The Tortuous Process Of Distributed Learning .... Watching The Masses Slowly Learn

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson)

Escape From The Matrix: Alternative Finance And Investment Advisors

Very interesting, even if slow. The euro-zone may be slow to learn, but it's not like we're all THAT much more agile here in the USA.

ps: the close inspirations for the Matrix movies go back as early as R. Heinlein 1941, D. Knight in 1955, & P.Dick 1957, not to mention the vaguely similar ideas throughout classic literature - all of which stoke our collective imagination.

Every time I think of that, I'm personally VERY offended. Why on Earth wasn't every 10-yr old in the USA able to rapidly obtain OpenSource access to obviously adaptive memes like those early sci-fi books in that list? It would have made a difference for me, growing up. I've read only a very few of those texts listed, and obviously wish I'd read more of them, back when I was avidly reading sci-fi, in grade school.

We're actively retarding our cultural adaptive rate, aka the rate at which our electorate learns, and orients to changing context.

Wherever we could be going, we ain't gonna get there at this current rate, with too many brakes on, rent-seeking from Intellectual Property, instead of seeking the far higher returns on social coordination that even some amoebas are "smart" enough to stick to.

It's rather astounding to watch members of a social-species spending most of their time planning individual, rather than aggregate investing. As one of the Wachowski brothers' other movie character says, "That don't make no sense!"

Is it foolish to look for logic in the chambers of the human CNS?