Wrong Response, Too Late ..... Story Of The Last 70 Years?

   (Commentary posted by Roger Erickson.)




Vietnam War




Iraq


Is this our story of the last 70 years?
Too little feedback is gathered - or listened to - too late,
.. so what little we hear is mis-analyzed, too late, by too few Central Planners,
.... so our policy acts are too late, and mal-adaptive?

So what do WE the people DO about this state of the disunion?

Not enough voters are hearing that question, often enough.

Why is it so difficult to listen equally to all of us ..... all of the time?

We've trained most intelligent people to pursue small personal gains from systemic inefficiencies ... instead of just fixing them and benefitting indirectly from the awesome returns on coordination.

That is NOT how social species thrive. What we're doing now is a historical aberration. I sincerely hope we survive our present selves. Why even bother putting ourselves through this?

Iraq crisis: John Kerry's search for moderates is five years late (hat tip Chuck Spinney)

The US Secretary of State talks of 'pushing back' against Isis – but who will do this pushing? 

[Just the MICC? And more business as usual?]

If Our Nation Needs Any Downsizing, It Most Likely Needs To Shed Some Stupid.

Commentary by Roger Erickson

Now that's a discussion you don't like to see playing out in public.

This ain't rocket science, nor religion, nor a question of morality.
It's just Ye Olde Question of what does & doesn't work - & what can and can't survive change. And, of course, what methods can and can't scale up to things beyond what we're doing today.

It's always about the slow vs the agile. The maladaptive vs the adaptive. You know who always survives, by definition. It's only a question of how much time progressives waste while waiting on or arguing with Luddites.

Change used to happen one generation at at time. We no longer have that luxury. We need more agile operations and an electorate with far more agile group intelligence.

No Luddite's plan survives contact with changing reality - not intact anyway. So we ALWAYS need yet another national survival PLAN. A plan not just for personal survival, but a SERIOUS PLAN for our nation to survive our own Luddites. Face it, they're Luddites, and can't catch up. Let's not waste time arguing or fighting with them. Let's just get together, usher senile gram & gramps out of our government, and leave them in in a comfortable rocking chair, with a good view of our dust.

If not, we'll only see more of the following unfolding, in public. When we ALWAYS have far better things to be doing. These are just random. The mass of stupid is getting out of control. Some of it must be shed.

Greed destroyed us all: Faulty monetary policy and insufficient regulation helped — but old-fashioned avarice really tanked the economy

Now I'd call that group stupidity, but you can call it greed if you like.

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Tiberius Gracchus ‏@T_Gracchus
@sdtilock [He] warned followers to NEVER trust those who pray in public. [Now we have] evangelics [who] ONLY trust those who pray in public.

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Michael Norman‏ @mikenorman
First signs that shutdown is impacting consumer spending. http://www.creditwritedowns.com/2013/10/first-signs-that-us-shutdown-is-impacting-consumer-spending.html

It's taken THIS long? Well, signs always appear as early as people are looking for them, and are perceptive enough to discriminate signal from noise.

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Michael Norman ‏@mikenorman @Salon  

The South is holding America hostage

Roger G Erickson ‏@rgeOps
@mikenorman @Salon No, dumb Luddites r holding adaptive citizens hostage. Change once happened 1 generation at a time. Now we can't wait.

If our nation needs any downsizing, it most likely needs to shed some stupid.

Let's try that before we try lopping off more essential parts?

Anyone with a SERIOUS organizational plan to suggest, please write to me at rge (at) OperationsInstitute (dot) com

We need to get started.

Shedding stupid always requires ramping up more of the same old civic skills, group perceive, group analyze, group act, group assess, GROUP adjust.

We just need to do all that faster/leaner/better. 

Don't bother discussing it with Luddites. It's simply not in their repertoire. There's no point in being angry with either elephants or donkeys. Just focus on domesticating them humanely, according to their skills.