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I found myself with the responsibility that they'd wanted me to assume from the first meeting.

I'll try to analyze this. Using the model, the male pursuing the female, did I want to be cornered? Did I want to be convinced, from the very beginning?

I don't know, except that I think I didn't, because another side of me is that I want to be lazy. Really. And I knew that if I assumed this responsibility, it could be like HARYOU, or in a different way, like SOCIAL DYNAMICS RESEARCH CENTER, or INSTITUTE.

As far as I can explain this, I was skilfully trapped. You know. And in support of that is that, at the end of the last meeting, when I said, “OK, I'll try this for a couple of years,” and said, “Look -- just a few years, I don't want to be tied to this --”

It was agreed that I would write a summary proposal of what this was about, and that was my assignment. I was even told then, the board was going to meet to act on my proposal, which would be a summary, really, of the discussions up to that point, for which I didn't even take any notes.

Well, as the time came closer to the meeting of the board of the Field Foundation, I got farther and farther adrift, further and further away from writing this damn proposal.

Now, believe me, Les was calling me at Social Dynamics Institute every other day, reminding me of the time, and I said, “Yeah... yeah...”





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