Lene's comments highlight the value of developing a sustainable self that can exist across local situations and moralities, and ethics as a decision tool for when we find ourselves in novel situations. 

I also agree with Gregg and others that have pointed out that justification systems are really so much mate-attracting plumage.  Therefore, the transition into seeing the cultural dimension of our lives as a performance piece rather than as a faithful adherence to capital T truthful lens of reality, well that should be more enjoyable to most of us. 

I know that, for me, accompanying what I perceive to be my own growth are often moments of terrible humiliation when I accept the vast quantity of assumptions I had accumulated that were based upon false constructs.  This humiliation is followed by the relief of seeing things more clearly, and to be able to participate playfully or fully again with what is happening in front of me. 

Joe, thank you for sharing your piano video.  I do not have one with me right now but I look forward to returning to this when I have a keyboard :D

-Chance

On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 2:55 PM Waldemar Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Thank you, Lene.

Waldemar A Schmidt, PhD, MD
(Perseveret et Percipiunt)
503.631.8044

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. (A Einstein)

On Apr 21, 2020, at 9:47 AM, Lene Rachel Andersen - Nordic Bildung / Fremvirke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Waldemar - and everybody else.

The 3 components are absolutely right, but there are at least two more:

  • practical, everyday knowledge, i.e. cooking, riding a bicycle, using Facebook, cleaning, fixing a clogged sink, knowing the traffic rules
  • social norms, i.e. dress code, holding doors (or not holding doors), how to address people at work or at home, not telling jokes at funerals, and (in the old days) shaking hands.

/ Lene

On 21-04-2020 17:52, Waldemar Schmidt wrote:
Dear Friends:

I would like to return to something that Lene wrote, and I paraphrase (please correct me as needed, Lene):

Bildung has 3 components:

  • Formal education.
  • Emotional maturity.
  • Moral maturity.

The “etiologic agent” for us (humanity) being where we find ourselves is not nCoV-2, covid19, or Donald Trump, Sr.
The problem exists because wer are only paying lip service to education - perhaps for the past century.
We have an huge problem, the problem of fixing which is going to take both persistence and time.

If Bildung is an (the?) answer, then we need to be very, very careful about that which we place in those little minds.

The educators’ “content” is the real first responder.

Best regards,

Waldemar

Waldemar A Schmidt, PhD, MD
(Perseveret et Percipiunt)
503.631.8044

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. (A Einstein)

On Apr 21, 2020, at 7:02 AM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi TOK List,
 
  I share here three very different analyses regarding the current state of our country and globe.
 
The first offers a conservative, pro-American view that our way of life was going along fine. The ball games, the economy, the general prosperity were neglected by doomsayers and the critical noise of the media. It says we need to embrace that “success” and return to normalcy post virus:
 
The second argues that there were many “pre-existing conditions” that were afflicting our country and the virus simply revealed them. We are struggling, our institutions are failing us, and we need a return to sane governance and good policies that create a much more stable, well-functioning system:
 
The third is more radical. It is an interview that includes TOK Society member Zak Stein and invites us to consider our global trajectory to be deeply and existentially misguided. The message here is that we need to seize the Kairos of the moment and reassess our fundamental values and metaphysics and re-emerge with fundamentally new sense and meaning making systems and new ways of being in the world:
 
Best,
Gregg
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