Privatizing Trust |
Wednesday Oct 29 2008
By Jim Selman | BioOne of the central tenets of my work is that everything happens in a context of relationship—a shared background of concerns, commitments and practices—what I call a background of relatedness. We may make commitments as individuals, but we always fulfill them in networks of relationships with other people. The other day I was asking, “What does it mean for an economy to collapse?” What is the worst-case scenario of the current ‘meltdown’ and ‘freezing of credit’? (Interesting that these two most frequently used metaphors, extremes of ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ are referring to the same thing and both are ‘state’ changes.) My conclusion is that...[Read More]
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