<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px">Hi Johannes and everyone,<br><div id="yiv7472340589"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490031004372_13222"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490031004372_13221"><div id="yiv7472340589yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490031004372_11238">
</div><div style="text-align:justify;line-height:17.0pt;" id="yiv7472340589yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490031004372_11319"><span style="" id="yiv7472340589yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1490031004372_11320" lang="EN-GB">This
thread is very informative and thought provoking. I’ve also just viewed Micro
Theatre’s *The Other Side* which has left me very pensive, sadly hopeful if I
can express it that way, that what Alan refers to as underground and Simon as
mycelial nets will help jolt us into more civilizing ways of acting. I think
that is one major ethical effect of cultural reasoning, a kind of linking up
with the *soil* (back to Simon again) of history. More of a metahistory in the
sense that Paul Ricoeur discusses in *Time and Narrative*. That is a history and
of course herstory that recognizes that the mythologizings of a society—of any
discourse—break up under the microscope. They might take root again like a
piece of broken mushroom but something even if *only* boredom has broken them.
If the breaking is human I would say, not say a hurricane or other natural.
Open arms or open cities for refugees of course give great hope. And these are
movements going on in many towns around the world, forming a kind of *other
side* also to authoritarian paranoia in so many countries. I am at the same
time taking cognizance of Alan’s words on still another militarizing stance.
I’m hopeful that the peaceful ties and links that have been made through
globalization will override anything like Trumpist big stick rhetoric might suggest.
In that sense I repeat what I said above about cultural reasoning. Thanks to
everybody for really fine ideas! Best wishes, William</span></div>
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