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Interesting/helpful conversation with Ben at lunch today on peoples' discomfort with "flailing a bit."   Made me think a bit more about how/why the group was conceived in the first place, and my personal reluctance to make major changes in how we operate.  A sense of common purpose can be facilitated by more homogenity in the community, or by defining more sharply the purpose of a particular community.  Both directions, however, reduce the likelihood of things emerging that were on no one's mind at the outset, and that's something I'd prefer not to do given the experiment in finding alternative forms of inquiry that motivates the project. 

Perhaps a greater sense of common purpose can be achieved by regrounding ourselves in that shared commitment?  Along which lines, the questions under Overview continue to seem relevant.  If indeed there is only the process of inquiry, with no "external reality" or external judge to measure its achievements by, how does one proceed?   Maybe our "flailing" to date is itself a symptom of a problem yet to be fully engaged with?