How Do You Get People to Explore "THEIR" Options?

Commentary by Roger Erickson

Everyone's got a source, but too few sources share data, let alone share enough context to make available data useful.

Example: even the Agriculture Lobby has advice on sequestration.

As does Drovers CattleNeckwork News.

This familiar refrain brings up the same old question. How do you get people to explore "THEIR" options?

It helps to make them aware of their macro options as well as their micro options.

Then, it also helps to ensure that a threshold proportion of an electorate gets actual PRACTICE at analyzing, prioritizing and constantly adapting methods for exploring their growing options. No culture grows at the edge only. Rather, sustained growth is possible only by tuning foundations, which in our case means our early education methods.

Without agility at scaling Situational Awareness to keep up with situations of increasing complexity ... simple statistics dictate that large populations will repeatedly paint themselves into corners.  There is a better way, but ONLY if we practice ounces of preparation and prevention versus pounds of cure.

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?)

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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?