Monday, February 16, 2015

Yet Another Civil War Between Capital and Adaptive Culture?

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)


How many times must we needlessly repeat this war?

As long as the blind business of extraction - vs evolution - promotes Roll-Up strategies?

For Pete's sake! Gov is NOT akin to a household, any more than components are akin to a system, or teammates are akin to a team. Scale presents entirely novel options. It IS different to be a whole which is greater than the sum of it's separate parts.

Yet on this point, macro economics teaching is clearly and nearly universally broken.

Do university physics programs teach students that Quantum Mechanics & Relativity are akin to Newton's physics? Of course not!

Yet economics essentially does. It's a rare economist who's learned the simplest aspects of fiat currency operations.

How can anyone moral teach economics without teaching currency operations? By acquiescing to the banking lobby? THAT'S not pedagogy. It's cowardice.

And it's also not ...
How We Ended The Last Civil War Between Capital and Adaptive Culture.

We can't end a civil war by having both sides improve technique. Adaptive change requires improving training methods available to pre-combatants, until they recognize and start exploring better options than repeating the same, stupid war with no resolution. Teach emerging context, not just existing data?

Orthodox macroeconomics is a long-running sick joke, which never was funny. Why did the Ignorant Electorate KEEP hitting it's collective head with Civil War? (And who said we're not supposed to ask?)

There is a better way. Make progress, not frictions.

For the case of endlessly competing roll-up strategies, it's all a question of who's chasing whom. Rather than running from corruption on a treadmill .....


it's better to be trampling Luddites, on an ascending spiral.

Every time I think of this general topic, Joshua Chamberlain's words come to mind.
"We know not of the future and cannot plan for it much. ... But we can ... determine ... what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action."
To paraphrase Joshua Chamberlain for today's civil war: 
We cannot know what specific contexts the future may bring, and therefore cannot much prepare for them. 
We can, however, determine what sort of Adaptive Rates our aggregate can muster when those contexts strike. 
To better determine those capabilities, we can practice continuously re-mapping & RE-VISUALIZING all of our emerging cultural processes, so that we can maintain practice at making Rapid Adaptive Transitions throughout our own culture.


3 comments:

Peter Pan said...

We cannot know what specific contexts the future may bring, and therefore cannot much prepare for them.

So lets spend our time chasing profit and may the chips fall where they may. It will be the best of all possible worlds.

Roger Erickson said...

By that logic, Bob, you should start killing anyone who gets in the way of your personal ambitions.

That'll fix it. :(

Peter Pan said...

/sarcasm

That's against the law for us regular folks.