I was watching
Flags of Our
Fathers...again.
Hard for me to
watch these
movies
straight
through...so I
watch them in
little spurts
here and there
when I run
across
them....
Today, during
one of these
"watches", I
realized a way
to articulate
this
"container"
idea of
bounded
reality.
Helpful Hint:
You "get" a
container when
you "fix"
certain
assumptions...like
in a role...a
container
which fixes in
place an
artificial
reality with
particular
assumptions
"contained"...hence
"container."
The
interesting
thing (to me)
is that as
soon as the
"boundaries"
dissipate, or
are subsumed,
or
"expanded"...the
assumptions
that "hold"
the container
or hold in the
container...may
not (usually
don't)
maintain their
integrity.
Maybe this is
obvious to
most, maybe
I'm the only
one that sees
the value in
being able to
see why people
would "be, do,
have, become
and
contribute" in
the manner
that "emerges"
while the
container
"reality" is
"fixed" in the
way it often
seems.
Once the
container
reality
shifts, the
assumptions
operating
often shift
and we can't
understand why
it was the way
it was.
Containers
have different
shapes, sizes
and time
boundaries...and
often, we move
among
them...often
distorting
reality in the
process.
Action
Step:
identify that
which is
contained and
could not be a
container
without
particular
assumptions
and beliefs
being the way
they are...and
then shift the
(your)
attribution of
sense-making
accordingly,
whenever
possible--reach
out for
additional
perspectives
to make sense.
