Fwd: sociatry821

[Edward Schreiber]

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> From: Edward Schreiber <edwschreiber at earthlink.net>
> Date: August 21, 2007 2:52:39 PM EDT
> To: "Adam Blatner" <adam at blatner.com>
> Subject: Re: sociatry821
>
> Thanks Adam for this.
> I want to make a similar apology to our community as well,
> and at times I feel a fish out of water (as the water heats).
>
> Being in China I saw a future I want no part of.
> Meaning:  the horrendous destruction of nature in the effort to
> consume.  It was 1984.
>
> And then I come home to our land, and learn of floods in the midwest,
> and I read scientific reports about the climate inching up faster  
> than computer
> models predicted.  And then I read reports of Greenland slipping  
> due to underground
> leakage of the ice formations, and then I learn in China of the 80  
> million (mostly peasant
> farmers) made homeless, and I feel despair - the despair I can  
> imagine must be felt all over,
> and I ask:  what the hell can we do - and I realize this state of  
> denial - we are all facing - and
> I talk with colleagues and they reflect the same - and I realize in  
> the end Moreno was right:
> if we (I) do not consider all of humanity, what I am?
>
> Best and thanks,
>
> Ed
>
>
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:06 PM, Adam Blatner wrote:
>
>> I want to apologize for passing along some conversation that Ed  
>> considered confidential back-channeling. I admit that was my fault  
>> rather than Kim's. I really respect and admire Ed for his many  
>> different contributions, his international travels and support for  
>> psychodrama at conferences; his scholarship both on the Zerka book  
>> and in other continuing ways; his research; his taking the work  
>> into creative new alternatives; and, yes, his broader vision about  
>> sociatry!
>>        I only disagreed with the tactic of what kinds of materials  
>> should be properly included on grouptalk. I do agree that it is  
>> worthwhile to think together about what we who know about Moreno's  
>> visions might be able to do to apply these in a broader context.
>>         On the whole, I very much appreciate Ed's contributions,  
>> as he has helped to keep Grouptalk dynamically active as a place  
>> for dialogue, and regret that I may have injudicously overshot the  
>> mark. Please keep playing with us, Ed.
>>
>

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