2. Walt Kelly's Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us."  Both left and right have complementary roles to play in making this world a liveable place.  

—Walt Kelly, June 1953

3. Douglas Jack, Both Sides Now cartoon with the fellow on the left saying "Squares are greater than triangles".  The fellow on the right accommodates the person on the left at the same time helping him to understand in the complementation of the two shapes that; "Triangles on top of squares create homes that we can live in."  The most effective 'debater' is one who finds complementary and collaborative ways to integrate the concerns of the other or all the parties concerned.

Both Sides Now is attached below in Full and Short versions providing detail and overview for the dialogue process involved for individuals in the Corporation and each Association and Caucus to challenge other members as well as others in community at large to formal recorded equal-time dialogue.  Indigenous peoples from around the world implemented and upheld Dialectic rights for community members.  The word 'debate' from the French means 'de' = 'to undo' + 'bate' = 'the fight'.  Rather than depending only upon Indigene or association Board of Directors BSN, members as well can discuss and issue challenges, creations or innovations on every level.

Both Sides Now Rights and Peace  looks at applications to organisation, business, government and institutional relations as a systematic alternative to conflict, enmity and war.

At left is a cartoon discussion on relative values.  Both parties sit upon a see-saw with a sand-clock teeter (base).  The person on left begins by stating that squares are greater than triangles.  The person on left offers that a triangle plus a square build a house together.  Debate is best understood as a means to build solutions together.  Please see the section D. PARTICIPATORY STRUCTURE subsection 3) ECONOMIC MEMORY for more perspectives on the neurology of single stakeholder control and competition in our society.  'Competition' from the Latin means 'com' = 'together' + 'petere' = 'to seek'.  Exogenous society has changed the context of competition from positive complementary collaboration to rival exclusion.

FEELING

Often individuals operate from a 'feeling' level without deconstructing these feelings into the contributing factors from which they are formed.  Given the complexity of feeling as multi-sensory inputs (including multi-dimensional thought, readings, sight, sound, smell, taste, kinetic, etc) over lifetimes, there is no exact 'plumbing' which one can prescribe (each of us are unique), but in deconstruction & meditation, we can discover the patterns of formative events, perceptions & relationships from which our worldviews arise.

feel (v.) 

O.E. felan "to touch, perceive," from P.Gmc. *foljan (cf. O.S. gifolian, O.Fris. fela, Du. voelen, O.H.G. vuolen, Ger. fühlen "to feel," O.N. falma "to grope"), from PIE root *pal- "to touch, feel, shake, strike softly" (cf. Gk. psallein "to pluck (the harp)," L.palpare "to touch softly, stroke," palpitare "to move quickly"). The sense in O.E. was "to perceive through senses which are not referred to any special organ." Sense of "be conscious of a sensation or emotion" developed by late 13c.; that of "to have sympathy or compassion" is from c.1600. To feel like "want to" attested from 1829.

Socrates 470-399 BCE  formed 'academia' (a garden in Athens) based on the rights and duties of students and all citizens to be able to debate teachers or other fellows equally in the exchange of perspectives, ideas & concepts.  At the time autocratic Sophist education did not provide students opportunity to speak their minds.  Unfortunately the 'academia' which he founded no longer respects the rights of its participants to dialogue formally and openly on matters of institutional or cultural process among themselves or the nature of the truths they are engaging.  The following are a number of quotes from Socrates:

                    “Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak.”

                    “The unexamined life is not worth living.”  “It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”  The unexamined life is not worth living.”

                    “The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.”

                    “How much there is in the world I do not want”  “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.” 

                           "Whenever, therefore, people are deceived and form opinions wide of the truth, it is clear that the error has slid into their minds through the medium of certain resemblances to that truth."

                            "Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

                           "The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods."   "Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

                            "Let him that would move the world, first move himself."    "I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

Imagine if dialect rights through debate or Both-Sides-Now, Equal Time Recorded Dialogues (attachments below) were practiced as a right in every home, multi-home, business, commerce, industry, government, institutions, organisations, schools, military and between people in all associations.  Groups of stakeholders would talk through and unite their positions to be able to challenge other stakeholders formally through BSN.  Debate needs caucussing or grouping of like interests so that the times of all parties is respected.   If these dialogues were then published in appropriate media.  There would be no need for aggression and no war.  Individuals could talk through their feelings and experiences at the significant places and circumstances in their lives.  People would reorganise society in the best way that they know how, both from words and from action.  Indigenous practices from the Production Societies using Time-based accounting and Progressive Ownership recognition, complement debate in providing people with processes by which they can 'Walk the talk' as well as 'Talk the walk'.  It is important to implement debate as a right across whole societies in every facet of relationship.

Cartoonist Bill Waterson

BOTH-SIDES-NOW, EQUAL-TIME-RECORDED-DIALOGUES

Perspective is valuable for understanding how our minds work. Differences between 2-dimensional

and 3-D vision are found in similarities and differences between the images recorded by light sensors

on the retina in each of our two eyes as well as diminishing size with distance. Each eye sees a

slightly different image due to the slightly different ‘camera’ (C/C pupil to pupil 7 cm or 2 ¾ inches

apart) locations. Each eye sees a slightly different 2-D side of an object and therefore can mentally

triangulate or construct 3-D depth from the differences of visual information and from other senses.

In the same way that; eyes construct 3-D understanding from 2-D sensory data, so do human minds

construct 3-D and more dimensions from individual experiences, understandings and through sharing

perspectives as social creatures with our families and society. BSN-ETRDs as formal procedures

provide an opportunity for individuals and organisations to engage each other for understanding more

dimensions of our livelihood interaction and to construct harmonious effort with the world.

Formally each stakeholder group or ‘caucus’ (Iroquois = ‘grouping of like-interests’) gathers diverse

perspectives and then engage other stakeholder groups. Within groups, similarities and differences

between elders, youth, women, men, founders, workers, suppliers and consumers can be compared

and complemented for policy and practice. Individuals engage through their affinity groups.

Harnessing diverse perspectives holistically, Douglas Jack, eco-montreal@mcgill.ca