@#$%^&!! Humans are capable of so much more than this!
The Ebook "Taken," documents horrors of child sex slaves
Why, in the 21st century, even as a 4th nation launches missions to Mars, is such a waste of human talent still so persistent and widespread?
The bigger story here is that dumb or neglected policy mistakes cause 10x more harm than all the damage which material aid mitigates, worldwide. That is exactly HOW and WHY "need" always rises to exceed humanitarian donations, year after year.
If we don't FIRST export examples, training and practice of improved policy making before blindly throwing material aid at tasks .... we ALWAYS encourage more looting than adapting, as the dominant, systemic local adjustment?
There is not a single situation on Earth that can be easily improved without paying attention to systemic, context-dependent inter-dependencies FIRST!
Tune the damn system! NOT just some of the components!
How? By helping people carfully tune their own contexts, before letting outsiders disruptively tinker with components in contexts that outsiders CANNOT be adequately familiar with!
Otherwise, it's usually as bad as pouring more gas into a leaking gas tank, in a rusting car with dangling parts still spewing sparks. Really? We can send a rocket ship to Mars, but we can't solve simple process problems in our own neighborhoods? Seriously?
If Data is Meaningless without Context .... then - frankly - the long term outcomes of random aid are meaningless too, unless interventions are carefully tuned to context, instead of just tinkering with random components.
If only we'd develop and use ALL of our available brainpower, instead of following the myth that 50% of them - or less - is adequate.
ps: Why is it so often true that gentle Sacreligion prods the most good out of all people, including bureaucratically organized religions? Is it because all people - even religious ones - will do anything in their power to avoid thinking, until absolutely necessary? And because shared laughter, as a neural catalyst, reduces the risk of staying around and activating those brain circuits - which burn lots of calories in order to execute logical pattern matching?
Otherwise, it's usually as bad as pouring more gas into a leaking gas tank, in a rusting car with dangling parts still spewing sparks. Really? We can send a rocket ship to Mars, but we can't solve simple process problems in our own neighborhoods? Seriously?
If Data is Meaningless without Context .... then - frankly - the long term outcomes of random aid are meaningless too, unless interventions are carefully tuned to context, instead of just tinkering with random components.
Two partners need to practice together, if new dance steps are the desired outcome.
People trapped in a given context are - by definition - digging themselves into a hole, and need greater perspective more than anything else. If you as an outsider offer to help, they'll invariably ask that you jump in and help them dig.
Outside contributors have an equal but different dilemma. They have additional perspective, but inadequate "domain expertise." They cannot possibly fully know the context of those who need help, or they'd BE one of them.
Adaptive solutions, as countless examples document, come from building joint experience through interactions, so that affinity and motivation follow. Then, and only then, can participants EXTEND their vision of desired outcomes (goals higher than simply digging the hole deeper). Only then can the people originally stuck in the hole decide how best to alter their tactics, and find a better way!
By the time that process is done, they'll invariably ask for something OTHER than more shovels - which is what is usually easiest to "justify." And, as Gen. Patton observed, the solutions they come up with will be unpredictable, and NOT worth impeding. Plus, they'll amaze you (and themselves) with their ingenuity.
Put it this way. For God so loved the USA that SHE instructed Patrick Henry, Tom Paine, Tom Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, John Adams et al ..... to write the US Constitution .... BEFORE trying to hand out free food and clothing.
[i.e., She suggested that they first use their heads, to direct how BEST to use their hearts. Rumor has it that it was their daughters, sisters, fiances, wives & mothers et al, who relayed that sensible message. :) ]
Put it this way. For God so loved the USA that SHE instructed Patrick Henry, Tom Paine, Tom Jefferson, James Madison, Ben Franklin, John Adams et al ..... to write the US Constitution .... BEFORE trying to hand out free food and clothing.
[i.e., She suggested that they first use their heads, to direct how BEST to use their hearts. Rumor has it that it was their daughters, sisters, fiances, wives & mothers et al, who relayed that sensible message. :) ]
If only we'd develop and use ALL of our available brainpower, instead of following the myth that 50% of them - or less - is adequate.
ps: Why is it so often true that gentle Sacreligion prods the most good out of all people, including bureaucratically organized religions? Is it because all people - even religious ones - will do anything in their power to avoid thinking, until absolutely necessary? And because shared laughter, as a neural catalyst, reduces the risk of staying around and activating those brain circuits - which burn lots of calories in order to execute logical pattern matching?
And, what's our next step, now that there are ~320 million of us in the USA? If shared laughter is so critical for reducing the risk of activating thinking in individuals ... what is the corresponding analogy - group laughter? - that lowers the risk associated with actually activating and leveraging Group Intelligence? Is it the shared, group-behaviors of group acknowledgement, group sharing, and extending group affinity? Possibly? How could we find out? Practice? Sounds like exploring the return-on-coordination. Why the heck isn't that "Job1" in all economics textbooks? Instead of all the banal drivel called ISLM?
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