Sunday, September 2, 2012

Why Can't We Do That - And As Quickly - At The Fed, House, Senate, Administration ... and Ballot Box?

commentary by Roger Erickson

And in our own brains too? (i.e., actually test more ideas & ideologies, and quickly throw out those that fail to help us navigate reality?)

Navy Helicopter Squadron Commander and Master Chief Petty Officer Relieved of Duty (after unacceptable screw up under their command)

Where are our objective methods for rapidly reviewing & discriminating progress vs failure in public policy?

Where are our methods for RAPID, prior convergence to consensus goals?

Come to think of it, where's our path to national success? Already out of sight? Do we have a consensus to leapfrog the current horizon and try to catch sight of that ambition again? Do we even have the will and methods to adequately review our situation and reach an INTELLIGENT consensus decision?

We don't NEED any mythical equilibria. We need agile METHODS for continuously adapting, faster.  And, we also need agile sub-methods for continuously adjusting all of our methods, faster. We cannot tell what demands the future may throw at us, and hence cannot specifically prepare for them. However, we can determine what sort of adaptive rate we can muster when the hour strikes. We can do that with practice at exploring emerging options.  We cannot succeed by insisting upon failed or even existing methods, or persisting with them for too long.  There are always things we could be changing even sooner.  Why waste time?


5 comments:

Tom Hickey said...

Meanwhile, virtually all the people that actually had a hand in creating the global financial crisis are still in power and some even more powerful after their competition was whittled. Only Lehman went under — actually was put under by competitors in GS serving with the US government (Hank Paulson for instance — and several other firms were absorbed in consolidations, again with nudges from govt.

Almost no accountability.

y said...

People often disagree over pretty fundamental things. That's why.

paul meli said...

"People often disagree over pretty fundamental things. That's why."

Most people don't know enough to have a meaningful opinion. Under those circumstances what are they disagreeing about?

I suppose we could classify ignorance under fundamental though…

Joe Firestone said...

Great short piece, roger! Really like this one!

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very good post