Glen -
Given our recent conversation about societal asymmetries and the
older, recurrent, discussion of postmodernism, I thought this article
might be interesting to a few of us. I think it speaks well to the
problem in complexity we had been talking about, in particular, the
inadequacy of our notions of "merit" and "compensation". To me, it
speaks against the perspective that these issues can be handled by
idealistic or overly simplistic models (like Steve's (1) and (2)).
And that's true regardless of whether you agree with the content or
not, I think.
A Precariat Charter: From Denizens to Citizens – review
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/09/precariat-charter-denizens-citizens-review
Thanks for the link to the article... I *do* very much like the concept
of the "precariat" as well as to the author attempting to recast a
tired, old model of "what matters" into a new light. I'm not sure I
agree with a lot of the implications of the article, but I definitely
like the authors' attempt to reframe an old toic (honestly?) rather than
just say the same old things with new language. I'm sure one could
argue against my last point (and maybe will) but I *do* think it is a
significantly enough different to matter.
I am not sure that the issue is complexity(1) or complexity(2) but
perhaps there is a component of it. I am not even sure if it is
idealism or simplicity(1) that is at work against us, but rather the
same old tired models... by introducing a different one, even with a
similar level of simplicity and idealism, something qualitatively new
happens. If the newly introduced mental model is juxtaposed with the
old one(s) in just the right way, I contend that entirely new
perspectives are offered... not *by* the new model alone but some higher
dimensional *implied* model that at least admits the old one(s) and the
new one...
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- Steve
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