A Riff on Scriptures and Other Texts

By Richard Thieme

In "Islands in the Clickstream: Telling Time by a Broken Clock," I said:

All organizations are morphing into forms appropriate to the digital world. In retrospect, we will see our current structures the way Christians see remnants of what they call "pagan" myths in their stories.

The miraculous is another name for that which is unpredictable from inside the old model. Trying to understand what's emerging using old words or images is like telling time by broken clocks. We are riding a ship on the river of time as the ship is being built. It will take time to finish that ship, and when we do, we will already have been becoming something else.