Machiavelli and Systems LO12590

andreww@petronas.com.my
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:43:18 -0800

Replying to LO12576 --

Matthew Holmes wrote:

>I think you have probably hit the nail on the head.
> .....I guess that people understand the system at some
>sub-conscious level in that the 'play the game' by adopting and
>reinforcing the accepted beliefs and behaviour.

Surprisingly from my own Observations and experience, many are quite
conscious of the system forces around them.

Hence " .....than buried in a system that is understood & operated only
from a single perspective."

may only describe the apparent (outward) behaviour. But the underlying
current is rather complex, which is not just sub-conscious alone.

To operate from a single perspective ("my point of view, not other people
view") may be rather reactive and common behaviour. But given a common
system (where all concerned parties have to live or die together) the
consciousness level can be quite high i.e. can't and should not operate
from a single pespective alone but collective, creative and emergent
perspectives. But most complex system that we live in (e.g. organisation
or corporation or environment, the question of future failure is just too
remote and not real, hence not a question of "life and death" but continue
with the "shadow living". Most feel too powerless, too exhuasted to try to
understand from a larger perspectives.

When LO come to a stage that it is no more just sub-conscious-ness or
un-awareness of sytemic forces, but sense of powerless-ness, helpless-ness
(after all life is still living, be it 'shadow living") it is of totally
different ball game.

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