Tonight I encountered a paragraph, among many, by Lion Kimbro, in an email from the Story Field Conference GoogleGroup listserv. I was going to respond to my reading earlier of his links to Causal Layered Analysis, when the name “Charles Cameron” and the book THE GLASS BEAD GAME caught my attention. Over the past week I have come to respect Lion more and more, so I gave this serious exploration. I remember Charles Cameron from my Y2K days and remember only that I was impressed by his work and wished I had time to explore it. Also, about a month ago a local friend, Albert Lundquist, suggested that I read Hesse’s THE GLASS BEAD GAME, and loaned me his copy. I am about 1/3 into the book and find it very interesting.
So, I clicked on HipBone Analytics and skimmed the material, and started to read. I “sense” significance, yet I am not competent to comprehend Charles’ concepts without a great amount of labor and time. Yesterday I encountered a parallel situation about the works of George Spencer-Brown’s LAWS OF FORM.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE in assisting others learn new complex perspective that might very well be very useful to them? Is it the author of the insights? Is it the potential user, alone? Or do we need a mediating process and WHO is responsible for creating such a system?
Might this point to what has been missing for 5K years of dominator rule; what has blocked the multitude from effectively self organizing? Societies (with communities as components) are significantly different systems than communities (and individuals). The societal infrastructure for non-dominator societies have yet to be invented. Who are to be the inventors, and what support will they get?
There is much, much more in the details of transition than the most visionary imagine, and it may be well beyond the imagining of any individual. Yet, there may be collaborative processes that we can innovate to meet this essential challenge – but we FIRST must recognize and accept the need.
During my life I have encountered these barriers to greater comprehension thousands of times; yet I always recognized the significance of that alien domain. Somehow I never developed the habit of dissing that which I couldn’t comprehend. I learned this by reading my father’s physics textbooks, with calculus, when in high school. I learned to skip over what I couldn’t comprehend. I still explore texts that are well beyond my full comprehension; yet gain valuable information from them.
As an exercise, click on the Hip Bone Analytics by Charles Cameron and attempt to appreciate what is being attempted, and generalize as to how much talent is being ignored by humankind lacking an adequate educational system. Our future depends on our quickly creating a process to facilitate the learning we need.
Lion Kimbro:
(On a related note, I have a friend named Charles Cameron that has invented a way of analyzing human problems, that he calls HipBoneAnalytics? (see: HipBone Analytics). His ideas are based on Herman Hesse’s novel “Magister Ludi (The Glass Bead Game)”. it is a qualitative way at looking at complicated problems, based upon diagrammatic reasoning. I bring up HipBoneAnalytics? because mostly because it might be one useful way to look at the “geneaology” of the issue. And, it might be a way to make it more understandable to more people through diagrammatic reasoning.)
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At this stage I really don’t comprehend what Lion and Charles are talking about – but they claim that it may relate to new tools to work with complicated/complex situations. Do we expect to immediately comprehend and recognize solutions?
