Commentary by Roger Erickson
Revisiting Global Wealth Inequality Yet Again
When Output Gaps widen, do even the perps know what started the momentum, or what consequences lie ahead?
At the root of all gross and growing asset mismanagement is a failure to tune growing feedback to shape acceptable outcomes.
In physiology, we call that gangrene. In politics, we call that fixation on simplistic concepts like capitalism ... while ignoring all other forms of emerging system feedback.
Any race car pit crew learns to use all available information to improve team performance - ASAP! So what, exactly, is keeping national electorates from improving national outcomes? No one appreciates the fact that we are ALWAYS in an Adaptive Race?
Where is the sense in what we're doing? What we have here is a failure to communicate.
4 comments:
Roger,
My comment here would be the same as for the Radford guy downthread...
This video is out of paradigm and misses the details of our different monetary arrangements in the separate nations that are called out in the video...
So nations external to the US/EUR cannot be exporting "2 Trillion Dollars" it's not possible.
To these authors also, "money is money" they cannot see the different national currency systems... Warren calls this the "gold standard mentality", these people think/operate as if we are still under gold...
It would be better to describe this global distribution in REAL terms not financial... then maybe more people could be made to understand what was really going on and perhaps stop doing it...
rsp,
Agreed. We have a Situational Awareness mess. Half the people working on civic awareness are out of paradigm when it comes to specifics - and that's always been the case, for 10,000 years.
Most of the other half, who know operational specifics, aren't even aware of civic consequences, being trained too narrowly.
The classic lesson from all behavioral arts, including politics, is to "never discourage, only shape" the efforts of naive people in complex situations.
That's summed fairly well in the famous Greek phrase: "The wise say 'Yes, and;' only the fool says 'No, but'."
Last thing we want is to lose civic momentum. Manipulating the momentum of crowds and fellow citizens is exactly where the war between Leaders and Frauds always plays out. There is no stage in biology that I know of where you can avoid the requirement to fight fire with fire. The confluence of a bias to action plus delicate selection is what drives all Natural Selection.
Fraud always loses in the end, since it has only narrow goals and nothing to strive for, long-term.
So it's only a matter of how soon adaptation wins, and where success occurs next. Our duty is to make sure that our grandchildren have a chance to remain in the game.
ps: you can also accurately say that people who insist too much on "being" in any specific paradigm are themselves operating outside of a bigger paradigm.
Adaptative rate of populations is always the shifting sum or "moment" of momentum resulting from the confluence of a number of paradigms.
How does any group get it's members to explore their endless local and group options?
We "shape" our own outcomes, by manipulating multiple factors simultaneously.
Show me a parent who greats a child at the moment of birth with the message that they are "out of paradigm." :) [Tragically, it does happen.] Yet, for the vast majority of humans, local communities SHOW kids all that's currently known, so that the kids can slowly build new layers of many paradigms, all simultaneously and SLOPPILY summing into a net paradigm we call Adaptive Rate.
Beats me how human societies have made it this far. There's no one paradigm anywhere that makes complete sense, or that very many people even WANT to have to know. Yet under it all, there's some system logic that inevitably drives evolution of cultural systems, despite the fact that literally no one wants to have to know how it all works.
It's bigger than us. No point arguing over it. Like Hippocrates said, first, do no harm?
To me I see our attraction to gold/precious metals as a big problem.... it's like many humans value these metals over our own species...
There is this bird Ive seen that seems to use materials:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/07/bowerbirds/laman-photography
But it looks like they use to just "get laid" (pardon the pun!)... so I dont know if this bird brained behavior is comparable to the human being obsessed with gold/precious metals....
rsp,
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