From: "Henry van Eyken" <vaneyken@sympatico.ca>
During Session 8B, some discussion evolved about the slide (No. 30)
"Outposts on the Co-Evolutionary Frontier." A specific question put
by Mr. Jacobs (?) is what'd we do when we get there, to some outpost.
At this point, it seemed to me that, really, we are on grounds of
familar unfamiliarity. Throughout our lives we have been acting as
our very own "C"s before embarking on such "A" activities as pursuing
a course of studies toward a career, or tentatively first, a pathway
to a certain band of career opportunities. In secondary schools,
people already gravitate quite speculatively toward arts or science
or manual skills or waiting to get married. Somewhat later in life,
people tie themselves to what really is one heck of an outpost,
selecting a partner for life, i.e. for a future way beyond
20-year-range scenarios. Then comes the buying of insurance policies
(how much for what?).
What we here call co-evolution for the maintenance of common
understanding has traditionally been avoided or diminished by tying
evolution to fenceposts so it wouldn't gallop away from tradition, to
avoid having things get out of hand. Understanding remained common
because change was avoided.
But career and family life have been changing. Where once we were
told by authority or guided by role models about a career, we now use
HPAT in the form of career counsellors. Where once family life was
guided by spiritual advisors, we moved on to marriage counsellors and
Dr. Spock, Dr. Schlessinger, Oprah, and Courts of Law.
And like the jump from 20-year to 50-year projections, things get
vaguer in the diatant haze. With longer life spans with shorter
durations between perspecitve-coloring events, tradition has entered
waters increasingly left uncharted for lack of experience.
In terms of our Colloquium, I wonder whether we have failed by
letting tradition be an "A" activity. One wonders what bootstrapping
might do for a return of tradition in a new, improved (A-B-C) form so
it will return to serving humankind as a comfortable guide throughout
our lives.
No, I am not kidding.
Henry
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