Re: Year 2000 Supply/Production Risks

["Marasigan . Vicente" <vic@pusit.admu.edu.ph>]

On 4 Feb 1999, Roberto Verzola wrote:
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>  >Sorry to 'personalise' the discourse on this group, but I can't
>  >believe that even the most abstract theoreticians amongst us can't
>  >feel this issue on their bodies, in their dreams. Feelings and their
>  >expression - even mixed up and ranty at times - are also part of the
>  >jigsaw puzzle we have to piece together.
> 
> I wonder if you saw earlier the summary of my current efforts to
> identify "flawed mindsets" behind the Y2K problem. My own personal
> advocacy has been to call for a deep soul-searching to root out and
> discredit these mindsets even as we prepare for the nitty-gritty of
> coping with Y2K issues...
> 
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Deep soul-searching... personal advocacy ...  personalise the
discourse .. 

These phrases ring a bell, not very loud, just a tinkle.  It gently
recalls to mind a descripton in interdoc-y2k 224 where Jennifer
Wolcott talks about a neighborhood meeting in Spokane about Y2K that
led people to discover a greatly improved quality of life and to
become a more caring society.  Also in interdoc-y2k 182, Paul Swann
spoke of a "spontaneous, dynamic, heart-warming and fun event ... in a
spirit of friendship and mutual support where seeds of future
collaboration were sown."

The Y2K meme is sowing seeds of "personalization."  I take this to
mean that both the left-brain (or logical) and the right-brain (or
intuitive) functions of a healthy personality are complementing each
other.  An overly left-brained technology has been infecting me with
fetishes that can lead, if I am not careful, to dysfunctions of flawed
mindsets.  From now on, I will be more attentive to intuited hints in
this listserv.

A few links to interdoc-y2k also attract me. Thanks to Chris Byrne
(y2k 226), I learn how Margaret Wheatley feels about a dispirited
group discussing the Y2K crisis and sees that the problem was the
absence of Spirit. There are so many such links sprouting out all over
interdoc-y2k that I am simply overwhelmed and frustrated that I cannot
read them all, much less condense them into posts of less than one
kilobyte.  But it would be good if such condensations be posted on
interdoc-y2k now and then. Any volunteers?

Chris says he is sorry for personalising his discourse.  Why should he
be sorry?  His personal punch is terrific.  I am still seeing stars.

Vicente Marasigan