by Roland Muller

It was fall of 1999 in Saskatchewan. A cold wind kept us sitting close to the crackling fire pit. My good friend Neil and I were arguing, as usual. That’s why we like each other. Neil was adamant that I should not publish Honor and Shame. It was too early. We didn’t have enough hard proof that this new model of worldview would work all across the world. I argued back. Without publishing we might never know. We needed feedback, and lots of it. The best way to get feedback was to publish, and wait for the barrage of criticisms that followed. In the end my argument was a logic that Neil could not counter, so several months later we started mailing out copies.