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For truth to be usable -the hardest learings
Posted to: SolaRoof by chris macrae (21), Sat, 31 May 2008 06:25:08 PDT
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At this whither 7 billion people's junction http://blogs.ft.com/wolfforum/20 08/05/trust-the-development-expe rts/
what I as a maths guy love about being tutored in DR Yunus maps is we face a triple exponential challenge in one - a mistake in any of the 3 arenas can kill off your investment if not your peoples.
For truth to be usable, quickly check with anyone you might consider teaming with whether they get this triple innovation battle. If not, you cant rely on them all of the teamworking time. I think that peter rachel marriah raimo alexis mostofa lesley alan mark get this. I am not sure I know anyone else who does. I probably didnt myself before I spent half a day with Dr Yunus in Dhaka -maybe I still don't. Of course I would love to be introduced to others who do see our race's sustainability challenge the same way in every teamwork flow they do.
simultaneous phase 1 :
reversing exponential destruction in a community- this is transparency's most dangerous phase - it has cost may leaders' lives and even more among silent deep community heroines- it can take years and if you systemise it well all you have to show financially is perhaps break even ; what you have actually done is turned round something that was exponentially crashing
simultaneous phase 2 renewal - this is the positive phase of exponential up empowerment -both goodwill and financial flows win-win let alone community wide joy and pride and hope for sustainability - but it can only kick in after years of phase 1- this is what moves peoples and the whole communities past the poverty line but its also not sufficient at least not for development mapmakers in bottom billion contexts
simultaneous phase 3 what is also needed is resilience (saving and investing in the next generation way beyond the basic poverty line) to the next big disaster which is actuarially likely to happen every decade or so- if this hadnt been so, its probably the case that this place would never have slipped into bottom billion; in Bangladesh’s context the continual challenge is primarily environmental; in other places it may be primarily because of lack of reconciliation of 2 histrionically clashing belief systems whether religious or economic or other
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By chris macrae (21), Sat, 31 May 2008 07:06:42 PDT
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I wonder if there's a question to be raised on what experience of east-west does a person need to have had -at least one of -before you can be confident that they are coming and going the same way on reconcilation around this. I am pretty sure well over 90% of people want east west to heal their divides. I am also pretty sure in London's case that 90% of white youth who say they want this dont have any common connections for progressing this
GANDHI's WAY
what leads me to this bald and umcomfy conclusion is gandhi's Satyagraha - or reheasring how to stand up for truth - an open curriculum which is 101 years old. If you go to india or bangladesh and someone says they are a gandhian, I pretty well know I can 100% trust what they will do as well as what they mean or at least try to live up to. I can talk to any 2 white londoners who cliam to be gandhians and I have no idea what they mean. In fact they are almost harder to flow with than people who dont claim to be gandhians.
This isnt any of these peoples fault. There's a trouble that there is so much noise out there about how to commune around truth. And that those who are most celebrated in the west as providing Ganhian conferences etc often havent read his diaries- they dont know how much work he did day in day out from age 40 to 80ish in such revolutionary spaces of opinion and leadership as media, education and professional hippocratic oathes
somehow I am desperately searching for a guide that ranks the west's real gandhian mentors from the quacks http://www.valuetrue.com/home/ga llery.cfm