Well, the world is clearly behaving strangely and I want to ask again, do we maybe know why? It's been a couple months and there's still no comment on my various suggestions here that growth is an explosive process of developing complexity, and that as a process necessarily overwhelms its own guidance systems if not checked by anything else. It unavoidably would reach a limit when repercussions explode and adaptive responses get misdirected or collapse.
Granted, the scale of world evolution is much larger and much slower than we're accustomed to, and the disastrous speeds of events that can't be responded to include those that can appear majestically gradual on a human scale. It takes some adjustment to think about it. Most people think society has greatly benefited from the systematic economic growth that has continued for around 600 years. I'm still saying 'stable growth' is a deeply false plan and expectation, and I think we basically know that. What's strange is that stable growth clearly appears to be the world professional and governmental consensus long range plan, using business to rearrange the earth and our lives at explosively accelerating rates, forever. I think the big plan and what science has had to say about it so far are deeply curious, don't you? Are there vested interests who might pull our funding if we talked about it? Very possibly, but I think that's well down the list of the 101 possible reasons for our bizarre situation and relative professional silence about it. One that makes it through Ocham's Razor for me is that when modern science took an interest in complex systems it concentrated on theory rather than on carefully documenting the physical phenomenon. Well, anyway, that's what makes me ask this question. Make any sense? Phil Henshaw ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 680 Ft. Washington Ave NY NY 10040 tel: 212-795-4844 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] explorations: www.synapse9.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
