There is convergence on the idea that everyone needs to plant a garden and try to form new local institutions to replace the corrupt ones: medical centers, educational centers, media, and (don't overlook) art. In a word, localism. This is a good place to start. No two localities are exactly the same so as long as we can keep the focus on localism, the deadening idea of the "perfect" system won't creep in. Here's my attempt to try to describe a new kind of decentralized governance. https://vnalexander.com/2021/06/17/free-range-humans/
Thank you for this. Fully agree that permaculture is an essential part the world we must move toward. I took a quick look at your work, and will take a longer look later! The principles of self-organisation, complexity theory and the shared fields of intelligence which move the world are themes in a book I have long been working on myself. (More news on that too later). Great to make contact with others working actively on genuinely new vision, in place of the lame propaganda sold to us by 'the usual suspects'!
I agree. As Victor Hugo said, nothing can stop and idea whose time has come. We have a lot of work to do though to minimise the amount of dysfunction and suffering coming our way before we get there. Mattias Desmet's wonderful recent book 'The Psychology of Totalitarianism' offers some very practical advice on how to do that. It will be the subject of my next piece.
Yes. Determinism in complex systems (like society) is actually impossible. The deathly consequences of attempting to impose it anyway are everywhere. I shall for sure be writing more about this at sometime, under the heading of 'complexity theory'.
of course, we have been aware of THESYSTEM since Hobbes, mechanical or clockwork. The point of Rouseau is that the dual-birth into hell & highwater is a necessary test for us humans. Don't forget that everything is still a system amongst the chaos - breathing is a system where there's no law as to how often or of which rhythm we choose to respirate, only that it is mandatory to take 'one in, one out'.
May I also, on this front, recommend Nieve's The Deming Dimension. W Edwards Deming was an absolute behemoth, reviled in america finding success instead on the rising sun of Japan. The birth of Toyota's kanban system.
You really must aquire somehow all four copies of the original Waddington symposiums ' Towards a Theoretical Biology' 1968-72. Yellow bindings, the new vers ain't worth the profit. :sunshine:
There is convergence on the idea that everyone needs to plant a garden and try to form new local institutions to replace the corrupt ones: medical centers, educational centers, media, and (don't overlook) art. In a word, localism. This is a good place to start. No two localities are exactly the same so as long as we can keep the focus on localism, the deadening idea of the "perfect" system won't creep in. Here's my attempt to try to describe a new kind of decentralized governance. https://vnalexander.com/2021/06/17/free-range-humans/
Thank you for this. Fully agree that permaculture is an essential part the world we must move toward. I took a quick look at your work, and will take a longer look later! The principles of self-organisation, complexity theory and the shared fields of intelligence which move the world are themes in a book I have long been working on myself. (More news on that too later). Great to make contact with others working actively on genuinely new vision, in place of the lame propaganda sold to us by 'the usual suspects'!
Similar ideas are emerging everywhere. The strength of an organically produced revolution will not be stopped.
I agree. As Victor Hugo said, nothing can stop and idea whose time has come. We have a lot of work to do though to minimise the amount of dysfunction and suffering coming our way before we get there. Mattias Desmet's wonderful recent book 'The Psychology of Totalitarianism' offers some very practical advice on how to do that. It will be the subject of my next piece.
Uncertainty till a certain point. Probability has been of great help to handle all these. Determinism is cold death
Yes. Determinism in complex systems (like society) is actually impossible. The deathly consequences of attempting to impose it anyway are everywhere. I shall for sure be writing more about this at sometime, under the heading of 'complexity theory'.
of course, we have been aware of THESYSTEM since Hobbes, mechanical or clockwork. The point of Rouseau is that the dual-birth into hell & highwater is a necessary test for us humans. Don't forget that everything is still a system amongst the chaos - breathing is a system where there's no law as to how often or of which rhythm we choose to respirate, only that it is mandatory to take 'one in, one out'.
May I also, on this front, recommend Nieve's The Deming Dimension. W Edwards Deming was an absolute behemoth, reviled in america finding success instead on the rising sun of Japan. The birth of Toyota's kanban system.
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Agreed. and I will take a look at Deming. Thanks!
Then you will neither be disappointed ;-p. He invented the shewhart cycle, right? M
and autopoeisis?
You really must aquire somehow all four copies of the original Waddington symposiums ' Towards a Theoretical Biology' 1968-72. Yellow bindings, the new vers ain't worth the profit. :sunshine:
Thanks for that. Waddington looks like a big read, but 'living systems', and not mechanical systems / procedures is for sure the way to go ;-)
Non-duality.