In Trying Times of Turbulence & Trauma

In These Trying Times of Turbulence &   Trauma

                     

Think Out  of the Box?

It doesn’t have  much value if it’s an individual  deal,

I don’t think. Collaborative Think Out of the Box Genius

as opposed to Individual Think Out of the Box Genius.

There’s a difference that makes a difference.

And is it possible that thinking-out-of-the-box is the

real topic, content. & subject matter—and not  sustainability

or environmental  warming or  illegal immigrations or

institutional budgetary concerns or  dearth of wood thrush?

Thinking about thinking, in other words, and not about

this or that, not that three doesn’t have to be some token

this or that  to carry (but not occlude) the thinking  about

thinking.   

It’s a principle of mine that it’s impossible to think out of

the box and that acknowledging that impossibility makes

it possible.  Is THAT-right-there thinking out of the box

right there?  I think so.

(Thinking outside the box is not for everyone!

But you may not be for everyone too..)

Thinking about how we think as opposed to just thinking

about this or that:  thinking about the conditions, the

environment-for-thinking is out-of-the-box thinking

right there.  Frame Discourse it’s sometimes called.

Environ mentalism. We have to talk about how we’re

going to talk about  these nitty gritty matters—institutional

sustainability etc. Institutional  Resilience etc. 

Name it.  We can think about how we’re

thinking about it.  That’s out of the

box.   Try it.  We’ll see how out

of the box it is.