[MD] Drama with Nicholas Maxwell

[ian glendinning]

Hi SA, no takers for this thread ?

Great to see Maxwell being picked-up.

Incidentally, you writing about your workplace experience of newcomers
joing the local "culture" ... I also wrote some very similar words
about my then current workplace when I did my Masters thesis. There is
a copy on-line, but I'll try and dig out the relevant bits.

Agreed. Rule are for the guidance of wise men an the the enslavement
of fools (only). I may have said.

Ian

On 7/28/07, Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com> wrote:
>     I've brought this thread up from time to time,
> but now I'm reading Nick Maxwell's "Basic Argument for
> the Need of an Intellectual Revolution" and find kin
> to his social inquiry.  This quote of his from the
> article, "Academic thought would be pursued as a
> specialized, subordinate part of what is really
> important and fundamental: the thinking that goes on,
> individually, socially and institutionally, in the
> social world, guiding individual, social and
> institutional actions and life."
>     This fits with the intellectual level guiding the
> social level in the MOQ.
>     I've written about where I work, which is in the
> heart of facing social problems on an applicatory,
> first-hand type experience.  Every single person that
> enters this workplace as a new staff is asked to
> observe for a week or two.  Just watch what happens,
> then begin to step in when one is sure what needs to
> happen so the participating of the new staff is
> helpful and correct - for the residents will go after
> you in every way they know how.  They are not only
> sneaky and physically aggressive at times, but they
> also KNOW the routine - or will try to change the
> routine especially in a manipulative way with new
> staff.  In time the new staff enters the social
> experience, and after some months, hopefully, a leader
> and competent.  In the face of chaos, and the daily
> changes that occur where new ideas MUST be generated
> in the midst of this dynamism, for even though I'm a
> supervisor and have been at the place almost two years
> I let the staff know that I'm winging it at times.
> The other day a decision needed to be made, quickly,
> and so with my experience of the place and seeing all
> the factors involved quickly pass through my
> perspective as I stood there quietly for less then 3
> seconds - I made a decision and let the staff know
> right on the spot that I just made that decision up.
> I remember one staff saying, "Oh, I didn't know if it
> was a rule somewhere on paper or what."  Another staff
> wasn't sure of the rule either.  There was NO rule,
> but with the circumstances of the place and the
> residents involved, the law, court systems, other
> well-established routines and rules, this decision
> need not usurp other existing patterns in a
> degenerative way, but a decision needed to be made,
> right then, at the moment - right now!
>
> woods,
> SA
>
>
>
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