Adam Kahane talks about one such application in South Africa in the early 1990s. With the apartheid regime coming to an end, people who had been killing one another were struggling to form a democratic government. Says Kahane, "A popular joke at the time said that, faced with the country's daunting challenges, South Africans had two options: a practical option and a miraculous option." The practical option was that everyone would "go down on their knees
and pray for a band of angels to come down from heaven and fix things
for us." The miraculous option was that people would "talk with one
another until we found a way forward together." Fortunately,
South Africans opted for the miraculous option - talking with one
another and discovering their interconnectedness to their common
homeland, to their future, and to one another3/01/2014
Miraculous Option
Adam Kahane talks about one such application in South Africa in the early 1990s. With the apartheid regime coming to an end, people who had been killing one another were struggling to form a democratic government. Says Kahane, "A popular joke at the time said that, faced with the country's daunting challenges, South Africans had two options: a practical option and a miraculous option." The practical option was that everyone would "go down on their knees
and pray for a band of angels to come down from heaven and fix things
for us." The miraculous option was that people would "talk with one
another until we found a way forward together." Fortunately,
South Africans opted for the miraculous option - talking with one
another and discovering their interconnectedness to their common
homeland, to their future, and to one another