Self-management societies vs anarcho-capitalism: the new global war of ideologies?
Cultural self-management? On what scale? For how long?
Isn't that what we call a society, and a culture?
Both work until they don't. Then they don't work ... until they do.
It's a collective policy choice.
So, how do cultures and/or mobs actually MAKE group assessments? Through their group discourse methods, of course. Those too, are policy choices.
Are enough US citizens turning to sane, group intelligence methods, and thereby to Democracy - to save US from ourselves?
How would 315 million people even know, soon enough? You know, before self-management tolerance limits are relegated to barriers exceeded 10 contexts back?
"Oh, you mean THAT 'Bridge Out' sign! Oops. :) We bad!"
How do 315 million people even assess whether they are or aren't making a cultural policy decision?
Group momentum - stirred up by some Control Fraud - is easily and always causing groups to lurch about, triggering by default group-reflex decisions ... which the group as a whole only becomes aware of later on.
"NSA, can you trace our last 157 Million messages ... and tell us where the hell we are? And where we're going?"
"No? Well, thanks for giving it the too-old, outdated, un-affordable college try ... gramps."
Welcome to the fusion of democratic self-Command & self-Control nightmares with the Fog of Culture!
Ever seen a whole, national culture exhibiting the symptoms of a cultural huntington's-chorea? A Culturington's Hyperchorea? It's not a pretty sight, regardless of what it looks like before symptoms become visible.
Have OUR cultural institutions - no longer suitable for our changed context - already doomed the USA to a cultural Dance of Death?
The good news is that WE CAN ADJUST our flawed cultural-gene methods. The bad news is there's no guarantee that we WILL! Only if we choose to act, before the national dance descends from cultural agility into the national jerk or Middle Class Break dance that triggers excessive head-honcho banging, rampant injuries, lost generations, and loss of cultural life and states.
The National Robot Dance? That's for slow, stiff, Central Planners. The only cultural dance that's ever sustained features cultural agility.
Ever seen a whole, national culture exhibiting the symptoms of a cultural huntington's-chorea? A Culturington's Hyperchorea? It's not a pretty sight, regardless of what it looks like before symptoms become visible.
Have OUR cultural institutions - no longer suitable for our changed context - already doomed the USA to a cultural Dance of Death?
The good news is that WE CAN ADJUST our flawed cultural-gene methods. The bad news is there's no guarantee that we WILL! Only if we choose to act, before the national dance descends from cultural agility into the national jerk or Middle Class Break dance that triggers excessive head-honcho banging, rampant injuries, lost generations, and loss of cultural life and states.
The National Robot Dance? That's for slow, stiff, Central Planners. The only cultural dance that's ever sustained features cultural agility.
2 comments:
our methods always doom us to death ... unless we keep adjusting them
methods mutation, anyone?
Hey baby, how 'bout some methodological recombination? Wink, wink! :)
Slapped by a Luddite.
One-generation stands with too many loose liberals.
Settle down with a moderate progressive.
Raise two methods in the sub-ideologies.
See one of 'em shot by a conservative.
That's cultural life?
We need more sub-cultures? To maintain our worth rate.
Thanks Roger
Scale is determined by the degree of expansion of the new cultural behavior.
An example can be found in the United States in 20s where the new "science" of public relations managed to transform millions of Americans into extreme consumers. A culture which dominated the West until today. It is the rise of "homo consumericus".
We are now talking about an evolutionary process which will come from the need of people to defend themselves against human and labor rights downgrade and their quality of life, not a process coming from big companies to sell products.
Actually, neither process is due to policy makers. Politicians had nothing to do with the expansion of extreme consumerism, in reality they only adjust themselves in the corresponding conditions.
Sub-cultures can be also a facilitator to the direction of keeping local communities bounded under some cultural peculiarities. But the basic concepts like solidarity and collectivism are global and necessary for such communities to survive.
It is not simple, as the old habits are difficult to change, but I believe that it is possible, especially if the current model bring one day the majority of people in the limit of survival.
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