We’re Unchained, but we’re still wired to the net — wirelessly. These posts are set up so that folks can make notes or comments in real time.
- You are free at last, a free moral agent with no one to order you around — but no one to blame but yourself if you should fail
- You are free to thrive
- You are free to starve
- But you are not free to escape the necessity of making a choice
An introductory convocation from Greg Swann featuring philosophy, history, stirring rhetoric and some really scary homework…
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G. Dewald says:
This reminds me of my 8th grade social sciences teacher who was teaching us about the USSR (yep, I am older and older every year).
He described how in the USSR people had to get a permit to move to another city. We were, of course, shocked and mortified (as much as an 8th grader can be mortified I suppose). Then he contrasted it with our system: We are free to live under a bridge in the city of our choice.
I wouldn’t trade the USA for the USSR, of course, but these freedoms do have consequences/responsibilities (that imho are worth the risk).
May 19, 2008 — 10:35 am
Mike Farmer says:
The irony is that the US, for the most part, thrived, and USSR, for the most part, went failed.
May 19, 2008 — 1:24 pm
Don Reedy says:
Greg,
I cannot quite describe in suitable terms how moving this segment of the conference was. Almost from your first words you hinted at, then expounded on, and finally drew together, the Unchained philosophy as based on the Greeks, our indelible ties to them, and how these ties must ring loud and evermore in our real estate philosophy and practice.
I was one of the few who actually raised my hand in your second segment when you asked if you should continue with your discussion of philosophy and history. Later, when you were discussing programming with engenu, it’s pronounciation, spelling, etc., and you digressed into an ad hoc explanation of ingenuous, its etiology and meaning, I turned to Geno and asked “How does this guy know all this stuff?”
In the end, I guess I actually don’t care HOW you know it, but rather that you have the innate intelligence to realize its import and value, and sought to share that in the Unchained conference. I also enjoyed your passion for excellence, and distain for anything less.
As an old Greek saying goes:
A mad bull is not to be tied up with a packthread.
I think there was a bundle of tattered and torn twine laying on the floor once you finished today.
May 19, 2008 — 5:17 pm
Greg Swann says:
Don, I’m so glad I got to meet you. I wish your own circumstances were happier, and maybe they will be by tomorrow. But you are truly a gentle man, and I am honored to know you.
May 19, 2008 — 6:17 pm
Cheryl Johnson says:
Don,
I agree. Greg’s opening segment was inspiring. I’m eager to watch it again when the DVD arrives.
I’d happily attend a conference that was 100% history, philosophy and linguistics.
We get so caught up in the frenzy of doing business and finding ways to prospect for more business, that we forget the ~foundation~ for all commerce lies in our ability to think, to understand, and to reason.
May 20, 2008 — 5:22 am