Banksy – graffiti artist & elephant wrangler
“The show is about the elephant in the
room, the problems that we don't talk
about. The fact that 10 billion people
live below the poverty line. The fact
that 1.7 billion people have no access
to clean drinking water and the fact
that 800 million people are sick to
death of artists telling them what a bad
place the world is without ever actually
doing anything about it.”
Don’t think of an elephant…
Ed Boks – L.A. Animal Services Department
“…it sends a very wrong
message that abusing
animals is not only OK, it's
an art form. Permits will
not be issued for such
frivolous abuse of animals
in the future.”
Kari Johnson – Owner, Have Trunk, Will Travel
“Tai has done many,
many movies. She's
used to make-up.”
The Blind Men and the Elephant
American poet John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887)
It was six men of Indostan,
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the elephant,
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind.
The first approached the elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! But the elephant
Is very like a wall!“
The second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried: "Ho! What have we here,
So very round and smooth and
sharp?
To me 'tis very clear,
This wonder of an elephant
Is very like a spear!“
The third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his
hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
"I see," quoth he, "the elephant
Is very like a snake!“
The fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
"What most this wondrous beast is like
Is might plain," quoth he;
"Tis clear enough the elephant
Is very like a tree.“
The fifth, who chanced to touch the
ear,
Said: "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most:
Deny the fact who can,
This marvel of an elephant
Is very like a fan.“
The sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
"I see," quoth he, "the elephant
Is very like a rope.“
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong.
Though each was partly right,
All were in the wrong.
What are you doing?
Bird: @tseliot Go, go, go. Human kind cannot
bear very much reality.
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#Burnt Norton, #FourQuartets
…head in the sand?
…management by walking around?
…life of quiet desperation?
The opportunity unfolding…
Structured meaning / coherent action
Social graph / conversation
Information growth / discovery
…ability to network our thought
Focus on the sets of ideas…
Barack Obama
(1) Gather the
ideas dispersed
through the
community
Gordon Brown
(2) Represent
each idea once,
not multiple
times
Kevin Rudd
Listen to everything the community has to offer
New ideas
contributed
Contributors
Think openly in simple, provisional building blocks,
which others can build upon and refine
Question?
Suggestion
Reason
Build and rate maps: collaboratively, transparently
iteratively and comprehensively
Stream
changes
Enable depth below the surface
Make the maps easy to find, explore and extend.
Embed around the web. Updates ripple across all sites.
Link: The Independent
Collaborative intelligence…
There are always
more smart people
outside government
than within it…
…and the tangled problems
we confront require the
coherent work of many eyes,
many minds, and many hands.
In dreams begins responsibility…
Thank you
Dr David Price, Co-founder, Debategraph, email: david AT debategraph DOT org, http://debategraph.org, +44 (0) 20 8144 2860
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