I was changed tonight, were you?

I was profoundly changed tonight.  I want to write this while the excitement is peak!  Did I really see what I think I did tonight?  I'll tell you, I'm writing this because I want to grab your hands and hold on tight and feel your humanity join with mine as we go forward together!  I am John McCain's age and I really feel sorry for him that he has to try to counter the life and enthusiasm we all were given as a precious gift tonight.  If he were able, I wonder if he too would not want to be part of this?  I usually try to write diaries that are loaded with ideas and stimulate thought.  Not tonight!  This night goes beyond ideas - it goes beyond anything I can find words for.  I came to the speech already dedicated to doing everything I can to get this man elected.  I heard fears and doubts about what a difficult job he had tonight.  What I experienced seemed so natural and so complete that it was more than real.  No I have not been drinking. I'll try to explain myself.

The country is experiencing a conflict of world models.  I have been writing about it and trying to interpret it using the family models George Lakoff has developed along with ideas from the school of complexity theory I have been developing after the teachings of Robert Rosen.  There I'm back in my old idea mode already.  Not really, I had to say that so you can understand where my enthusiam and deep feelings originated as I experienced the embodyment of these ideas in a living result of everything they have written about.

What I experienced tonight was a man whose life and thoughts and feelings are the clear example of what the result of a  nuturing, loving family brings.  Strength that comes from conviction and dedication to the principle that the uplifting of one is the uplifting of all.  Lakoff writes about this, but his words are intellectual and need emotion to make them alive.  There is a wholeness to Barack Obama that transcends ideaology and intellect.  It does not deny their value but it does illustrate their sterility if they are separated from the unity we experienced tonight.  

Linguististics is an interesting way to try to grasp what this is all about, but it fails to capture the whole as it subjects it to analysis.  Words are simply a part of what we were exposed to tonight.  We can not hope to describe it with words.  We can only strip away parts of an integral whole and thereby destroy its totality.  That's what the press will do.  We will read about the event and wonder if they saw what we saw.   Ironicly, it is also what I am doing here.  

So in all my years of academic activity I never experienced the kind of learning I experienced tonight.  Once the genii is out of the bottle it can not be put back.  Were you also tranformed irreversibly tonight?  I know the answer.  We are going to have a really interesting revolution.  Yes we will.  Because yes we can!

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