tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372876601826078687.post49417638687612120..comments2024-03-05T05:53:36.239-07:00Comments on The Masculine Heart: Acknowledging Our Pain - Rescuing the Rescuerwilliam harrymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06981478282688361274noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372876601826078687.post-67789149269052120392016-03-27T08:24:00.192-07:002016-03-27T08:24:00.192-07:00Beautiful transparency, openness and conscious ref...Beautiful transparency, openness and conscious reflection.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7372876601826078687.post-75314374807021206802010-08-11T08:52:41.942-07:002010-08-11T08:52:41.942-07:00Yo, Bill. I mostly reject this. But it is interest...Yo, Bill. I <i>mostly</i> reject this. But it is interesting how the cultural model of a superhero has changed to suggest that a conflicted rescuer is how we choose to envision a mostly-lone 'visionary' [of sorts] sticking out, above the crowd, to say those things that need to be done (or said/written, in your super-heroic case). <br /><br />Allow me to point out that you had a role as the official blogger at the Integral conference to bring forth your insight and honesty and courage and fact finding. The 'error,' to the extent that there can be such a thing, can have been for you to have done less than you did. <br /><br />We should not weasel out on being courageous or sticking out. <br /><br />Remember <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_New_York_City_crimes_and_disasters#20th_century" rel="nofollow">Kitty Genovese in 1964</a> who was stabbed 82 times over the course of an hour in NYC while perhaps a hundred people watched and did nothing? All the bystanders didn't feel preasure to do anything because there were so many others who could have done something. It was "the Good German" or "bystander" effect: "Why do I need to be the one to intervene here? Somebody else can!" <br /><br />Stand up to the Nazis [or Nazi-like or Nazi-lite situations in the culture of our time]!! <br /><br />Damn it, Bill. Give yourself a break for not giving yourself a break.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13718601770472939313noreply@blogger.com