Was Keynes a Keynesian, or a Lernarian?
I've heard of lifelong learning as a consultant's mantra. Yet cultural-lifelong-learning seems to be a curiously neglected topic. Yet most people would readily agree that cultures that don't keep learning, and keep acclerating their Adaptive Rate, simply don't last.
Exceeding few things should be selected for permanent inclusion into our cultural toolkit, but this discussion of Lerner's concise writings should be. Why doesn't every student go through this in depth, before age 16? How are we supposed to have a dynamic, coherent culture when the electorate never learns even he rudiments of it's own currency operations? We try to teach teenagers relativity and quantum mechanics, but not currency operations or even return-on-coordination? No wonder our DoD has to search harder every year for people qualified to enter Officer Training programs. And we're left wondering why there are no good political candidates to choose from, and no leaders whatsoever.
Ever seen Ayn Rand choreography, "AR" war games, or AR culture? No? There's a reason why they never even make it into practice. They can't learn, can't perform, aren't agile but have been tried in Russia! Wotta resume! Yet now there are AR acolytes in Wisconsin, of all places! Worse, we've elected Congresspeople who have never read anything EXCEPT Ayn Rand. Go figure. Tom Paine & Alexander Hamilton must both be turning over in their graves, along with all their founding peers.
Is Libertarian choreography an oxymoron? Is that what cat herds refuse to practice? How about Libertarian group agility?
We had common sense in 1945 - and deliberately chose to hide it from the common people ever since ... why?
From the article: [why don't we just print and distribute an adequate currency supply?] ... "It's the art of statesmanship to tell lies, but they must be plausible lies."
67 years on, and little but lying to ourselves all the while?
Instead of lying to ourselves, we should all be Lerners now, in early & open discussion of this and all other optional outcomes.
The last thing we need are so-called leaders terrified that the common person might know as much as they do? Avoidance and delays in addressing the separation between the options they fear and our optimal group options is most of what's slowing us down. Hiding won't help, and group practice at carefully accelerating group parsing of that gulf definitely would. An electorate is a huge, massively parallel analog computing system. It's functions, outcomes and agility improve as a direct function of the number and rate of feedback-loop iterations it runs. This is NOT a mysterious subject.
