{"id":109832,"date":"2014-03-06T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/prisoners-of-real-odyssey.html"},"modified":"2014-03-06T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T17:35:00","slug":"prisoners-of-the-real-an-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/prisoners-of-the-real-an-odyssey\/","title":{"rendered":"Prisoners of the Real: An Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><b>An intellectual odyssey \u2014 from Pythagoras to planetary consciousness &#8212; and a new vision of freedom and cooperation.\u00a0<\/b><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>Prisoners of the Real<\/i> makes the connection between solar and lunar knowledge, illuminating the cost of society\u2019s preoccupation with certainty and order. Exploring insights from linguistics, psychology, physics, literature, philosophy and management science, it opens the door to a new vision of freedom and cooperation \u2014\u00a0<i><b>Dionysian leadership<\/b><\/i>.<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">&#8220;Dionysian leaders use artistic methods to invent structures of reality. Although they acknowledge that scientific and artistic processes have equal worth, they de-emphasize logical reasoning and deduction and focus on metaphorical thinking. Their interest is not definition but discovery.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><br \/><\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Section One: The Rational Trap<\/span><br \/><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/prisoners-of-real.html\">The Creative Also Destroys<\/a>\u00a0*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/deconstructing-leadership.html\">Deconstructing Leadership<\/a>\u00a0*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/anatomy-of-insecurity.html\">Anatomy of Insecurity<\/a>\u00a0*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/managers-and-their-tools.html\">Managers and Their Tools<\/a>\u00a0*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/corporate-way-of-life.html\">The Corporate Way of Life<\/a>\u00a0*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/dictatorship-of-time.html\">The Dictatorship of Time<\/a>\u00a0*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/rules-for-rationals.html\">Rules for Rationals<\/a>\u00a0*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/age-of-adaptability.html\">The Age of Adaptability<\/a>\u00a0*\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/living-with-rational-management.html\">Living with Rational Management<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong><span><br \/><\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span>Section Two: Philosophy of the Real\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong>Section Three: New World Disorders<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<strong>Section Four: Restructuring Reality \u2014 The Dionysian Way<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span><b>An intellectual odyssey &ndash; from Pythagoras to planetary consciousness &#8212; and a new vision of freedom and cooperation.&nbsp;<\/b><\/span><br \/><span><i><br \/><\/i><\/span><br \/>\n<span><i>Prisoners of the Real<\/i> makes the connection between solar and lunar knowledge, illuminating the cost of society&rsquo;s preoccupation with certainty and order. Exploring insights from linguistics, psychology, physics, literature, philosophy and management science, it opens the door to a new vision of freedom and cooperation &ndash;&nbsp;<i><b>Dionysian leadership<\/b><\/i>.<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>&#8220;Dionysian leaders use artistic methods to invent structures of reality. Although they acknowledge that scientific and artistic processes have equal worth, they de-emphasize logical reasoning and deduction and focus on metaphorical thinking. Their interest is not definition but discovery.&rdquo;<\/span><br \/><span><br \/><\/span><br \/><span>Section One: The Rational Trap<\/span><br \/><span><a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/prisoners-of-real.html\">The Creative Also Destroys<\/a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/deconstructing-leadership.html\">Deconstructing Leadership<\/a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/anatomy-of-insecurity.html\">Anatomy of Insecurity<\/a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/managers-and-their-tools.html\">Managers and Their Tools<\/a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/corporate-way-of-life.html\">The Corporate Way of Life<\/a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/dictatorship-of-time.html\">The Dictatorship of Time<\/a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/rules-for-rationals.html\">Rules for Rationals<\/a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/age-of-adaptability.html\">The Age of Adaptability<\/a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/muckraker-gg.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/living-with-rational-management.html\">Living with Rational Management<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<strong><span><br \/><\/span><\/strong><br \/><strong><span>Section Two: Philosophy of the Real&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<span><strong>Section Three: New World Disorders<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<strong>Section Four: Restructuring Reality &ndash; The Dionysian Way<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1241,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-109832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}