Expanding our Social Memberships
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| John S Veitch |
| The Network Ambassador |
Waldo Salt, American film-maker, "To search for the truth, you must first have lost it."
Self Knowledge you can Trust
There's a long journey from becoming responsible for your knowing and for your not knowing, to having self knowledge you can trust. We all know many things that are in fact not true. The truth is obvious but remains "invisible" to us.
Our culture, directs our way of seeing the world.
Loyalty to the common knowledge of "our own" can obscure the truth.
Membership is Critical
Who is (and who can be) a member? A world divided between "us" and "them" is a dangerous place. Family, ethnic, educational, professional, and community groups all set rules, often unwritten social rules, that distinguish who is and who is not "one of us".
Your Learning?
These social rules determine who is important and what is important, what you can learn and even the questions it is possible to ask.
People in the social groups you belong to have "common knowledge" but they also share "common blindness".
It's in creating and nurturing new forms of diverse group membership that new conversations can begin and new ideas can develop.
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