--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, tartbrain <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Oral for 300 years. Similar discussion a week or ago on > > Christianity. > > > > I was thinking of experiences in large corporations > > (Dilbert type companies -- and I have seen few large > > ones that are not Dilbert type companies at times, on > > some levels). Even for three weeks, even with vast > > oral, e-mail exchanges, stored documents of everything, > > collaborate spreadsheets, word-processor, and project > > management software, video conferencing, archives of > > everything, people, some, but certainly most all > > dynamic groups as a hole -- (weakest link and all), > > cannot often keep straight in their heads agreements > > and of decisions made, sequences and timelines > > discussed and reviewed -- gaps recollection or being > > able to keep so much in the brain at one time, of > > group memory and gaps of actual awareness, for example, > > "What! You sent me an e-mail on that --if I had read > > it would have saved us two days! Wow!" > > > > Ha! Trying to conceive of a corporation that could keep > > detailed message straight in its head for 300 years is > > the best laugh I have had in a while. Thanks. > > I can't quite put my finger on it, but I strongly > suspect there are so many elements of the two situations > that are not at all parallel that the comparison doesn't > work very well.
Me too actually. But the parallel still gets to me. > > Maybe a better comparison would be with the attempt > to govern the U.S. in accordance with the Constitution? > > Or maybe the point is that institutions that have good > self-correcting mechanisms for the internal slip-ups > can carry on indefinitely, but those that don't, can't? > Perhaps. But I am still wondering.
