of PowerPoint slides comprising a distillation of the survey data is available on the Corporation's web site, www.carnegie.org/pdf/AbandoningTheNews.ppt.) The goal of this effort is to assess where 18-to-34-year-olds get their news today and how they think they'll access news in the future.

For news professionals coming out of the traditions of conventional national and local journalism, fields long influenced by national news organizations and dominant local broadcasting and print media, the revolution in how individuals relate to the news is often viewed as threatening. For digital media professionals, members of the blogging community and other participants in the new media wave, these trends are, conversely, considered liberating and indications that an “old media” oligopoly is being supplemented, if not necessarily replaced, by new forms of journalism created by freelancers and interested members of the public without conventional training.

The Internet Migration

At the heart of the assessment of the news-related habits of adults age 18-to-34 are fundamental changes driven by technology and market forces. Data indicate that this segment of the population intends to continue to increase their use of the Internet as a primary news source in the coming years and that it is a medium embraced in meaningful ways. Newspapers and national television broadcast news fare poorly with this critical demographic group.

Surprisingly to some, among 18-to-34-year-olds, local TV is ranked as the most used source of news, with over 70 percent of the age group using it at least once a week and over half of those surveyed using local TV news at least three times a week. The local TV ranking is driven in an overall sense by women and low- and middle-income groups. Meanwhile, the second-most-used weekly news source, the Internet, is number one among men, high-income groups, and broadband users.

With over half of Internet users now connecting via high-speed broadband services, daily use of the Internet among all groups is likely to climb, because broadband access, the way an increasing number of households go online, makes daily usage more likely. Already, Internet portals—widely used, general interest web sites such as Yahoo.com and MSN.com that include news streams all day, every day—have emerged in the survey as the most frequently cited daily news source, with 44 percent of the group using portals at least once a day for news. Measured by daily use, local TV comes in second at 37 percent, followed by network or cable TV web sites at 19 percent, newspapers at 19 percent, cable networks at 18 percent and national broadcast networks at 16 percent.

And by other measures, the Internet is already clearly ahead of other media among the young. According to the Magid survey, young news consumers say that the Internet, by a 41-to-15 percent margin over second ranked local TV, is “the most useful way to learn.” And 49 percent say the Internet provides news “only when I want it” (a critical factor to this age group) versus 15 percent for second-ranked local TV. This audience, the future news consumers and leaders of a complex, modern society, are abandoning the news as we've known it, and it's increasingly clear that a great number of them will never return to daily newspapers and the national broadcast news programs.

Other notable findings revealed by the survey: although ranked as the third most important news source, newspapers have no clear strengths and are the least preferred choice for local, national and international news. On the TV front, cable news is the fourth most valuable news source just ahead of national network programs. Those broadcast newscasts are, however, considered the number-one source for national news. Cable is considered up-to-date and accessible, but not as informative as the Internet.

A Revolution In News
And In Public Discourse
The dramatic shift in how young people access the news raises a question about how democracy and the flow of information will interact in the years ahead. Not only is a large segment of the population moving away from traditional news institutions, but there has also been an explosion of alternative news sources. Some have been assembled by traditional news organizations delivering information in print, on television and on the radio as well as via the Internet and mobile devices. Others include the thousands of blogs created by journalists, activists and citizens at large.

Clearly, young people don't want to rely on the morning paper on their doorstep or the dinnertime newscast for up-to-date information; in fact, they—as well as others—want their news on demand, when it works for them. And, say many experts, in this new world of journalism, young people want a personal level of engagement and want those presenting the news to them to be transparent in their assumptions, biases and history.

  Next page: Through Internet portal sites, handheld devices, blogs and instant messaging, we are accessing and processing information in ways that challenge the historic function of the news business and raise fundamental questions about the future of the news field.

 

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Sydney, Australia

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)

Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency

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Dear all,

 

Folks who lived through the 60s in the US, when they were going through the 60s, didn’t think of it as a leap in mental evolution, as we do now. In all likelihood, ditto with the Renaissance. We are either in the early stages of a Renaissance or in the verge of it in Malaysia and in the Tamil diaspora world. Turbo-charged societal “Knowledge Management” driven by a determined nucleus of folks is why. And the intrigue is “how and how come a significant portion of  it was energised from Sydney”. Click on URL below for complete thread.

 

http://www.ryze.com/posttopic.php?topicid=495300&confid=658

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Bala Pillai

 

Hi Thomas,

Malacca, circa 1400 during the Spice Trade, was *the* happening place on planet Earth.

It was a bustling place where the most adventurous Indians, Arabs, Chinese & Malays got to see perspectives that they would otherwise not have been exposed to in their home locations.

So bustling that news of it in Europe had many Europeans wanting to come to Southeast Asia. This is at a time when England was a basket-case of a country.

My passion is to rekindle the balls and the brains. Which will rekindle the imagination and creation. Which will have more of us perceive and think more precisely.

I was doing this via online communities -- eg Sangkancil at Malaysia.Net is the first Malaysian online community since 1995. Because it was text based, and because Malaysians and Indians have so much blindspots, it dawned on me that the best way is to have those that I am trying to influence to be exposed to Western lifestyles, mindsets and talk-patterns to create waves in Malaysian imagination.

Thus I went on a massive spree to invite and pester every Asian I knew onto Ryze.

Do a search on the Muhibbah archives to sense the plethora of initiatives I hatch under the "Inventiveness/Imagination" umbrella. And you'll sense the huge opportunities there are for the imaginative and the evil caused by those who are reactively (as contrasted with contemplatively) negative.

I went through your page -- let's join forces. Next step: let me sense how low or how high your ceiling is - I need the tiny minority of folks who are ready for what is by Malaysian standards very high ceilings.[1]

cheers../bala

[1] If you have the unasked [2] question that most Malaysians have -- why? Why does what I do appear very high to them? It is because of low foresight, low exposure, low grasp of causality across history, high resistance to learning and fatalism -- see "Why one line made US$350 million for Hotmail?" at http://www.tamil.net/node/133

[2] And this is one of the roots of it -- huge huge amount of unasked questions. Why? No balls maah! Tala kotai laah!

 

Click on http://www.ryze.com/posttopic.php?topicid=495300&confid=658 for rest of thread.

 

 

cheers../bala

Bala Pillai  bala@apic.net

Sydney, Australia

Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)

Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency

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